uare, morality; the Level, equality;
and the Plumb, rectitude of life and conduct.

Q. What are the three immovable jewels? A. The rough Ashlar, the
perfect Ashlar, and the Tressel-Board.

Q. What are they? A. The rough Ashlar is a stone in its rough and
natural state; the perfect Ashlar is also a stone, made ready by the
working tools of the Fellow Craft to be adjusted in the building; and
the Tressle-Board is for the master workman to draw his plans and
designs upon.

Q. What do they represent? A. The rough Ashlar represents man in his
rude and imperfect state by nature; the perfect Ashlar also represents
man in that state of perfection to which we all hope to arrive, by
means of a virtuous life and education, our own endeavors, and the
blessing of God. In erecting our temporal building, we pursue the
plans and designs laid down by the master workman on his
Tressle-Board: but in erecting our spiritual building, we pursue the
plans and designs laid down by the Supreme Geometrician of the
Universe, in the Book of Life, which we, Masonically, term our
spiritual Tressle-Board.

Q. Who did you serve? A. My Master.

Q. How long? A. Six days.

Q. What did you serve him with? A. Freedom, Fervency, and Zeal.

Q. What do they represent? A. Chalk, Charcoal, and Earth.

Q. Why so? A. There is nothing freer than chalk, the slightest touch
of which leaves a trace behind; nothing more fervent than heated
charcoal; it will melt the most obdurate metals; nothing more zealous
than the earth to bring forth.

Q. How is your Lodge situated? A. Due East and West.

Q. Why so? A. Because the Sun rises in the East and sets in the West.

Q. A second reason? A. The gospel was first preached in the East and
is spreading to the West.

Q. A third reason? A. The liberal arts and sciences began in the East
and are extending to the West.

Q. A fourth reason? A. Because all the churches and chapels are, or
ought to be, so situated.

Q. Why are all churches and chapels so situated? A. Because King
Solomon's Temple was so situated.

Q. Why was King Solomon's Temple so situated? A. Because Moses, after
conducting the children of Israel through the Red Sea, by divine
command, erected a tabernacle to God, and placed it due East and West,
which was to commemorate, to the latest posterity, that miraculous
East wind that wrought their mighty deliverance; and this was an exact
model of Solomon's Temple; since which time, every well regulate