“Well, Jubela, what have you got to say for yourself, guilty or not guilty?”

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Ans. “Guilty, my lord.”

“Jubelo, guilty or not guilty?”

Ans. “Guilty, my lord.”

“Jubelum, guilty or not guilty?”

Ans. “Guilty, my lord.”

The Master, to the three Fellow Crafts who took them:

“Take them without the west gate of the temple and have them executed according to the several imprecations of their own mouths.”

They are then hurried off to the west end of the room. Here this part of the farce ends. The Master then orders fifteen Fellow Crafts to be selected from the bands of workmen, and sent, three east, three west, three north, three south, and three in and about the temple, in search of their Grand Master, Hiram Abiff [in some lodges they send only twelve, when their own lectures say fifteen were sent], and charges them, if they find the body, to examine carefully on and about it for the Master’s word or a key to it. The three that travel a westerly course come to the candidate, and finger about him a little, and are called to order by the Master, when they report that they had found the grave of their Grand Master, Hiram Abiff, and, on moving the earth till they come to the body, they involuntarily found their hands raised in this position (showing it at the same time; it is the due-guard of this degree), to guard their nostrils against the offensive effluvia which arose from the grave, and that they had searched carefully on and about the body for the Master’s word, but had not discovered anything but a faint resemblance of the letter G on the left breast. The Master, on the receipt of this information (raising himself), raises his hands three several times above his head (as herein before described) and exclaims, “Nothing but a faint resemblance of the letter G! That is not the Master’s word nor a key to it. I fear the Master’s word is forever lost! Nothing but a faint resemblance to the letter G! That is not the Master’s word nor a key to it. I fear the Master’s word is forever lost! [The third acclamation is different from the other two; attend to it. It has been described on page 76.] Nothing but a faint resemblance of the letter G! That is not the Master’s word

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nor a key to it. O Lord, my God, is there no help for the widow’s son?”

The Master then orders the Junior Warden to summon a lodge of Entered Apprentice Masons, and repair to the grave and try to raise their Grand Master by the Entered Apprentice’s grip. They go to the candidate and take hold of his forefinger and pull it; return and tell the Master that they could not raise him by the Entered Apprentice’s grip; that the skin cleaved from the bone. A lodge of Fellow Crafts are then sent, who act as before, except that they pull the candidate’s second finger. The Master then directs the Senior Warden (generally) to summon a lodge of Master Masons, and says, “I will go with them myself in person, and try to raise the body by the Master’s grip, or lion’s paw.” [Some say by the strong grip, or lion’s paw.] They then all assemble round the candidate, the Master having declared that the first word spoken after the body was raised should be adopted as a substitute for the Master’s word, for the government of Master Masons’ lodges in all future generations. He proceeds to raise the candidate, alias the representative of the dead body of Hiram Abiff. He (the candidate) is raised on what is called the five points of fellowship, which are foot to foot, knee to knee, breast to breast, hand to back and mouth

to ear. This is done by putting the inside of your right foot to the inside of the right foot of the person to whom you are going to give the word, the inside of your knee to his, laying your right breast against his, your left hands on the back of each other, and your mouths to each other’s right ear (in which position alone you are permitted to give the word), and whisper the word Mahhahbone.

The Master’s grip is given by taking hold of each other’s hand as though you were going to shake hands, and sticking the nails of each of your fingers into the joint of the other’s wrist where it unites with the hand. In this position

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