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DR. DALCHO'S OPINION Or THE MASTER'S DEGREE. 93
covery which was made by the fellow crafts." (Dalcho,
p.23.)
Such is the famous secret word of a Master Mason in its
emptiness of meaning, in its being a mere jumble of sounds,
as every master knows; that it is such as Dr. Dalcho describes,
in its Hebrew original, and is a corruption of words
which do mean something, I am no Hebrew to confirm or
deny.
CHAPTER XV.
The Ruffians,or Fellow Crafts; and Dr. Dalcho's Opinion
of the Master's Degree.
u To all who Masonry despise
u This counsel I bestow:
44 Don't ridicule, if you are wise,
14 A secret yon donH know."—Ahiman Raton.
SHOWING the inconsistencies of this tradition, I take up
the circumstance leading to the adoption of a substitute
for the lost word, and the facts " which give irrefragable
proof of the resurrection of the body."*—New Free Mas.
Man. p. 158.
The resurrection of the deceased candidate is represented
with some variations, but when it is made with three different
grips, these are the grips of the three blue degrees,
following each other in their ordpr; and, first, the skin fails,
* u The Master Mason represents a man under the Christian doctrine
saved from the grave of iniquity, and raised to the faith of salvation."—
HutchiMmh P-114.