Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor - Rose Croix

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Lodges, until future generations should find out the right one.
They repaired to the grave, when King Solomon ordered one of the Fellow Crafts to take
the body by the Entered Apprentice grip, and see if it could be raised; but, on account of
its high state of decomposition, it could not be raised--the flesh cleaved from the bone.
King Solomon then ordered them to take it by the Fellow Craft grip; but on trial, for the
reason before given, the Fellow Craft's grip failed to benefit any--it could not be raised.
King Solomon then exclaimed:
"O Lord my God, I fear the Master's word is forever lost! My brother of Tyre, what shall
we do? Let us pray."
After prayer, King Solomon took the body by the strong grip of a Master Mason, or lion's
paw, and raised it on the five points of fellowship, which have been explained to you.
The body was then carried to the Temple for a more decent burial, and was interred in
due form.
The body of our Grand Master was buried three times: first, in the rubbish of the Temple;
secondly, on the brow of a hill west of Mount Moriah; and, thirdly and lastly, as near the
"Sanctum Sanctorum, or Holy of Holies," of King Solomon's Temple, as the Jewish law
would permit; and Masonic tradition informs us that there was erected to his memory a
Masonic monument, consisting of "a beautiful virgin, weeping over a broken column;
before her was a book open; in her right hand a sprig of acacia, in her left an urn; behind
her stands Time, unfolding and counting the, ringlets of her hair."
The beautiful virgin weeping over the broken column denotes the unfinished state of the
Temple, likewise the untimely death of our Grand Master, Hiram Abiff; the book open
before her, that his virtues lay on perpetual record; the sprig of acacia in her right hand,
the divinity of the body; the urn in her left, that his ashes were therein safely deposited,
under the "Sanctum Sanctorum, or Holy of Holies," of King Solomon's Temple.
Time, unfolding the ringlets of her hair, denoted that time, patience, and perseverance
accomplish all things.
The Master now gives and explains to the candidate the several signs and tokens of this
Degree, commencing with the first (see Figs. 5, 6, and 7, pages 17 and 18) and ending
with the grips. (See Figs. 16 and 17, pages 97 and 120; also see Note L, Appendix.)
The Master next calls the candidate's attention to the three grand Masonic pillars, usually
delineated on Master's carpet (a