The series of ranks and progress of the pupil were arranged as follows:
| { Preparation, | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| { Novice, | |||
| Nursery , | |||
| { Minerval, | |||
| { Illumin. Minor. | |||
| { | Apprentice, | ||
| { Symbolic | { | Fellow Craft, | |
| { | Master, | ||
| Masonry , | |||
| { | Illum. Major , Scotch Novice | ||
| { Scotch | { | ||
| { | Illum. dirigens , Scotch Knight. | ||
| { | Presbyter, Priest, | ||
| {Lesser | { | ||
| { | Prince, Regent, | ||
| Mysteries , | |||
| { | Magus , | ||
| {Greater | { | ||
| { | Rex . |
The reader must be almost sick of so much villany, and would be disgusted with the minute detail, in which the cant of the Order is ringing continually in his ears. I shall therefore only give such a short extract as may fix our notions of the