Report of the Committee Appointed by the General Assembly of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations to Investigate the Charges in Circulation Against Freemasonry and Masons in Said State: Together with the Official Documents and Testimony Relating to the Subject

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Σελίδα 69 - John, do hereby and hereon (Master presses his gavel or hand on candidate's hand) most solemnly and sincerely promise and swear that I will always hail, forever conceal and never reveal any of the secret arts, parts or points of the...
Σελίδα 67 - Furthermore, do I promise and swear, that, I will not violate the chastity of a master mason's wife, mother, sister, or daughter, I knowing them to be such, nor suffer it to be done by others, if in my power to prevent it.
Σελίδα 87 - This pure wine, I take from this cup, in testimony of my belief of the mortality of the body and the immortality of the soul; and as the sins of the whole world were laid upon the head of our Saviour, so may the sins of the person whose skull this once was, be heaped upon my head, in addition to my own; and may they appear in judgment against me, both here and hereafter, should I violate or transgress...
Σελίδα 71 - ... equivocation, mental reservation, or self-evasion of mind in me whatever ; binding myself under no less penalty, than to have my...
Σελίδα 18 - Mason, or within the body of a just and lawfully constituted lodge of such, and not unto him, nor unto them whom I shall hear so to be, but unto him and them only whom I shall find so to be, after strict trial and due examination or lawful information.
Σελίδα 71 - I, , of my own free will and accord, and in the presence of Almighty God, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will never reveal to any one not a member of the * *, by any intimation, sign, symbol, word, or act, or in any...
Σελίδα 4 - This pure wine I now take in testimony of my belief in the mortality of the body and the immortality of the soul; and may this libation appear as a witness against me, both here and hereafter; and as the sins of the world were laid upon the head of the Saviour, so may all the sins committed by the person whose skull this was, be heaped upon my head in addition to my own, should I ever knowingly or wilfully violate or transgress any obligation that I have heretofore taken, take at this time, or shall...
Σελίδα 57 - Furthermore do I promise and swear, that I will not give the grand hailing sign of distress except I am in real distress, or for the benefit of the Craft when at work...
Σελίδα 7 - ... binding myself under no less penalty, than to have my throat cut across, my tongue torn out by the roots, and my body buried in the rough sands of the" sea, at low water mark, where the tide ebbs and flows twice in twenty-four hours ; so help me God, and keep me steadfast in the due performance of the same.
Σελίδα 65 - Masons, nor unto him, or them, until by strict trial, due examination, or lawful information, I shall have found him, or them, as lawfully entitled to the same as I am myself.

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