Illustrations of Masonry General Remarks: including an
Illustration of the Lectures; a particular Description of the
ancient Ceremonies; and the Charges used in the Sect. 1 -
Masonry is an art useful and extensive. In every art there is a
mystery, which requires a progress of study and application to
arrive at any degree of perfection. Without much instruction,
and more exercise, no man can be skillful in any art; in like
manner, without an assiduous application to the carious subjects
treated in the different lectures of masonry, no person can be
sufficiently acquainted with its true value. From this remark it
must not be inferred, that person who labour under the
disadvantage of a confined education, or whose sphere of life
requires assiduous attention to business or useful employment,
are to be discouraged in the endeavours to gain a knowledge of
masonry. To qualify an individual to enjoy the benefits of the
society at large, or to partake of its privileges, it is not
absolutely necessary that he should be