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**MASTER MASON, OR THIRD DEGREE RITUAL STATEMENT** "Most Worshipful King Solomon, we come to inform you that fifteen of us Fellow Crafts, seeing the Temple about to be completed, and being desirous of obtaining the secrets of a Master Mason, by which we might travel in foreign countries, and receive Master's wages, entered into a horrid conspiracy to extort them from our Grand Master, Hiram Abiff, or take his life; but, reflecting with horror on the atrocity of the crime, twelve of us recanted; but the other three persisted in their murderous design, and we fear that they have taken the Grand Master's life. We therefore now appear before your Majesty, clothed with white gloves and aprons, in token of our innocence, and, **acknowledging our premeditated guilt, we humbly implore your pardon**." (They all kneel.) Third Degree Masonic Tracing Board https://freemasoninformation.com/masonic-education/freemasonry-in-general/third-degree-masonic-tracing-board/