Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor - Rose Croix

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of an acacia, which easily giving way, excited his curiosity: upon examination they found
it to be a grave.
About this time a party arrived with the ruffians, and related that while sitting down to
rest and refresh themselves, they heard the following horrid exclamations from the clefts
of an adjacent rock.
The first was the voice of Jubela, exclaiming:
"Oh! that my throat had been cut across," &c., &c.
The second was the voice of Jubelo, exclaiming:
"Oh! that my body had been cut in two," &c., &c.
The third was the voice of Jubelum, exclaiming:
"Oh! that my body had been cut in two," &c., &c.
Upon which they rushed in, seized, bound, and brought them before King Solomon; who,
after a due conviction of their guilt, ordered them to be taken without the gates of the
courts of the Temple, and executed according to the several imprecations upon their own
heads.
King Solomon then ordered the twelve Fellow Crafts to go in search of the body, and, if
found, to observe whether the Master's word, or a key to it, or any thing appertaining to
the Master's Degree, was on or about it.
The body of our Grand Master, Hiram Abiff, was found in a westerly course from the
Temple, where our weary brothers sat down to rest and refresh themselves.
On removal of the earth, they came to the body of our Grand Master, Hiram Abiff, which
they found in a high state of putrefaction, and in a mutilated and mangled condition, it
having been buried already fifteen days: the effluvia which arose from it compelled them
to place involuntarily their hands thus (Master here places his hands in form of a duegard
of a Master Mason, which alludes to the manner in which his hands were placed when he
took the oath of a Master Mason), to guard their nostrils--but nothing was found on or
about the body excepting the jewel of his office, by which his body was easily
discovered. 1
King Solomon then ordered them to go and assist in raising the body; and it was agreed
between him and Hiram, king of Tyre, that as the Master's word was then lost, the first
sigh given at the grave, and the first word spoken after the body should be raised, should
be used for the regulation of all Masters'