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And my body buried in the rough sands of the sea at low water mark, where the tide ebbs and flows in twenty-four hours…
…should I ever knowingly or willingly violate this my solemn oath or obligation as an Entered Apprentice Mason. So help me God.”
The above is an excerpt of the oath sworn by Masons to never reveal any of the Masonic secrets. Perhaps this is why our source for the information in this book was murdered after his notes were published.
The Junior Deacon then says, “As this is a torture to your flesh, so may it ever be to your mind and conscience, if ever you should attempt to reveal the secrets of Masonry unlawfully.”
The candidate is then conducted to the centre of the Lodge, where he and the Senior Deacon kneel, and the Deacon says the following prayer…
This 223 page eBook also reveals the stations and duties of the all the degrees conferred in the Royal Arch Chapter and Grand Encampment of Knights Templars…
And also The Eleven Ineffable Degrees conferred in the Lodge of Perfectionand the still higher degrees of…
Pilgrim, the twelve tapers you see around the triangle, correspond in number with the disciples of our Savior while on earth, one of whom fell by transgression, and betrayed his Lord and Master; and as a constant admonition to you always to persevere in the paths of honor, integrity, and truth, and as a perpetual memorial of the apostasy of Judas Iscariot, you are required by the rules of our Order to extinguish one of those tapers; and let it ever remind you that he who can basely violate his vow and betray his secret, is worthy of no better fate than Judas Iscariot.”
(The candidate extinguishes one of the tapers; the triangle… Read more…