Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated - The Masonic Trowel

340 GRAND INSPECTOR INQUISITOR COMMAND~IR.
Most Perfect President—(Laying both hands on the
candidate’s head.) To the glory of the Grand Architect
of the Universe, in the name and under the auspices of
the Grand Consistory of Sublime Princes of the Royal
Secret, 32nd degree of the Ancient and Accepted Rite
of Masonry, for the State of—, under the jurisdiction
of the Supreme Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors
General, 33rd degree for the Northern Jurisdiction
of the United States of America, sitting at New
York, and by virtue of the powers conferred on me by
this Supreme Tribunal of Grand Inspectors Inquisitors
Commanders, I do receive and constitute, create and
acknowledge you a Grand Inspector Inquisitor Commander
of the 31st degree of that rite, and a member of this
Supreme Tribunal.
Arise Most Enlightened Brother. Take for a moment
the two poniards which lie before you. They are
weapons that you have carried before in Masonry, and
we yet retain them because they were anciently given
to the candidate that with one he might punish perjury
and with the other protect innocence.
Put them down my I~rother! They do not belong to
a Grand Inspector Inquisitor Commander, who is a
judge and not a solc~ier. The moral force of the law and
the Tribunal is more potent than a thousand daggers.
Perjury like any other crime, is punished by law, or by
the general contempt and execration, and innocence is
not now protected by the poniard.
Most Enlightened Brother Master of Ceremonies, this
newly received Grand Inspector Inquisitor Commander
has laid aside forever the steel which is symbolic of
violence. Give him therefore, the signs, words and
tokens of the degree. Be seated my brethren. (The
Most Perfect President returns to the throne and takes
his- seat. All the members seat themselves and the
Master of Ceremonies gives the candidate the signs,
words and tokens of the degree, as the same are explained
by the Most Perfect President.)
SIGN.
Cross both hands over the navel, the
left over the right.
INSWUL
Cross them over the head, the fingers
extended and separate, and the palms upward.
AaawezSngllgu.