I. P. M. adjusts S. and C.

All sit when W. M. sits—not before.
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PASSING. The Ceremony of Passing may now be taken (see p. 228). OBN.
It should be remembered that the Sn. during the F. C. Obn. is the,P..S..of a PeG:
QUESTIONS BEFORE RAISING.
If the Ceremony of Raising is to be done, | the necessary Questions should be ‘put and the Candidate entrusted (see p. 238).
OPENING, THIRD DEGREE.
All F. Cs. having been directed to retire, the Lodge may be opened in the Third | Degree.
The preliminary points are to be observed as before.
When the Brethren, by direction of the J. W., prove themselves M. Ms. by Sns., » they should, in silence, and in unison, take Sp.j convert By G.intovS. of Bi; Sof Sa P.S. from extreme left, and ‘ recover.’ The hand should lie quite flac on the same plane as the floor; not with drooping fingers.
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There is no evolution in the whole range of ceremonial observances in the Lodge, in which so many and so wide divergences from the correct forms are to be seen, as in the making of these three Ss., more especially in the first. This Sn. cannot, of course, be described; we can only suggest that in all the movements the body should be quite erect, and the motions should be made with freedom of action, and should be carefully developed, but at the same time with no exaggeration of gesture. The proper movements and positions, once acquired, are perfectly easy, and are never forgotten.
The last answer in the opening in the Third Degree, made by the Senior Warden-— ‘That being a point from which a Master Mason cannot err ’—is a very curious one: it is explained at length in the sixth section of the first Lecture, and is referred to on
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This is the only occasion on which there is no ‘ recovery.’
W.M.-g S.W.-2 J.W.-3