1. What two arts have altered the face of
the earth and given shape to life and thought of man? Page 5-1.
2. What two fundamental factors do we find when we inquire into
origins, which carry art forward? Page 5-2.
3. What was the first great impulse of all architecture and what
did it include? Page 5-2.
4. What are the laws of architecture? Page 7-2.
5. What will the violation of moral laws do to architecture? Page
8-2.
6. What are the secrets of man's success and what are the two
great intellectual laanps of architecture? Page 8-2.
7. Where does it seem that the art of building first seemed to
have gathered power, and where are its remains best preserved?
Page 9-2.
8. What emblems of architecture show that they are the laws of
the eternal? Page 11.
9. Do buildings which Man may build refer to his religion or character?
Page 7-1.
10. Where was the square building invented? Page 10-1.
11. What was it the early builders sought above all things? Page
12-1.
12. What were the two ideals of the early builders in their work?
Page 12-2.
13. What is beauty? Page 8-2.
14. What are the ideas that glowed in the heart of the build~
and guided his arm from the start? Page 9-1.
15. What does true building teach and open? Page 9-1.
16. What is said of the "builders of buildings?" Page
34.
17. What ideals of the early huilders are most clearly expressed
Page 12.
18. What is said of the way the Temples of Egypt were built in
early times? Page 11-2.
19. What is said of cube and square? Page 24-25.
20. What is said of the cross? Page 24-25.
21. What was thought to be the shape of the world by Egyptians
in the early ages? Page 11-2.
22. What is said of eternity as an ideal of the early Egyptians?
Page 12-2.
23. What was the attitude of the learned ancient philosophers
is regard to the Egyptian teaching? Page 46.
24. What was the central theme of the Egyptian faith? Page 46.
25. Give an outline of the Egyptian teachings? Page 39-42.
26. How were the secrets of the Allegoin form of faith trasmitted?
Page 31.
27. What are the real foundations of Masonry? Page 15.
28. What did Goethe write? Page 19.
29. What does the phrase "told in song what had been taught
in sorrow" mean to you? Page 61.
30. Did Jesus teach a Secret Doctrine? Page 57-58..
31. As to death what may be said of the value of the universal
intuition as to eternal life? Page 39.
32. What have keystone, compass, and cube to do with buildings?
Page 11-1.
33. Is there any such thing as Liberty? Page 7-2.
34. What has obedience and loyalty to do with a man's liberty?
Page 8-1.
35. What is the difference between the mystery of the ancients
and mystification? Page 59.
36. Outline the main tenets of the lesser and greater mysteries
of the ancients? Page 47-51.
37. What does Maspero tell us of the temples of Egypt? Page 11.
38. What did the spiritual instinct in seeking to recreate types
leld to? What has Man always
been? Page 6-2.
39. What is an obelisk? Page 13-1.
40. What is obedience in life? Page 7-2.
41. What is said of Cleopatra's needle? Page 33-34.
42. What is said of the Pyramids as to their age and durability?
Page 13-l.
43. What discovery was of great importance to the primitive Egyptians?
Page 10.
44. What were the columns of the first European age? Page 9-1.
45. What is said of the Pyramid builders and with what amount
of ease did they work? Page 10-1.
46. Relate some idea in regard to pyramid and obelisk? Page 13.
47. What is stated of the pillar as an ancient symbol? Page ~29.
48. What are the two sets of relatives? Page 7-2.
49. What is the thesis which Ruskin expounds in his "Seven
lamps of Architecture?" Page 7.
50. What is said of the old light religion of humanity? Page 14.
51. What is said of the shrines of the old solar religions? Page
12-1.
52. What sort of emblem did the Square become at its discovery?
Page 10-2, 11-1.
53. Why was secrecy necessary in the ancient mysteries? Page 59-62.
54. Give the Egyptian Secret Sermon on the Mountain as transmitted
to the Greeks? Page 47.
55. Of what is the Square an emblem? Page 10.
56. What was the form of the earliest known structure? Page 10.
57. What was the symbol of the earth? Page 13.
58. Give symbolic idea of temple, pyramid and cathedral. Page
15.
59. Give some idea of tools symbolizing a builder's thought. Page
15.
60. What was the symbol of the heavens? Page 13.
61. What is said of symbols? Page 20.
62. What are some of the Socrates' ideas in regard to man? Page
21.
63. What is the Swastika symbol? Page 23-24.
64. What is said of the Square and Cube? Page 25-26
65. Where do we find the crumbling ruins of towns, temples and
tombs? Page 7-1.
66. What is the basis of initiation into eternal truth? Page 61.
67. What is the relation of the seeker after truth to the object
of his search? Page 57.
68. What historical evidence can be cited as to the use of the
mason's working tools? Page 29-30.
69. Give the idea of the Trinity and its emblem. Page 22-23.
70. Contrast the utily of the human mind and the reason for Secret
Doctrine. Page 22, 59, 61.
71. Which art is considered in the study as presented in "1
Builders" and what is it called? Page 5.
72. Is the idea recent or old as regards: "Tools and implements
of architecture teach wise and beautiful truths?" Page 27.
73. Where did all the arts have their home in ancient times and
how were they diffused? Page
74.
74. Why is it thought that from the beginning architects were
members of secret orders? Page 73.
75. For what length of time has architecture been related religion?
Page 73.
76. What is said of the Colleges of Architects? Page 82-83.
77. What famous Collegium was uncovered in Pompeii in 1878 Page
83.
78. How are the emblems of the Roman College of Architects now
regarded by those who know their meaning? Page 84.
79. Were all members of the College of Architects, Christians?
Page 85.
80. What led to the persecution of Master Masons and the breaking
up of the College of Architects and their expulsion fro Rome?
Page 85.
81. Who are supposed to have been the missing links between the
College of Architects of ancient Rome and the Cathedral Builders?
Who and what were they? Page 86-87.
82. What happened when the College of Architects was broken up
and expelled from Rome? Page 86.
83. What is said of the designers of the great cathedrals, who
were they and who executed the work? Page 89.
84. Do you regard Fergusson's hostile criticism of Freemasonry,
in his book, "History of Architecture," as prompted
by knowledge or ignorance of the order? Page 90.
85. To whom is honor as designers of great edifices due and who
wrongfully received the credit? Why? Page 98-99. Why does this
statement bear weight? Page 98-99, 114-115.
86. What comparison is made between the Cathedral Builders and
the Guild Masons? Page 98.
87. How did the Cathedral Builders characterize the menace of
ecclesiasticism, and the abuses current in the church? Page 99.
88. What does the English writer, Hope, say of Freemasons in regard
to their effort to enrich architecture after Roman times? Page
115.
89. Who instructed the ecclesiastics of the middle ages in architecture?
Page 114.
90. When and how did the Gothic style of architecture come to
be introduced? Page 120.
91. Which of the Arts is considered the most exalting? Page 154.
92. In what years did the Masons build the famous London Bridge
and the Westminster Abbey? Page 123.
93. What is said of how the ancient brethren set about to build
an abbey or cathedral? Page 135-136.
94. In building a cathedral or any other building what part of
the work was done by the Apprentice, the Fellow and the Master
Masons each? Page 137.
95. What reference, to the principle of acting on the square,
have we dating lack to the fifth century before Christ? Page 30.
96. How far back is the oldest classic of China (The Bock of History)
which has Masonic references? Page 29.
97. What proof do the early Roman and later English style of buildings
offer to the antiquity of Freemasonry? Page 110.
98. What is said of the legend and the antiquity of Masonry? Page
110.
99. In what year do we find the first trace of Masonry in America?
Page 206.
100. Was Robert Burns a Mason? Page 226.
101. What is said of Masonry being older than any living religion
and what caused it to become the great Brotherhood that it is?
Page 233.
102. Why has Freemasonry been permitted to become old? Page 244.
103. What is an atheist? What is an agnostic? What is matarialism?
Page 267-268.
104. What lies upon the altar of Masonry? Page 265, see also 261
note.
105. What references are there in the Bible, relative to the mate
rials and working tools of the Mason? Page 31-32.
106. What large stone was the emblem of Buddha among the Hindus?
Page 28.
107. What is said of natural and artificial barriers in relation
to the Brotherhood of Man? Page 288.
108. Was there early Masonic teaching in China in symbolieal building?
Page 31.
109. What was the condition of affairs just before the Christian
Era? Page 50.
110. To whom did primitive Christianity appeal when it was seldom
given a hearing? Page 85, 221, 221 note.
111. When and what condition made it possible for the church to
influence Masonry? Was it entirely successful? Page 101.
112. When did Freemasonry break with the Roman Catholic Church
and why? Page 101-102.
113. What induced the Grand Orient of France to remove the Bible
from its Altar and erase from its ritual all reference to Deity?
Page 261, note 1.
114. What caused the church to arouse its animosity toward the
Masons? Page 122.
115. What is the meaning of cowans and eaves-droppers? Page 138.
116. Why is Masonry more than a political party, social cult or
church, and why do some men give up their church when they enter
Masonry? Page 230, 251, 252.
117. What was the testimony of Cicero in regard to happy bones
for the hour of death by a man's learning in the house of the
hidden place? Page 52.
118. What did Confucius teach? Page 29.
119. What is said of Masonic charity in the year 1733? Page 188.
120. What services did the Comacines render? How were they organized
and governed? What were their symbols, regalia, and what were
their keepers? Page 88.
121. Whom and in what capacity did the Comacine Masters serve?
What was their creed? Page 101.
122. What is said of the records of old craft Masonry and what
period do they cover? Page 102. Did they confer more than one
degree?
123. What was the purpose of Old Charges and Constitutions? Page
102-103.
124. Where can detailed information, relative to the Old Charges,
be found? Page 103.
125. Why was the name of the Master Artist omitted from the Old
Charges of Masonry? Page 109.
126. What makes the charge of 1723 memorable? Page 177, 17&
127. When do the "Old Charges" begin their account of
Masonry in England and about what years? Page 116.
128. What is the "Charge" as contained in the Constitutions
of 1723?
129. What is said of vanished civilizations, where art and science
and religion reached unknown heights? Page 6.
130. When were the "Old Constitutions" revised? Page
204.
131. Why does a man refuse to think of death as the giganitic
coffin-lid of a dull and mindless universe descending upon him
at last? Page 26
132. What is one of the hotly debated questions in Masonic history?
Page 141, 190, 197.
133. Who, does Albert Pike say, framed the three degrees of Masonry
and why? To whom did
they communicate these secrets? Page 193.
134. Was the legend of the Third Degree known prior to 1717? Page
149.
135. In what years did friction arise among the Masons of England,
what was the reason and how does it happen that in spite of all
this Masonry goes steadily marching on? Page 214, 215.
136. Why the "York" rite? Page 216 note.
137. What makes a man aware of the divinity within Ainu? Page
270, 293.
138. What was taught by the Druids as far north as England in
regard to life after death? Page 49.
139. Why should it be wrong or what good would it do for one who
understood the mysteries and the secrets combined to give or try
to give them to any one who was not duly and truly prepared to
receive them? Page 59.
140. What is said of the Dionysian Artificers? Page 72.
141. What is said of the mysteries as practiced by the Dionysian
Artificers? Can it be verified? Page 77, 78.
142. What is known of the Druses now inhabiting the lebanom district?
Page 78.
143. What result flows from bigotry and dogmatism? Page 271.
144. Describe the transition we call death. Page 278.
145. What Masonic emblems are found carved on ancient sarcophagi?
Page 83.
146. What does Emerson say that God and Nature does for us? Page
57.
147. What are the real foundations of Masonry both material and
moral? Page 15.
148. How did man think out his faith? Page 27.
149. What is the sure proof and prophet of life's own high faith
Page 270.
150. In former times what sort of freedom did Masons enjoy in
contrast to other people? Page 88.
151. What is the difference between the Freemason' and Guildmason?
Page 98.
152. What was the difference between the conformity and uniformity
during the Middle Ages
in regard to freedom of though etc.? Page 100.
153. When did Benjamin Franklin become a Freemason? Page 200,
207.
154. How did Masonry help to shape the institutions of this Continent?
Page 222, 224, 225.
155. What is the most fundamental of all truths after we examine
the foundations of Masonry? Page 260, 261.
156. Will Freemasonry ever swerve one jet from its ancient and
eloquent demands till all men are free in body, mind and soul?
Page 272.
157. What in times past was a higher crime than murder? Page 273.
158. Why does Masonry make all mankind free with whom it comes
in contact? Page 273.
159. What makes men free? Page 271, 272, 273, 274, 275.
160. What is the result of Despotism? Page 273. of Bigoted Dogmatism?
,Page 273.
161. What is the faith of humanity? Page 279.
162. State the relation of real friendship to Masonry. Page 284
to 290.
163. If those who doubt and deny are to be wooed to the faith,
if the race is ever to be led and lifted into a life of service
by what art must it be done? Page 291.
164. When is God considered one? Page 22.
165. Who have been the men who have done most to establish the
city of God on earth? Page 286.
166. Does Freemasonry teach the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood
of Man and what are the two rocks upon which Masonry has always
stood? Page 134.
167. What question is asked every candidate? Page 261-261 note.
168. How does God work in this world? Page 296.
169. What is the first and last thing in the Universe? What is
the highest and deepest thing? Page 267.
170. If the city of God be established on earth what will become
of the wrangling sects? Page 286. How would this affect business
conditions among men? Page 286.
171. What is known of the society called "The Guilds?"
Were the Guild Masons ever admitted into Freemasonry? Page 119.
172. What was the object in forming the Grand Lodge of England?
Page 174 to 184.
173. When were the Grand Lodges of Ireland, Scotland and France
created? In what year?
Page 205.
174. What was the nature of the opposition to Grand Loge of England?
Page 202-215.
175. What is the genius of Masonry, as stated in "The Builders?"
Page 34.
176. What view of Freemasonry had Henry Hallam (not a ) Mason)
of the Middle Ages? Page 96.
177. Who was Hermes? Page 194.
178. Why cannot the gates of Hell prevail against Masonry? Page
262.
179. What effect has the Egyptian teaching on the Hebrews in regard
to the origin of Masonry? Page 109.
180. What is one of the oldest instincts of humanity? Page 19.
181. What gives man hope of life after death? Page 19-275.
182. Whence cometh light and hope? Page 179.
183. In what sense has a man always been a citizen of two worlds?
Page 19.
184. What is the result if we can conceive of our separate existence?
Page 38.
185. What did Emerson and Addison regard as proof of immortality?
Page 39.
186. What is found in the ancient Egyptian "Book of the Dead"
(The Book of Resurrection) relative to immortality? Page 39-2.
187. To what ancient religion can the various dramas of faith
be traced? Page 41.
188. What reason has man for believing that the race, sinking
into the grave, will rise
triumphant over death? Page 41.
189. What meaning had the Egyptian drama of eternal life for deeper
minds? How was the idea of eternal life taught in the Her metic
lore of Greece? Page 4647.
190. What cartoons in stone are mentioned as indicating immortality
among the Roman clergy? Page 99.
191. What has Masonry to say regarding the Immortality of the
Soul? Page 277-278.
192. What is known of Isis and what reference does she hear to
modern Masonry? What is said of the burial of Osiris? Page 45
193. How far can initiation prepare men for truth and to what
extent can the initiate make use of said teaching? Page 64
194. How "build" in this world to gain a foregleam of
the world to come? Page 27~276.
195. How many and what are the names of Freemasons who were signers
of the Declaration
of Independence? Page 225.
196. What is known. as the Secret Doctrine or Hidden Wisdom taught
by Master Jesus? Page 58.
197. Jesus and other lesser lights have said: "Live the life
to know the Doctrine" – elucidate this idea from the
Masonic point of view. Page 69.
198. What does Josephus say the style of the temple (Solomon's)
was? Page.76.
199. What is known of Inigo Jones of England? Page 118.
200. What Jesuit plot was hatched in Rome, Italy to expose the
secrets of Freemasonry? What people are known as Jesuits? Page
210, 211.
201. What is the difference between a Freemason and a Jesuit?
Page 210-211.
202. When will the law of the jungle cease? Page 286.
203. Why does the Triangle and the Circle form the keystone of
the ornamental tracery of every Gothic Temple? Page 121.
204. What Is meant by Hebrew Kabbalists? Page 156.
205. Did the Kabbalists make use of any emblems of Masonry and
did they mean the same to the initiates of both the Kabhalists
and the Freemasons? Page 157.
206. To what degree do the Kabbalists connect their teaching with
that of the symbolism of the Temple of Solomon? Page 191.
207. As Ruskin puts it, why is there no such thing as liberty,
and how many men attain that which is called liberty? Page 7.
208. How did the ancients regard light and darkness? Page 14.
209. What was light considered by the early men? Page 14.
210. What are the conclusions of the. wisest minds as to the meaning
of life and the world? Page 20.
211. What is said of man's desire to live? Page 39.
212. What is the author's intent in presenting his subject relative
to life and the world? Page 260 note.
213. What is said of the ceremony of initiation of Lucius into
the mysteries of Isis? Page 51.
214. Why is liberty the chief glory of Masonry? Page 102, 122,
127, 266, 272, 274.
215. How did it come that Freemasons took Liberty for their motto?
Page 122.
216. What is said of Union, Liberty and Love? Page 222.
217. Why did all those who have fought for Liberty and Freedom
like Washington, Mazzini and Garibaldi, seek the friendship of
the Masonic order? Page 230.
218. What follows Masonry wherever it flourishes and is allowed
to build freely and what
follows where Masons are hindered and persecuted? Page 231.
219. What has Masonry preserved to humanity and the Church? Page
168-169-252.
220. What are the two extremely simple and profound profound which
Masonry lays great
emphasis upon? Page 254.
221. Why should the Soul of man be free to think and act ac cording
to his own standard of right? Page 272.
222. What is the real question of life and how is Masonry related
to this question? Page 275.
223. Why is it worth while to live a true life? Page 277.
224. To whom does Freemasonry appeal? Page 283.
225. What is each lodge? Page 288.
226. What is the law of life? Page 291-2.
227. What is the relation of thought to the life of man? Page
294.
228. Why must we Masons learn to "Love one another?"
Page 292.
229. What was Edward Markham's conception of Brotherhood? Page
282.
230. What is life? Page 297.
231. What is the object in presenting a copy of "The Builders"
to every Mason within the Grand Jurisdiction of Iowa? Page xii.
232. How should a young Mason feel toward Masonry? Why? What will
be the result? Page
xii-238-252.
233. If every Mason were to more earnestly strive to be a Mason,
not merely in form, but in faith, in spirit, and still more in
character what would be realized? Page xii.
234. What are the real foundations of Masonry both material and
moral? Page 15-201-202.
235. What constitutes the true greatness and majesty of Free-masonry?
Page 18.
236. What is said of man from the beginning as to his purpose
of finding out hidden meanings
beyond mere facts? Page 19.
237. Of what does the value of man consist? Page 19.
238. What position does Masonry hold in the world today? Page
56.
239. What is said of the Comacine Guild 712 A.D. as compared with
Masonic work of today? Page 90.
340. When did the order of Freemasonry decline, and when was it
revived and what resulted? Page 99-124-256.
241. Why is it impossible to gain much knowledge from the history
of Freemasonry? Page 96.
242. What is mid of the simple eloquent emblems of Freemasonry
being older than all religions? Page 97.
243. What was the difference between Freemasons and Guild Masons
and from which is it thought Masonry of today descended? Page
98
244. What is said of how the Masons taught the Monks in early
Christian days? Page 114.
245. What is the chief glory of Masonry? Page 101-102-124-128
246. What was the motto of Freemasonry during the Middle Ages?
Page 121.
247. What evidence exists as to more than one degree during the
Middle Ages? Page 146.
248. Why did soldiers, scholars, clergymen, lawyers, and even
members of the nobility ask to be accepted as members of the Order
of Freemasons through all the past ages? Page 168.
249. Relate an incident showing one way the enemies of Free-masonry
may work. Page 209.
250. Where does the real power of Freemasonry lie? Page 212-214,
note.
251. How did the numerous so-called "exposes" of Masonry
affect the order? Page 209-212.
252. In what years were many so-called exposures of Freemasonry
given, with what result and
why was Masonry not affected thin? Page 212-213.
253. How does it come that the headquarters of the Revolution
and that of Paul Revere, Hancock and others used a Ma, Hall for
their meeting place? Page 224.
254. When was an Anti-Masonic party formed in the United States?
Who was its candidate for President and what success did they
have? Page 228.
255. What was the status of Masonry during the Civil War. Page
229.
256. Why must we as Masons he ever alert and vigilant even day
in America? Page 230.
257. In what countries does Masonry exist? Page 231.
258. Name some soldiers, philosophers, patriots, writers, poets,
musicians, editors, ministers of religions, statesmen, philanthropists
educators, jurists, and masters of drama who were Freemasons.
Page 232.
259. What is said of the various definitions of Freemasonry? Page
239-241.
260. What sort of a system is Freemasonry? Page 239.
261. What is Masonry declared to be according to one of "Old
Charges?" Page 239.
262. Why do some people say that "Masonry is a science"
which is engaged in a search after divine truth? Does a candidate
crease in the knowledge of truth as he progresses in the study
the symholic teachings? Page 240.
263. What proof have we that Masonry can do more for mankind than
to extend Friendship, Love and integrity? Page 249-241.
264. With what is Masonry linked which makes it so strong g no
weapon formed against it can prosper? Page 242.
265. What is the mission of Freemasonry among mankind? Page 242-244-247.
266. Why do the many schemes for the "betterment" of
mankind fail? Page 246.
267. What causes Masonry to best serve the society and still Page
248.
268. Why praise Masonry? Page 252.
269. Why is Freemasonry the greatest organization for the preservation
of peace in the world?
Page 249.
270. What is greater than all hooks? Page 252 note.
271. What does the foundation of Masoory rest upon? Page 260.
272. In what quest does Freemasonry invite all men to unite, and
what do Masonic thinkers proclaim? Page 263-264.
273. What is classed as the greatest modern hook? Page 265.
274. What does it mean to say that this mighty soul of man is
akin to the Eternal Soul of all things? Page 270.
275. Why is it Masonic to be friends of all men, regardless of
different opinions? Why is it we can hate what a man may do biat
still love the man as a man? Page 284.
276. Why will result if we cultivate the spirit of Love? Page
222.
277. At the Masonic altar how do men meet? Page 288.
278. Whit does Masonry endeavor to accomplish for man? Page 226-289
and 289 note 295.
279. What is the spirit of Masonry? Page 127, 179-180, 258, 283,
289-290.
280. What will become of industry, education and religion when
real Masonry exists upon earth? Page 290.
281. What of the vision which Masonry gives to votaries? Page
295, 296.
282. What will Masonry do for any man who will lay its truths
to heart? Page 291-295-296.
283. When is a man a Mason? Page 297.
284. What is the Great Masonic Secret? What is the real Masonic
Secret? Page 293, 298.
285. How many orders were there of the mysteries as practiced
at Memphis and of what did they consist? What were the requirements
to membership? Page 47.
286. What is supposed to have been taught by the Grecian or Elensinian
Mysteries 1800 B.C.? Page 49.
287. Describe the various mysteries (similar to the Egyptian)
passing to other countries? Page 48, 52.
288. What influence had the ancient mysteries upon the ritual
of the Christian Church? Page 50.
289. How did St. Paul view the mysteries? Why? Page 50.
290. What is said of the final condition. of the mysteries and
are such things possible in other works, the church included.
Page 51.
291. What is said of the mysteries at their highest and best?
Page 51.
292. Were the Mysteries of early ages 8ectarian and what is- a
of Spirituality? Page 52.
293. How do the Mysteries of today compare to those of the em
ages? Page 52.
294. Did the andent Mysteries exist prior to any religion? Page
53.
295. How does Masonry stand in relation to the Ancient Mysteries?
Page 53.
296. Upon what did the right of admission into the Greca Mysteries
depend? Page 58.
297. What wish did the aspirant have who was granted the induction
into the sscalled Grecian Mysteries? Page 59.
298. When did the Mysteries accept a student and were they always
ready to accept one who knocked on the door for admission? Page
59.
299. How did the teachings of the ancient world know as th system
of esoteric and exoteric
instruction differ from the hints the novice received by symbols,
dark sayings and dramatic ritual am why? Page 63.
300. What Mysteries ruled the Roman world by tarns? Page 82-83.
301. What drama did the Mysteries of Isis and Mithra teaches?
Page 83.
302. Did the Ancient Mysteries teach the belief of any one set
w did they include them all? Page 196.
303. What is the result of the contemplation of our moral lot?
Page 8.
304. What is said of man as a builder, both material and spirItnal?
Page 6.
305. What induced man to attach moral and spiritual meaning to
the tools, laws and materials of building? Page 26.
306. What is man's last and highest thought, relative to all his
building? Page 15.
307. What has man divined from the beginning, of how many worlds
has he ever been a citizen, and of what did he hope. Page 19.
308. What did Mencius teach? Page 29.
309. What are all things human (not excepting the church itself)
apt to become? Page 51.
310. What did the great orders of antiquity accomplish in ages
of darkness? Page 52.
311. Is it possible to trace Masonry along historical lines? Page
79.
312. Who were the Four Crowned Martyrs? Page 85.
313. How did Freemasonry during the Middle Ages assist those who
were persecuted by
bigoted fanatics and what was the religion of the latter? What
is said of Masonic Toleration? Page 100.
314. What condition of thought existed in the Middle Ages? Page
100-141-148.
315. From whom were the Masonic Lodges of the Middle Ages a sure
refuge? Page 100.
316. State the mission of Freemasonry in the Middle Ages; draw
your own conclusions as to
its present mission, and formulate your part in the work of sustaining
that mission. Page 121-289-290.
317. What were some of the laws which the old Craft-masonry sought
to train its members to make them good and true men? Page 132-133-134.
318. What is said of the morality of 1724? Page 128-134-175.
319. How does Lowell define Freemasonry? Page 272.
320. What is known of the so-called Morgan incident and what was
its effect? Page 227.
321. Name some of the eminent men of- history who have been Masons.
Page 232.
322. What are the two aspects of the nature of man, which lift
him above the brute and bespeak his divine heredity? Page 270.
323. "To fit one's self to know the Truth" (page 59)
as related to acting on the aquare or building character; what
ii it? Page 275.
324. What symbols betray the unity of mind and its kinship with
the eternal? Page 26, 58.
325. Give dates and description of Cleopatra's Needle, (the famous
obelisk) and the discoveries made incident to its removal to New
York City in 1879. Page 33.
326. Who was Osiris and how did he meet death? Page 43.
327. What is said of the resurrection of Osiris? Page 46.
328. What is said of Osiris forming a secret Order and how does
it compare with Masonry?
Page 47-48.
329. What reason is given for the claim that Masonry had it. origin
while the Temple of Solomon was building? Page 79.
330. What is said of the antiquity of Masonry, based on records
of the Middle Ages? What had it in its keeping? Page 97.
331. What is the value of Loader Scott's theory as to the link
between the Roman College of Artificers and Freemasonry? Page
98.
332. What does an inscribed stone dating from 712 prove as to
the antiquity of Masonry? Page 89-90.
333. How must we regard Masonic legends and symbols in relation
to the early history of the race? Page 97.
334. How far back do we have records of old time Masonry? Page
102.
335. How far back do we have records of North American Masonry?
Page 206.
336. What are the "title deeds" of the Fraternity? Page
102.
337. Give name, date, record and a digest of the oldest record
of Masonry. Page 104-105.
338. When was the first time the name Freemasons was known to
have been recorded? Page 104.
339. What is the Regius MS.? Page 104-106.
340. Give name, date, record and digest of the second oldest record
of Masonry. Page 106.
341. According to the Regius MS. and the Cooke MS. where did Masonry
originate? Page 104-108.
342. What is the Cooke document? Page 106.
343. What is the purport of the Harleian MS.? Page 126.
344. What document was discovered in the Bodleian Library at Oxford?
Page 111.
345. What caused the Freemasons to be persecuted before the Reformation
and in what
year in England was a statute enacted curtailing the privileges
of Freemasons? Page 122.
346. To what purpose did some Masons devote themselves up to the
revival in 1717? Page 124.
347. What led to the revival of Freemasonry in 1717? Page 124.
348. Has ever any order claimed such a legendary or tradition
history as Masonry? Page 128.
349. Why was it that during the purely operative period the ritual
of Masonry was naturally less formal and ornate than it afterwards
became? Page 142.
350. What Is known of the existence of Masonry in England and
Scotland prior to 1717? Page 159.
351. Where did the name "Accepted Masons" come from?
Page 160.
352. What is said to be the earliest reference to the initiation
of a Speculative Mason in England? Page 161.
353. What caused the renewed interest in Freemasonry in England
in 1666? Page 168.
354. What was the condition of Society in 1724? Page 175-176.
355. Why did Masonry alone of all the trades and professions live
after its work was done preserving not only its identity of organization
but its old emblems and usages and transforming them into instruments
of religion and righteousness? Page 185.
356. Give a short sketch of the various schisms of Masonry and
what resulted? Page 213-219.
357. What is said of founding of the Grand Lodge of England in
1717? Page 181, 182. When
were the various Grand Lodges united and what was included in
the articles of union? Page 220 note 1, and 221 note 1.
358. What is said of Masonry as being an ancient institution and
what does it do for its
members? Page 239.
359. Why are some people opposed to Freemasonry? Page 245.
360. Why criticize Masonry? Page 252.
361. What are the real obstacles that thwart the nobler aspirations
of humanity and why is jealousy the worst of them all? Page 246.
362. Does Freemasonry belong to any one age or to any religion?
Page 253.
363. What and by whom were the many arts handed on to the Pyramid
builders of Old Egypt? Page 9.
364. What was the symbol of the Pyramid as compared to the square
temple of the early Egyptians? Page 15.
365. How did Albert Pike, in his letter to Gould, describe Fresmasonry
and its Symbolism? Page 18.
366. What is said of the antiquity of the simple symbols of the
Masons as related to the famous Obelisk known as Cleopatra's Needle
in Central Park, N. Y.? How old is the Obelisk supposed to be?
Page 23.
367. Of what is the pyramid an image, as stated by Plutarch Page
27.
368. What is said of the Pillars? What did they represent in th
old solar myths? What did they
represent in India and among the Mayas and Incas? Page 28, 29.
369. What is written on the walls of the Pyramid concerning death?
Page 40.
370. How long did Pthagoras have to wait to be taught the hidden
wisdom of Egypt? What use
did he make of it? Page 47.
371. Who was Phthagoras and what secret order did he found? Page
48
372. What does St. Paul say of the early teachings and mysteries?
Page 50.
373. What does Plato say to the men in the early ages who established
the mysteries and what were their intentions? Page 50.
374. What qualifications are necessary for knowledge of higher
things? Page 58.
375. Can fitness for the finer truths be conferred?
376. Without moral development, what would be the result of the
teachings of the sages? Page 63-1.
377. What is meant by those "fit to receive it," that
is those who understand the hidden teachings of the world? Page
63.
378. What did Pythagoras say of the science of numbers? Page 154.
379. What object of Masonic interest was uncovered at the excavation
of Pompeii in 1878? Page 83.
380. What of the pillars of Jobal and Jubal? Page 108.
381. What is said of the Freemasons of Rome and for what purpose
is it said Pope Gregory used Masons in connection with St. Augustine?
Page 113.
382. What did Popes up to Benedict XII think of Masonry? Page
122.
383. In what year did Pope Clement XII publish his Bull against
the Masons and why? With what result? Page 211.
384. What is the Masonic position toward politics? Page 248.
385. What is the mission of philosophy? Page CO, 239.
386. What is stated of the. Alternative to the philosophy taught
by Masonry? Page 266.
387. Of what has Masonry ever been the prophet? Page 291.
388. What parable was translated by Max Muller? Page 292. What
parable regarding the divinity in man comes to us from the Orient?
Page 293.
389. What is Mason's age-long quest? Page 262.
390. How did Plotinus view philosophy? Page 269 note .
391. What is the thesis of Ruskin as set forth in his "Seven
Lamps of Architecture," relative to the two sets of- realities
-material and spiritual? Page 7.
392. Describe the old light religion of humanity. Page 14-183.
393. What fact lies at the root of every religion and is the basis
of each? Page 25.
394. What is said of the few who have been able to grasp the inner
and deeper doctrine of the various religions accepted by the masses
of every land? Page 58.
395. What admonition is given to youth relative to the sonl? Page
279-291 to 296.
396. Can all the people of any religion grasp all the inside doctrine?
Page 58.
397. Where were all the religions horn and what do they owe to
the ancient mysteries? Page 53.
398. What is said of the religion of a Freemason in 1723? Page
177.
399. How does it come that Freemasonry can embrace all religions
and men of all faiths? Page 177, 209.
400. When did religion take its outward shape? Page 241.
401. What is the reason that we are on the eve if not in the midst
of a most stupendous and bewildering. revolution of social and
industrial life? How can we solve this great problem? Page 248,
249.
402. What caused. the creation of the Bible and the Church? Page
252 see note.
403. What is the basis of the one religion? Page 255-256.
404. What were some of the blackest pages of history; against
whom and how did Masonry protest? Page 254.
405. What is the Masonic position toward the religious world.
Page 178-255-262-263.
406. How did Ruskin use the word Church? Page 250.
407. What will be the simple words of the one eternal religion
extending high above all dogmas that divide, and all bigotries
that bind and all bitterness that now beclouds us? Page 255, 256.
408. What does Freemasonry demand of all governments and religions?
Page 178-231-237-273-274.
409. Why do men leave the church? Page 250.
410. Is Freemasonry a religion of a man, or what does a religious
man do? Page 294.
411. What is religion? Page 252 note, 293, 294.
412. What value was placed on the various legends woven about
the temple of Solomon? Page
74.
413. By whom were the temple and the palaces of Solomon built?
Page 75, 76.
414. By whom was the Temple of Solomon designed and erected? Page
76.
415. What is said of the home of the soul? Page 174-271-271
416. How did it come that the influence of Solomon's temple to
a certain degree gave the forms of the Christian Churches during
the Middle Ages? Page 191.
417. What is the cause of the ceremonials of speculative or symbolical
Masonry being more elaborate and imposing? Page 143.
418. What was the progress made by speculative Masonry at the
start? Page 203.
419. What is the present need of human society? Page 247.
420. What attributes of the Soul lift man above the brute and
bespeak his divinity? Page 270.
421. How do the teachings of Socialism compare with those of Masonry
and the so-called City of God? Page 287.
422. What effect do symbols have upon the life of man? Page 4.
423. What are the emblems of truth, justice and righteous? Page
10.
424. How were the shrines of the old solar religion of Egypt oriented?
Page 11.
425. What are the oldest emblems of solar faith? Page 13.
426. How is symbol related to speech? Page 19.
427. What is said of symbolism relative to man? Page 20.
428. Of what do the ancient symbols bear witness? Page 34.
429. What is the symbol of Buddha? Page 28
430. What symbolic reference- have the serpents? Page 33.
431. What is the good the simple symbols of Masonry may do to
establish the Brotherhood of Man? Page 53.
432. What is said of the circle? Page 24, 25, 33.
433. What, lofty interpretation does Masonry accept in regard
to the point in the circle? Page 25.
434. What is said of the triangle, square, cross and circle? Page
25-33.
435. How old is the idea of the Trinity? Page 23-264.
436. Of what is the triangle a symbol in India? Page 23, 79.
437. How is the triangle compared to the Trinity of life? Page
22.
438. What is Solomon's seal? Page 79. What are the triangles of
Vishnu and Siva? Page 23-79.
439. What is said of the lesser and the greater Tetractys? Page
143.
440. What is the seal of Solomon in Syria, Persia and India? Page
79, 23.
441. How many hundreds of years before the so-called Christian
era were allusions made to the compasses? Page 30.
442. What is said of the crown, and what is said of its symbolism
ages before our era? Page 24.
443. What is said of the cube? Page 10, 23, 27.
444. What is said of the discovery of the square and of what did
it become an emblem? What does it still teach? Page 10, 30, 33.
445. What is said of the swastika? Page 23.
446. What is said of "gloves" as a symbol? Page 137.
447. Why should we study the symbolism of Freemasonry and why
did symbolism become a language for the thoughts of the thinker?
Page 153.
448. What is meant by Tiler? Page 138.
449. What is said of symbolism during the "Middle Ages?"
Page 156.
450. Have Masons always appreciated and loved the symbi their
degrees? Page 157.
451. What sort of people became Masons after Masonry ceased to
be operative and what was the symbolism retained by Speculative
Masonry? Page 201.
452. For what purpose did Stakeley, the antiquarian, enter the
order of Freemasonry in 1721? Page 203.
453. What is said of the secret sermon on the mountain a to us
from Egypt through Greece? Page 47.
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