Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor - Rose Croix

means this acacia coming up so easily? The ground has been newly broken; this has the
appearance of a grave," pointing to the candidate on the floor.
One of the brothers, representing one of the three ruffians, in a corner near by, is now
heard to exclaim, in a loud, but deep tone of voice:
"Oh! that my throat had been cut across, my tongue torn out by its roots, and buried in the
rough sands of the sea, at low-water mark, where the tide ebbs and flows twice in twentyfour
hours, ere I had been accessory to the death of so good a man as our Grand Master,
Hiram Abiff."
"Hark! that is the voice of Jubela."
"Oh! that my breast had been torn open, my heart plucked out, and placed upon the
highest pinnacle of the Temple, there to be devoured by the vultures of the air, ere I had
consented to the death of so good a man as our Grand Master, Hiram Abiff."
"Hark! that is the voice of Jubelo."
"Oh! that my body had been severed in two, my bowels taken from thence and burned to
ashes, the ashes scattered to the four winds of heaven, that no more remembrance might
be had of so vile and wicked a wretch as I. Ah! Jubela, Jubelo, it was I
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that struck him harder than you both: it was I that gave him the fatal blow; it was I that
killed him."
"That is the voice of Jubelum."
The three craftsmen, having stood by the candidate all this time, listening to the ruffians,
whose voices they recognize, say one to another:
"What shall we do? There are three of them, and only three of us."
One says:
Our cause is just; let us rush in and seize them."
Upon which the three Fellow Crafts rush forward over benches and chairs, and secure the
ruffians in no very gentle manner, and lead them to the Worshipful Master's seat in the
east, when one of them reports to the Master:
"Most Worshipful King Solomon, I, being one who pursued a westerly course, and, on
my return, after several days of fruit-less search, being more weary than my companions,
sat down on the brow of a hill to rest and refresh myself; and, on rising, accidentally