Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor - Rose Croix

A. On inquiry being made it was found that there had; but it being neither a regular
oblong nor a square, nor had it the mark of any of the workmen upon it; and they, not
knowing that
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which was upon it, and concluding it unfit for use, agreed to heave it over among the
rubbish.
Q. What followed?
A. King Solomon ordered strict search to be made in and about the several apartments of
the Temple, and among the rubbish, to see if it could be found.
Q. What followed?
A. Search was accordingly made, the stone found, and after-wards applied to its intended
use.
Q. Have you a grip to this degree?
A. I have several.
Q. Communicate it to me. (Give grip.)
Q. Has that a name?
A. It has.
Q. Give it? (Mark Well.)
Q. On what is this degree founded?
A. The key-stone to a certain arch in King Solomon's Temple.
Q. By whom was it wrought?
A. Our Grand Master, Hiram Abiff; but before he had given orders to have it carried up,
he was slain, as we have had an account of it in the preceding degree.
Q. What was its color?
A. White; and to it alludes a certain passage of Scripture, which says: "To him that
overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and
in that stone a new name written, which no man knoweth save him that receiveth (or
receives it).