Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

down to rest and refresh himself.
Q. Was the master's word, or a key to it, on or
about it?
A. It was not.
Q. What followed?
A. King Solomon then ordered them to go with
him to endeavor to raise the body, and ordered
that as the master's word was then lost, that the
first sign given at the grave, and the first word
spoken after the body should be raised, should be
adopted for the regulation of all Master Masons'
Lodges until future ages should find out the right.
Q. What followed?
A. They returned to the grave, when King
Solomon ordered them to take the body by the
entered-apprentice grip and see if it could be
raised; but on taking the body so it was putrid, it
having been dead fifteen days, the skin slipped
from the flesh. and it could not be raised.
Q. What followed?
A. King Solomon then ordered them to take it by
the fellow-craft grip and see if it could be so
raised; but on taking the body by that grip the
flesh cleft from the bone, and it could not be so
raised.
Q. What followed?
A. King Solomon then took it by the strong grip
of a Master Mason, or lion's paw, and raised it on
the five (5) points of