Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

globe; they making application to me as such,
and I finding them worthy, and can do it without
any material injury to myself or family.
To all which I do most solemnly and sincerely
promise and swear, with a firm and steadfast
resolution to keep and perform the same, without
any equivocation, mental reservation, or selfevasion
of mind in me whatever; binding myself
under no less penalty, than to have my skull
smote off, and my brains exposed to the
scorching rays of the meridian sun, should I
knowingly or wilfully violate or transgress any
part of this my solemn oath or obligation of a
Royal Arch Mason. So help me God, and keep
me steadfast in the due performance of the same.
Principal Sojourner--Kiss the book seven times.
The candidate kisses the book as directed.
Principal Sojourner--Companions, you will arise
and follow we. For although you are obligated
Royal Arch Masons, yet, as the secrets of this
Degree are of infinitely more importance than
any that precede it, it is necessary that you should
travel through rough and rugged ways, and pass
through many trials, 'm testimony of your fidelity
to the Order, before you can be instructed in the
more important secrets of this Degree.
The candidates are conducted once around the
Chapter, and then again directed to kneel, while
the Principal Sojourner reads the following
prayer:
Supreme and inscrutable Architect of universal
Nature, who, by thine Almighty word didst speak
into being the stupendous arch of heaven, and, for
the instruction and pleasure of thy rational