Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

name! May holiness to the Lord be engraven
upon all our thoughts, words, and actions! May
the incense of piety ascend continually unto thee
from the altar of our hearts, and burn day and
night, as a sacrifice of a sweet-smelling savor,
well-pleasing unto thee! And since sin has
destroyed within us the first temple of purity and
innocence, may thy heavenly grace guide and
assist us in rebuilding a second temple of
reformation, and may the glory of this latter
house be greater than the glory of the former!
Amen, so mote it be.
Principal Sojourner--Companions, arise and
follow me.
He now conducts them once around the Chapter,
during which time he reads from the text-book
the first six verses of the third chapter of
Exodus:--
"Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his fatherin-law,
the priest of Midian; and he led the flock
to the back side of the desert, and came to the
mountain of God, even to Horeb. And the angel
of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire
out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and
behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush
was not consumed." &c.
The reading of these verses is so timed, that just
when they
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are finished the candidates have arrived in front
of a representation of the burning bush, placed in
a corner of the Chapter; when the Principal
Sojourner directs them to halt, and slips up the
bandages from their eyes.