Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated - The Masonic Trowel

92 PRINCE OF LIBAMUS.
Master Carpenter—My brother, you hate been duly
elected to receive this degree. Brother Senior Deacon,
you will now invest the brother with him insignia ~nd
jewels and conduct him to the second apartment. (Senior
Deacon invests him and conducts him to the door of
the second apartment. Meanwhile the brethren~~retire
and dress themselves with the insignia and jewels of
this degree.)
Senior Deacon—(Two knocks; 00.)
Junior Deacon—(Opening the door.) Who comca
here?
Scn~or Deacon—A Knight of the Rose Croix and
Prussian Knight who, having wrought chcerfully in the
workshop and learned the use of the saw, the plane and
Lhe axe, has received the suff rages of the workmen and
demands to be received a Prince of Libanus. (Junior
Deacon shuts the door and says:)
Junior Deacon—Thrice Puissant, it is a Knight of
Rose Croix and Prussian Knight, who, having wrought
cheerfully in the workshop and learned the u~e of the
saw, the plane and axe, has received the suifrages of the
workmen and demands to ‘ne received a Prince of Libanus.
Chief Prince—Let him be admitted. (The ~hrce
principal officers now take their stations; the Ju.ior
Deacon opens the door and the Senior Deacon ent~is
with the candidate and conducts him to the ~1tar.)
Senior Deacon.—Tbrice Puissai,t I present to you a
Knight Rose Croix, who has toiled in the workshop and
received the unanimous suifrages of his brethren.
Chief Prince—My brother do you still persist in your
desire to enter this association of laborers?
Candidate—I do.
Chief Prince—Are you not deterred by the hazard of
such toil and fare as you experienced in the workshop?
Candidate—I am not.
Chief Prfncc—Kneel then at this altar and contract
your oh1i~ation. (Candidate kneels on both knees with
his hands upon the axe and Bible and takes the follow-
ing obligation.)
INITIATION.
98
OBLIGATION KNIGHT OF ~ItE ROYAL AXE.
I.... of my own frcc will an(1 accord, in the presence
of thc Grand Architect of the Universe, and this illustrious
Collcgc of Princes of Libainus, do hereby and hereon
most ~oleiunIy and ~xncerclyproiiiise and swear that
1 will ncvcr coxnmunicatc the sccrcts of this (legree to
any perbon or pcrsons unlcss it be to one lawfully cntitlcd
to rcccivc tlic sainc.
I furthcrinorc prolllisc and ~wcar that I will ever
hcreaftcr usc my bcst cndeavors to elevatc tlic character
of the laboring cIasse~ and improve their condition, to
disseminatc thc bIc~ings of cducation arliong thcir childrcn
and to givc to tlwms(’Ivc~ their due and propcr
social and political wcight. All of which I promiEc aIl(I
~weiIr under the penalty of exposurc on the highicst
pinnacle of Mount Ubanii~, there mi~erab1y to pcrish in
its pcrpctiial snows. So liclp mc Cod.
(Chicf Princc raises him and invests him with thc
iollowing signs:)
SIGN.
MakQ thc motion nt
lifting an a’~e with
both hand~, anr~ ~triking
as it to fell a trcc.
ANSWI U.
Rai~c both hands to
the hcight o1 thc forelICa(1,
thc fiiigvrs cx—
tendcd, and I hen Ict
the hands f,~1l, thus
in(lIcating thc fall of
a trcc.
Answer to Sigo.
lilac, of X4bmaa.