THE

FREEMASON'S MONITOR;

OR

ILLUSTRATIONS OF MASONRY:

IN TWO PARTS.

BY THOMAS SMITH WEBB,

PAST GRAND MASTER OF THE GRAND LODGE OF RHODE ISLAND, ETC.

PART SECOND.

CONTAINING

AN ACCOUNT OF THE INEFFABLE DEGREES OF

MASONRY;

AND THE

HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY IN AMERICA.

SALEM:

PUBLISHED BY CUSHING AND APPLETON.

Flagg & Gould, printers, Andover.

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PREFACE.

THE Ineffable Degrees of Masonry, the history and charges of which are contained in the following pages, are as ancient (it is alleged) as the time of king Solomon; the proof of which is probably known only to those who are professors of the degrees.

The general design of this part of the work is to preserve the history and charges of the several ineffable degrees from falling into oblivion; with which they have been long threatened, as well from the small number of conventions of masons who possess them, as from the little attention that has been paid to their meetings of late years.

It will also serve to convince masons who possess the degrees treated of in the first part of this work, that there is a total difference between those and the ineffable degrees; for it is a cir

cumstance necessary to be known, that there is no part of these degrees that have any resemblance to the fourth, fifth, sixth, or seventh degrees before mentioned, or that have any reference or allusion to any of the circumstances on which those degrees were founded. But, notwithstanding this difference, it will clearly appear from the account here given of the ineffable degrees, that much ingenuity is displayed in their formation; that their design is noble, benevolent and praiseworthy; and that the institution was intended for the glory of the Deity and the good of mankind.

THE

FREEMASON'S MONITOR.

PART SECOND.

BOOK I.

CHAPTER I.

Observations on the Degree of Secret Master.

THE lodge of Secret Masters is spread with black.. The master represents Solomon coming to the temple to elect seven experts. He is styled, Most Powerful.

There is only one warden who is called Adoniram, after him who had the inspection of the workmanship done: at Mount Libanus. He was the first made secret master.

Solomon holds a sceptre in his hand, standing in the East, before a triangular altar, upon which is a crown, and some olive and laurel leaves. Adoniram, the inspec tor stands in the West.

The first officer is decorated with a blue ribbon, from the right shoulder to the left hip, to which hangs a triangle. The second officer is decorated with a white rib. bon, bordered with black, in a triangular form, and an ivory key suspended therefrom, with a figure of Z upon it.

All the other brethren are decorated in the same manner, with white aprons and gloves, the strings of the aprons black; the flap of the apron is blue, with a- golden: eye upon it. This lodge should be enlightened by eightyone candles, distributed by nine times nine..