A Ritual of Freemasonry: Illustrated by Numerous Engravings: To Which Is Added a Key to the Phi Beta Kappa, the Orange, and Odd Fellows Societies; With Notes and Remarks
A Ritual of Freemasonry: Illustrated by Numerous Engravings: To Which Is Added a Key to the Phi Beta Kappa, the Orange, and Odd Fellows Societies; With Notes and Remarks
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ... MASTER MASON'S DEGREE. The officers and members being assembled, the lodge ia opened as in the preceding degree.* [See plate 1.] All things being ready, the candidate is taken into the preparation room and prepared as follows: The junior and senior deacons strip .him naked, he is then furnished with ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1853 edition. Excerpt: ... MASTER MASON'S DEGREE. The officers and members being assembled, the lodge ia opened as in the preceding degree.* [See plate 1.] All things being ready, the candidate is taken into the preparation room and prepared as follows: The junior and senior deacons strip .him naked, he is then furnished with an old pair of drawers, which are tied or buttoned just above his hips, and both legs of them are rolled above his knees; his shirt is then put over his head, and slipped down around his body, and is partly covered by his drawers; the sleeves and collar hang dangling behind, over the waistband of his drawers; a rope, or cafcle-tow, is put three times round his body, the parts below his knees, and those from the middle of the body up, are entirely naked, except that he has a bandage over his eyes; he is now prepared in due and ancient form for the third degree of Freemasonry. [See plate of penalties.] He is then conducted from the preparation room to the door, where he gives three distinct knocks, when the senior deacon rises and says, Worshipful master, there is an alarm at the door. W. M. Brother, inquire the cause of that alarm. The senior deacon then steps to the door, and answers the three knocks that had been given, by three more; one knock is then given without, and answered by one from within; when the door is partly opened, and the senior deacon asks, Who comes there? J. D. A worthy brother, who has been regularly initiated as an entered apprentice Mason, passed to the degree of a fellow craft, and now wishes for further light in Masonry, by, being raised to the sublime degree of a master Mason. * The least number that can do business in this degree, is three officers* but seven generally assist, as in the preceding degree. S. D. Is...
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