Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

stops them, by placing his hand against the
candidate, at the same time saying:
S. D.--Brother Gabe, on entering this Lodge the
first time, you were received on the point of the
compasses, pressing your naked left breast, the
moral of which was explained to you. On
entering the second time, you were received on
the angle of the square, which was also explained
to you. I now receive you on both points of the
compasses, extending from your naked left to
your naked right breast (he here places both
points against candidate's breasts), which is to
teach you, that as the vital parts of man are
contained within the breasts, so the most
excellent tenets of our institution are contained
between the points of the compasses--which are
Friendship, Morality, and Brotherly Love.
The Junior Deacon now passes the candidate over
to the Senior
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Deacon, and he (Junior Deacon) takes his seat
near the door, at the right hand of the Senior
Warden in the west, while the Senior Deacon
proceeds to conduct the candidate, followed by
the two Stewards, three times around the Lodge,
during which time the Worshipful Master reads
the following passage of Scripture:
"Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy
youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years
draw nigh when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure
in them: while the sun, or the moon, or the stars
be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the
rain; in the day when the keepers of the house
shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow
themselves, and the grinders cease, because they
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