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Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

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First Ruffian--Is that you, Jubela?<br />

Answer--Yes.<br />

Second Ruffian--Is that you, Jubelum? 1<br />

Answer--Yes.<br />

Third Ruffian--Is that you, Jubelo?<br />

Answer--Yes.<br />

First Ruffian--Well, we have all met as agreed<br />

upon: the question is, what shall we do with the<br />

body? It is now past mid-night, and if we do not<br />

act with decision, daylight will be upon us, and<br />

we will be discovered and taken. We will carry<br />

the body a westerly course from the Temple to<br />

the brow <strong>of</strong> the hill west <strong>of</strong> Mount Moriah, where<br />

I have dug a grave due east and west, six feet<br />

perpendicular.<br />

Answer--Agreed!<br />

A sufficient number <strong>of</strong> the brethren now take up<br />

the body (yet rolled up in the canvas), and,<br />

raising it on their shoulders, proceed to carry it<br />

around the Lodge, head foremost, three times, in<br />

representation <strong>of</strong> ascending a hill, the last time<br />

halting in the west end <strong>of</strong> the Lodge, nearly in<br />

front <strong>of</strong> the Senior Warden's station, and a little to<br />

the right. Upon arriving there they commence to<br />

lower it into the grave, as they style it, but in<br />

reality only from their shoulders to the floor.<br />

After the candidate is lowered, one <strong>of</strong> the ruffians<br />

says:<br />

Let us plant an acacia at the head <strong>of</strong> the grave, in<br />

order to

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