ABSTRACT

https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315828060/49546f0e-ce84-4e70-9b40-7107f16ee305/content/unfiga_1_B.tif" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>HE Three Dots Brotherhood, despite the fact that it was little better than a thieves’ Society is not only clearly based on the Hung ritual, but deserves to be regarded as a quasi distinct Rite. Some of the differences between it and the Hung ritual are most instructive, and the impression grows upon the student that we have in this ceremony an attempt to amalgamate and shorten two or more separate degrees. It would seem as if the earlier part of the ceremony represents in some measure that missing degree, or degrees, which the nature of the Hung ceremony postulates. We will therefore endeavour to unravel the meaning of this ceremony, both for its own sake and because it throws many interesting sidelights on the Hung ceremony itself.