THE

MASTER WORKMAN;

OR,

TRUE MASONIC GUIDE:

CONTAINING

ELUCIDATIONS OF THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES

OF

FREE-MASONRY,

OPERATIVE AND SPECULATIVE-MORALLY 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.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY SIMONS & MACOY.

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

SIMONS & MACOY,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

STEREOTYPED BY

ENGRAVINGS EXECUTED BY

VINCENT DILL.

E. BOOKHOUT

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,