Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

the different penalties as references to one entire
ceremony. After an animal had been selected, his
throat was cut across with one single blow, so as
to divide the windpipe, arteries, and veins,
without touching any bone. The next ceremony
was to p. 114 tear the breast open and pluck out the
heart, and if there were the least imperfection, the
body would be considered unclean. The animal
was then divided into two parts, and placed north
and south, that the parties to the covenant may
pass between them from east to west, and the
carcase was then left as a prey to voracious
animals. The other example of such a covenant is
in Genesis xv.--Historical Landmarks, vol. ii. p.
178.
115:1 Their real names (if there be any thing real
in the whole transaction, which is more than
doubtful), as preserved in a subsidiary degree.
were GRAVELOT, QUIBO, and AKIROP. In
one form of the Degree of Elect of Fifteen, they
assume the Protean names of JUBELA-
KURMAVIL (another corruption of Cromwell),
JUBELO-GRAVELOT, and JUBELUM-
AKIROP.--The Freemason's Treasury, pp. 305-6.
116:1 The occasion of the brethren searching so
diligently for their Master was, to receive from
him the secret word of Masonry, which should be
delivered down as a test to the fraternity of after
ages.--Historical Land marks, vol. ii. p. 175.
120:1 Respecting the lost word and its substitute,
some say that King Solomon advised the change,
while others affirm that the three Fellow Crafts
adopted the substituted word without consulting
him. And Dalcho observes that the interpolated
word is not to be found in any language that ever
was used. It is, in fact, not a word, but merely a
jumble of letters, forming a sound without