OSINT check 2026-11-04: Located the 1723 text heading and introductory attribution in the hosted transcription of Knoop, Jones and Hamer’s The Early Masonic Catechisms (1943). This is a later reprint route, not an inspected original Flying-Post copy or a fresh review of all related claims.
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CLM-0011 · Content
The Entered Apprentice sign is made by drawing the four fingers of the right hand across the throat; the token is the ball of the thumb pressed on the first knuckle of the other's forefinger; the words Boaz and Jachin, the two pillars of Solomon's porch, are given by lettering them alternately.
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CLM-0012 · Content
The Master's word, Machbenah, said to mean 'the builder is smitten', is whispered in the ear while the two men stand on the Five Points of Fellowship: hand to hand, foot to foot, cheek to cheek, knee to knee and hand in back.
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CLM-0013 · Content
The pass-word of the Fellow Craft degree is Shibboleth and that of the Master Mason degree is Tubal Cain; the grand word of the Master Mason degree, Mah-Hah-Bone, is given in low breath on the Five Points of Fellowship.
Checked against the Internet Archive text on 2026-11-04. Pagination is that of the Dick & Fitzgerald third edition as marked in the open transcription.
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