Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

Stepping forward to the five steps, he continues:
The five steps allude to the five orders of
architecture and the five human senses.
The five orders of architecture are Tuscan, Doric,
Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite. (Reads from
Monitor respecting the orders of architecture.)
The five human senses are hearing, seeing,
feeling, smelling, and tasting, the first three of
which have ever been highly es-teemed among
Masons: hearing, to hear the word; seeing, to see
the sign; feeling, to feel the grip, whereby one
Mason may know another in the dark as well as
in the light. (Steps forward to the seven steps.)
The seven steps allude to the seven Sabbatical
years, seven
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years of famine, seven years in building the
Temple, seven golden candlesticks, seven
wonders of the world, seven wise men of the east,
seven planets; but, more especially, the seven
liberal arts and sciences, which are grammar,
rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music, and
astronomy. For this and many other reasons the
number seven has ever been held in high
estimation among Masons. (Reads from Monitor
respecting grammar, rhetoric, &., &c.)
By this time the Senior Deacon has passed the
entire representation of the flight of stairs, and is
now at the Junior Warden's station in the south.
Upon arriving here, he (the Senior Deacon) says
to the candidate:
Brother, we are now approaching the outer door