On Tue, 16 May 2006 13:31:34 -0600, James Waldby
wrote:



Presumably Freemasonry picked the name up from the original, i.e.
Genesis 4:22: "Zillah bore Tubal-cain; he was the forger of all
instruments of bronze and iron." http://bible.cc/genesis/4-22.htm
also translates part of that as "the father of every maker of cutting
instruments of brass and iron" and "an instructer of every artificer
in brass and iron".
-jiw


Tubal Cain may or may not have been a freemason, there is no published
evidence either way that I know of. The quote from genesis that you
have in the paragraph above *is* the line of text that saw Tom Walshaw
adopt Tubal Cain as his pseudonym.
He wrote about the matter in Model Engineer a little before his death
in response to a reader's query.
Stealth Pilot