1/16/2024 0 Comments Forever lost 2 hammer![]() Not even the Bible, the writings of Josephus, nor any other writings, however ancient, of which we have any knowledge, furnish any information respecting his death. We read in the Bible, that Hiram Abiff was one of the head workmen employed at the building of King Solomon's Temple, and other ancient writings inform us that he was an arbiter between King Solomon and Hiram, king of Tyre but his tragical death is nowhere recorded, except in the archives of Freemasonry. The traditional account of the death, several burials, and resurrections of one of the craft, Hiram Abiff, the widow's son, as developed in conferring this Degree, is very interesting. ![]() The Third Degree is said to be the height of Ancient Free-masonry, and the most sublime of all the Degrees in Masonry (Royal Arch not even excepted) and when it is conferred, the Lodge is generally well filled with the members of the Lodge and visiting brethren. All the business of a "Blue Lodge" (a Lodge of three Degrees) is done in the Lodge while opened on this Degree, except that of entering an Apprentice or passing a Fellow Craft, when the Lodge is lowered from the Masters' Degree for that purpose. THE ceremony of opening and conducting the business of a Lodge of Master Masons is nearly the same as in the Entered Apprentice and Fellow Crafts' Degrees, already explained. Sacred Texts Freemasonry Index Previous NextÄuncan's Masoic Ritual and Monitor, by Malcom C. ![]() Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor: Master Mason, or Third Degree ![]()
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