Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

or he may not, be willing or able to comply with
the demand. If the former, he enlightens the
members by his disquisition; and if he declines
the task, a alight sign is a sufficient negative, and
the query is transferred to the next in succession,
whose absolute freedom of will is acknowledged
by leaving him at full liberty to act as he may feel
disposed.--The Freemason's Treasury, p. 149.
43:1 The Tracing Board combines all the
Landmarks of the Degree, and Includes the
essence of its lectures and illustrations. It opens
with mortality in its feeblest state; poor and
penniless, and blind and naked; and conducts the
pious inquirer to a glorious immortality.--
Historical Landmarks, vol. i. p. 134.
44:1 The candidate is obligated in the east and
invested in the west; advances from west to east
by right lines and angles, to typify the necessity
of an upright life and well-squared actions; and
he is subsequently placed in the northeast to
receive instruction, as a corner-stone, from which
a superstructure is expected to rise, perfect in its
parts and honorable to the builder.--The
Freemason's Treasury, p. 24.
48:1 Among the ancient Israelites, the SHOE was
made use of in several significant ways. To put
off the shoes imported reverence, and was done in
the presence of God, or on entering the dwelling
of a superior. To unloose one's shoe, and give it
to another, was the way of confirming a
contract.--Lexicon.
48:2 DARKNESS among Freemasons is
emblematical of ignorance; for as our science has
technically been called "LUX," or light, the
absence of light must be the absence of
knowledge. Hence the rule, that the eye should