MASTER WORKMAN;

OR,

TRUE MASONIC GUIDE:

CONTAINING

ELUCIDATIONS OF THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES

OF

FREE - MASONRY,

OPERATIVE AND SPECULATIVE-MOR ALLY AND BENEFICIALLY ;

With Embellishments and Explanations

OF ALL

THE DEGREES OF THE BLUE, OR SYMBOLIC LODGE, CHAPTER, COUNCIL,
ENCAMPMENT, CONSISTORY, AND SUPREME GRAND COUNCIL,
DESIGNED AND PROPERLY ARRANGED AGREEABLY

TO THE MODE OF WORK AND LECTURING.

ALSO, A COMPLETE

CLASSIFICATION OF THE VARIOUS RITES,

TO WIT:

THE EGYPTIAN, SCOTTISH, FRENCH, ANCIENT AND MODERN YORK.

COMPILED FROM THE MOST APPROVED WRITERS

WITH

EMENDATIONS, ADDITIONS, NOTES, CHARGES, REMARKS,

SONGS, ETC., ETC.

BY HENRY C. ATWOOD, -

M. W. G. M. St. Johns' G. L., K. R. C., K. M., K. T., Sov.:. P.:. R.-C.:, and

Sov.:. Gr.:. In:. Gen. . of Thirty-third Degree.

THE NEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

2852291 ASTOL, LENOX AND SILDEN FOUNDATIONS

1944

Entered according to Aot of Congress in the year 1850, by

SIMONS & MACOY,

m the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the

Southern District of New York.

TO THE OFFICERS AND MEMBERS

OF

ST. JOHNS' GRAND LODGE,

OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK,

AND

Those of the Lodges acknowledging its jurisdiction;

TO ALL

FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS WHO LOVE THE ORDER FOR ITS PRINCIPLES;

WHO DISCOUNTENANCE ANY CHANGE IN ITS ANCIENT CUSTOMS;

WHO IN THEIR DAILY LIFE ILLUSTRATE AND ENFORCE,

BY PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE,

THE MASONIC TENETS,

" Friendship, morality and Brotherly Love,"

THIS BOOK

IS FRATERNALLY INSCRIBED, BY

HENRY C. ATWOOD.

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