According to Albert Mackey’s Manual of the Lodge, the great design of the third degree in Freemasonry is the principle of Fidelity. Bro. John Nagy returns to dive into the characters and meaning of three villains Masonry known as the “Three Ruffians.”

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Read Albert Mackey’s Manual of the Lodge... https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Manual_of_the_Lodge
Read Samuel Pritchard's expose "Three Distinct Knocks"... https://books.google.com/books?id=6y9cAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Read the Noah Legend and the Graham Manuscript... https://www.quatuorcoronati.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/AQC131.03-Acaster.pdf

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