Free Masonry - The Masonic Trowel

AKCIBNT raSfi MASONRY IS DKISM, 347
But the following a Master Mason can understand. " In
these days, the allegory of Hiram, which is used in every
ritual of Masonry, varies in our mysteries and ceremonies,
and it is applied under such circumstances, and used in the
same manner, as the ancient feierophants represented,
sometimes, Otitis, at others Bacchus, Amman, or Ids ; and
every other form of the Deity whom they variously worshipped.
So we, in the same manner, change in our temples
the legend of Hiram* and of his three assassin*, according
to the ritual to which they belong. Hiram, whom the Levites,
from the practice of his art, and the name of his father,
ehose for the allegorical being, who represents the
Grand Architect of the temple of Solomon, is the allegory
of Jesus O^ist ia Masonry finished. (Map.\ courowtie.) In
the ritual of ancient and Accepted Scotch Seasons, he is
the em&lem of beauty in one course, and in the other, by
corresponding lessons, Jesus Christ is called Hiram, Grand
Architect of his Church."
This legend of Hiram the reader already understands; a
more contemptible figure the masonic hero made than Sir
Hudibras'squire Ralpho. - ^
* When TVKOS, whom he did not mind,
" Charged him like lightning behind *,"
Or, than the knight himself, when yielding to the victorious
amazon, he cried:
" The day's thine own,
u Thou and thy start have cast me down;
" I am not now in fortune's pow*r,
u For he that's down can fell no lower."
My leader, you are Free Mason enough to. understand
all this* " The legend of Hiram is always the same thing
in Free Masonry; as Bacchus, Amman, and bis, were the
same God, worshipped under different names. (They were
not.) As the mode of worshipping that one God of Free