Mysteries of the Craft.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 218, 18 August 1883, Page 3

Mysteries of the Craft.

$$ffis**WM*wh> eerß th'p foK tawing .revelations oi the, , ceremonies of jfrpasonry : *At iwtia^toth'e'noWeiß taken into the Lodge, Jedbackwards. on aU. fours,' tbe lta?|ftf! ttittWfiltf left ankle hobbled ♦flSfcb : a Mritel chain ;.*:; grated iron muzzle is placed orer his njouth, through theJ>ars of which the cbaplaiu inho must b~e ordained) ins.-rts a! pair of red 'hot tweezers/ and pjiJls ont ; the »«gn^rflttbW : frbin' the nostrils. The noTice. wbo is in naturae puribus - mtnralW shrinks backward at tbi«pr6j^fe^Srtitisly^braTided with the UflffriS^WtOi (Down with Chrwtian.Master^h^n breathes the JBfimktif- |fr° Order through hisi owii iiito.that of the oarididate. /This fi & AsTftßon why sjf| many ohthe Hebfi||w>perfi^asipn ate paat masterßJ Jbe fvlo&i of this people I>eing found! best moifelfQrtW* portion, of the rite; a i made oi prickly acacia woofl, Mtoow brought in, on Vb>ch the npyice if^tttd astride, with the brands dpwnwards; a billy-goat Is harnessed there-! (o and fb is dragged sefen times round! thevLpdgejj, sapping seten t/Dr»e,3^ to v miffobeisance to an effigy j/hts feet Sfegrj«w;then placed in a pair of wd stocking*, and tba tyler places a oomSsnaped hat on his head, much; — iikrihoie worn in Spain by hereticp, (Erpm lhi?P«ctice lialshaye long been aife^nitrti tiles^^'A: puncture Js^aade im itt u ihe Ml breast of t^he; ?ipTice, andi tne Ifiototrickling f tbereifrom is caught; in a human skull fashioned like.a |pnp, land tvi^Wbrdthren partake of ifc. l : bisis called the path of blood, typifying ithat » fff^e*byptnerbo6a are of the Bame conwm gjinSlnity. 1 ' ihe i np^oe is then" com-'-*ji %Bit& Jo <« dig " the pen into his right breast, and with his own blood sigh the bonds of. the or4er, t lf Jje novic? 11 fp'ipke^this oath be is at onc«. slaughtered, 'ana nis body burnt on the grand aVtar, it being wli known that few^ ot aisasßination prevents his friend? seeking to learn his late. jTije ; clothed effigy is thea divested pf its rai'^inenti suspended !rcm a triangle, ' ana , r viijiqade tpj turn by a species; of =bottle-r jack, W;bije the . white novices fligellate * ! ' the figure, the master matons meanwhile peUingtho<»ame with asßafoetida pellets, and he who makes the best hit Mason. ""' This ceremony conolades tb,e , .first de9 1 a^ others can be : wvealed, il MWJOewwttj by a Mason.