Bet your gonna get a 'I don't "Know-Nothing" about the 33rd degree Mason ritual...But, I thought the Masons were open now, with no secrets? I don’t find it all that likely that they don’t have a ritual for when a man enterers a new level of Masonry. You mark each passage to a new degree with some sort of ceremony. So, the rituals must be open, and must be available right?
That or something isn’t right with this picture.
patent +AMDG
"The Grand Master approaches a table on which are three skulls. One is adorned with a papal tiara, a second wears a regal crown, and the third is festooned with a laurel wreath.
"The Grand Master stabs the skull bearing the papal tiara, as the candidate repeats: "Down with imposture! Down with crime!....the candidate takes a second oath to "strive unceasingly... for the overthrow of superstition, fanaticism, imposture and intolerance."
The fourth oath taken by a Knight Kadosh focuses again on the "cruel and cowardly Pontiff, who sacrificed to his ambition the illustrious order of those Knights Templar of whom we ar the true successors."
They probably didn't want us to hear that part.