Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

esurrection of the body, and while it inculcates a
practical lesson of prudence and unshrinking
fidelity, it inspires the most cheering hone of that
final reward which belongs alone to "just made
perfect."--Lexicon.
129:1 THEOREM.--In any right-angled triangle,
the square which is described p. 130 upon the side
subtending the right angle, is equal to the squares
described upon the sides which contain the right
angle.--Euclid, Lib. i. Prop. 47.
137:1 We are told that when the Temple was
nearly finished, it was customary at the hour of
H. (high) XII., when the men were called from
labor to refreshment, for H. A. B. (Hiram Abiff)
to retire to the Most Holy Place, to draw his plans
and designs, and offer up his orisons, &c. But
flow could this be accomplished before the
Sanctum Sanctorum was built. And, if finished,
he would not have been permitted to enter it; for
one living person alone possessed that privilege,
viz., the High Priest, and he only once a year.
Besides, when a work is nearly completed, the
necessity of Plans and designs ceases altogether.
But we are assured, that not only were the plans
drawn and the specifications approved, but every
other preparation was made for completing the
work before the foundations were laid; even the
stone and timber were carved, marked, and
numbered before they were removed from the
quarry and the forest; and, hence nothing was
required, when the materials were conveyed to
Jerusalem, but skilled labor to make it perfect and
complete from foundation to cope-stone.
Again, some of the rituals taught that H. A. B.
divided the operatives the three classes, viz.,
Apprentices, Fellow Crafts, and Masters; paying
the wages of the former at the pillar of J (Jachin),