MASTER MASON.
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It was symbolically supported, also, by three principal columns, Wisdom, Strength, and Beauty, which were represented by the three Grand Masters, * * *
There were employed in its building three Grand Masters; three thousand three hundred Overseers, or masters of the work; eighty thousand Fellow Crafts; and seventy thousand Entered Apprentices. All these were classed and arranged by King Solomon, that neither envy, discord, nor confusion were suffered to interrupt that universal peace and tranquillity which pervaded the world at this important period.
There are in this degree two classes of emblems or symbols, the first of which is monitorial, and consists
