OPENING IN THE THIRD DEGREE
Before opening in the Third Degree WM would normally request FCs to withdraw.
WM – one gavel, SW – one gavel, JW – one gavel.
WM – Brethren, assist me to open the Lodge in the Third Degree.
ALL – rise.
WM – Bro. JW, what is the first care of every MM?
JW – To see that the Lodge is properly tyled.
WM – Direct that duty to be done.
JW – Bro. IG, see that the Lodge is properly tyled.
IG – goes to door, gives FC knocks and returns to position in front of his chair.
Tyler – responds with same knocks.
IG – Sp and FC Sn – Bro. JW, the Lodge is properly tyled – cuts Sn.
JW – FC knocks – Sp and FC Sn – WM, the Lodge is properly tyled – cuts Sn.
WM – Bro. SW, the next care?
SW – To see that the Brethren appear to order as Craftsmen.
WM – To order, Brethren, in the Second Degree.
ALL – take Sp with FC Sn.
WM – Bro. JW, are you a MM?
JW – I am, WM, try me and prove me.
WM – By what instruments in architecture will you be proved?
JW – The Sq and Cs.
WM – Being yourself acquainted with the proper method, you will prove the Brethren MMs by Sns and demonstrate that proof to me by copying their example.
JW – Brethren, it is the WM’s command that you prove yourselves MMs by Sns.
ALL – (except WM and JW) take take Sp, give S of H, Sn of S and P Sn to point of recovery, hold P Sn.
JW – WM, the Brethren have proved themselves MMs by Sns, and in obedience to your command I thus copy their example – takes Sp and gives three Sns, holding P Sn at point of recovery.
WM – Bro. JW, I acknowledge the correctness of the Sns - takes Sp and gives three Sns, holding P Sn at point of recovery.
WM – Bro. JW, whence come you?
JW – The E.
WM – Bro. SW, whither directing your course?
SW – The W.
WM – to JW – What inducement have you to leave the E and go to the W?
JW – To seek for that which was lost, which, by your instruction and our own industry, we hope to find.
WM – to SW – What is that which was lost?
SW – The genuine secrets of a MM.
WM – to JW - How came they lost?
JW – By the untimely death of our M, HA.
WM – to SW – Where do you hope to find them?
SW – With the C.
WM – to JW – What is a C?
JW – A point within a circle, from which every part of the circumference is equidistant.
WM – to SW – Why with the C?
SW – That being a point from which a MM cannot err.
Chaplain – We will assist you to repair that loss, and may Heaven aid our united endeavours.
ALL – So mote it be.
WM – Brethren, in the name of the Most High, I declare the Lodge duly open (ALL – cut Sn, no recovery) on the C, for the purposes of Freemasonry in the Third Degree.
WM – MM knocks, SW – MM knocks, JW – MM knocks.
SD and JD – attend to TB and WTs, then stand to order in N and S, facing E.
IG – goes to door, gives MM knocks and returns to position in front of chair
Tyler – responds with same knocks.
IPM – exposes both Pts of Cs, then takes a pace backwards, facing WM.
IPM, SD and JD – take Sp with P Sn to point of recovery and drop Sn, then return to respective positions in front of chairs.
WM – All Glory to the Most High.
ALL – give G or R Sn 
WM – sits.
ALL – sit.