Blanchard J (anti-masonic) - Scotch Rite Masonry Illustrated Part I

312 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON. INITIATION. 313unto them, hear U Israel the statutes and judgmentswhich I speak in your ears this day, that you may learn,keep and do them.The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers butwith us, even us who are all of us here alive this day.The Lord talketh with you face to face in the mountout of the midst of the fire, (I stood between the Lordand you at that time to show you the word of the Lordfor ye were afraid by reason of the fire and went not upinto the mount) saying I am the Lord thy God whichbrought thee out of the land of Egypt from the house ofbondage: Thou shall have none other God before me.Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God invain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that takethhis name in vain, keep the Sabbath day t~ sanctify it asthe Lord thy God hath commanded thee, six days shaltthou labor and do all thy work, but the seventh ‘day isthe Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt not doany work, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thyman servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thine ox, northy ass, nor any of thy eat~le, nor the stranger that iswithin thy gates, that thy man servant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.Honor thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thyOod hath commanded thee, that thy days may be prolongedand that it may go well with thee in the landwhich the Lord thy God giveth thee.Thou shalt not kill, neither shalt thou commit adultery,neither shalt thou steal, neither shalt thou bearfalse witness against thy neighbor, neither shalt thoudesire thy neighbor’s wife, neithcr shalt thou covet thyneighbor’s house, his field, his man servant or his maidaervant~ his ox, or his ass, or anything that is thy neighbor’s.These words the Lord spake unto all your assemblyin the mount, out of the midst of the fire of theclouds and of the thick darkness with a great voice, andhe added no more, and he wrote them in two tables ofstone and delivered them to me.Thrice Puissant-My brother, do you know in yourconscience since you have been made a mason of havingbehaved falsely to any of your brethren or of havinghurt them in their character or family, religion orcountry?Candidate answers as he thinks proper.Thrice Puissant-Have you ever communicated or letescape from you any of our mysteries to cowans?Candidate answers.Thrice Puissant—What would you have done to theassassins of our respectable Master Hiram Abiff had youlived in those days? Would you have revenged hisdeath?Candidate—I would have done as Joabert didThrice Puissant-Have you always been mindful ofthe obligations you have contracted in the presence ofthe Grabd Architect of the Universe?Candidate answers.Thrice Puissant-Did you ever find anything in yourobligations which was contrary to and against your religion,the state or anything else which could hurt yourdelicacy?Candidate answers.Thrice Puissant-Remember, my brother, if you approachcool and indifferent to our sacred mysteries youwill be the more blamable after receiving the Degree ofGrand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Muon than you would