文档介绍：266 EXl’RACTS FROM A DICTIONARY OF MASONRY
EXTRACTS FROM “A DICTIONARY OF SYMBOLICAL
MASONRY, INCLUDING THE ROYAL ARCH DI.:GKE:E,”
BY THE REV. G. OLIVER, D. D.
ACHJLLES-Perhaps someworthy people may stare when we
pointout Achilles as a ! we hear them ex-
claim, isit possible that that fierce and ferocious man-slayer,
nay, man-eater at heart, for he exhibited a strong propensity to
cannibalism in longing to have devoured the dead body of Hector
-is it possible that he could have been one of our philanthropic
society? Yes, wereply, such is the actual fact, and Bonaparte
was one, too, in the highest degree. Rut, if you will not believe
Homer, or us, believe your own eyes, if, indeed, you are a Mason.
Ecm signum? Behold Achilles ‘ving Priam THE HAND, when the
latter is supplicating for the bo$ of his slain son:
“Thna having spoken. the old man's righi hand at fha wrist
He graspad, that be might not in any respect he alanned in mind.”
Such is the Masonic and literal translation of the text by that
illustrious Grecian and brother, Christopher North; and who will
say, now, that Achilles was not a hlason?-Fr‘’ Qwrterly
Heuew.
[According to this, Broth Achilles gave Bolk Warn thP Master Xacon’s Grip,
but there is no evid~nceto show whether they used the word ?&AH-HAII-BUKE, and
the Five Points of Fellowship.]
ESSENTIALSEcrrETs-The essential secrets of hlasonry consist
of nothingmore than the signs, grips, pass-words, and tokens,
essentialto the preservation of the societyfrom theinroads of
impostors; together with certain symbolical emblems, the technical
terms appertaining to which servedas a sort of universal lmlguage,
by which themembers of thefraternity could distinguish each
other, in all places and countries where LodEes were instituted.
--StO?ae.
EYESIGHT.-He who hasbeen temporarily deprived of his
sight is reduced to the condition of a neiv-born hahe. or