Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

Crafts, or hewers on the mountains and in the
quarries; and seventy thousand Entered
Apprentices, or bearers of burdens. All these
were, classed and arranged in such a manner, by
the wisdom of Solomon, that neither envy,
discord, nor confusion was suffered to interrupt
that universal peace and tranquillity which
pervaded the world at that important period." 1
p. 127
"Brother Gabe, seven constitute a Lodge of
Entered Apprentices--one Master Mason, and six
Entered Apprentices. They usually meet on the
Ground Floor of King Solomon's Temple.
"Five constitute a Lodge of Fellow Crafts two
Master Masons and three Fellow Crafts. They
usually meet in the Middle Chamber of King
Solomon's Temple.
"Three constitute a Lodge of Master Masons-three
Master Masons. They meet in the Sanctum
Sanctorum, or Holy of Holies of King Solomon's
Temple."
The Master either reads or repeats the following
from a Monitor, which by many is committed to
memory; but when he has the "work" (i.e., that
part which is not monitorial), it is not necessary
that he should commit to memory what is called
the Master's carpet of emblems, but as it is a part
of the initiation of the Third Degree, the author
proposes to give it in its regular order of Lodge
business.