Documenta Latomica Inedita.

Q . Give me the Jerusalem Word . A . Giblin . Q . Give me the Universal Word . A . Boaa . Q . Eight Brother of ours , your Same ? A . N . or M . Welcome Brother ilf . or N . to our Society . Q . How many particular Points pertain to a Free-Mason P A . Tliree ; Fraternity , Fidelity , and Tacity . Q . What do they represent ? A- Brotherly Love , Belief , and Truth , among all Eight

Masons ; for which all Masons were ordain'd at the Building of the Tower of Babel , and at the Temple of Jerusalem . Q . How many proper points ? A Five ; Foot to Foot , Knee to Knee , Hand to Hand , Heart to Heart , and Ear to Ear . Q . Whence is an Arch derived ? A . From Architecture . Q . How many Orders in Architecture ? A . Five ; the TMSCCTO , ZDoriclc , Ioniclc , Corinthian , and Oomposit . Q . What do they answer ? A . They answer to the Base , Perpendicular , Diameter , Circumference , and Square . Q . What is the right Word , or right Point of a Mason ? A . Adieu .

THE FREE-MASON s OATH . Yon must servo God according to the best of your Knowledge and Institution , and be a true Leige Man to the King , and help and assist any Brother as far as your ability will allow : By the Contents of the Sacred Writ you will perform this Oath . So help you God . A FREE-MASON ' S HEALTH . HERE ' S a Health to our Society , and to every faithful Brother that keeps his Oath of Secrecy . As we are sworn to love each other . The World no Order knows like this our noble and

Ancient Fraternity : Let them wonder at the Mystery . Here , Brother , I drink to thee . SIGNS TO KNOW A TRUE MASON . 1 . To put off the Hat with two Fingers and a Thumb . 2 . To strike with the Eight-Hand on the Inside of the Little Finger of the Left three Times , as if hewing . 3 . By making a Square , viz . by setting your Heels together , and the Toes of both Feet

straight , at a Distance , or by any other Way of Triangle . 4 . To take Hand in Hand with Left and Eight Thumbs close , and touch each Wrist three Times with the Fore-Finger each Pulse . 5 . You must Whisper , saying thus , the Masters and Fellows of the worshipful Company from whence I came , greet yon all well . The other will answer , God greet well the Masters and Fellows of the worshipful Company from whence you came . 6 . Stroke two of your Fore-Fingers over your Eye-Lids three Times . 7 . Turn a Glass or any other Thing that is hollow , downwards , after you have drank out of it . S . Ask how you do ; and your Brothers drink to each other . 9 . Ask what Lodge they were made Free-Masons at .

N . B . In the Third of King Henry the Sixth , and Act of Parliament was pass'd , whereby it is made Felony to cause MASONS to confederate themselves in Chapiters ancl Assemblies . The Punishment is Imprisonment of Body , and make Fine and Eansom at the King ' s Will . I now leave the matter , important as it is from an historical point of view , in the hands of Masonic students , believing that for the first time these three curious old Masonic " formulse " ancl the translation of the German one , are

collected and collated together for perusal and stud y by the intelligent and studious of the Craft , the " Wissenden , " in fact , the expert readers and bri ght Masons of our excellent ancl useful brotherhood . Steinbrenner says , indeed , page 148 , " that no one who ' attentively reads these two examinations , ' that is to say , the examination taken out of the Grand Mystery , 1724 ,. and that of the German Steinmetzen just given , can fail to he struck with the general

resemblance of the st y le and ideas of both . " I therefore give the earlier one from the Sloane MS ., 3329 , and a copy of the Grand Mystery from a folio edition , 1724 . All I think that any fair and attentive reader can say is , that the English examinations are much more full than the German one , and that perhaps the difference of idea and symbolism is to be attributed to the different ways of different nations .