Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated - The Masonic Trowel

336 GRAND INSPECTOR INQUISITOR COMMANDER. DrITIATION. 337
that could lead you to do acts of injustice and give
hasty and inconsiderate judgment?
Candidate—I am.
Most Perfect President—Do you believe that you can
sacrifice your pride of opinion a~d love of self respect,
to maintain the holy cause of justice and equity?
Candidate—I do.
Most Perfect President—.Go then to our holy altar, in
charge of our Most Enlightened Brother, the Master of
Ceremonies and there kneel with sincerity and reverence,
with no thought in your heart and no word on your lips
but those of soberness and truth. (Master of Ceremonies
conducts him to the altar, causes him to kneel on the
right knee, and places in his left hand the scales of justice,
laying his right hand on the book of constitutions.)
Most Perfect President—(Stri king one and rising.)
Order my brethren! Form the circle around the candidate.
(All rise and suround the eandidate, extending
their left hands over him while they hold their swords
in the right, and all repeat with him the responses;
after which the Most Perfect President leaves his seat
and meets the candidat~.)
Most Perfect Pre~ident—Kneeling at this altar of Masonry
in token of humility and reverential awe of Deity;
do you, upon these emblems of justice, equity, uprightness
and the law’s dread vengeance, most solemnly
and sincerely swear that you will never reveal any of
the secrets of Grand Inspector Inquisitor Commander to
any person and under any circumstances in the world,
unless duly permitted to do so by a Consistory of Sublime
Princes of the Royal Secret.
Candidate and All—I do.
Moat Perfect President—Do you furthermore promise
and swear that you will scrupulously observe and cause
to be observed, the constitutions, statutes and regulations
of this Supreme Tribunal so long as you remain a
member thereof; that you will with zeal and energy
propagate the doctrines of the Ancient and Accepted
Rite of l~Thsonry, and labor for its diffusion and prosperity,
and that you will not consent to the admission of
any person to the high degrees of the Rite who is not an
intelligent man, of respectable acquirements and information,
and of virtue and honor?
Candidate and All—I do.
Most Perfect President—Raise your right hand towards
heaven. Do you most solemnly and sincerely
swear, that you will carefully examine all cases in which
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that may iiiay be judge; urged therein listen attentively and faithfully to every and impartial- argument
ly weigh both evidence and argument, being ,ieither
careless nor indifferent, partial nor prejudiced; nor
wearying of investigation, with no other purpose tl~an
that of giving a true, just, equitable and merciful judgment?
Candidate and All—I do.
Most Perfect President—Do you solemnly and sincerely
swear that you will never sit in judgment in any
case where you may entertain feelings of enmity or illwill
toward a party therein, or any feelings of prejudice
or dislike; nor in any case where from any cause whatever
you doubt whether you can hear patiently, consider
calmly, and decide impartially?
Candidate and All—I do.
Most Perfect President—Do you solemnly and sinand
swear that you will never allow rank and power. influence
or money to sway yoor judgment, and that before
you as a judge, all men shall stand on one common
level, to be condemned if guilty; to be acquitted if
innocent?