Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor - Rose Croix

Q. Where did you meet with the next obstruction?
A. At the second veil, where, on making the regular demand, we heard the master of that
exclaim as before.
Q. Your answer?
A. As before.
Q. What were you then asked?
A. By what further right or benefit we expected to obtain that important privilege.
Q. Your answer?
A. By the word and sign given us by the master of the first veil.
Q. Did this gain you admission?
A. It did within the second veil.
Q. What was then said to you?
A. Good men and true you must have been, to have come thus far to engage in so noble
and glorious an undertaking, but further you cannot go without my word and sign, and
word of explanation.
Q. What was the word of the master of the second veil?
A. I am that I am, I am hath sent me unto you, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Q. What is his sign?
A. It is in imitation of that given by God to Moses, when he commanded him to put his
hand into his bosom, and when he took it out, behold it was as leprous as snow.
Q. What is his word of explanation?
A. It is explanatory of that sign, is recorded by Moses, and is as follows: And the Lord
said unto Moses, Put now thine hand into thy bosom, and he put his hand into his bosom,
and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous as snow. And He said, Put thine
hand into thy bosom again, and he put his hand into his bosom again, and plucked it out
of his bosom, and behold it was turned again as his other flesh. And it shall come to pass
if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will
believe the voice of the latter sign.