Accepted Masons: 147; earliest, 160; not in all lodges, 160 _note_; first recorded, 161; and Ashmole, 162-4; at Warrington, 164; in the London Company, 165; and the Regius MS, 166; at Chester, 166; Assembly of, 168; quality of, 168 _AEneas_: referred to, 44 _note_ _Ahiman Rezon_: 216 Alban, St: in Old Charges, 116; a town, not a man, 117 _note_; and the Masons, 120 America: advent of Masonry in, 206; spirit of Masonry in, 222; influence of Masonry on, 223 "Ancients, The": and Moderns, 212; Grand Lodge of, 216; growth of, 217; merged into universal Masonry, 221 Anderson, James: his account of Grand Lodge of England, 180; and the Old Charges, 186; sketch of, 187 _note_; on Masonic secrets, 192 _note_; on growth of Masonry, 203; publishes Book of Constitutions, 204 Andreae, J.V.: quoted, 157; his Rosicrucian romance, 163 Anti-Masonic political party, 228 Apprentice, Entered: requirements of, 129; moral code of, 130; masterpiece of, 131; degree of, 144 Architects: early, 14; of Rome, 72; initiates, 73; honored in Egypt, 74; College of, 82; Comacine, 88; churchmen, 114 Architecture: matrix of civilization, 5; spiritual basis of, 6; _Seven Lamps_ of, 7; moral laws of, 8; mysticism of, 9; and astronomy, 77; gaps in history of, 86; Italian, 87; and the Comacines, 88; new light on, 89; churchmen learn from Masons, 114; Gothic, 120; essay on, 136; influence of Solomon's Temple on, 191; no older than history, 241 Ashmole, Elias: Diary of, 162; not the maker of Masonry, 163; student of Masonry, 167 _note_; and Walton, 259 _note_ Assembly of Masons: at York, 117; semi-annual, 118; initiations at, 131; before 1717, 167 Atheist: does not exist, 261 _note_; would be an orphan, 267 Athelstan: and Masons, 116 Atholl Masons: Grand Lodge of, 216; power of, 217; end of, 221 Aubrey, John: 166; on convention of Masons, 167 Augustine, St: and Masons, 116 Babel, Tower of: 7 Bacon, Francis: 110; his _New Atlantis_ and Masonry, 179 _note_, 190 Benevolence: Board of, 188 Bible: Masonic symbols in, 32; and Masonry, 265 _Book of Constitutions_: 187 _Book of the Dead_: 40 Booth, Edwin: on Third degree, 197; a Mason, 232 Boston Tea Party: 224 Brotherhood: in Old Charges, 133; creed of Masonry, 134; make way for coming of, 282 Builders: early ideals of, 12; tools of, 26; in China, 31; forgotten, 34; orders of, 74; in Rome, 79; of cathedrals, 87; servants of church, 101; of Britain, 113; traveling bands of, 135; rallying cries of, 191; Longfellow on, 260 Building: spiritual meaning of, 6, 7, 8; ideal of, 15; an allegory, 154; two ways of, 158 _note_; of character, 275 Burns, Robert: 226; a Mason, 232; poet of Masonry, 233 Cantu, Cesare: on Comacines, 142 Capart: quoted, 6 Carlyle, Thomas: quoted, 4