Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

A. With the flap turned down, and the corner
turned up.
Q. After being taught to wear your apron as a
Fellow Craft, how were you then disposed of?
p. 82
A. I was conducted to the Worshipful Master in
the east, who presented me with the workingtools
of a Fellow Craft (the plumb, square, and
level), and taught me their use.
Q. What is their use?
A. The plumb is an instrument made use of, by
operative masons, to raise perpendiculars; the
square, to square their work; and the level, to lay
horizontals. But we, as Free and Accepted
Masons are taught to make use of them for more
noble and glorious purposes: the plumb
admonishes us to walk upright, in our several
stations, before God and man; squaring our
actions by the square of virtue; and remembering
that we are travelling, upon the level of time, to
"that undiscovered country from whose bourne
no traveller returns."
Q. How were you then disposed of?
A. I was ordered to be returned to the place from
whence I came, and invested of what I had been
divested of, and was informed that, agreeably to
an ancient custom in every well-governed Lodge,
it therefore became necessary that I should make
a regular ascent, by a flight of winding stairs,
consisting of three, five, and seven steps, to a
place representing the Middle Chamber of King
Solomon's Temple, there to receive instructions
relative to the wages and jewels of a Fellow