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The Third Degree ceremony is the final step in the process of induction which began with your Initiation. You are now a Master Mason and you will shortly receive your Grand Lodge certificate which will help you demonstrate that fact to others. The ceremony is more elaborate than the First and Second Degrees.
Salute the W.M. in the three Degrees, first as an E.A. S.D. prompting by demonstration, both give Sp and Sn of First Degree and cut Sn, both then give Sp and Sn of Second Degree and hold Sn, both then give Sp and Sns of Third Degree and drop P.Sn.
the third, or master mason's degree. The traditional account of the death and several burials, and resurrection of Hiram Abiff, the widow's son [as hereafter narrated], admitted as facts, this degree is certainly very interesting.
p. 87. MASTER MASON, OR THIRD DEGREE. 1. THE ceremony of opening and conducting the business of a Lodge of Master Masons is nearly the same as in the Entered Apprentice and Fellow Crafts' Degrees, already explained.
This is the Golden Legend of Freemasonry and has been in possession of the Craft probably for centuries. The first reference to it in writing is in Anderson’s Constitutions (1738). It was not, however, made a specific ceremony until the institution of the Third Degree, sometime in the 18th century.
A candidate, upon receiving the third degree of Masonry, is said to have been “raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason.” The term “raised” alludes to the candidate’s experience of being physically lifted during the impressive ceremonies of the second section of the degree, when he took part in the representation of a Masonic tragedy,
During the third perambulation you communicated the p..s g..p and p..s w..d to the Senior Warden who then presented you to the Master as a Candidate prepared to be raised to the Third Degree. You will recall that you were instructed to approach the pedestal in a particular way. At the pedestal you took the Obligation of a Master Mason
