Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

Supreme Grand Architect of the Universe, who
sittest on the throne of mercy, deign to view our
labors in the cause of virtue and humanity with
the eye of compassion; purify our hearts, and
cause us to know and serve thee aright. Guide us
in the paths of rectitude and honor; correct our
errors by the unerring square of thy wisdom, and
enable us so to practise the precepts of Masonry,
that all our actions may be acceptable in thy
sight. So mote it be. Amen. 1
MARK OF A MARK MASTER MASON.
Footnotes
150:1 This Degree is said to have been instituted
to detect impostors, in paying the wages to the
craftsmen, as we have just seen. It is a wellknown
fact, that such a system of distinction was
practised in the Masonry of all ages. Mr. Godwin,
speaking of buildings of more modern
construction than the Temple of Solomon, says:
"The marks, it can hardly be doubted, were made
to distinguish the work of different individuals.
At the present time, the man who works a atone
(being different from the man who sets it) makes
his mark on the bed or other internal face of it, so
that it may be identified.--Historical Landmarks,
vol. i., p. 427.
160:1 By the influence of the Mark Master's
Degree, the work of every operative Mason was