Excerpt from The Ladies' Friend: Containing All the Lectures and Exoteric Ceremonials, Made Use of in Conferring the Adoptive Degrees of Masonry Consisting of the Eastern Star, Mason's Daughter, Kindred Degree, Good Samaritan, and Heroines of Jericho 1. None but Master Masons are authorized to com fer any of the Adoptive Degrees of Masonry, as no other person can know Masonically whether the aspi rants are entitled to receive them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.