The FellowCraft Degree
The Two Pillars
Five Orders of Architecture
Seven Liberal Arts and Sciences
100

From the Entered Apprentice to the Fellowcraft Degree this gives you the right to proceed

Suitable proficiency in the preceding Degree

100

The reason why the pillars made of molten or cast brass

The better to withstand the inundation or conflagration

That they might not be removed by flood

Cannot be consumed by fire

100

This order the most simple and solid of the 5 orders

The Tuscan

100

Treats of the powers and properties of magnitudes in general, where length, breadth, and thickness are considered.

Geometry

200

The working tools of the Fellow Craft

Plumb, Square and Level

200

The chapiters ornamented with these decorations

Leaves of lily work

Network

Chains of pomegranate

200

It is compounded of the other orders.

The Composite

200

The science of numbers or that branch of mathematics that considers the properties of numbers.

Arithmetic

300

The Fellow Craft Symbolic Wages

Corn, Wine, and Oil

300

The names of the pillars at the entrance to King Solomon’s Temple

Boaz & Jachin

300

The richest of the five orders, deemed a masterpiece of art

The Corinthian 

300

The elegance of diction is taught

Rhetoric

400

The place where craftsmen had their names recorded as faithful workmen

At a place representing the Middle Chamber of King Solomon’s Temple

400

The representation of two artificial sphericals mounted on the top of the pillars

Countries, seas, and various parts of the Earth

The face of the Heavens, and the planetary revolutions

400

The first order to established by Greeks

The Doric

400

The science that teaches us how to form clear and distinct ideas.

Logic

500

The amount of Fellowcrafts were employed at the building of King Solomon’s Temple

80,000

500

The two pillars represent these concepts

Strength & Establishment

500

The name of the new school of architecture

The Gothic

500

The science which treats of the Heavenly bodies, their motion, magnitude, distances, and physical constitutions.

Astronomy

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