Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

One of the members now personates the Deity,
behind the bush, and calls out, Moses! Moses!
Principal Sojourner (answering for candidates.)--
Here I am.
Companion behind the bush--Draw not nigh
hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the
place whereon thou standest is holy ground. I am
the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.
Principal Sojourner directs the candidates to
kneel, and he covers their faces again, and then
says--And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid
to look upon God.
Principal Sojourner (to candidates.)--Arise, and
follow me.
He then leads them three times around the
Chapter, during which time he reads from the
text-book 2 Chronicles, ch. xxxvi., vs. 11 to 20:
'Zedekiah was one-and-twenty years old when he
began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in
Jerusalem. And he did that which was evil in the
sight of the Lord his God, and humbled not
himself before Jeremiah the prophet, speaking
from the mouth of the Lord. And he also rebelled
against King Nebuchadnezzar, and stiffened his
neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto
the Lord God of Israel. Moreover, all the chief of
the priests and the people transgressed very
much, after all the abominations of the heathen,
and polluted the house of the Lord, which he had
hallowed in Jerusalem. And the Lord God of their
fathers sent to them by his messengers, because
he had compassion on his people, and on his
dwelling-place. But they mocked the messengers