Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

W. M.--Brother Gabe, as you are clothed as a
Master Mason, 1 it is necessary that you should
have the working-tools or a Master Mason.
(Master has a small trowel, which he shows the
candidate as he commences to read concerning
it.)
The working-tools of a Master Mason are all the
implements of Masonry appertaining to the first
three Degrees
indiscriminately,
but more
especially the
trowel.
The trowel is an instrument made use of by
operative masons to spread the cement which
unites a building into one common mass; but we,
as Free and Accepted Masons are taught to make
use of it for the more noble and glorious purpose
of spreading the cement of brotherly love and
affection; that
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TROWEL.
cement which unites us into one sacred band, or
society of friends and brothers, among whom no
contention should ever exist, but that noble
contention, or rather emulation, of who best can
work and best agree.
W. M.--Brother Senior Deacon, you will now
reconduct this candidate to the place from
whence he came, and reinvest him with what he
has been divested of, and await my further will
and pleasure.
The conductor then leads the candidate to the
centre of the Lodge, at the altar, and makes
duegard and sign of a Master Mason (see Figs. 5,