Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

after the Revival in 1717, for the subject was
never ventilated before that date--they were
called "the three principal entrances to the
Temple"; but subsequently it was thought
expedient to particularize these entrances; and the
passage was altered at first to "the east, west and
south doors"; and, at the Union in 1813, the
version became "north, south, and east
entrances." In the United States they say that the
first attack was made at the south door, the
second at the west door, and finally at the east. In
Scotland the arrangement is east, south, and west.
In France, it was originally south, north, and east,
but now west, south, and east. In the
Adonhiramite Masonry, which was used there
about 1787, the doors are not mentioned at all.--
The Freemason's Treasury, p. 307.
140:1 The questions and answers in this lecture,
relative to the disposition of the body and its
discovery, &c., &c., are precisely like the
historical part of this Degree, page 122, or that
portion describing the conferring of the Degree,
page 107.
142:1 LECTURE.--In the Masters' Degree, the
first section illustrates the ancient and proper
mode of raising a candidate to this sublime
Degree. In the second section, the historical
traditions of the Order are introduced, and an
important instance of Masonic virtue is
exemplified. In the third section, our emblems are
explained, and the construction of Solomon's
Temple described.--Lexicon.
146:1 "In the performance of a ceremony so
solemn and momentous as the closing of a
Mason's Lodge, every member has a lively
interest. At the usual report, preceded by an
inquiry involving the best interests of Masonry,