Tasting and Smelling

Of the five senses, hearing, seeing and feeling are only deemed essential to Freemasons. Tasting and Smelling are therefore not referred to in the instructions, except as making up the sacred number five. Preston says: "Smelling and Tasting are inseparably connected; and it is by the unnatural kind of life which men commonly lead in society that these senses are less fit to perform their natural duties."

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See also: Five Senses

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