ANNO DOMINI 1257 COMPANIONS MANUAL

Never be drawn aside from the path of duty, or forgetВ¬ДЇul of those due guards and passwords which are necesВ¬ You are to inculcate, enforce, and practice virtue ДЄnd amidst all the temptations which surround you, Innocent, the distressed, and the helpless, ever standingДЇorth as a champion to espouse the cause of the Chris. Verse and forlorn-to succour, defend, and protect the Inaccessible, and the thorny paths of life broken, adВ¬

Way-worn traveller who finds the heights of fortune Your desire to assist, protect and befriend the weary It will henceforth become your duty and should be Tinguish and characterize this noble order. These rights and privileges, even to that disinterestedДЇriendship and unbounded hospitality which ever has,ДЄnd we hope and trust ever will continue to adorn, disВ¬ You come as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed ofДЄnd now, Sir Knight, we bid you welcome to all

Who has tasted that the Lord is gracious: to whom The foundation of which is in the breast of every one Mitted to a participation in those labours which arc toД®ffect the erection of a Temple more glorious than theДЇirst, even that beauteous Temple of holiness and innoВ¬Д¬ence, whose pillars arc Charity, Mercy and Justice,

Is great and will prevail therefore, you are now adВ¬ Nions, and there convincing a foreign prince that truth Hazardous enterprise of traversing an enemyвЂ™s domiВ¬ Their concealment also having been engaged in the Light incalculable treasures and advantages to theД¬raft:-having duly studied into the way and manner of Temple, and from its sacred Royal Arch brought to Of our ancient Grand Masters, and the justly celebratedД¬raftsmen:-having wrought in the ruins of the first Temple-induction to the oriental chair, witnessing theД¬ompletion and dedication of that superb model of exВ¬Д¬ellence, the Temple, which has immortalized the names Torum-your regularly passing the several gates of the Lated masonic ground floor-your ascent into the middleД¬hamber-your entrance to the unfinished sanctum sancВ¬ Honourable institution-in your admission to the tesselВ¬ Sin Knight, -Having passed through the severalДegrees and honorary distinctions of our ancient and 24-28ДЄN ADDRESS TO A NEW CREATED SIR KNIGHT TEMPLAR. Hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless,Д«ut believing. Then saith he to Thomas, Beach hither thyДЇinger, and behold my hands and reach hither thy Then came Jesus, the doorsД«eing shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be The nails, and thrust my hand into his side I will notДЄnd after eight days, again his disciples were within,ДЄnd Thomas with them. Print of the nails-, and put my finger into the print of He said unto them, вЂњ except I shall see in his hands the Therefore said unto him, вЂњwe have seen the Lord.вЂќ But The beast into the fire, and felt no harm.- Acts xxviii,ДЄnd Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross.ДЄnd the writing was Jesus of Nazareth, the King ofД«ut Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was Is a murderer, -whom, though he hath escaped the sea, Hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this mar When the barbarians saw the venemous beast hang on his Viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. And when Paul had gatheredДЄ bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a Shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire,ДЄnd received us every one, because of the present rain,ДЄnd because of the cold. Ihe following portions of Scripture are rehearsed :ДЄnd when they were escaped, then they knew that 'Дuring the ceremonies of initiation to this Degree,

ANNO DOMINI 1257 COMPANIONS MANUAL

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Anno domini 1257 companions