Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor - Rose Croix

for the builder's use; but we,
as Free and Accepted
Masons, are taught to make
use of it for the more noble
and glorious purpose of
divesting our minds and
consciences of all the vices and superfluities of life, thereby fitting us, as living stones,
for that spiritual building, that house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
W. M.--Brother Gabe, there is a lecture to this Degree, consisting of three sections, which
you will at your earliest opportunity commit to memory. 1 The first section treats of the
manner of your initiation; the second section, the reasons wily, &c.; the third section, the
form, furniture, lights, &c., &c. This lecture commences as follows:
FIRST SECTION.
Q. From whence came you? (Some say, As an Entered Apprentice Mason.)
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A. From a Lodge of the Sts. John of Jerusalem.
Q. What came you here to do?
A. To learn to subdue my passions and improve myself in Masonry.
Q. Then I presume you are a Mason?
A. I am so taken and accepted among all brothers and fellows. (See Note F, Appendix.)
Q. How do you know yourself to be a Mason?
A. By having been often tried, never denied, and willing to be tried again.
Q. How shall I know you to be a Mason?
A. By certain signs, a token, a word, and the perfect points of my entrance.
Q. What are signs?
A. Right angles, horizontals, and perpendiculars ( , , ).
Q. What are tokens?
A. Certain friendly or brotherly grips, by which one Mason may know another in the dark
as well as in the light. Q. Give me a sign.