Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

Q. To what does it allude?
p. 180
A. To the principal words of this degree.
Q. What are they?
A. Heave over.
Q. To what does it further allude?
A. To the rejection of the "Key Stone" by the
Overseers.
Q. How happened that circumstance?
A. Just before the completion of the Temple, our
Grand Master, Hiram Abiff, was slain, as we
have had an account in the preceding degree. It so
happened on the eve of the sixth day of a certain
week, when the craftsmen were bringing up their
work for inspection, a young fellow craft seeing
this piece of work, and concluding it designed for
some portion of the Temple, brought it up.
Q. What followed?
A. On presenting it to the Junior Overseer at the
south gate, he observed that it was neither a
regular oblong nor a square, nor had it the mark
of any of the workmen upon it; but, from its
singular form and beauty, he was unwilling to
reject it, and suffered it to pass to the Senior
Overseer at the west gate.
Q. What followed?
A. He, for similar reasons, suffered it to pass to
the Master Overseer at the east gate for his