Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated - The Masonic Trowel

496 MAITEB X*30E’B , ~ AJD REAL GRIP.
SIGN 01 A MAE?ER MASON.
Made from due-guard, by dropping left
aand and drawing right hand across the
~owe1sto the rig
1ht, thumb toward the body,
,ight of hips. [See cut.
]
51gm of aMaatez
Mason.
PASS GRIP OF A MASTER
MASON.
Grasp hands naturnily and
rmGripof a Master Mason. press thumb between
buckles of second and third fingers.
STEONG GRIP OF A MASTER MA5ON OR LION’S PAW.
~iandsjoined as shown in cut, thumb and flngeu
r issing hard on hand and wrist of each other.
PASS OP A MASTER ~!ASON Tubal Cain; name of grip.
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“THE COMPASSES
Are peculiarly consecrated to this degree,
because within their extreme
points, when properly extended, are
emblematically said to be inclosed the
principal tenets of our profession, and
hence t~’e moral application of the Compasses, in the
third dearee, is to those precious jewels of a Master
YLason, Triendship, Morality, and Brotherly Love.”—
Mackey’. Ritualist, page 110.
TIlE Wouxlxu loftS or .4 MA~TI:u MASON. 49~
~ Are all the implements of ma-.
sonry indiscriminately but more
~ especially the Trowel.
“The Toowel is an in’drurnent made use of by Opera~
tive Masons to spread the cement which unites a build
ing into one common noass;but we, as Free and Accepted
Mas3ns, are taught to make use or it for the more
noble and glorious purpose of spreading the cement of
brotherly love and affection; that cement which unites
usinto one sacred band,or society of friends and brothers,
amolig whom no contention, should ever exist,
but that uol)Ie contention or rather emulation; of who
can best work and best agree.”—ifackcg’s Rd. y. 111.
T~r TRAGEDY OF THE THIRD DEGREE.
PLAYING MCflI’o R AND RESURRECTION IN TEN SCENES.
SCENE l.—PLAYING Mtrjwzn Assault by “J’uCcicz” on tho Csndldgg,
aflaa Grand Iliasler Hiram AblE.”