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The Old Constitutions declare that the candidate for Freemasonry must be a "perfect youth, having no maim or defect in his body." The Masonic law of physical qualifications is derived from the Mosaic, which excluded from the priesthood a man having any blemishes or deformities. The regulation in Freemasonry constitutes one of the landmarks, and is illustrative of the symbolism of the Institution. The earliest of the Old Constitutions, that of the Halliwell or Regius Manuscript (lines 153 to 156), has this language on the subject:To the Craft it were great shame To make a halt man and a lame, For an imperfect man of such blood Should do the Craft but little good.
This question is discussed in Doctor Mackey's Jurisprudence of Freemasonry.
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