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we, as Free and Accepted Masons, are taught to make use of it for the
more noble and glorious purpose of spreading the cement of brotherly
love and affection; that cement which unites us into one sacred band, or
society of friends and brothers, among whom no contention should ever
exist but that noble contention, or rather emulation, of who best can
work or best agree.

W.M. How were you then disposed of?

S.W. I was ordered to be reconducted to the place from whence I
came, there be reinvested of what I had been divested, and await the
Worshipful Master's will and pleasure.

SECTION II.

W.M. What does a Master Masons' Lodge represent?

S.W. The Sanctum Sanctorum, or Holy of Holies, of King Solomon's
Temple.

W.M. Did you ever return to the Lodge?

S.W. I did.

W.M. On your return, where were you placed?

S.W. In the centre; there caused to kneel, and implore the blessing of
Deity.

W.M. What followed?

S.W. I arose; and on my passage about the altar was accosted by
three Fellow Crafts, who thrice demanded of me the secrets of a Master
Mason and on being thrice refused, the first gave me a blow with the
twenty-four inch gauge across my throat, the second with the square
across my breast, the third with the setting maul on my forehead, which
felled me on the spot.

W.M. Who did you then represent?

S.W. Our Grand Master, Hiram Abiff, who was slain just before the
completion of the Temple.

W.M. Was his death premeditated?

S.W. It was, by fifteen Fellow Crafts, who, seeing the Temple about to
be completed, and being desirous of receiving the secrets of a Master
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