Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor - Rose Croix

Q. What are the first class?
A. The Pot of Incense, the Beehive. the Book of Constitutions guarded by the Tyler's
Sword, the Sword pointing to a Naked Heart, the All-seeing Eye, the Anchor and Ark, the
Forty-seventh
p. 142
Problem of Euclid, the Hour-Glass, the Scythe, and the Three Steps on the Master's
Carpet.
Q. How are they explained?
These answers are monitorial. (See pp. 127-130.)
Q. What are the second class of emblems?
A. The Setting-Maul, Spade, Coffin, Grave, and Sprig of Acacia; and are thus
explained. 1 (See p. 130.)
Reader, I have given you the whole of the first three Degrees in Masonry. This ends the
third, or Master Masons' Degree.
But few Masons take sufficient interest in Masonry to be advanced further, and
consequently do not get the password which was lost by the tragical death of Hiram
Abiff.
King Solomon is said to have substituted, in place of the lost one, the word now used in
the Master Masons' Degree, viz.: Mah-Hah-Bone, which is given on the five points of
fellowship, and in low breath.
The missing word was found, after four hundred and seventy years, and was then, and
still is, used in the Royal Arch Degree, as will be seen in the ceremonies of that Degree.
CLOSING THE LODGE.
The Lodge is closed in nearly the same manner that it is opened, and, in fact, all three of
the Degrees are closed alike.
We will suppose the business of the Lodge finished, and that the Master proceeds to
close.
W. M.--Brother Senior Warden, do you know of any thing further before this Lodge of
Masons previous to closing?
S. W. (rising to his feet, and giving the sign of a Master Mason, if opened on that
Degree.)--Nothing, Worshipful (some say), in the west. (Sits down.)