Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

school as a most infamous and abandoned
Person; and, as he was esteemed dead to the
principles of virtue and Philosophy, they had a
tomb erected for him, according to their custom,
as though he had been naturally dead. The shame
and disgrace that justly attended so great a breach
of truth and fidelity, drove the unhappy wretch to
such despair that he proved his own executioner;
and so abhorred was even his memory, that he
was denied the rites and ceremonies of burial
used to the dead in those times; instead of which,
his body was suffered to lie upon the sands of the
seashore in the Isle of Samos, to be devoured by
rapacious animals.--Theo. Phil., vol. I. pp. 246-7.
35:3 Light is the first demand of a candidate at
his initiation; and the material light is succeeded
by an intellectual illumination.--Historical
Landmarks, vol. i. p. 135.
38:1 The palate and throat being the chief seat of
irregular appetites, we are instructed by the first
sign to avoid temptation by a proper restraint on
our passions; that we may be temperate in all our
indulgences, and never exceed the boundary-line
of decency and decorum, under the penalty of
disobedience, or the violation of those
engagements which, as Masons, we have
voluntarily assumed.--Theo. Phil., p. 289.
40:1 The Master, assisted by the Senior Warden,
lays the chief corner-stone of a beautiful fabric.--
Theo. Phil., p. 274.
41:1 The labors are conducted on a plan which is
intended to produce an exciting spirit of
emulation. Every individual is personally and in
turn requested by the Worshipful Master to give
his opinion on some specific doctrine or
ceremony propounded from the Chair. He may,