Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

in the search, and that the lost (body) was found
near the seaside; others, that it was soon
discovered near Jerusalem. The York Masons
name the seaside; the Americans say, Mount
Moriah; the French, Monet Lebanon. In one
account, the brethren disperse widely, east, west,
and south; in another, they keep within hail of
each other.--Historical Landmarks, vol. ii. p. 148.
113:1 CASSIA--sometimes improperly and
ignorantly used for acacia. (See ACACIA.)
According to the Jewish law, no interments were
permitted within the walls of the city, and as it
was unlawful for the cohens or priests to pass
over a grave, it became necessary to place marks
wherever a dead body had been interred, to
enable them to avoid it. For this purpose the
ACACIA was used.--Lexicon.
113:2 Brother Goodacre, of the Witham Lodge,
Lincoln, suggests that the various penalties which
have been introduced into Freemasonry appear to
have reference to a particular kind of covenant
which was common among the Hebrews. but
which, he adds, "I can find only twice particularly
described. Godwyn says: 'Making a covenant was
a solemn binding of each other to the
performance of a mutual promise, by outward
ceremonies of cutting a beast in twain, and
passing between the parts thereof' (Jer. xxxiv.
.18); as if they would say--Thus let it be done to
him, and thus let his body be cut in two, who
shall break this covenant. This reference to
Jeremiah, where the prophet denounced the curse
of the Lord upon the Princes and rulers who had
broken the covenant which they had made with
King Zedekiah, may explain the self-imposed
penalty of J------ (Jubelum)." But we must look a
little closer into the manner of making a
covenant, in order to discover the connection of