Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

superfluous corners of rough stones, the better to
fit them for the builder's use; but we, as Free and
Accepted
Masons,
are
taught
to
make use of it for the more noble and glorious
purpose of divesting our minds and consciences
of all the vices and superfluities of life, thereby
fitting us, as living stones, for that spiritual
building, that house not made with hands, eternal
in the heavens.
W. M.--Brother Gabe, there is a lecture to this
Degree, consisting of three sections, which you
will at your earliest opportunity commit to
memory. 1 The first section treats of the manner
of your initiation; the second section, the reasons
wily, &c.; the third section, the form, furniture,
lights, &c., &c. This lecture commences as
follows:
FIRST SECTION.
Q. From whence came you? (Some say, As an
Entered Apprentice Mason.)
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A. From a Lodge of the Sts. John of Jerusalem.
Q. What came you here to do?
A. To learn to subdue my passions and improve
myself in Masonry.
Q. Then I presume you are a Mason?
A. I am so taken and accepted among all