The book of the Ancient and accepted Scottish rite of freemasonry (1899)
McClenachan, Charles Thompson, 1829-1896. [from old catalog] · New York · leaf 69
out the streets: or ever the silver cord beloosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcherbe broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken atthe cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earthas it was, and the spirit shaU return unto God whogave it. This ceremony was originally estabHshed to… … PEKFECT MASTER. PERFECT :\iastee. 59 retained by us tJiat it may be improYed as a lessonboth useful and instructiTe. Let us look forward toblighter scenes, when oiu^ deceased brother, who hadbeen smitten dovm. by the resistless hand of death;shall be raised from his prostrate state at the wordof…
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