Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

With a few other interrogations and answers the
old lecture ends. These interrogations and
answers are embodied in the new-fangled lecture
as already given; they relate only to the demand
for something of a metallic kind, reinvestment of
candidate's clothing, northeast corner of the
Lodge, &c., &c.
p. 48
SECOND SECTION.
Q. Why were you divested of all metals when
made a Mason?
A. For the reason, first, that I should carry
nothing offensive or defensive into the Lodge;
second, at the building of King Solomon's
Temple, there was not heard the sound of an axe,
hammer, or any tool of iron.
Q. How could a building of that stupendous
magnitude be erected without the aid of some
iron tool?
A. Because the stones were hewed, squared, and
numbered at the quarries where they were raised;
the trees felled and prepared in the forests of
Lebanon, carried by sea in floats to Joppa, and
from thence by land to Jerusalem, where they
were set up with wooden mauls, prepared for that
purpose; and, when the building was completed,
its several parts fitted with such exact nicety, that
it had more the resemblance of the handy
workmanship of the Supreme Architect of the
universe than of that of human hands.
Q. Why were you neither naked nor clothed?
A. Because Masonry regards no one for his