Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

FRBB MASONRY. 306
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Containing a List of Masonic Worthies, with a way to
prove any learned man a Free Mason: also, the Essentials
of Free Masonry.
"Hail! all hail! my brethren dear,
"Allhailtoyealway;
« Regard the art while ye have life,
" Revere it every day."
Ahiman Reson, p. 165.
IT would be insupportably tedious to follow our author to
the end of his treatise; but while he entertains his readers
with an account of the ancient patrons of Masonry,
" Enoch, whom all Masons believe to have been in a special
manner acquainted with those principles of geometry,
whence in process of time the masonic institution arose;"
and " Abraham, who became a distinguished instructor of the
principles of Christianity, and the art of Geometry or Masonry
;" it will be pleasant to collect the great names in a
catalogue, graced with an occasional remark from the
Grand Chaplain.
Seth,
Enoch,
Noah,
Abraham,
Melchizedeck, " whom Masonry recognises as one
of her most venerable patrons:" and Joseph, the son of
Jacob, (p. 123.) u who was skilled in Egyptian science, and
eminent as a man of wisdom. No reasonable doubt, therefore,"
says Mr. T., u can be entertained of his masonic
knowledge, according to its primitive acceptation/ 9
It has often been a query, whether Confucius, the great