York Rite Three Minute Drill by Sir Knight Carson C. Smith

 

Do you know the Secrets of a Master Mason?

 

Do you?

 

Do you know the Master Mason’s Word?

 

Not the substitute word.You were given a substitute word “until future ages find the right.”

 

Do you know how to travel and work as a Master Mason?

 

Do you know how to receive wages as a Master Mason?

 

No?

 

Now let me get this straight.

 

You were attacked three times by three craftsmen.

 

They demanded from you the Secrets of a Master Mason.

 

They took your life.

You were raised to the Sublime Degree of a Master Mason.

 

And you still don’t know the Secrets of a Master Mason?

 

What is this?

 

A bait and switch?

 

Does someone owe you a refund?

No.

 

What is it that enables your Lodge to confer the Degrees

 

of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, and Master Mason?

 

There is a document hanging over the Secretary’s Desk.

 

That is the Charter.

 

Have you taken the time to read the Charter?

Your Lodge was chartered by “The Free & Accepted [York] Masons of Indiana.”

 

You have received the first 2-1/2 degrees of the York Rite.

Who stops reading a good book after two or three chapters?

Do you want to travel and work as a Master Mason?

Do you want to receive wages as a Master Mason?

Do you want to know the Master Mason’s Word?

Would you like to see the Temple completed?

Would you like to know the obligation of a Past Master?

Would you like to walk with Hiram Abiff, while he explains how and why the Master’s Word was lost, how it was preserved, and how it was found again?

Have you seen the movie National Treasure?

“Grandpa, are we knights?”

“Do you want to be?”

And wouldn’t you like to understand why men of every race, religion, color, and creed, throughout the world, have for generations, learned, and preserved, a ritual about a Temple in Jerusalem, that no longer exists, and all the remarkable things buried underneath it?

I have good news.

I have a petition.

It is already signed.

And I will make you this Money Back Guarantee.

If you sign one of my petitions.

If you see the Degrees of Chapter and Council, and the Orders of Commandery, and come back to me and say, “I learned nothing, the York Rite has added nothing to my understanding of the Blue Lodge Degrees,” I will give you your money back.

 

I can’t see it happening.

I have signed 180 York Rite petitions for 180 new Sir Knights.

It hasn’t happened yet.

There is so much more light available to you in the York Rite.

 

 

 

Artwork by The Masters Craft

Sir Knight John A. Bridegroom