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Early Architects.
venture to add , that the Bible story gives any authority or lends any colouring to such a statement . There seem to have been Masons at Tyre and in the Holy Land , and these bodies joined together , Avhich is a very remarkable fact in itself , in building the Temple at Jerusalem , and even at this hour , as
Captain Warren found , the marks of Tyrian and Hebrew Masons are still extant . But further than this we cannot go , Ave fear , though the writer may , perhaps , claim in support of his statements the early Gild legends which mention Masons going from Jerusalem to other lands .
" In Egypt , " the writer proceeds to point out , " the calling was hereditary in families ; and Dr . Brugsch records an instance of twenty-two generations of a family holding the office , from the time of Seti I . to that of Darius , the son of Hystaspes , the second Persian monarch . The architect Avas also a sculptor , as Avere the great
Italian architects . Iritisen , of the eleventh dynasty , styled himself the ' true servant' of the King Mentu-hotep , ' he who is in the inmost recesses of the King ' s heart , and makes his pleasure all the day long ; an artist Avise in his art—a man standing aboA ^ e all men by his learning . ' The pyramid architects were frequently princes and married into the families of the Pharaohs . "
Much that has been written in Ckwel and others about the Egyptian arrangements , Masons and mysteries , is truly a " picturesque history , " and nothing more .. We know so far , as Bro . Rylands Avould tell us , after all , very little of Egypt ; but the writer is j > vobably quite correct in his assertion
that architects were among those whom their Kings delighted to honour . Whether there was a college of Architect-Priests , or simple architects , is , Ave apj > rehend , not yet by any means clear , despite the dogmatic assertions of some writers on Egyptian mj * steria . "Mer-ab , architect under Khufu , or Cheoj ^ s , was a son of that
monarch . Ti , of a later reign , though of low birth , married a princess Nofer-hotep , became the King ' s Secretary , President of the Royal Board of Works , and a distinguished priest . According to Diodorus , the Egyptians spoke of their architects as more worthy of admiration than their Kings . It follows that at least a thousand
years before Solomon , as far back as the time of Abraham , the architect stood as high as Hiram Abiff , and AA e may safely conclude that the royal art had long before been held in great esteem . The statuary of those ancient days shoAvs great ability and genius , as the gigantic works testify to great engineering ability . They built temples as Avell as pyramids , Avhich , although not equal to later works , were grand and effective . Soon after the time of Joseph , we find in
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Early Architects.
venture to add , that the Bible story gives any authority or lends any colouring to such a statement . There seem to have been Masons at Tyre and in the Holy Land , and these bodies joined together , Avhich is a very remarkable fact in itself , in building the Temple at Jerusalem , and even at this hour , as
Captain Warren found , the marks of Tyrian and Hebrew Masons are still extant . But further than this we cannot go , Ave fear , though the writer may , perhaps , claim in support of his statements the early Gild legends which mention Masons going from Jerusalem to other lands .
" In Egypt , " the writer proceeds to point out , " the calling was hereditary in families ; and Dr . Brugsch records an instance of twenty-two generations of a family holding the office , from the time of Seti I . to that of Darius , the son of Hystaspes , the second Persian monarch . The architect Avas also a sculptor , as Avere the great
Italian architects . Iritisen , of the eleventh dynasty , styled himself the ' true servant' of the King Mentu-hotep , ' he who is in the inmost recesses of the King ' s heart , and makes his pleasure all the day long ; an artist Avise in his art—a man standing aboA ^ e all men by his learning . ' The pyramid architects were frequently princes and married into the families of the Pharaohs . "
Much that has been written in Ckwel and others about the Egyptian arrangements , Masons and mysteries , is truly a " picturesque history , " and nothing more .. We know so far , as Bro . Rylands Avould tell us , after all , very little of Egypt ; but the writer is j > vobably quite correct in his assertion
that architects were among those whom their Kings delighted to honour . Whether there was a college of Architect-Priests , or simple architects , is , Ave apj > rehend , not yet by any means clear , despite the dogmatic assertions of some writers on Egyptian mj * steria . "Mer-ab , architect under Khufu , or Cheoj ^ s , was a son of that
monarch . Ti , of a later reign , though of low birth , married a princess Nofer-hotep , became the King ' s Secretary , President of the Royal Board of Works , and a distinguished priest . According to Diodorus , the Egyptians spoke of their architects as more worthy of admiration than their Kings . It follows that at least a thousand
years before Solomon , as far back as the time of Abraham , the architect stood as high as Hiram Abiff , and AA e may safely conclude that the royal art had long before been held in great esteem . The statuary of those ancient days shoAvs great ability and genius , as the gigantic works testify to great engineering ability . They built temples as Avell as pyramids , Avhich , although not equal to later works , were grand and effective . Soon after the time of Joseph , we find in