The Correct version of
THE OLD R.A.O.B. RITUAL
Compiled by Primo J.P. Dowling F.S.Sc
For the First degree
THIRD EDITION
This embodiment of our Old Ritual was first used in England for the making of a Buffalo in the year 1790; but written by George Cooper Murray some years previous to that date.
OLD R.A.O.B. RITUAL, FIRST DEGREE
Compiled from the original in my possession, with all the objectionable and other extraneous interpolations, which greatly disfigured it by being inserted therein about sixty years ago, cut out.
The Ritual for a First Degree making now presented to the Order is done so in the state of classical purity, as when issued from the pen of its illustrious author, veiled under the tri-temuric name of George Cooper Murray, that is to say each name consisting of six letters corresponding to the six points of the Buffalo Star.
The garbled portions inserted in a bibulous age have been reconstructed from the most authentic sources; the Old Ritual for a 1st Degree Making is now presented to the Order as a consistent Archaic classical whole, and forms a correct ceremony to be used at the making of a Buffalo.
THE INITIATION
The Lodge being duly laid out according to correct R.A.O.B. symbolism (see lectures) Three knocks are heard outside the Tile when the Sitting Primo makes the sign of Harpocrates, being the sign of the Buffalo Rose by placing the fore finger of his Dexter or right hand on his lips.
Immediately the S.P. giving this sign, there is silence.
The City Tyler having ascertained the business of the Tile, says:
“Worth Primo an unenlightened individual seeks to become a Member of our Ancient and most Honourable Order”.
S.P. “What is his name?”
C.T. Gives the name.
S.P. “Brothers, an unenlightened individual bearing the name of_____________ seeks to become one of us; does any Brother present know aught
against this________ of sufficient weight for me to dismiss his application?”
If no objection be made
S.P. “Who vouches for the bona-fides of this unenlightened?”
C.T. Enquires the name of the sponsor outside the Tile, and gives it to the Sitting Primo.
S.P. “Brothers, a true and proved good-hearted Buff, Brother__________ whom you all know, vouches for this unenlightened individual: Do you desire me to proceed?”
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