Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor - Rose Croix

A. To the way and manner in which my hands were involuntarily placed on arriving at
the arch, to guard my eyes from the intense light and heat that arose therefrom above.
Q. Show me another sign? (Give sign.)
Q. What is that called?
A. The sign
Q. To what does it allude?
A. To the penalty of my obligation, that I would sooner have my skull struck off than
divulge any of the secrets of this Degree unlawfully,
Q. Give me another sign? (Give sign.)
Q. What is that called?
A. The grand hailing sign, or sign of distress of a Royal Arch Mason.
Q. To what does it allude?
A. To the additional portion of the penalty of my obligation, that I would sooner have my
skull clove off, and have my brain exposed to the scorchings rays of a noonday sun, than
divulge any of the secrets of this Degree unlawfully.
Q. What are the working tools of a Royal Arch Mason?
A. The pick, spade, and crow.
Q. What does the spade teach us as Royal Arch Masons? (Monitorial. )
Q. What is the use of the crow?
A. It is used by operative masons to describe circles--every part of the circumference of
which is equally near and equally distant from its centre; so is every creature whom God
hath made equally near and equally dear.
Q. What is the equilateral or perfect triangle upon which the word is formed
emblematical of?
A. The three certain attributes of Deity--namely, Omniscience, Omnipotence, and
Omnipresence, for as the three equal legs or angles form but one triangle, so the three
attributes constitute but one God.