THE

MASONIC LADDER:

OR THE

Nine Steps to Ancient Freemasonry,

BEING

A PRACTICAL EXHIBIT, IN PROSE AND VERSE,

OF THE

MORAL PRECEPTS, TRADITIONS,

Scriptural Instructions and Allegories

OF THE DEGREES OF

ENTERED APPRENTICE, FELLOW CRAFT, MASTER MASON,

MARK MASTER, PAST MASTER, MOST EXCELLENT MASTER, ROYAL ARCH
MASON, ROYAL MASTER AND SELECT MASTER,

BY JOHN SHERER,

Compiler of the "Masonic Carpets of Blue Lodge, Chapter and Council
Masonry," and other Masonic Publications.

CINCINNATI, OHIO:

PUBLISHED BY SHERER & CO.
1866.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866,

BY JOHN SHERER,

In the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio.