Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

p. 160
The Master Overseer now stamps on the floor
four times with his foot, which brings up the
other two Overseers.
Master Overseer--Brother Junior Overseer, dial
you suffer this work to pass your inspection?
Junior Overseer--I did; I observed to the young
craftsman, at the time, that the stone was not such
as we had orders to receive; but, owing to its
singular form and beauty, I felt unwilling to reject
it, and suffered it to pass to the Senior Overseer at
the west gate.
Senior Overseer--I made the same observations to
the young craftsman, and for the same reason
permitted it to pass to the Master Overseer at the
east gate.
R. W. M.--Why, you see the stone is neither
oblong nor square, neither has it the mark of any
of the craft upon it. Do you know this mark that
is upon it?
Junior Overseer--I do not.
Senior Overseer--Neither do I.
Master Overseer--What shall I do with it?
Junior Overseer--I propose we heave it over
among the rubbish. 1
Master Overseer--Agreed.
The Master and Senior Overseers take up the
keystone, and swinging it four times back and
forth between them, the fourth time the Junior