Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor - Rose Croix

It is the general belief (and it would be readily inferred from most exposures of Masonry)
that a candidate is knocked down with a large setting-maul kept for that purpose, but no
reasonably sane person would for one moment entertain any such idea of the ceremony of
making a Master Mason. The candidate is not intentionally injured in any Degree of
Masonry, impressions of a lasting nature being all that are intended by the ceremonies.
As the candidate falls into the canvas the brethren lower it to the floor, when the
following dialogue ensues between those who held the canvas and the Master, or the
brother acting as the Third Ruffian.
Ruffian--Is he dead?
Answer--He is, his skull is broken in.
Ruffian--What horrid deed is this we have done?
Answer--We have murdered our Grand Master, Hiram Abiff,
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and have not obtained that which we have sought: this is no time for vain reflection--the
question is, what shall we do with the body?
Answer--We will bury it in the rubbish of the Temple, until low twelve, and then we will
meet and give it a decent burial.
Answer--Agreed!
They roll the canvas around and over the candidate where he fell, which is in the east or
northeast corner of the Lodge, and, for a few moments, retire, when the Lodge becomes
still as the hour of midnight; not a sound is permitted to be made; all go--if at all--from
place to place on tiptoe. The Master silently steps to the east, near the candidate's head,
and strikes the hour of low twelve (which is twelve o'clock at night) on a triangle or bell.
As the last sound of twelve dies away, the three ruffians cautiously approach the body,
and converse among themselves nearly as follows:
First Ruffian--Is that you, Jubela?
Answer--Yes.
Second Ruffian--Is that you, Jubelum? 1
Answer--Yes.
Third Ruffian--Is that you, Jubelo?
Answer--Yes.