I. Apprentice.

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opened in the first degree, and worked upwards.
For this reason also, they assert, he was unable to give the Secrets of a Master Mason, and invented the legend of the loss of them; and this is the explanation also why, although the Operatives have three Masters, the Speculatives have only one.
There are numerous other examples which could be quoted; but enough has been said | to show that Dr. Anderson found the Opera- | tive Ritual very ‘indigestible’ fare, and_ this will explain the errors, anachronisms, and confusions, which occur in what may be termed the technical part of our present-day Speculative Ritual.
Let us, however, be thankful that those | parts of Operative Masonry to which he had access have enabled him to transmit so much | of it pure and unpolluted. |
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