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Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

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p. 87<br />

MASTER MASON,<br />

OR THIRD<br />

DEGREE. 1<br />

THE ceremony <strong>of</strong> opening and conducting the<br />

business <strong>of</strong> a Lodge <strong>of</strong> Master Masons is nearly<br />

the same as in the Entered Apprentice and Fellow<br />

Crafts' Degrees, already explained. All the<br />

business <strong>of</strong> a "Blue Lodge" (a Lodge <strong>of</strong> three<br />

Degrees) is done in the Lodge while opened on<br />

this Degree, except that <strong>of</strong> entering an Apprentice<br />

or passing a Fellow Craft, when the Lodge is<br />

lowered from the Masters' Degree for that<br />

purpose.<br />

The Third Degree is said to be the height <strong>of</strong><br />

Ancient Free-masonry, and the most sublime <strong>of</strong><br />

all the Degrees in Masonry (Royal Arch not even<br />

excepted); and when it is conferred, the Lodge is<br />

generally well filled with the members <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Lodge and visiting brethren.

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