Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

A. We are of your own brethren and kin--children
of the captivity--descendants of those noble
Giblemites, we were received and acknowledged
Most Excellent Masters at the completion and
dedication of the first temple--were present at the
destruction of that temple by Nebuchadnezzar, by
whom we were carried captives to Babylon,
where we remained servants to him and his
successors, until the reign of Cyrus, King of
Persia, by whose order we have been liberated,
and have now come up to help, aid, and assist in
rebuilding the house of the Lord, without the
hope of fee or reward.
Q. What were you then asked?
A. By what further reward or benefit we expected
to obtain this important privilege.
Q. Your answer?
A. By the benefit of the pass.
Q. Give it? (I am that I am, I am hath sent me
unto you.)
Q. Did this give you admission?
A. It did within the first veil.
Q. What was then said to you?
A. Good men and true you must have been, to
have come thus far to promote so noble and good
an undertaking; but further you cannot go without
my word, sign, and word of explanation.
Q. What was the word of the Master of the first
veil?