Knight of Palestine (Knight of the Triple Cross)

Q. Give me the Sign and the word of a Knight?
A. (one gives it) D. L. V.
Q. From where does this word originate?
A. It is the word that the people pronounced at the discourse that Urban II made after the Council he held; and it was placed on all the Standards and Flags of the army.
Q. Where was the Council held?
A. At Clermont in Auvergne, The year 1095, in the month of November.
Q. What is the password?
A. (one gives it) The Journey of God.
Q. What does it signify?
A. It was the name given to the Crusades.
Q. What is the first care of a Knight of the Triple Cross? 29/

always the old
the self constantly in readiness
to be, to undertake the journey of
God, (when and where this master)
the triple cross, with the call,
God wills it, is commanded.
Just as here the death on
the evening of the triple
cross ending there, inspired and says:
Heu le Vait God wills it.

A. To always be armed and ready to march for the journey to the holy land as the first masons of the new law did, and try to deserve, like them, the glory and eternal life that I wish for you, as well as for myself.

Closing.

Subl. Knight of the Council, always have the same fervor and the same zeal; remember these first Masons, and try, like them, to gain the glory and eternal life, which is what I wish for you as well as for myself.
He strikes three equal blows three dots in a triangular pattern which are repeated and says:
Sublime Knights, the Council is closed.
The Wardens repeat it to all the Knights and one retires in peace.

Closing Speech
from Introduction to
gr. xxx. 286
Knight of the Triple Cross

"Until now you have known masonry or at least you have learned that it took birth in the most distant times, finally since the construction of the Temple of Solomon, by the mysteries that have been revealed to you in the degree of M. three dots in a triangular pattern; and by those that will be discovered to you in the one you are going to receive, you will see that it draws very close and that those which have been given to you since the apprentice up to the degree of knight of the orient are only allegories of those you are going to know..."

"You know, my dear brother, the sacred misfortunes that our father Freemasons have had, that is to say, the crusader knights who have shed so much blood during the space of eight crusades. Since this fatal enterprise, the masons have always kept, in the depth of their hearts, the desire to avenge the death of their brothers until the propitious moment to try once more to deliver the sacred tomb of the son of God; I speak to you in the name of all the masons who are knights of the triple cross who all cry to you with me God wills it, and who hope for your perseverance and that of those who will join you and us."

Put the sword to hand and come flourish/paraph

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