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Chapter 7 - Rituals
depend upon their future conduct. Then, the king orders the roll call to be made,
in order to find the three missing names. The Secretary retires to the anteroom,
where the craftsmen assemble, and reads their names: Amos, Caleb, Ezra, Jubela,
Joshua, Hezekiah, Nathan, Jubelo, Samuel, Isaiah, Aholiah, Jubelum, Gideon,
Haggai, and Daniel (cf. p. 160). He reports to Hiram, the King of Tyre, that
Jubela, Jubelo, and Jubelum are missing.
King Solomon asks the Tyrian King to send out the twelve Fellow Crafts
who have confessed their murderous intentions, in order to find the three
craftsmen. They assemble again in a semi-circle and give the sign of fidelity,
then receive their order and divide into parties of three. The group who traveled a
westerly course return to King Solomon and bring him the following tidings:
they have met at the city of Joppa a sea-faring man who had seen the three
suspects, who had demanded that he take them to Ethiopia which he refused
since they had no passports issued by King Solomon. This report causes the
companions to all pursue a westerly course. One of them becomes tired and sits
down, and when rising takes hold of a sprig of acacia that comes off suspiciously
easy. He assumes that he has found a grave. Suddenly, they hear a voice:
Oh, that my throat had been cut across, my tongue torn out and buried in
the sands of the sea at low water mark, where the tide ebbs and flows
twice in twenty-four hours, ere I had been accessory to the murder of
our Grand Master Hiram Abiff. 1287
The craftsmen recognize the voice of Jubela. Then, they hear another complaint:
Oh, that my left breast had been torn open, my heart and lungs taken
thence to the valley of Jehosaphat, and left a prey to the vultures of the
air, ere I had been accessory to the murder of our Grand Master Hiram
Abiff.
In this, the companions recognize the voice of Jubelo. Then follows a third
exclamation, issuing "from the clefts of the adjacent rocks" (p. 164):
Oh, that my body had been severed in twain, my bowels taken thence and
burned to ashes, and the ashes thereof scattered to the four winds of
heaven, that there might remain neither track, trace, nor remembrance,
among men or mason, of so vile and perjured a wretch as I, who have
slain our Grand Master Hiram Abiff.
The twelve craftsmen recognize the voice of Jubelum, and they seize and
bind the three ruffians, leading them up the north side of the lodge to the East.
Then, they bring the tidings to King Solomon. The three ruffians plead guilty
1287 Cf. ritual, p. 163. We have translated this into the long form, since the text appears abbreviated
in the ritual. The same is valid for the next two quotations.