Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

[This alludes to the "Duegard of an Entered Apprentice."?]
LANDMARKS.--What are the landmarks? is a
question often asked, but never determinately
answered. In ancient times, boundary-stones were
used as landmarks, before title-deeds were
known, the removal of which was strictly
forbidden by law. With respect to the landmarks
of Masonry, some restrict them to the O. B. signs,
tokens, and words. Others include the ceremonies
of initiation, passing, and raising; and the form,
dimensions, and support; the ground, situation,
and covering; the ornaments, furniture, and
jewels of a Lodge, or their characteristic symbols.
Some think that the Order has no landmarks
beyond its peculiar secrets. It is quite clear,
however, that the order against removing or
altering the landmarks was universally observed
in all ages of the Craft.
METAL.--Many men dote on the metals silver
and gold with their whole souls, and know no
other standard whereby to estimate their own
worth, or the worth of their fellow-beings, but by
the quantity of these metals they possess, thereby
debasing and degrading those qualities of the
mind or spirit by which alone mankind ought to
be estimated. He who wishes to be initiated into
Free Masonry must be willing to relinquish all
descriptions of metal, and all the adventitious
circumstances of rank and fortune, for it is the
MAN that is received into Free Masonry, and not
his rank or riches.--Gadicke.