Blanchard J (anti-masonic) - Scotch Rite Masonry Illustrated Part I

SCOTCH RITE3Un~ir~de~.THE COMPLETE RITUALOP TKMANCIENT AND ACCEPTED Scents. Rni,PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED.By A SOVEREIGN GRAND COMMANDER. 330WIYN AN HISTORICAL aKwrox ON ?flN ORDER. INIRODUOTIOPAND OD.ITIOAL ANALYSIN OP EACH DEQEEU—Dy—P1151 DENT J. BLANCJIARD OF WHEATON COLLEGE.OVNR POUR HUNDRED QUOTATIONS WHOM ITANDAIDMASONIC AUTHORITIES CONFIRM T~U ACCURACIOW THU RITUAL AND SHOW THU CHARACTEROP MASONIC TEACHING AND DOCTRINE.VOLUME I~OURTH TO EIGHTEENTH DEGREE INCLUSIVE

NOMENCLATURE AND CLASSIFICATIONOF THE GRADES IN FREEMASONRYSYMIOLIC GRADESConferred only in regular Lodges of Master Masons,duly constituted by Grand Lodges1 Entere* Apprentice 2’ Felloworaft3 Master MaSonINEFFADLE GRADES4’ Secret Ijaster 9’ Master Elect of Nine6 Perfect Master 10’ Master~lect of Fifteen5’ Intimate Secretary 1? Sublime Master Elected7’ Provost and Judge 12’ Grand Master Architect5 Intendant of the building iS’ Master of the Ninth Arch14’ Grand Elect MasonConferred in a Lodge of Perfection, 14’, duly constitutedunder authority of the Supreme Council ofthe 88.ANCIENT HISTORICAL AND TRADITIONAL GRADES15’ Knight of the East or 16’ Prince of JerusalemSwordConferred in a Council, Princes of Jerusalem, 16’.APOCALYPTIC AND CHRISTIAN GRADES17’ Knight of the East and West18’ Knight of Bose Croix de H-R-D-MConferred in a Chapter of Rose Croixde H-R-D-M, 18’MODERN HISTORICAL, CHIVALRIC 6 ANDPHILOSOPHICAL GRADES10’ Grand Pontiff ~ 57’ Commander of the Temple30’ Master ad Vitam 28’ KnIght of the Sun21’ Patriarch Noachite 20’ Knight of St. Andrew32’ Prince of Lihanus So’ Grand Elect Kadosh or23’ Chief of thg Tahernacle Knight of the White and24’ Prince of the Tahernacle Black Eagle35’ Knight 0? the Drasen 51’ Grand InspectorSerpentInauistorComrnaiider36’ Prince of Mercy 52’Sublime Prince of theRoyal SecretConferred In a Consistory, Sublime Princes ofthe Royal Secret, 82’.OFFICIAL GRADES88’ Sovereign Grand Inspector GeneralConferred only by the SUPREME COUNCIL, 88,and upon those who may be elected to receive It b7that high body which assembles yearly.PUBLISHER S PREFACEHad not an extendcd trial demonstrated mostclearly that in no way can the arguments against asecret order be put before the public so effectively asin close connection with the ritual thereof, I shouldnot have ventured the great expense of publishing thisIllustrated Ritual of the Scottish Rite.Rituals sell readily to both lodge members and outalders,while the most eloquent address on the subject,however replete with important facts and argument.,seldom secures many readers.Although many members of any secret society woulddecidedly prefer to have the analysis of the degrees leftout, and I have declined repeated offers to buy enti.ceditions of one thousand copies of different rituals atmy regular rates, provided I would furnish them withoutnote or comment, not less than half of my sales ofrituals are to members of these orders, and hundreds,when ordering a ritual, are careful to give their lodgeconnections, supposing they could not otherwise get thedesired’ ritual.Before I commenced publishing this series of rituals,with foot-note quotations, which, it will be observed,prove the substantial correctness of the ritual and form

6 PUILIs~3i’u PRENACE.John C. Reynolds, Worshipful Master of Tyrian Lodge888; Deputy Grand Secretary,” etc.‘Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Illinois” from18.60 to 1860 inclusive.The first tifree Masonic degrees, termed wBlueLodge,” or “Ancient Craft Masonry,” being common toall the Maponic Rites, are not given in this work, butthe full, accurate and prqfusely illustrated ritual ofthese degrees will be found in “Freemasonry Illustrated,”also published by Ezra A. Cook. The Signs, Grips,Pass Words, etc., termed the “Secret Work” of thesedegrees, and also of the entire Scottish Rite are givenin their order at the close of the Second Volume ozthis work.THE PUULISH.CONTENTSPROIAC5IwTaooucrIoNFormation of the First Grand LodgeThe Chevalier Ramsa~s CareerLIes No Disparageme t to Masonic MoralItyThe Scottish Rite Brought to America by a JewThis Jew Branded sn Audacious JugglerFreemasonry the Child of JesultisniCHAPTER l.—HIsroaIcaL SKETCH 01 THU ScovrIhH RITaImportance of the Scottish RiteBorn in the City of Nullification and ReboillonThe Traitor and Mason Aaron BurrMasonic Conspiracy to Destroy the Union..General Jackson’s FreemasonryPatriotIsm t’e. Masonic ObligationsDestroying the Supreme Councils RecordsAbomInations and Demon WorshipFull Page Engraving, Lodge of PerfectionCHAPTER lI.—Losou os PuawucriomHistory of the Rite of Perfection. Note IThe Temple, Arrangement, Furniture, EtcSpiritual Man Represented by a Material Temple. Note 2Officers Represent the PlanetsCHAPTER III.—FouxrH ox Sucawr M.asmn’s Duau~...The First of the Ineffable Degrees. Note SThe Lodge Hung in Mourning. Note 4Form of the Lodge, Order and Jeweis“Solomon is Seated in the East. Note r~“Adoniram. Calied Vensiabie Inspector” in ibe West.••Note 6Styie of Apron in Secret Master. Degree. Note 7.Symbolic Age. Hours of Work and MoralOruNimo Cusuxoxiss, Scszr Maim’s DsoauESign of SilenceAdoniram a Most Prominent Personage. Note SCHAP’1’ER IV.—FouurH oR Szcm Masruas DuomsPreparation of Candidate, Secret Masters ~....a20212228242526UT2529808182as848586575?888889404040414141414248454844

8 OONTENU.Mock Scripture RecitatIon by Solomon.Page.45ObligatIon. Secret Master’s DegreeMock Funeral ProcessIon4647Hisart of iliram Abli in a Golden Urn. Note 9ElohIm. th Hebrew Title of Deity. Note 104746The Sanctu~~ Smnctorum or Holy of HoliesInitiatory Prayer, Secret Master’s Degrce49“The Laurel Crown In Masonry,” Note 11 51The Olive Plant is a Symbol of Peace.”The Key a Symbol of Secrecy. Note 18Note 12.... 5151Token. Secret Master’s Degree 52Sign of Silence. Secret Master’s DegreeMackey Confirms the Name of the Pa.. Word. Note 14 52The Sacred Word of the Degree also Confirmed. Note IS 52Historical Discourse by Grand Orator 58pIne Lodge Degrees Not Conferred t.y Supreme CouucliNote 16 58Triangle Enclosing Ineffable Name. Note 1? 58“The Shekinab of Masonry.’ Note ISThe Ineffable Degrees. Note 1958Lodge Use of Other Names of Deity. Note 20Kabbalistic Mysteries and Angels Aipha9~t. Note 21..5454Foundation for and Scope of Secret Master’s Degree.Note 22 55Masonic SymbolIsm of the Circle. Note 28 55The Ark of the Covenant and it. ContcntsThe Seven Branched CandlestickSTSymbolism of the Word Seven. Note 24 STCz.osueo C.uzxoNIus, S.caur Macrn’s DuosasasThe Duty of the Secret Master. Note 25 ieBIsToUICAL ANALYsIs. Sucszr Masrns’s DuouxaHow Masonry Got Its Title “The Royal Art’Similarity of Masonic ~Jugglery and Priestcraft6060The Higher Degr~es Invented by Frencl~ Jesuit.Lodge end PoAsh Secrecy and Subject~n6162Each TryIng to Charter, Tax and Govern Others 68Invented by Jesuit. and Sold by Jews 54Freemasonry a Religious Pestilence. . ‘Giterllla Pike. Moat Puissant Sovereign Grand Coin.65mender 66“Who But a Jesuit Could Invent Such a Degree1”.... 67“One Stupendous Demoniacal possession.CHAPTER V.—FZVTH cc Paas’zcv Mama’s Dausa. 69Object in Establishing This Degree. Note 26Decorations of Lodge Room for This Degree. Note 27. 70“Adoniram Plays an Important Role.” Note 26Zerbal the Captain of the Guards. Note 297070Description of the Perfect Muter’. Apron.Symbolim of Color of the “Order.” Green.Note 80..Note 81.. 71CONTENTS. 9Page.• Jewel of the Degree and Its Symbolism.Age and Hours of Work. Note 88Note 82 7171Moral of the Degree. Note 84 71Orarenia Cxaxxoinse, Pmas’ucv M&srxa’s DUOEEUThe Legend of the Degree. Note 857272“The Degree Commemorates a Departed Brother”‘1~ote 36 73CHAPTER VX.—INIrIarIore. Puu,xEr M~at~a’a DUOSECPreparation of Candidate7474Search for the Criminals. Note 87 75The Sixteen Columns 76Acccio, “the Symbol of Immortality.” Note 8J 76Scripture Recitation.Initiatory Song7775Ot.iigation of Perfect Master’s DegreeSign of Recognition Perfect Master’s Degree7979Sign of AdmirationFirst Token. Perfect Master’s DegreeSOSoThird TokenLecture,JPerfect Master’s Degree 825to114,. “a Name Introduced in Scotch Masonry.”Historical Discourse by OratorCnoszwo Chaxowiss, Puawuci I6ama’s Dxoa.m8688Rzsroat~at Aieaz.ysis, Pzaszc’r Mama’s Dxoaas..........Date of the Origin of Wreemasonry8989Degrees Fabricated for Political Purposes............ 90The Gibberish of Freemasonry Admitted“What a Banter on the Human Race.”................0192CHAPTER VIL—Suira ox lurruxars Sucauraxy’s Duoaxa... 95“Its Emblematic Color Is Hiack.” Note 40..........Officers of the Degree. Note 41....................9894Intimate Secretary’s Apron. Note 42Moral or Teachings of the Degree. Note 48..........9595Eavesdropping Is Unmasonic. Note 44.............. 95OIUNING Csaaxoxtus~ lueruxars Sucaurasre Daossa........ 98The Degree “Also Known as Master of Curiosity.”An Instance of Unlawful Curiosity. Note 46 96The Pretended History of the Scotch Rite False.Note 4? 9?CHAPTER vIII.—INITIATIoN, Iwrixays S~c~av~ay’s D~oaxn OS“Joabert. the Companion of Solomon and Hiram.”Joabert’s Curiosity and Rashuese, Note 49 99“A Laudable Curiosity.” Note ho 99Joabert Made Secretary of Solomon and Hiram. Note 51. 100Freemasonry Excites Curiosity. Note 52............ 100

10 CONTENTS. CONTENTS. 11Obilgation, Intimate Secretary’s Degree..............Page.101Sign. lutimate Secretary............................ 102Token. Intimate Secretary..........................Discourse. by Master of Rloquence..................108108Berith a S!gnificant Word. Note 58................ 108Name Zerbqi Invented by the Ritualist. Note 54......The Legend of the Degree. Note 55................108104Lecture. IntImate Secretary’s Degree................ 106CLOSING CERRMONJES, IhITIsIAra SacRz’rAar’e Du4Iazu........HIsroxIcAL A’e.&iYeIS, INrIxAl’s SuccurAax’s Duoaas.......109110Nothing But Faisehood............................. 110A Fortune from Seiiing Masonic Degrees.............“More Is Meant Than Meets the Eye”................111112Humbug Pretensions to Astronomic Teaching........ 112A Government of Wolves Over Sheep................ 11.4CHAPTER lX.—Suvv~ru Duorn. oc Puovoer MID Jonas.... 115Officers and Their Titles. Note 56.................. 115The Legend of the Degree. Note 57................Decorations, Apron. Moral of the Degree. Note 58....115115Adoniram &nd H:s rather. Abda. Note 59.......... 115Represenis Middle Chamber of Solomon’s Temple.OPENINC CEREMONIES, PaovosT AND Juooc................. 117History of This Degree. Note 61.................... 117CHAPTER 1.—INITUTIoN, Puovoar MID Junau............ 118Preparation of Candidate........................... ilkObligst:on Provost end Judge...............~...... 121Grip and Sign Provost and Judge.................... 122Answer to Sign................................... 128Tito~ Prince of Harodem. First Provost cad Judge.Jachinai. a Galile Corl~iption%f Shekinab. Note 63. . . 123MasoRry Erected on the Superstructure of Geometry.Lecture. Provost and Judge....................... 124Origin of the Scottish Rite Degrees. Note 6~........ 124Tito. Ch:ef of the Three Hundred Architects. Note 66.. 126The Grand Chapter of Harodim. Note 67............ 126“ZEs.e. A Significant Word.” Note 65.............. 127Red the Symboiic Color of the Higher Degrees. Note 69. 128CLOsINO CEREMONIES. Puovoar AND Juooz.................. 129HISTORICAL ANALYSIS, Piovoer AND JUDOE................. 180Going Into the Lodge As a Frog Into a Snakes Mouth. 180& Silly. Weak Anachroniam........................ 131Intellectual and Moral Ashe,....................... 182Moore’s Descrption of False Religions............... 188CHAPTER 11.—RIGHrn DEGREE, oa INThNDANT 01 THU -BUILD’Legend. Emblematic Coioz. l~tc. Note 70............ 184Decorations. Jewel and Moral. Note 71OveNI~1o CEREMONIES, INTENDANT OP THU BUILDINO..........Page. 184 136CHAPTER XiI.—INITIATION, INTUNDANY 01 THE BI;ILOINO..Preparation of Candidate ,.......................~18?187Joabert Personating HIram AbilF........,....... 139Obii~ation. Intendant of the Building...............• 140Sign of Surprise. Intendant of the Building.......... 142Benkhurlm. a Significant Word. Note 72............• 142Signs of Admiration and ~Jeh, Another Name of Deity, Used As a Pass143Note 73.. 148Token Intendant of the Building........... ..... 144“Masonic Allusion to the Lion of the Tribe of Judab.”Note ~ 144Lecture. Intendant of the Building“Sometimes Called Master in Israel.” Note 7~. .......145145CLOSING CREHoNIEs, I’ITENDANT OF THE DuILnIN(~ 152HxsroRIcu. ANALYSIs, INTENDAIT OF viii BUILDI?qo......., 153Masonry the Image of the Beast.................~,, 153Absolute Secrkcy and Absolute Despotism 154Caricature of Christ’s Resurrectinn 155Rulers of the Darkness of This WorldisoCHAPTER 1111.—NINTH DEGItEE. OR MASTER EL::cr OF NINF.. 157History and Object of This Degree. Note 70.......... 157Clothing. Apron. Jewel, EtcOlUNINO CEREMONIES• MASTER ELECT OF NINE 160CHAPTER XIV.—IWITIArxox, MASTER ELECT OF Xz’~: 161Detalir of Mode in Which Traitors Ree”it.’(l Punishment.Note 77..........................,. 161“Abfrcm. One of the Traitors Craftsmen - \‘ae 78.. 164“Vengeance. A Word Used in the High Degrees.”AhEtop. Name of a Ruffian of the Thud Degree.Obligation Master Elect of Nine .........~...-...... 168Sign. Master Elect of Nine“A Bioody Arm. Holding by the Hair s Bloody head.”Note 51 ion“Nokcm. A Hebrew Word Signifying Wiiccan,’.’”Apewer to Sign. Master Elect of NineToken. Master Elect of Nine ....................171170Discourse by Grand Orator 171Lecture. Master Riect of Nine ....................,~ 174CLOsING CEREMONIES, MA5TUR ELECT OP NINI 170HISTORICAL ANA.LYRIS. MASTER ELECT OF NINE.............. 151Rage for a Multitude of Degrees..................... isiA Drill of Assassination and Revenge 182Turns Lynch Law into a fleilgion, 18:’John Quincy Adams on Masonic Penalties 184

1SCONTBNTS.Page.Swears to Revenge Masonry In General.....,.,...... 155Masonic Murders Proved in Court.........,...,..... 156‘They Were Not At Au Aehamed”.................. is?CHAPTER XV.—TENTH DEGREE, os MASTER Ezzcv op Fl?.Officers of 1the Degree. “The Jewel is a Poniard.”Note 58....................................... isaThe Feliow Craft Ruffians. Note 54................ isaOPENING CEREMONIEs, MAsrEE ELECT OF PIV’rEEN.......... 190CHAPTER XVI.—INxTxi.nos,. M&si’ua ELECT 01 FI1TEEN.... 101“The Punishment Inflicted on Three Traitors.” Note 85. 191‘A Variety of Names for These Assassins.” Note 56.. 191Besgebee. “Intendant of Soiomon in the Country ofCheth.”‘Desdekar.Note 57 ...........................A Significant Word.’ Note sa..........102192‘Certain Traitors Fied to Maacha. King of Cheth.”Note 59...................................... 191Obligation. Master Riect of Fifteen...................Sign. Master Elect of Fifteen .....................190Answer to SigR’..’’’’’’’.’..’’’’’’................ 19?Token. Master Elect of Fifteen-.................“A kiv~maa. The Peincipie of Evil.” Note 90.......“Typhon. The Rrother and Slayer of Osiris.” Note 01.. 190“The Night of Death Shall Yield to an Immortal Day.”Note 92...................................... 199“Ormuad Was the Principle of Good” Note 08....... 199Dengabee “in the Cataiogue of Solomon’s Officers.”Note 94 .....‘‘‘‘‘....~......“Assassins of the Third Degree.” Note 95.........,200200Lecture. Master Elect of Fifteen ~ 202“Guibbe. Another Name oft, One ofNote 96 .........~............................These Traitors.”205CLOsING CREENONIES. MASTER ELECT O~’ l’IVTEEN........... 20?HIsTORICAL ANA.x.TSIS. MAsTER ELECT OF FIVTEUN..........The Force of a False Religion ...................208205Killing the RemainIng Assassins of Hiram..........Swearing to Assassinate Seceders --.............209210To Replace Popery on the Throne of England ........ 211CHAPTER XVII.—ELETENTH DEGREE,ELECTED ~OR SUBLIME KNIGHrS212The Legeud of the Degree. Decoretions, Etc. Note 97.. 212OPENING CEREMONIEs. SUBLIME KNIoNTs F.I.ECTED.........-. 214CHAPTER XVIII.—INITIATIoN. SL’RLIME ICXIOHT5 ELECrED.. 215Called Also Sublime Knights Elected of the Twelve.Obligation. Sublime Knights Eiected................. 21?Sign. Sublime Knights Elected.... ................. 218First Token. Sublime Knights Eiected................ 218Second Token. Sublime Knights Eiected ~ 219CONTENTS. 18Signification of the Word Emeth. Note 99221The Heart of Hiram AblE. Note 100................ 222The Scales, Key and Heart..........................lecture, Subilme Knights Eieced....................228224Names of Tweive Illustrious Knights Corrupted.Note 101 ..............................~...... 226“No#phej. The Name of One of the Twelve 1a4,ect’-ors.” Note 102................................Ark of Alliance and Seven Branched Candisetick......226229“Its Seven Branches Are Erpialned in the IneBableDegrees.” Note 108........................... 229“The Symbolism of the Veils.” Note 104............ 229The Two Cherubims That Overtopped the Merry Seag.CLOSING CEREMONIEs, SUSUMU KNIGHTS ELECTED........... 283“The Grand Characteristic of Masonry Is Its Tolera.tion.” Note 106..............................HISTORICAL ANeLTsIs. Sumaxa KNIGHTS EI.ECTED..........288284The preariest of All Dreary Nonsense...............Maniacal Countenance of Pulse Worshipers...........284285Admits the Strong Man Armed......................CHAPTER XIX.—TWELN’rH DEGREE, an GRAND MASTER AaCHI’236“It Is Purely a Scientific Degree.” Note 1O?..........Decorations. Titles. Jewel. Apron, Etc................28?238GIggING CEREMONIES. GRMID MearuE ARCHITECT...........This Is Strictly a Scientific Degree.” Note lOS......289289CHAPTER ~.—IxxTLaTIoN, GaMIn MASTER ARCHITECT...... 241Obligation. Grand Master Archltqct..................Sign. Grand Master Architect.......................244248Token. Pass Word and Sacred Word.................. 246Rab.bcgcim, “the Chief of the Architecta.” Note 109.. 24~Paralisi Ruler. Tracing Dividers and Scale of Parts.... 24?Sector. Protractor and North Star.................. 2%SFreemasons Symbolize the Tempig of Solomon. Note 110. 280CLOsiNG (‘EREMONIES, GRAND MASTER ARCRITEc’r............ 251HIsToRIcAL ANALYsIs. GRAND MAS’t~a ARCItITEC’r............ 252Masonic Tom’fooiery and Sham...................... 252Imposition of Preten&d Scientific Instruction......... 252Object in Falsifying History........................ 254CHAPTER XXi.—THIR’rnuxTH, OR ROYAL ARCH DEGREE..,...“The Mysteries Connected With the Royal Arch.”255Decorations and Tities of Officers....................“Zabulon, the Greek Vorm of Zebulon.” Note 112.....256256OPENING CEIWMONIZS. ROYAL Aacn DEOREE................ 358Origin of the Degree. Note 113....................“Enoch Feared the Genuine Secrets Would Be Lost.”288

14 CoNTm~TS.Opening Prayer. Royal Arch Degree. ......... 250CHAPTER XXII.—INmATIo?I. ROYAL ARCH Daom........ 261The Degree lnvented by Ramasy. Note i15.......... 261Enoch “Fabled to Have Built a Subterranean Temple.”Note 116..................................... 268Cublcai Stonp. the Perfect Ashier of English Masonry.Note 177 ~ 265Obiigation. Royal Arch Degree ~ 266Signs of AdmIration and Adoration. Royal Arch Degree; 26?Token. Royal Arch Degree ..... ............ 26?Discourse, by Grand Orator ~ 269Traditions of Freemasonry Connect Enoch With ItsHistory. Note 118 ...~......................... 268The Masonic Legend About Enoch. Note 110....... 268Methuselah Connected With Enoch’s Underground Tem’Pie. Note 120................................ 269Door to Enoch’s Nine Subterranean Arches Note 121.. 269Mystic Meaning of EnQch’s Age. Note 122 ~ 270“Enoch Himself Is But a Symbol of Initiation”Note 12.................. 270Enoch’s Merbie and Brass Plilars. Note 124 ~ 270Noah “Called a Patron of Masonry.” Note 12~....... 271Masonic Legend of the Secret Vault. Note 126........ 274The Pass Word JUG “a Significant Word.” Note 127.. 250History of the Pass Word 8hibboletla. Note 12S..~.. 291The Lost Masonic “Wono.” Note 120............... 292“Death Is but the Beginning of Life.” Note 130...... 288Enoch’s Sacred Treasure Discovered by a Freemason.“The Great Object of Pursuit in Masonry.” Note 132.. 284CLOSING CEREMONIER. ROYAL Ancu DEGEEE.................Masonic PossessIon of Tempie-Veii. Rent at the Croci’285hzion. Note 133..Q......................~ 285HISroasC ANALYSIs, ROY~LL ARCH DEGEEE.................. 2S?False History and False ~ 287Acknowiedged Fabrications. Yet Subiime.............. 288Infamous Scheme for Lucre and Ambition............ 289Writing Latin Before It Ezisted.................... 290CHAPTER XXIII.—FoURTEENTE DEGREE, OR GRAND ELECT.PEILFEC’r AND SUBLIME MAso?~.................. 291History of the Degree. Decorations. Etc. Note 134.... 291Secred Vaults. Note 135........................... 291To Die and to Be Initiated Synonymous T•tm~.Note 136...................................., 392“Seeing the Crime and Cdmiuai Punished.” note 187’ 294GGZco4, “Keeper of the Seals.” Note 180............ 394“A bdumoa, the Name of the Orator.” Note 180.,..... 304O5’UNNG CEBEMONIEs,. Gwen ELECT, P5m110 Alto •IJULIMRCONT~TS. 15Page.OpenIng Prayer................................... 29?Opening Ode...................................... 299The Rite of Perfection. Note 140................... 299This Degree the Last of the Inefabie Degrees. Note 141, 801Sign of Obligation. Grand Elect. Perfect and SublimeMason ...................................... 802Sign of Fire. Grand Elect. Perfect and Sublime Mason.. 802Sign of Admiration. Grand Kiect. Perfect and SublimeMason ..................‘.................... 203Use of the Word “Valley” in Masonry. Note 142.. 803CHAPTER XXIV.—INnIATION, GRAND ELC’r, PERFECT MIDSun-MAsoN .................................. 804Called Ineffable Because of Hebrew Names of Deity.The Delta “a Symbol of Fire and Also of God.”InitIatory Prayer.................................. 315Obligation. Grand Elect. Perfect and SublIme Mason.. 816Sign of Obligation. Grand Elect. rerfect and SuLlimeMason ‘‘‘‘‘.‘‘‘‘‘‘‘.‘.....‘.................. 221Sign of Fire. Second Token and Answer............. 822Sign of Admiration and Third ~ 828“The Girdle Is Still Used in Many Chivalric Initia.Symbolism of Colors. Note I46.................~ 825Bius “Emphatically the Coior of Masonry.” Note 147. 825Red ‘a Symbol of Zeal and Fervency.” Note 149...... 325Symboilem of Yeiiow. Note ~ 825Green the Symbol of Immortality. Note 150..........Purple “an Emblem of Exalted Office.” Note 151......320826Whito “the Symbol of Purity and Innocence.” Note 152. 826Black “Adopted As the Garment of MournIng.” Note’ 153. 326Discourse by Grand ~ 327The Apostacy of Solomon. Note 154 ~Lecture. Grand Riect. Perfect and Sublime Mason......332887“The RelIgion of Masonry is Not Sectarian.” Note 155. 83?“By This Means He Was Detected As an Enemy.”Note 156 ~“Macbrace Means in Gmiic the Blessed Son.” NotE 157. 840Perignen. the Discoverer of Assassins. Note 159...... 844Fifth Sign and Answer. Grand Elect. Perfect and Sub.Eighth and Ninth Signs and Token of Circumspection.. 251“Gabao,., “a Significant Word in the High Degree,.”“Zedekiab. a Personage in Some of the High Degrees.”

16 OONTE~Cyrus. “ths Shepherd of the Lord.” Note 161 ........ 57Oath of Allegiance. Grand ZIect~ Perfsct and SublimeCLOSING CsasxoNIEs. OSSUD ULUCT, PERIECT AND SUBLIME286Closing Prayer ..................‘......‘.‘........LoOGS ow PERFECTIoN, UTANUTES MID REGULATION5..,........ 863AceMe..; Field of Blood. Note 163................ —EzsTomIcaI. ANALYSIS. 05Mm ElacT, Psasner MID Sets-LIME MASON ................~................ S?6Lodge DIssolved by the Lutheran Reformatlon........ 8?6Titles lit for the Dialect of a Madhouss.............. 2??TravestieS. Christian OrdInanceS.................... ITS‘lbs Catacombs of a New Woeship....,............. 876Infidelity Its Mother. Rebellion Its Cradle............ amConjuring and Legerdetasin.... ‘.“‘......Satan Filia Their Hearts With Lies................allanCHAPTER XKV.~FI,TU3NtH DEGREE. OR KNIGHTS 01 THEEAST OR Swoso................................ 863Origin and Object of the Degree. Note 168.......... fluTitles. First Apartent............................ 884GERNING CEREMONIES, KNIGHTS 01 THE EAST OR Swoan..... usNames of Officers. Decorations. ac. Note 164........ 886CHAPTER XXVI.—INITIATION, KNIGHTS 01SWORD ......‘.“““““““““““““““‘THU EAST OR856Commemorates “the Constr~~ctlon of the Second Temple.”Note 165””’.?.....”’”””””””’”””’ 283Serubbabel and His Mission. Note 166.............. 883“Armed ?.000 Masons and Placed Them in the Van.”‘Nebuchadneasar and His Conquest of inden. Note 168. aoiRestoration of the Jews by King Cyrus. Note 169.... 891Prayer. Knights of the East or Sword................ 893King Cyrus “the Hero of the East.” Note 170 ‘.......892Uerubbabei’s Masonic Career Legendary. Note 1?1.... seaSerubbabers Difficulties in Rebuilding the Tempie.Obilgation. Knight of the East or Sword............ 401Sign. Knights of the East or Swori.................. 406Token, Knights of the East or Sword................ 404Address. by Crand Orator.............’.”’.”””” 406coMmiTs 11Jewish Captives “Bound by Trleugnlaz’ Chains.”Note 178 ~ 407Cyrus “Mentioned by the Prohet Isaiah.” Note 1U.. 406Esrubbabel’s Battie With the Aesyrians. Note 175.... 406eOSING CEREMONIES, KNIGHTS 01 THE EAST OR Swoan...... 411IETORIcAE ANALYsIS, KNIGHTS 01 THE EAST on lwm..... 418A fewleb Degree.................................. 413Delieve a Lie That They Au Might Do Damnsd........ 414CHAPTER XXVII.-.4IZTSENTH DEGREE, 05 Psiscus ow Janu-This Dsree a Centimuatlon of the Previous One.Princes of Jerusalem “Itylsi Chiefs of Masoasy.”Note 1l7..................................... 41701.3130 CEREMONIES. PRINCES 01 JEEUUaZuIi.............. 413Officers’ Titles, Jewel sad Lodge Room Decorations.Note 1?8..................................... 418C~A?TER XZVIII.—INITIATIoU, PRINCES 01 JERUSALEM.... 430Inventor of ThIs Degree. Its Legend Ire. Jeesphus.The lemaritans. the Adversaries of the Jews. Note 160. 421Decree of King Cyrus.............................. 424Triumphal Chorus................................. 436King Cyrus and the Prophets Hsgai and Sechariab.Obligation. Princes of Jerusaiem..................... 430Ulgn. Princes of Jerusaiem......................... 480hnswsr to Sign and Token. Prices of Jerusalem..... 481Lecture. Princes of Jerusaie~....................... 488CeOSING CEREMONIES, PRINCES 01 JEaL’5ALEM............... 486UISTOEICAI. ANAI.YsIs. PRINcES ‘01 JEUrSALEM.............. 48?Christ Ruminated From the Degree.........,........ 487151*. Worship of the Shakers...................... 468“Changing the Giory of the Incorruptible God”........ 429A Devilish Magnetism Prevents Their Escape.......... 440CHAPTER XKIZ.—UEvENTEENTH DEGREE. OR KNIGHTS ow THUEAST MID WEST............................... 441“Dates Back to the Time of the Crusades.” Note 162.. 44101.113. CEREMONIES, KNIGHTS 01 THE EAST ............ 444CHAPTER ZZZ.—INITIATION, KNIGHTS 01 T 3aa~ *53

18 CONTENTS.Psgs.OO~TENTS. 19Page’“Degree Is M”de Coemopoilte in Its Character.”Preparation of Candidate. Knights of the East andIn Center uf Apron “a Lamb en a Book With SevenSeais.’~ Note 188.........’.’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’ 445Sjipture Recitation by Au Puissaqt..............’.’ 44?Obiugation. Knughts of the East and West...~........ 448“The Seal DeRotes That Which Is Secret.” Note 184.. 450Sign. Knights of the East and ~ 453Answer to Sign. Knights of the East and West........ 452First and Second Tokens. Knights of the East andWest .......‘“““““‘‘“‘“‘““““‘““Sign on Entering Conucil. Knights of the East andLectvre. Knights of the East and ~“Still Retains the ApocauyPtic Character of the Degree.”Note 1S5.....’..””””””””””” 454CLOSING CEREMONIES. KNIGHTS 01 THE EAST MID Wage’..... 458HISTORIcAL ANALYSIS. KNIGHTS 01 THS EASY AND WEST..... 459To Burlesque and Degrade Christ........’””””” 459“To Destroy Profane and Unworthy Brethrn”........ 460“Evil Be Thou My Good”.........””””””””’’ 461“Every Lodge Is a Synagogue of Satan”........””” 462CHAPTER XXXi.~3IGETEENYH DEGREE, OR SOVEREIGNPUINCU 01 ROSE CROIX.........”””””’’”’ 468“Sometimes Calied Knight of the Eagle and Pelican.”Obligation. SovereIgn irince of Rose Crolz............ 478Sign of the Good Shepherd. Sovereign Prince of RoseJewel of Degree und Inscription Thereon. Note 104... 477Charge to Candidate. Sovereign Prince of Rose Croix.. 478Sign of Reconcuulation and Answer................... 470SIgn of Help. Sovereign Prince of Rose Croiz........ 470Anewer to Sign of Help and Token.................. 480heason Word Sovereign Is time in Title. Note lAS.... 481PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIs, Sovunmoy PRINCE 01 Rosa CROIX. 482Pretended Scotch Origin of Degree False............. 482To Steal the Popularity of Robert Rruce.............. 488Rose Cross HelL a Masonic Caricature.............. 484Impudent and Detestabie Mlmiery.................. 481The Degree Probably Invented by RamaRy. Note 15?.. 468Lodge Must Meet on Maunday Thursday and EasterSunday. Note ~ 464Aproa. “On the Movable Part a Skull and Cross-bones.”‘Note 1S9...’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’”’’’’’’”’ 465Symbols of Degree: Cross. Rose. Eagle” and Pelican.Note 190........””””””””””””””’ 466oPENI~O CEREMONIEs, SOVEREIGN PRINcE 01 ROSS CRoIX....“Ice Historical Lemons Are Intenseiy Christian.”407Note ~ 467CHAPTER XXXII.—IN1TIATION~ SOvURRION PRINCE 01 ROaRCROIX .......“‘•““““““““““““““ 469Candidate Must Profess High Esteem for the Members.”I

INTRODUCTIONIf all the volcanoes in our globe were Ucippe(l, themwould be no more earthquakes; and millions of menand money would be saved.It is the object of this volume to uncap the moral volcanoesslumbering under every American institution.The Secret Lodge undermines the College, by concealingits rowdyism and sheltering its rebellions :—theCourt House, by its rival oaths ;—the Legislature, bycorrupting and intimidating its members; and theChurch, by its rival, mock sacraments; all of which wiflappear, proved in this volume.A condensed account of this Scottish Rite, which isnow, say all their writers, “The most popular and mostwidely diffused,” (Mackey Encyc.. p. 697), may be thusgiven:—Stone-masons had initiated (i. e., hazed) their apprentices,journeymen and master-masons. At York,England, these three initiations were woven into a“Rite,” (A. D. 926), which overraii England, and is~ow the basis of all Masonic “Rites,” giving them theirnames and spirit.In 1649, Charles I. was beheaded and his queen andson Charles 11. were exiles in France, where there wasthen no centralized lodge power. But Charles II. secretlyjoined both the Papists and the Masons; and by theaid of French Masons, who were Papists, and EnglishFORMATION 01 TIlE FIRST GRAIW LODQE. 21Masons, who were Protestants, he regained his father’sthrone; was pensioned by the French king, who wasthen called “The Eldest Son of the Bomish Church f’reigned disgracefully twenty-five years, and died, gazingon a silver cross held before his eyes by a Romishpriest narped Hud,dleston, in 1685.Three years afterward, (1688) England was revolutionized.James, the brother of Charles, fled from histhrone and people, and took headquarters at the Jesuits’CoLlege of Clermnont, in Paris. This college thenceforwardbecame a factory of higher Masonic degrees, togovern English Lodges and restore James and Poperyto the throne, as Charles II. had been restored before.Meantime Masonry was changed. In 1717; at the Appletreetavern, London, as is well known, four oldlodges formed the first Grand Lodge, dropping Craftmasonry,and “accepting” all who would pay dues,promised to fit them for heaven, “the lodge above.”That is to say ;—they set up a false religion, with a despoticconstitution of government, and salvation by ceremonies;but omitting the Savior and the Holy Ghost.This horrible compound, now falsely called “Masonrtj,”was in operation while the sons of the fugitive, JamesII., were exile pretenders to the English throne; livingby Masonry, and plotting with Jesuits in France.There now appears on the scene the chief manufacturerof Masonry as it now exists, viz.: as “The AncienEand Accepted Scottish Rite” of 33 degrees.This was no other than the Chevalier Ramsay, ofwhom Mackey, the leading Lexicographer, Jurist, andHistorian of the lodge, says:—“No one played a more important part in the historyof Freemasonry in the 18th century, than the Chovalist

22 THE CHEVALIER RAUSAY’S CAREER.Ramsay.” * * * “He was indeed the most learnedman, who, up to that time, had taken any interest in theorder.”Ramsay was a brilliant young Scotch Presbyterian; ofcourse, familia# with the Bible, which he garbled, travestied,and corrupted to manufacture Masonic degrees.lie was the son of a baker; educated in Edinburgh University.He afterward became a companion of kings.priests and pretenders; amassed great wealth, and apostatizedfrom Protestantism to Rome. He was twentyyears old when James II. threw the mace into theThames, and fled to Paris. He went to Holland, andunder a popular enthusiast, Pierre Poiret, plunged intothe tenets of the mystical theology then widely prevailing.In 1710 he lived six months in the family of themystical papist, Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray, withwhom his apostacy to Romanism became complete. Hehad before been, in the words of Rebold, “The instrumentof the Jesuits ;“ framing Masonic degrees, andplotting the restoration of the Stuarts. He became tutorto the two sons of the first Pretender, Charles Edward,and Henry. His~ heart seems to have cleaved tobonnie Scotland. ~Hecalled his first invented degrees‘Scotch. (Ecossais.) He offered fortunes to his relatives,but they spurned him and his money, gained byapostacy;, by the sale of sham dignities, and from thepay of Catholic kings, priests, princes, and pretenders.The success of Charles II. in recovering his father’sthrone ;—his long reign, and the powerful backing ofthe French king, the Pope, and his Jesuits, exaltedtheir hopes .to the highest. Adventurers flocked tothem, and for a time Masonry was the rsge in France,and llamsav was its Head-center. He told the FrenchLIES NO DISPARAGEMENT TO MASONIC MORALITY. 23noblcsse, who despised a Masonry derived from stonemasons—mechanics,that his new degrees were broughtfrom Palestine in the time of the Crusades, by returnedprinces, priests, knights and nobles. And in 1740, asits grand orator, he pronounced a discourse before theGrand Lodge of France; manufacturing history as hewent on; and the falsehood was greedily swallowed.And the marvel is, if anything Masonic can be marvelous,that while this mass of fundamental lying is admittedand recorded by Mackey, Macoy, Folger and theother Masonic authors, they seem to deem falsehoodsno disparagement to pure Masonic “morality” and“truth !“ One has only to glance over their pages to seeall the facts just as here given.When France had been sown with the new degrees,it became necessary to codify and condense. Ramsaydigested a code of six degrees, called the “Ramsey Rite~”which he attempted to foist on the English, butwithout success. The gunpowder plot in 1605, wasbelieved, by the British masses, to have resulted fromthe Romish doctrine that Protcstants have no rightswhich Papists are morally bound to respect, beyondwhat policy dictates. And for three centu~ries Romishpriests (lid not consecrate a burial ground on Ihe soil ofEngland. The Stuarts sunk to rise no more; and Englandwould none of “Stuart Masonry.” But the floodfrom the mouth of the dragon flowed on. (Rev. Th:15.)The Chevalier De Bonneville, in fl54, formed a Chapterof Clermont in the Jesuits’ College of that name,with a Rite of Perfection of twenty-five degrees. ButMasonry is a “troubled sea whose waters cannot res t,but cast up mire and dirt.” After an agitated existenceof four years, this Clermont Chapter was merged in a

24 THE SCOTTISH RITB BUOUGUT TO AMERICA BY A JEW.“Council of Emperors of the East and West,” whichout-bragged all before it. The members called themacives“Sovereign Prince Masons,” “Substitutes Generalof the Royal Art,” and “Grand Superintendents of theGrand and Sovereign Lodge of St. John of Jert~salem,”Three years after this, in 1761, this august bubble, 0?“Council of Emperors,” which itself burst a few yearsafterward, gave Steven Mann, a .Jew, who cared nothingfor his religion, and so was willing to adopt theRamsay “Rite of Perfection,” which Masonically exaltsChrist in some of the degrees; if only, like his ancestor,Judas, he might sell him for silver ;—.this mock “Councilof Emperors” gave to this Jew, power to establishthis Ramsay Rite of Perfection “in every part of theworld.” This Jew came to Charleston, South Carolina,via. San Domingo, and started what is now this “Ancienfand Accepted Scottish Rite ;“ the “leading Rite’ of theworld !“ A detailed account of Morin’s work in Charleston,S. C., is given in the analysis of’ the fourth degree,(which see.)After appointing a Deputy Inspector General forNorth America, completing his American work, and appointingsome other Inspectors for the West Indies,Morin disappears from history. No one knows whenhe died, or where he was buried. Of the flrsj sixteen“Deputy Inspectors General” appointed by Morin, thirteenwere Jews. (See Folger’s History, p. 38.) Fromthe advent of Morn in 1762, there is a gap of someyears in which Masonic history is silent or confused.The struggle for American independence was then beginning,and the long war which established it, tookplace in that period; and all Masonic writers agree thatthe twehty-flve degrees brought over by Mann were re-THIS JEW BRANDED AM AUDACIOUS JUGGLER. 25arranged; eight other degrees added; and, in 1801, 7’AaAncient and Accepted Scottish Rite was formed, as it.now stands; consisting of 33 degrees; and the first “SupremeCouncil was opened in Charleston, S. C., byJohn Mitchell and Frederick Dalcho in 1801 ;“ whichsystem now leads all others. Next year, 1802, this Ritetravelled back to Europe. And, though an Americaninvention, and though its founder, Morin, had only receivedpower to confer the 25 degrees, which were theold Ramsay, Jesuit Rite of Perfection; and though hewas branded as an “audacious juggler,” and himselfhad been recalled, and his patent taken away and givento “Bro. Martin,” in 1766, by the power that gave it ;—‘Folger, p. 88, Documents, still Monin went on constitutingChapters and Councils all the same. In 1783~seventeen years after his recall, and his patent had beenannulled, he erected in Charleston “The Grand Lodgeof Perfection.” And Ragon says:“The Prince Masons in Charleston, who were at firstall Jews, not satisfied with the Rite of Perfection, consistingof 25 degrees, in 1801, added eight degrees more,making in all 33 degrees; and constituted themselves“The Supreme Scot tisl& Council of America and theFrench Possessions.” John Mitchell and FrederickDaicho were the only members of the first SupremeCouncil in Charleston who were not Jews. These factsare given by Folger, pp. 41-i: attested also by Ragon,Thory and Clavel; see Mackey’s Encyclopcedia, Art.Mortn.But what was to be done? “The Council of Emperors,”which commissioned Morin, was extinct, and hiaPatent annulled by The Grand Lodge of France, andhe had never had even any MasQnic authority to invent

26 fl3~3(ASONflY THE CHILD OF JE5UITISX.degrees and create a Council. This is what they di&.They forged or found some constitutions, which theysaid were given by Frederick the Great, of Prussia,dated in 1786, the year of Frederick’s death at 74 yearsof age; and he had long been incapable of business! andon these spurious constitutions, which K.Ioss in his historypronounces “The grand lie of the Order;” theseinfidel Jews, with Mitchell and Dalcho, who were notJews, founded “The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite,which now owns the temples and rules Freemasonry inAmerica and Europe. (See Kioss, p. 409, quoted byFolger, p. 60, Documents.)Thus we have given from Masonic authorities, a fulllengthmoral portrait of the present leading system ofMasonry in the United States and Europe. And theFreemasonry of today is a child of Jesuitism, born inFrance, when France was so saturated with Lodgism thateven the true-hearted Lafayette was drawn into it. Hisapron is now shown as a relic in the house of Washingtonat Mt. Vernon. And Lamartine tells us in the Revolutionof 1789-92, that the Freemason lodges were“The Catacombs of a New Worship.”—The GirondiStLvol. 1, p. 188. We ~shalInow give a Historic Sketch ofthis reigning rite, and see what that “new worship”was.CHAPTER 1HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE ANCIENT AWD ACCEPTEDSCOTTISH RITE.Attaupta Universal Dominion—Importance of the Scottish Rite—Born Inthe City ~t NuWflcation and Rebellion—The Traitor and Mason AaronBurr—Masonic, Conspiracy to Disrupt the Union—General Jackson ‘aFreemasonry—Patriotism Vi. MAsonic Obllgationa—Destroying The SupremeCouncil’s Records—AbomInatIons and Demon wonhip.This Rite is now in the ascendant throughout the Masonicworld. It consists of thirty-three degrees, countingthe three old York Rite Degrees: Entered Appren-Lice; Fellow Craft, and Master Mason; which three degreesare the basis of all thE Masonic Rites.This 33~ degree rite Th one of the latest among manyattempts to construct a chain of degrees to bind together,tax, and govern the lodges of the world. The CoventGarden Grand Lodge, formed at the Appletree Tavern,London, in 1717, was such an attempt. Four decayedlodges of working Masons, accustomed to initiate theirapprentices, journeymen, and masters in a night’s drinkingcarousal, met at that tavern in February, and on the24th of June, following, formed the first Grand Lodge,and assumed (usurped) power to charter, tax, and govemthe Masons of the world, by declaring“irregular,” alllodges not chartered by themselves. And, as they couldwithdraw such charters as were given by themselves, andso destroy or cast out of Nfasonry~ll lodges so chartered,their despotism was complete, over all those who were

28 IMPOETAHCE OF THE SCOTTISH RITE.chartered by them.This usurpation and imposition was successful. Intwenty-one years Freemasonry had spread into France,Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, the United States, Saiony,Belgium, flolland, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Asia,Africa and New Holland; and a few years later it hadspread throughout Christendom.The success of this swindle encouraged others. As asmall specimen of such enterprises a few years since,two adventurers invented, and were selling, a new sidedegree to Masons in Peoria, Illinois, when one of themstole the money and ran off. The other applied to alawyer, saying mournfully.—”[f the fellow hadn’t beena fool, we were making money so fast, that m a short-time his half would have been more than all he hasstolen.”By such swindling adventurers, “degrees” increasedso rapidly that Rebold says there were several thousandat one time practiced in France. As soon as the increaseof degrees and dues have tempted ambition and greed,attempts have been made to grasp universal lodge dominion.This was attempted by Weishaupt in 1777; byFrederick II., or others in his name, in Berlin in 1786;by the Grand Orient; and, indeed, by every considerableMasonic body, attempts hate been made to seize “thekingdoms of the world and the glory of them,” whichwere proffered by Satan to Christ, as the inducements todevil worship.Such an attempt to seize universal dominio~i, is thisAncient and Accepted Scotti.sh Rite of 33 degrees, ofwhich E. JuniuB Edwards, Commander in chief of theGrand Consistory of Minnesota, says: Nov. 12, 1885:—4’AIl the Supreme Councils of the world have finallyBORN IN CITY OF NULLIFICATION AND REBELLION. 29adopted this schedule.” Hence the importance ofj thisvolume.Macoy’s Encyclopedia says of this rite :—“The Ancientand Accepted Scottish Rite was, for the most part,elaborate4 from the system invented by Ramsay.”In the Historical Analysis of the fourth and fifth degrees,pages 59-68, and 89-92 of this volume, will befound quotations from Mackey, Macoy, Rebold, Folger,and Morris, whose authority as Masonic writers is unquestioned,in ample proof of the fact that this ScottishRite had its origin in the brains and breasts of an apostatePresbyterian, renegade tyrants, Jews who retainednothing of Judaism but its hatred of Christ, associatedwith Jesuits, conspiring against the liberties of Europe,and for the overthrow of the Government of France!And its first home in this country was the city of Nullification,Secession, and Rebellion; in Charleston, SouthCarolina, in 1801, where thirteen Jews and three Protestants:Mitchell, Dalcho and Provost, who had receivedit from France, falsely pretended to found it on constitutionsgiven by Frederick the Great. If Satan hadpicked the time, the inventors, and home of this Ritehe would have doubtless chosen the same. Frenchprinciples prevailed; Jefferson was first inaugurated,having defeated John Adams -in 1801, the year whenthe Charleston Council was born. Aaron Burr, whocame near defeating Jefferson, was plotting to dividethe infant Union, raising troops, in the Southwest, andboth Barmzrd and Gassett say, he used the Royal ArchCypher to cover his treason, for which Jefferson afterwardstried him. Morin’s Jews, with Mitchell and Dalcho,that same year (1801,) took Ramsay’s and his Jesuits’Rite of Perfection; added eight degrees; made it

30 THE TRAITOR AND MASON AADO~ BUll.“The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite,” and sent Itback to France, where the survivors of The Reign ofTerror received it, and today it rules European Masonry.“As early as 1796, while John Jay was Gpvernor,Colonel Burr had various conversations with him on thesubject of these (Mexican) provinces. Col. Burr saidhe could revolutionize and take possession of SouthAmerica.”“Burr was actively engaged during the years 1005-6in traversing the western country.”“Previous to the cession of Louisiana Baron Bastropcontracted with the Spanish Government for land nearNatchitoches, exceeding thirty miles square.”“The Spanish Government granted to Bastrop onemillion two hundred tho~isand acres. Col. Lynch. paidBastrop about one hundred thousand dollars for sixtenthsof it; and Burr paid Lynch fifty thousand dollarsfor half of his (Lynch’s) purchase.”“Gen. Wilkinson detailed to Burr the facilities whichwould probably be afforded by the inhabitants in effectinga revolution.” ~Burr writes to l 1is daughter, Aug. 1805, “1 have DOW150 miles of wildernesS to encounter.”“Col. Burr was arrested as a traitor on the Tom BigbeeRiver, Mississippi Territory.”The above excerpts are taken from “Memow’S ofAaron Burr, by his friend, M. L. Davis, promisCuouslYpages 874 to 888, vol. II, and they prove’1. That Burr’s object in raising troops with Blenne?-hassett was the disruption of the Union, and a slave empiresouth and west of the Mississippi, to include Mexicoand Central America, then belonging to Spain. ForMASONIC CONSPIRACY TO DTDOY THE UNION. 31this he was tried for his lire, but acquitted for want of~verttreasonable acts. Before his trial, we read in theMemoirs, page 888: “a letter was delivered by Swartwoutto General Wilkinson, written in cypher.” Barnardand Gassett say it was in Royal Arch Cypher.And as Burr had been on the staff of Benedict Arnold,a Mason and a traitor, these facts furnish probable proofthat Burr’s conspiracy was a Masonic conspiracy.But the crowning proof is this:—By universal Masonic law, but one supreme body canbe in one nation. But the Charleston Supreme Councilmade the United States the sole exception. In 1813,twelve years from its origin, it created a Supreme Council,Northern Jurisdiction, located at New York, limitedto the States north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi;the very division contemplated by Burr, andafterward attempted by the Jeff. Davis and AlexanderH. Stevens’ Confederacy, by repealing the MissouriCompromise, and, in Stephens’ words, attempting an“Empire whose corner stone is slavery.” But for Jefferson’spatriotism and Jackson’s courage and decision,the attempt would have been made years before byCalhoun’s Nullification. Indeed, the hopes and predictionsof Monarchists, Papists and Anarchists of Europe,from the first, were that the United States wouldspliton the Ohio and Mississippi; shut off New Englandand her principles between the Atlantic,, St. Lawrence,Mississippi and Ohio, and leave the whole vast Southand West; its soil, climate and mines, to slavery, thelodge, the priest and the mob.Now considering that the (Tharleston Supreme CouncilMasonically divided our Union in 1813, by thesewry lines :—Conaidering that Aaron Burr,using the Ma..

88 omulAL JACKSON’S PUERMASONET.sonic cypher, was attempting precisely the same rendingof the Union at ~hesame time ;—considering that afterwardsour Union was rent by the lodge-room conspiracies~f the South ;—considering that our Congressupheld slavery, ~ti1lLincoln took the helm, and 8eward,Sumner, Wilson, Stevens, Stanton and Chase, allof whom were Antimasons, controlled Congress;—and considering that our war was a failure, till (kanetook the word, who left his dying testimony againstthe Lodge ;—and, above all, considering that the Ecclesiasticaldespot and master of Jeuits at Rome was theonly European power which reached his arm across theAtlantic to recognize the Rebellion and rend the Union;—and laying all these considerations together,that mindmust be weak, ignorant or worse, which does not see, inthat Charleston Supreme Council of 1801, and its Ancientand Accepted Scottish Rite, a devil’s governmentwith a devil’s gospel; and in the subterranean lodgessprang from it, in the strong words of Lamartine, the“Catac9mbs of a new worship,” which worship was thatof snaked woman, a Goddess of Reason in the Champ doMars ;—a religion which Frenchmen shudder to remember;which filled France with terror, and bathed it inblood.But was not Gen. Jackson a Mason? And were notall liis cabinet honorary members of Federal Lodge inthe City of Washington? An.. This is all true. ButJackson firmly believed in Christ, to whom he humblyprofessed conversion before he died; and he was a firmbeliever in the Union. And though ignorant in manyrespects, he was fearless and faithful to the Government,and regretted that he had not hung John C. Calhounfor attempting its dissolution. While Liv~ngstoa,PATRIOTISM us. MASONIC OBLIGATIONS. 33his Secretary of State, was a champion of the lodge andPoinsett, by introducing a new Rite into Mexico,caused a series of bloody revolutions in that unhappycountry.Of the Masons in the United States, it has been estimatedthat only oile in five habitually attend lodgemeetings, and the lodges are mainly supported by thefour-fifths who are non-attendants, who pay dues toavoid lodge-vengeance. As a rule, the one-fifth who attoDdthe meetings share the income among themselves,while the absentees pay it.There are, however, exceptions. A physician hadcharge of our Post Hospital near Little Rock, Arkansas.An orderly had‘arrested a rebel who had murdered hisUnion neighbor, robbing him of $2,000. The physicianwas a high Mason, and one day the Rebel robber andmurderer called on the doctor for a private interview,on the square, when the following dialogue took place:Rebel. “Doctor, I am complicated inthis murdercase,and am arrested by the orderly. Can you help meDoctor. “Well, did you kill him ?“Rebel. “Yes.”Doctor. “Well, did you get the two thousand dollam?“Rebel. “Yes.”Doctor. “Well, what do you expect of meRebel. “That you will aid in extricating me accordingto our obligations as Masons.Doctor. “You infamous puppy, you. If you expectme to make such a use of my Masonry, for once, youhave mistaken your man. I will endeavor to be up toLittle Rock atyour hearing, and have a word to say.”The orderly took the Rebel up to Little Rock, and

84 DESTROYING THE SUPREME COUNCIL’S RECORDS.Masonic Union officers cleared him!The Rebel was a true Mason. The Surgeon was apatriot. Like instances to this are at hand, which wouldfill a moderate volume. There were Masons and RomanCatholics who~ were good men and patriots; as therewere, in the New Testament, pagan centurions who receivedChrist. But neither the lodge or the confessionalis Chriutiaqi or American.We have seen from its history, given by its own authors,that this “Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite,”is not “ancient,” but modern; not “accepted,” but invented;not “Scottish,” but French; and so one continuousfalsehood. But its most revolting features are yetto be drawn.Destroying records is confessing crime. Its writerscomplain that the early English lodge records were destroyed;doubtless lest their secret proceedings shouldbe brought into the courts. But the Charleston SupremeCouncil destroyed its proceedings, for more than half acentury. From 1801 to 1860 no records exist.In his address before his Council in 1878, Albert Pikesaid: “I am often asI~ed why we do not publish our oldtransactions? to ~whichI am compelled to reply,that we have none to publish. We have no records ofthe transactions at Charleston from 1801 to 1860. Whatminutes we had were destroyedduring thewar.”The above is taken from the speech of Edwards, commanderin chief of the Minnesota Grand Consistory,Nov. 12, 1885.Those records covered the period of Nullilcation andthe rise of the Rebellion, and were doubtless ghastlywith treason, with attempts to burn down northern cities,ABOMINATIONS AND DEMON WOIlSilIp.3582nd poison inhabitants; for such things were attempted.But the records of the Northern Council were preserved,and its Historian, Folger, says: “It is to be regrettedthat from its very commencement its progressin this co~intry has been marked with bitter contentionsand constant quarrels.” Folger.. p. 15. These quarrelshave most of them arisen between the old York Rite,of three degrees, and the French Jesuit degrees, whichhave finally conquered and swallowe4 the less viciousBlue Lodge, which was first opened in this country inBoston in 1833.In New England the whole secret lodge was lookedon with loathing and abhorrence. The grandfather ofDr. Richard’ Storrs, of Braintree, Mass., and Dr. Willistonof East Haven, had a saying, “a Freemason is handin-handwith the devil.” Dr. Hopkins, of Newport, R. I.,in Dr. E. A. Parks’ Memoir of Emmons, says, “the lodgebelongs to the Kiiigdom of Satan.” Later, the wholeAndover Faculty, Woods, Stuart and Emerson, denouncedit in unmeasured terms. The ground idea ofCongregationalism, .since Bradahaw, rejects as “unlawful”all rites not enjoined by the word of God, whichincludes lodges, which are “inventions of men ;“ and afull half million of Christians in other depominationsregard secret lodges as Synagogues of Satan to be disfellowshippedby the children of God. A carefulreading of the analysis of the degrees of this Rite willconvince all candid minds, that they are the “abominations”and demon-worship of the Scriptures which preventthe coming of Christ.

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38 THE TEMPLE. THE TEMPLE. 3910th11th12th13th14th“ Illustrious Elect of the Fifteen.“ Sublime Knights Elect of the Twelve.“ Grand Master Architect.Knights of the Ninth Arch or RoyalArch of Solomon.“ Grand Elect, Perfect and SublimeMason.THE TEBiPLE.’Every Lodge of the Scotch Rite is divided into twoportions by means of a Ballustrade, or railing, runningNorth and South. This railing has a gate. The flooringof the East end of the Lodge inside of the railingand gate is elevated one or two feet above that of theWest.The walls are adorned by a representation of twelve(12) columns.At the door of the lodge is a brazen layer. Thereare elevated seats and desks for each of the followingOfficers:EAST. ~ I WEST.MASTER.1st AssIsTA~.O1U~TOR J 2nd ASSISTANT.SECRETARY.TREAsUREREXPERT.MASTER OF CEREMONIESRot. 3.—”The Frecmnasana have, at all e,enta. aelmed with ayidl~the idea of representing In their symboUc language the Interior andspiritual man by a material temple. They have the doctrine of the greatApostle of the Gentiles, who has said. ‘Kaow p are the temple at Gad.and that the s~lrit of God dwelleth in you. The great hody of theMasonic Craft. Ioakln~ only to this first Temple erected by the wisdomof King flolaman. ma e It the symbol of Ufe; sad as the great ab~etof Masonry is the kaich after trath. they are directed to build up istemple as a fitting receptecle for truth when found, a place where itmay dwell. Just as the ancient Jews built up their great Temple as adwelling-place far Him w~o Is the author of all truth.’ ‘—Xackw”a Ro.eyeisp.disef lreemasonly. Article Temple, Symbolism .1 theWhich corresponds with the Sun, Moon,, Earth andfive visible planets, viz:Master ..........................Sun.Orator ..........................Egrth.Sectetary ........................Venus.Master of Ceremonies.............. Moon.Expert ..........................Mars.Sad Assistant ....................Jupiter.lad AssistantSaturn.In the East or North side under a curtained canopythe Ark.In front of the Ark on the North Side, the Tweli’ekeyes, Altar of Perfume and Vase of Ointment.In the South Side, opposite the Ark, the sevenbranchedcandlestick.

SECRET MASTER’S DEGREE. 41CHAPTER IIIFOURTH OR SECRET MASTER’S’ DEGREE.This grade originated with King Solomon, about thetime the Temple was completed, or shortly after. Heselected seven of the most worthy and expert brethrenfrom the Craft, and appointed them Guards of theSanctum Sanctorum, and the sacred furniture of theHoly Place. They were called Secret Masters, and in duetime were advanced to higher grades, and others selectedto fill their places.The ritual is replete with valuable and interestingdetails relative to the Mystic meaning of the sacredfurniture and ornameilts of the Sanctum Sanctorum.The ceremonies of initiation are solemn and impressiveand it forms a beautiful introductory to the IneffableSeries.This lodge’ must be hung in black and strewed withMete 3.—”’he fourth degree In the Ancient and Accepted ScottishRite, and the first of what are called the ‘ineffable Degrees.’ It referste these circumstances which occurred at the Temple when Solomon reneiredto the building for the purpose of supplying the less of Its lilus.triosa builder hy the appointment of se,en capers, among whom werete be divided the labors which heretefore had been lutruated in onetic mind. The lecture elaborately explains the mystic meaning ofKgsn a sacred thinr which were conteined In the Sanctum Sanctorum. orBoil... —Machey’s Eneyclopadia of lrespiasen,y, Article bersI~tMete 4.—”The Lodge is hung with black curtains strewed with tea,..lIc of ~ef. There should be eighty’one lights. distrtbuted by nine~o aim’ but this number is often dIspensed with, and three timestheee esbatituted. later rituals reduce them te eight.‘Ree are but two presiding officers—a Master, styled Puissant.’ sadfin King Solomes. sad an ins~r. representIng Adonirsm~ the~atAhds, who had the inspection of the wor~en on Mount Lebanom,ad whf is mid to have hsen the first Secret Master.”—Maeksy’s-at ?vsemsseasy, Article Secret Master.white tears, the Master represents Solomon and isstyled “Most Powerful” who comes to the Templeto replace the loss of Hiram Abif, by seven experts.There is only one Warden, who is called Adoniram; itwas him who had the inspection of the workmanshipat Mount Lebanon; be was the first Secret Master.FORM 01 THE LODGE.Solomon6 holds a scepter in his hand, is clothed inmourning robes lined with ermine and sits in the Eastbefore a Triangular Altar, on which is a Crown of Laurelsand Olive leaves. Adoniram, the inspector is placedin the West; no aprons are used because the work is suspendedin consequence of the death of Hiram Abiff.ORDER AND JEWELS.Solomon is decorated with a large blue watered ribbonfrom the right shoulder to the left hip to which is suspendeda gold triangle.Adoniram is clothed in black robe and cap and isdecorated with a broad white ribbon bordered withblack round his neck in a triangular form having anIvory Key hanging thereto with the letter (Z) cut onit.All the brethren should wear the same with whiteaprons’ and gloves, the strings of the aprons black, theNote 5.—”soiomon is seated in the east, clothed in mourning robeslined aith ermine, holding a sceptre In his hand, and decorated wIth ablue sash from the right shoulder to the left hip, from which Is suspend.ed a triangle of gold. Detore him is placed a trianqular_sitar, on whichis depceited a wresth of laurel and olive ies,es.’ —— ye Recycle.padle of Presmssonq, Article Secret Master.Note 6.—”Adonlram. called ‘venerable Inspector.’ is sested in thewest, but without any implement of office. in commemoration of the factthat the works were suspended at the time of the institution of this do.gree. He Is decorated with a traingular white coflar. bordered withlack from which Is suspended sn ivnr: key, with ‘the letter Z engravedthereon, which constitute the collar, and ~ewei of the degree. Thesedecorations are worn by all the brethren. —Machey’s Racyolopadla oflweemascnq. Article Secret Master.Mete 7.—”The apron is white, edged with black and with blackstrings; the flap blue, with an open eye thereon embroidered in gold.The modern ritual prescribes that two branches of olive and laurelcrossing ench other shall be on the middle of the apron.”—Macksy’aZacyclopadla of Fzesuasseinry, Article Secret Master.

42 SECRET ~ASTE~’~ DEGREE.flaps blue, with an eye painted thereon in gold. Thewhite signifies the innocence of the masters, and theblack mourning for their chief. The lodge should beilluminated by eighty-one candles, distributed as perplate.Batter1~ ~ ...—S~mbo1ic Age.—THREE TIMES 27—81 years—Houra of Work—F OX DAWN UNTILCLOSE OF DAY—MOftLZ””’THE DUTY 01 SECRECY ANDSILENCE.OPENING CEREMONIESSolomon—Brother Adoniram,5 are you a Secret Maeter?Adoniram-’--Most Powerful, I have passed from theSquare to the Compass, I have seen the tomb of ourRcspcctable Master Hiram Abiff, and have in companywith my brethren sl~ed tears thereat.Solomon—What’s the clock my brother PAdoniram—The dawn of day has driven away darkness,and the light begins to shine in this lodge.Solomon—If the light has driven away darkness, andwc are all Secret Masters, it is time to begin work;givc notice that I am going to open this lodge of SecretMasters.Adoniram—Brethren, you will please take noticethat the Most Powerful is about to open this lodge ofSecret Masters.Solomon—(Seven raps: 000-000-0; allrise.)Adoniraln—(Seven raps: 000-000-0.)All—(clap hands seven times 000-000-0.)Solomon—Together Brethren.SIGN OF SILENCE.All put the two first fingers of the righthand on the lips.Solomon—Illustrious Brethren, thislodge is open and devoted lo God.Solomon—(One rap.) Brethren willplease be seated.Note S.—”In Scotch Masonry. Adoniram II introduced in the degreesSign of Siloncc.of Secret Master. Provost end Judge, intendant of the Building andothers, as one of the most praminent j~ersons~es In the Tample.”—Morris’ Monitor of Jreemsscnzy, Article oniram.

SECRET MASTER’S DEGREE. 45CHAPTER IVFOURTH OR SECRET MASTER’S DEGREE.PRErARATIONIN[TIATION.OF CANDIDATE.The candidate is prepared as a MasterMason with an apron tied over hiseyes, and a square on his forehead.Ifaster of Ceremonies then leads himto the door of the lodge and knocksseven times: 000-000-0.Adoiiira rn—Thrice Powerful, I hearthe Master’s knock at the door of ourSanctuary.Solornon—B~rother Ad’oniram, attendI~andidaie.~ to this call and see who makes it.Adonirarn—(Opens the door,) Who knocks at the doorof our Sanctuary?.llaster of Ceremonies—One who knows where theAcacia grows and would help us gather its fruit.Adonii’am—(To Solomon) Most Powerful, one whoknows where the Acacia grows and would help us gatherits fruit.Solomon—Let him be admitted.Adoniram—(To Master of Ceremonies) Let him beadmitted.Master of Ceremonies with candidate enters, andconducts him seven times round the lodge, and then tothe Altar.Solomon—While the Lord reigneth, let the peopletremble, he sitteth between the cherubims; let theearth be moved; Praise ye the Lord—praise, 0 ye servantsof the Lord, praise ye the name of the Lord.Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forthforevermore: From the rising of the Sun unto thegoing down of the same, the Lord’s name is to bepraised: The Lord is high above all nations, and hisglory above the Heavens—Praise ye the Lord, praise yethe name of the Lord; praise him, 0 ye servants of theLord, ye that stand in the house of the Lord—in theCourts of the house of our God, praise the Lord for theLord is good—sing praises unto his name for it ispleasant: For the Lord had chosen Jacob unto himself,and Israel for his peculiar treasure: Let thempraise the name of the Lord—for his name alone isexcellent; his glory is above the Earth and Heaven—Thy name, 0 Lord endureth forever, and thy memorialthroughout all generations: Bless the Lord—O, mysoul and all that is within me bless his holy name.Solomon—(Scven raps; 000-000-0—All rise.) BrotherAdoniram I see this Master who seeks the sanctuarybears the square upon his forehead, and thereby givesassurance that reason rules his mind; but he is yetblind though he has learned to labor; shall he beholdthe resplendant name of God?Adonirtzm—Thrice Powerful, if he is willing to pronouncethe oath, which binds us all we consent thathe should be permitted to see the mystic name..

46 SECRET MASTER’S DEGREE.Solomow—My Brother, are you willing to comply withthis requisition?Candidate—i am.Solomon—You will then kneel and contract yourobligation.OBLIGATION SECRET MASTER’S DEGREE.I solemnly promise that I will not reveal the mysteriesof the Secret Masters, and will not unveil the wondersof their Sanctuary to the profane, I further promise toseek to know myself, and to that end will exert mymind and search my heart to discover my duty to myself,to mankind and to God; Amen.Solomon—Together brethren. (All clap seven timesand the candidate is brought to light.)Solomon—(Points to the mystic light.) My brotherbehold the resplendent luminary which now dawns uponour rite. Heretofore the blazing star shone upon us,but its rays were scattered or dispersed; now we havegathered them into a focus—They are now the light ofthe “All Seeing Eye,” the oI~1nipresence of Jehovah,whose mystic name it behooves us to know. That namecan be learned only by him who “knows himself,” andhence the circle which encloses the triangle of duty toself, to others and to God.Adoniw’am—(Knocks) Thrice Powerful, a messengerbrings tidings of the remains of our departed MasterHiram Abiff.Solomon—What tidings?Adoniinm—Agreeable to your order his heart hasbeen embalmed and put with his ashes into an urn ofthe purest gold and the custodians of the precious treasurenow await your orders.INITIATIO)i. 47Solombn—(Seven raps, 000-000-0, all rise) Brethrenlet us go upon an holy pilgrimage; follow me, in mournfulprocession to convey the precious remains of our deceasedMaster into the’ Holy of Holies.Solomon—Brothers Expert and Master of Ceremoniesyou will now invest ‘the brethren with their aprons, andform a procession in the North, facing the East, withcandidate and Adoniram at the head.MUSIC “DIRGE.”Procession marches round the room and then to Anteroom;and forms a half circle round the urn which isguarded by two Secret Masters.Solomon—Alas! Alas!All—Alas! Alas! Alas!Solomon—Oh my brethren, well may we mourn thedeath of so great and so good a man for by the deedwhich cut him from us, we have lost the word; the truename of God, and the truth itself: In this “Urn”’ (takesthe urn) has been treasured up the Heart of him wholoved truth above all things: Let us convey it into theSanctuary as a perpetual token of our sorrow and of ourdesire to recover what we hav’e lost, (gives The urn tocandidate) Brother, on you who have come to aid us onthis memorable occasion we confer the honor of bearingthose ashes to their sepulchre.A procession is now formed, headed by Master ofCeremonies and Expert, and closed by Solomon andAdoniram, with candidate between them bearing theurn, while marehing round the lodge room and throughthe ante-rooms.Nate O.—”Oroaa burrowed. It may be auppoled. his Idea from anelder aymhol In the high degrees, where. In the deacription of the temhof Hiram AhIff. It is arnid th the heart warn enclerned In a golden urn.the aide of whIch a titangular atone wag ae.zed, Inacribed with thelottewa 5. U. U. within a wrestb of bach. and placed on the top of amobellak.”—Uacbej”a UmoylcIopadla of Freemagomay. Article Va..

46 SECRET MASTER’S DEGREE. INITIATION. 49Solo.,wn—(Eecites) “0 Lord, our Lord how excellentis thy name in all the Earth! Who hast set thy gloryabove the Heavens. Out of the mouth of babes andsucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thineenexuies, that thou mightest still the enemy and theavenger. When I consider the heavens, the work ofthy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hut.ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of him, andthe Son of man that thou visitest him? For thou haMmade him a little lower than the angels and hut crownedhim with glory and honor, thou madest him to havedominion over the works of thy hands: Thou hast putall things in subjection under his feet; all sheep and oxenyea, and the beasts of the field, the fowl of the air, andthe fish of the se~ 0 Lord, Our Lord, how excelleut isthy name in all the Earth I’, Whoso draweth nigh to thecontemplation of the ineffable mysteries, let him put ofthe shoes of his worldly conversation and corrupt affections,for the place whereon he standeth is holy ground.May we ever remember to keep a watchful eye upon thefeet of our affections; before we approach the house ofthe Lord, let us seriously consider whether we havetaken straight steps in th~ paths of his commandments,,and whether our feet~are set In due order, and cleansed~coordingto the purifications of the Sanctuary: Let~iswash as it were in the layer of repentance, wash andmake you clean, put away the evil of your doings;acknowledge your iniquities, and return unto the Lord,he will have mercy upon you, and to our Elohimle hewill abundantly pardon.W~wSU—”BI~Nt. A‘me a~ipUe4 Ia3abuwtoamjdeIty,bmteomu~sst the tea. God Aco.rdIaXWIdaCI. It mama the mi km~maS.~@g,bowever. much aurni ‘a NS3OSq”—NEI*0’i inipI~Wi .0’ I’~—~ a~wq~Lot us incite each other to practice virtue and shunvice; while our feet are prepared for walking in the waysof his commandments, our hands should be prepared inlike manner for working in his service. Saith the fatherof our Ancient Most Puissant Grand Master, “I willwash my hands in innocency, (washes his hands) andso will I compass thine Altar.”May he who beareth the keys of David open a doorof entrance to this our brother. You have hitherto seenonly a thick veil, which hides from your view the SanctumSanctorum of God’s [loly Temple. Tour fidelity,zeal and constancy have won for you the favor you arenow about to receive of viewing some of our treasuresand gaining admission into the secret or holy place.At the end of this, the head of the procession stopsat the entrance of the Sanctum Sanctorum, they openandface inward, and Solomon, Candidate and Adonirammarch between the columns to the door of the balustradeand are stopped by the Master of Ceremonies.Master of Ceremonies—This is the Holy of Holies,and none can enter it unless he opens the gate with thekey of Intellect, have you (candidate) the key?Solomon—We have it, and he carries the heart oftruth, the Heart of Hiram, our regetted venerable Master.Master of (Y~w~moniea—By these tokens you may enter.There is a table in front of the Throne on which areplaced,let’End.3rd.4th.The Ark of Alliance.—(Adaptation.)A Pot of Incense, on a tripod.—(Beautg.)The Twelve Loaves.—(Socie 4,,..)The Seven Branched Candlestick.—(K.)

50 SECRET MASTER’S DECREE.Solomon—Here brother in the midst of the Emblemsof our Deuwe for Society, of the Light of Knowledge,of the Sense of Beauty, and of the Adaptation of Manto God, let us deposit the sacred heart of our deceasedvenerable Master, to remind us forever, that though theassassins have destroyed his body; yet the natur~zl law,which is also the word of God, is written upon the heartof every man who cometh into the world.The candidate places the Urn.Solomon—Let us pray.PRAYER.Oh, God we pray thee, thou Grand Architect of theUniverse to cast thy all seeing eye upon this Sanctuary,which symbolizes the Conscience of Man, and help us touse the Key of Intelligence within the Balustrade ofReason, so that we may know ourselves, link ourselvesunto thee, and become fit for the immortality thou haspromised.Adoniram—Amen.Solomon—And now my brethren, before we separate,b~fore I crown this Urn, with the Laurel and the Olivebranch in token of the ~Gloi~jand the Peace which iscrowned unto him ~ho fulfils his duty and loves truth.(Crowns the Urn.)Solomon—Glory and Peace unto Hiram.All—Glory and Peace unto Hiram.Solomon—(To the candidate) and now my brother, anew obligation and task unites us, and it becomes mypleasant duty to confer upon you, as a reward for theservice you have just performed the title of Secret Masterand member of this Secret Chamber 0. L. No. —Solomon—(Installs him by investing him with theRibbon, Key and Apron, places on his head a Crown orIiJITIATION. 51Wreath of Laurels’1 and Olivel’ leaves.) My dear brother,I receive you a Secret Master, and give you rankamong the Levites; this laurel which I have investedyou ~vith,alludes to the victory you are to gain overyour passions, the olive is a symbol of that peace andunion which should reign among us; it rests with you todesire the favor, that God may one day enable you toarrive at the secret place, and there to contemplate thepillar beauty. The Ivory Key” suspended by a white andblack ribbon is a symbol of your fidelity, innocence anddiscretion, the apron and gloves are emblematk1d of thecandor of all the Secret Masters, among whom you arenow introduced in quality of Secret Master. I give yourank among the Levites, to be a faithful guardian of theSanctum Sanctorum, and have placed you among thenumber seven to supply the place of our dear MasterHiram AbiN; and have also appointed you one of theconductors of the work, which i~ to be raised to thedivinity. The Eye on your apron is there to remind youto be ever watchful over the workmen.Note l1—”A decoration used In some of the hIgher degrees of theAncIent and Accepted ScottIsh RIte. The laniel Is an emblem of Tic.tory; and the corona triumphalla of the Roman,, whIch was given togenerals who bad Seined a triumph by their conquests. wee made oflaurel leavea. The lanrel crown In Maaonry Is gIven to hIm who hasmade a conqneat over his passions.“—Macksp.’, Eneynlopudla of Ire..maaonry. Artiele Lintel Orown.Note N.—”’in a secondary acne., the olive plant Is a symbol of peaceand VIctory; but In Its primary sense, like aU the other sacred plantaof antiquIty, It was a symbol of resurrectIon and Immortality. HenceIn the AncIent Mysteries It was the analogue of the Acacla of Free.masonry.” Mackey’s Eneyclopadia of lreemaaonq, Article Olive.Note 18.—”Tls. key, howeyer, is sIll! preserved as a symbol of Se.crecy In the Royal Arch degree; and It Is also presented to us In thesame gense In the Ivory key of the Secret M~ater, or fourth degree ofthe 5cottleb Rite. in many of the German Lodges en Ivory key Is madea part of the MasonIc clothIng of each brother. te remInd hIm that jeshould lock up or conceal the secrets of Freemaaonry In hIs heart,”...Machey’s Eneyclopudla ef rreeme.ao~,, Article Key.

52 SECRET MASTER’S DEGREE.Solomon then gives thc following:TOKENS.First give the Master’s Grip,and then slip the hand to eachother’s elbow, and balance ,sevt.’ntimes; at the same time bring thefoot and knee in contact.Pass Word—Zi-Za.” (resplindent.)Sacred Word—Adonai.”TekenSIGN OF SILENCE.Sign—Is that of silence, which is madeby placing the first two fingers of theright hand on the lips) which ~sansweredby the first two fingers of the left.SIgn of Silance.Note 14.—”TbIs Is~ saId. In one of the Ineffable dopeesof the ScottIsh RIte, to be the name ot the hal’ustrade before the sanctum Sanctorum. There Is no ,‘II(hwbrd In Rebrew, hut It soar he a corruption of the TalmudIC1’a boson, a little beam, apl’l. email z~zn. railer.” which —.)Lackq’s Bnxtorf Enc~#cfopaofiiz (Lex. Tatm p uJFIWnlisOlil’lj. defines ii ArtiCleZswt.~mw l.~.—”In lIchrcw’~lIt,bOli1g the plural of excellence for Adois. and•lgi,if~Iliil the Lord. TheSons. who rcveiently avoided lb. pronnuclatlqo OWthe escred name JehoVah, were accustomed, whenever that name occurred,to euhstltnte for It the word Adonal In readIng. As to the use otthe plural form Instead of the sIngular, the Rabblns say. ‘E,ery wordIndIcative of domInIon, though sIngular In moanIng. Is made piorsl inform.’ ThIs Is called the ‘piuralls excelientlte.” The Talmudlsts alsosay. (Rnitroff.) Lax. TaIm.. that the telracrammston Is called Shoehamphovash. the name that Is explaIned. beesose It Is exolalned. utteredand set forth by the word Adoasl. (See Jehovah and Sham Kampher.ash.) Adonal Is used as a slgnlficunt 1 of the hIgh 45.gecee of Masonry, and may almost a~ais be eon:lder5d as allualYSto or symbolIC of the True word.”—Maokey’s Inoyelopudla of Tree.masOnry, Artinie Adofla.I.INITIATION. 58Solomon—Go, my brother, pass the Brethren and listento our Grand Orator.HISTORICAL DISCOURSES BYGRANfl ORATOR.My Brother, you have had the honor of being receivedand acknowledged a Secret Master” by passing from theSquare to the Compass: You were made under theLaurel and Olive tree, and received in the SanctumSanctorum, by Solomon with Adoniram the inspector ofthe work. On entering the Sanctum Sanctorum, you behelda brilliant Delta” enclosing certain Hebraic characters,from which emanated nine beams of the Shekinah,”bearing each an initial of a divine name as derived froman attribute and the whole surrounded by a great circle.The meaning of those Hebriac characters in the Deltadescribe the ineffable” name of the Grand Architect ofthe Universe, which was forbidden to be spoken by alaw of Moses, in consequence of which the true pronunciationwas lost to all but the Grand, .~bect, Perfect andSublime Masons; a knowledge of which I hope you willone day acquire by virtue of your attachment to ourNote 16.—’ ‘In numberIng the 33 degrees of the Scotch RIte, that ofSecret Master is set as the 4th. because none lot a Master Mason. madeIn the York RIte Is entItled to It. In the UnIted State, the 5upremeCouncils of the Northern and Southern JurisdIctIons, respectively, havethus tar waIved the right to confer the SymbolIcal or Blue lodge Se’grees.“—MorrIs’ DictIonary of rreeinaaonry, Article Scotch Masonry,‘Noi’z 17 —“Atrianbie. The name of a piece of furniture In a comuwdory of Naughts Tempiars, which, being of £ triengular form, derivesname from the Greek letter ~, delta. It is also the title given. in tho P~ncl,and Scottish Rites, to tho luminous trinogie wblcn encloase. the iaemsbl’name.” —Mackei’s Eneyctopcetfa. ~f F~eonassoesnJ, 4,fIde Defti.’Note 1S.—”The Shekinab was the symbol of tbe divIne glory; hut thetrue glory of dlylnlty is Truth, and DivIne Truth Is therefore the Sheki’nab of Masonry. ThIs Is symbolIzed by lIght, which Is no longer usedby us as a ‘substitute’ for the Sheklnab. or the divIne glory. hut asIts symbol—the physIcal eipressloo of Its essence.’ ‘—Mackey’s mop’clopmdla of lreemaaonry. Article Shekinals.Note IS.—”The Ineffable degrees, so’cslled are the eleven confaredIn a I.odge of Pcrfectlon. known as the second series of degrees In theAncIent sod Accepted rIte. “—Macoy’s Enoyclopadla sad Dictionary aSlre.masourv. Article Ineffable.

Ba54 SECRET MASTER’S DEGREE.order, and your zeal in discharging the duties of yourobligation.The initials of the names you saw in the nine beamsof the Shekinah, are those which God gave himself whenhe spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, intimating to himat the same time that his future issue should one dayknow his real name. I will now endeavor to give themto you, with their explanations.Adonai, signifying (Supreme Lord.)JeAorvh, (fl’lr’V’) E~oht’m (Supremc Judge.~Ale, (Powerful) Shcalc,~ (Omnipotent.)Ysebratl&, (Lord of Hosts,) Ozi, (Mightiness.)Gs’bour, (Strength) Al&ad, (only one.)These, my brother, compose 888 letters and 75 namuwhich are like the ineffable name to be found in themysteries of the Cabala, and the angels alphabet.”I presume my brother that you are unacquainted withthe mysteries, but they will be fully explained to youUOYMIO.—”Ona o~ ~e names of God. In ‘Exodus vl. IS, the wdid transla.~GedAlmIghlsta.bthe&IxIsaI. SAwfdM. ‘1W: Illsthsjwforethe sameby whIch he was known to the IsraelItes before he eosnmnnleatsd toMoses the Tetragrammaton. The wbrd Is a pluraiis majestatis. and slg’nIflesalk~efui. omnlpotent.”—Mackey’s Encyolopadla of i’raemasonsp.Note 31.—”ln the old rituals of the fourth or Secret Master’s de’gree of the ScottIsh and some other RItes, we Sod this poe’sage: ‘The Seventy’two names, like the • name of the DIvIn.Ity, are to be takes to the Kabbaltetle Tree and the Angels’Alphabet.” The Kabbalistie Tree Is a name gIven by the Kahhaliststo the arrangement of the ten Sephiroth, (whlcit in.) The Angels’Alphabet Is called by the Hebrews O~)Ofl ~ ci ndnabi5fl U? 155writingof the angels OsEsrelsa3a. (Oul*5. lncsls.. eb. xIS. %) iliSt thestars, accordIng to the opInIon of the Hebrew writers. are ranged Isthe hesYcos In the form of letters, and that It Is possIble to read thosewhatsoever of importance Is to happen throughout the unIverse. AsSthe great EnglIsh Hermetic philosopher. Robert Plod, says. In bloApolcey for the Brethren of the Nosy Cross. that there see characters inthe heayens formed from the disposition of the stars, Just as geometrIclines and ordInary letters are formed from poInts; and he adds, thatthose to whom God has granted the hidden knowledge of reading theseaharacters wIll also know not only whatever Is to happen, hat all thesecrets of phllcoophy. The letters thus arranged In the form of stareare called the Angels’ Alphabet. They heyc tha’ power and artIculatIonhut not the form of the Hebrew letttrs, and the Kabbalista say that Inthem McOee wrote the tables of the law. The astrologers, and after thouthe alchemists, made much use of thIs alphabet; and Its IntroductlcmInto any of the high degree rItuals Is an evldesce of the Influence alertedon these degrees by the Hermetic phlloeoPh~.”—Maekey’a Enoyals.peedia of irsemasanry. Article Alphabet, ~..g.I.INITIATION. 55when you attain the degree of Perfection,” and havingnow done with the Delta and its awful characters, I willendeavor to give you an explanation of the meaning ofthe Great Circle” which surrounds it,It rcpresents masonically as all circles do, the immensityof the power of God, which bath neither beginningnor end.You also perceived in the Sanctum Sanctoruni aluminous circle enclosing a brilliant star of five pointswith the letter 0 in the center: The meaning of whichis thus described: Glory, Grandeur and Gomel, fromwhich we understand, by Glory, God; by Grandeur, theman who may be great by perfection, and by Gomel, aHebrew word which signifies, thanks to God, for hissupreme power; it is the first word which Adam spokeon discovering the adorable Eve. The five beams ofthe brilliant Star, represent the five orders of Architecture,which adorn the Temple, also the senses of nature,without which no man can be perfect.You also beheld in the Sanctum Sanctoruni the Arkof Alliance, the Golden Candlestick with seven branches,having a lamp in each; also a table. The Ark ofAlliance was placed in the middle of the Sanctum Sauctorumunder the brilliant star and the shadow of thewings of the Cherubim, which represents the alliancewhich God made with his people. This Ark of AllianceVote SS.—”The first degree conferred in the Ladge of Parfection.eotch Masosry, and the fourth 04~ea former, the ~talogue who Is styled of that Meat system. Pou~There osful. Is represente a MasterSolomon and a Warden. coming to the temple to elect seven skillfulworkmen to succeed HIram AblE; the latter, entitled Grand inapector,egpresonts Adonlram. The hangings are black, strewed wIth tears. Thehdge hon Si lIghts.’‘—Morris’ Masonic DIctionary, Article Som Nesting.Vote 3S.—”In the ohacieto lectures of the old Dngllsh system, It wassaid that ‘the cIrcle has ever been consIdered symbolical of the Pelty;as a circle appears to hav, neIther begInnIng nor end, It ~y be~tly consIdered a type of God, without eIther. boylnoing of days or end.~ofyeers.’”—Mackey’s Encyclopedia of lmamsaonry, Artiolo Glide.

SECRET MASTEB’S DEGREE. INITIATION. J57was of the form of a parallelogram two cubit. and ahail in length, one and one-half cubit. in breadth, anathe same in height, made of shittim wood covered withinand without with gold, decorated With a goldencrown, and borne by two Cherubim of gold.The cover of the Ark had a name which ws cafledPropstiaforg or place that served to appease God’s anger.8aid Propitiatory contained the testimony which Godgave to Moses—The tablets of the Law. Said tabletswere of white marble and contained the Decalogue writtenin Hebrew characters.The commandments taught, and were disposed of amthe tablets as follows:The first four pointed out the obligations of man tohis God, and were engraved on the first tablet. The remainingsix pointed out the obligations of njan to nian,and were engraved on the second tablet. The commandmentson the different tablets were distinguished in thiswise:Those of the first collectively taken, formed theDivine Law; those of the se~nd the Moral Law; thetables were used to plac~ thereon the twelve loaves ofunleavened bread, which must be always in the presenceof the Divinity agreeable to his comniand to Moses.These loaves of unleavened bread were made of the purestof flour, and were placed six on the right hand andsix on the left, forming two heaps, above which wasplaced a bright ewer filled with incense, as a mementoto us of the obligations made to God. The name of theSanctum Sanctorum in Hebrew is Dabir, and it wasthere the Divinity resided, and where he delivered hiscommandments to Moses.Moses by the help and command of God, constructedthe Ark, and for that purpose he chose to assist himBezaleel, of the tribe of Judah, son of Un and Miriam,sister to Moses and Aholiab, son of Ahisamach of theTribe of Dan, the. most learned of people.The Israelites testified so much ardour for the worksand offered with so much zeal to carry on Ihe same, thatMoses proclaimed by sound of trumpet that he wantedno more. They worked after the model which God hadgiven unto Moses, and also instructed him in the numberand form of the sacred vessels which were to be madeand placed in the tabernacle to serve in the sacrifices.The seven3’ branched Candlestick alludes to the sevenplanets. The Eye over the door of your Lodge, representsthe Bye of God, to whose name our works arededicated, and from whose inspection our actions cannever be concealed. The galleries of the Temple wereascended by a staircase in the form of a screw. Therewas only one door in the Sanctum Sanctorum, on theeast side called Zi Za, which was covered with Gold,Purple, Hyacinthe and Azure, which represented thefour Elements.My brother, your age as a Secret Master is 81 years.your pass-word is Zi Za, and it affords me much aatisfac-~ to find you have paid such strict attention to theceremonies of this degree, and I hope also, my brother,you will treasure up in your mind the rith fruits of ourSublime Mysteries, and I also flatter myself from yourmerit and perseverance that you will soon be capacitatedto deserve the summit of our knowledge in receivingthe Degree of Perfection, wherein you will be presentedwith the splendid reward of all your labors.Vote 3t—”The symbolic seven Is to be found dIfflased In a hundredways over the whole Masosic system.”—.MaokQ’e Eseylopedia of Free.maeomv. Article Severn,

fIISTORICAL ANALYSISCLOSING CEREMONIESSECRET MASTER’SDEaRER.Solomon—Brother Inspector, pray what’s the clock?Adoniram—The end of the day.Solomon—What does there remain to do?Adoniram—To practice virtue, shun vice and reniainsilent.”Solomon—Since there remains no more to do than topractice virtue and shun vice, let us again enter intosilence, that the will of God may be done and accomplished.It is time to ~i,es1,Brother Inspector, givenotice by the mysterious numbers that the lodge is goingto be closed.A doniram—( Strikes seven times, 000 000 0 with hishands.)All— (Strike seven times, 000 000 0 with their hands.)Solomon—(Strikes seven times, 000 000 0 with hishands after which he gives the sign of silence, which thebrethren answer and the lodge is closed.)Vote SS.—”The duty of a Secret Master Is to keep S carsfnl wat*over the conduct of the Craft In general: to raactiee virtue, shnn vies.and remaIn In sIlence.“—Messy’s Unsyolepedie mad Diolimery of bee.meseW. A~ beret Master.FOURTH ORSECRET MASTER’S DEGREE.How Masonry got Its tItle “The Royal Art”—1.odgery and Poperey over.throw Cromwell’s Commonwealth—SImllsrIty of MasonIc Jugglery andl’riestcraft—The HIgher Degrees Invented by French JesuIts and TheIrinstruments—Secrecy and SubjectIon the Chief Elements of Lodgeryend Popery—Freemasonry a RelIgIous Pestllence—OuerrlIIs Gen. Pike.Most PuIssant SovereIgn Orsnd Commander—who but a JesuIt couldInvent ench a Degree as the Secret Muter’s ?—“Oue Stupendous De’monalcal Possemion.”The Stuart Dynasty had fallen. The stream of Englishpopular liberty, from incipient jury trial underAlfred; through Magna Charta under John; and theoverthrow of Priests and Monasteries by Henry VIII;had flowed steadily onward, but it had met an ice-gorgein the house of Stuart; the meanest of monareha and ofmen. But the dam was broken and the stream rushedon. Charles I, had been beheaded for treason to hispeople, (1649.) His son Charles II, was driven an exileinto France; but being a Secret Papist, he joined theFreemasons and regained his throne by the secret unionof French Papists and English Masons. This gave toMasonry the title of “The Rogal Art.” (Hume’s EnglandII, 606 and Rebold, p. 54.) His brother JamesII, an open Papist, reigned three years as a weak despot;then threw the Mace into the Thames and fled from hi~throne and people to the Freneh Monarch;, “the eldestSon of the Romish Church.” The Freneh wags calledhim “‘The Simpleton who lost three Kingdoms for amass.” This weak Stuart, like his brothcr Charles, was“accepted” as a Mason; took up his head-quarters at the

60 SIMILARITY 07 MASONIC JUGGLERY AND PRIBSTORAJT. THE HIGHER DEGREES INVENTED BY FRENCH JESUITS. 61Jesuit’s College of Clermont; and, for a while, plottedto regain his throne, but died thirteen years after hisabdication (1688), at the Palace of St. Germain in 1701.His Son, the Young Pretender Charles Edward, followedhis father and grandfather into the lodge; becameGrand Master of the Chapter of Herodem;(Mackey Encyc. Art. Stuart Masonry) and, by the saleof Charters to French and English and Irish Masons,with aid from the French Monarch, raised means to invadeEngland by way of Scotland. But the Protestantthrone of Wilhia~n and Mary stood firm, and still stands,in spite of Popery and the lodge. But by restoring thesecond Charles and overthrowing Cromwell’s Commonwealth,the twin evils, Popery and Lodgery, put backpublic morals and popular liberty in England a fullcentury. Both are unmitigated despotisms—Both setup a false standard of morals;—and both set asideChrist. Masonry promises to save men by its jugglery,and Popery sends men for salvation, not to Christ, butto a priest.But, how can this be; since, in 1738, Pope ClementXII issued his bull against the Freemasons and its authoritycontinues in forc~; has been endorsed by Popessince, and enforced by Councils and Priests ~ANswREs—The question is not how it can be, but Isit true that the higher degrees of Masonry are of Popishorigin? This must be settled by proof.The world knows that James II, a declared Papist,fled to France in 1688, where he died thirteen year.afterward.“‘Lenning says, after his flight to France and duringhis residence at the Jesuit College of Clermont, his adherents,among whom were the Jesuits, fabricated certaindegrees with the design of carrying out their politicalviews.” This is taken from Mackey’s Encyclopedia,Article Stuart Masonry, and there is no higher Masonicauthority.Another standard Masonic author, (Macoy, Cyc. Art.Scotch Rite) says: “The degrees of this Rite are, forthe most part, fabricated from the system invented byRamsay.” This Ramsay a brilliant young Scotchman,apostatized to Popery. He was twenty years old whenJames II. fled to France. Ramsay followed him andbecame lutor to his sons. He became also an “instrumentof the Jesuits,” (Rebold Gen. Hist. p. 161,) in addingupper degrees to simple York Masonry, and so to drawEnglish Masons into a conspiracy to overturn the throneof William and Mary and bring in despotism and theStuarts. Having amassed a large fortune by his Scotchthrift, royal patronage, and the sale of Masonic ritesand dignities, he offered to enrich his relatives in Scotland,doubtless hoping to draw them into his Stuart Masonry,along with the Jesuits, but they scorned him, andrejected his proffered wealth. lie then tried to introducehis Masonry into England but was repulsed; went backto France, and died at Pointoise in 1743. (See his lifein Mackey’s Cyclopedia.)Thus it is proved that the first higher degrees of Masonrywere invented by French Jesuits and their “Instruments.”And thus is explained “how it can be”that Popery can, at once, prohibit and permit the Lodge.As, with Jesuits, “the end sanctifles the means ;“ Masonryis right when seeking to enthrone Popery; andwrong when its oaths of secrecy interfere with the Confessional,and its dues diminish Peter’s Pence. But thepoint is proved, if history can prove anything, “that the

O~3 LODGE AXD POPISH SECRECY AND SUBJECTION.higher degrees of Masonry ;“ so-called, are of Popish origin,invented by Jesuits to destroy Protestantism andpopular liberty in Europe. And thus is fulfilled, thesymbolic prophecy of Rev. 13th Chapter. The firstbeast being Rome pagan, and the second Rome Papal.And the Secret Lodge System is a shadowy “image” ofthe iron dcspotism of Rome, made by “them that dwelLon. the earth” promiscuously; not by churchmen, or anyone nationality, but by everybody at large; civilized;barbarous and savage, as we see at the present day.American Masons are not ashamed to boast that barbariansare their brethren, and that their lodge religionis the natural religion of mankind, thus annihilating theChristian religion and ignoring Christian civilization.The namcs givcn by the French to their higher ordersare Popish. “Chapter,” “Templar,” “Knight” “Council,”are all Popish names, first invented by Priests;while “the Image” outdoes the beasts themselves (Paganand Papal Rome) in the grandiloquence of its titles, andthe garishness of its regalia.But the identity of these religions of Antichrist isnot merely outward but inw&rd and moral; the chiefelements being secrecy and despotism. September 27th,1540, Pope Thiul III, established “The Society of Jesus,called Jesuits.” God has said, Isa, 48, 16, “I have notspoken in secret from the beginning,” and Christ repeated,“In secret have I said nothing.” Jno. 18, £0.The secrecy of the Jesuits (Secreta monita) was impenetrable,and Lefevre when told he would die if heattempled to travel, as he was ordered to do, answered,“It is not necessary that I should live; but it isnecessary I should obey.” He went—and died. These.two pillars in the temple of Anti-christ, viz., SecrecyZACH TRYING TO CHARTER, TAX AND aovwr o~runs. 63and Subjection, appear in every “stronghold” of thedevil on’ earth; from the Vatican to the Purroh in anAfrican bush. “We require,” said Powderly, “Secrecyand obedience.” Wherever these are, however flittingand wavering, there is an “Image of the Beast.”But Ramsay boldly copied the lineamenta of theBeabt. We read: “He endeavored to obviate the objectionsof the French nobility to the mechanical origin(Stone Masons) of the institution (Masonry) by assertingthat it arose in the Holy Land during ihe Crusades.”(Macoy Art. Ramsay.) That this origin of Masonrywas known to be false made no difference. Degrees,Chapters and Rites sprung up by thousands and spreadlike pestilence, until the swindle was likely to fail by it~cheapness, and the religious imposture by its insipidity—dispensing with Christ. Then began the struggle tocondense, stratify and monopolize. Ramsay made a Riteof six degrees. Each adventurer strove to overtop, charter,tax, and govern all others. In 1758, this struggleproduced at Paris a “Council of Emperors of the Eastand West.” Its adepta styled themselves “SovereignPrince Masons”.—”Substitutes General of the RoyalArt”—”Grand Superintendents and Officers of theGrand and Sovereign Lodge of St. John of Jerusalem.”Its Rite consisted of twenty-five degrees. (Macoy, p.188.) Four years previous, De Bonneville had instituteda “Rite of Perfection.” in the Jesuit College, containingthese same twenty-five degrees; but this Rite of Perfectionwas merged in The Council of Emperors of theEast and West.” (Mackey Encyc.) No reason for themerging is given.Four years after its origin, in 1761, this “Council ofEmperors” empowered a Jew named Stephen Morin,

64 INVENTED BY JESUITS AND SOLD BY JEWS. IREUXABONRY A RELIGIOUS PSTILENCU. 65who was coming to America, to act as “Inspector General”of all the higher lodges of Masonry in the NewWorld. His commission ran: “We do recognizeour dearest brother, Stephen Morn, as our Grand MaeterInspector to establish Perfect and Sublime Masonryin every part ~f the world.” (Folger’. History of theAncient and Accepted Scottish Rite, p. 81, Document..)This Jew came, via San Domingo, to Charleston, S. C.,and finding that it paid established a lodge of “InspectorsGeneral.” Of the first sixteen Inspectors whom hoappointod, thirteen were Jews, as was Morn himself.The three who were not Jews, were Col. John Mitchell,Col. Provost and Dr. Frederick Daicho.” (Folger’.Hi.. p. 88.) And Folger adds: (Same page) “If historyspeaka correctly, Morin and his co-adjutors foundmanufacturing Masonic degrees and the sale of Masonicdignities, a very profitable and lucrative undertaking.They pursued it diligently, making all the moneythey could from the traflic.” (This is from the latest“History of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite byRobert B. Folger, Past Master 33, ex-Secretary General,etc., New York, 1881.”)As no honest Jew goes above the Master Mason’s degreeon account of his religion, these thirteen Jewswere mere lodge gamblers. And with Mitchell, Provostand Daleho, they took Morn’s twenty-five degrees, whichconstituted the Rite of Perfection, (all Mcrin was empoweredto confer,) added eight more, revised and rearrangedthe rest, and produced the subject of this volume,that is, “The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rileand we read:“On the 31st dayof May, 1801, the Supreme Councilof the thirty-third degree for the United States ofAmerica, was opened with the high honors of Masonryby Brother John Mitchell and Frederick Daloho, SovereignGrand Inspector. General.’ This was done in theCity of Charleston, S. C., and was, and is, the first SupremeCouncil of Grand Inspectors General in theworld.But what was to be done? “The Council of Emperors”which gave Morn his authority was extinct, andThe Grand Orient had received its debris. They forged,or feigned, a constitution dating 1786k given by FredericicII, of Prussia. (Mack. Encyc.) They made termswits the Grand Orient, which was now the leading Lodgein Europe, which adopted their Ancient and AcceptedScottish Rite of thirty-three degree.. And this Americaninvention is becoming the leading Rite of the world.It is thus spoken of by Standard Masonic writers.McClenachan says: “In 1868 this exalted Rite is inthe full tide of prosperity and healthful progress. Itssublime teachings find a ready response in every Masonicheart” (His.. p. £1.)And Mackey (Encyc. Art. Scottish Rite) says: “Althoughone of the youngest Masonic Rites, having beenestablished not earlier than 1801, it is, at this day, themost popular and moat extensively diffused.” Otherauthorities might be given, and there are no conflictingauthorities, as to the popularity and prevalence of thisRite.Whoever carefully reads this sketch will find causefor astonishment and dread. This French Masonry,falsely called Scotch, is a religious pestilence spread andspreading over the most enlightened nations on theglobe. It takes its name from clubs of Stone Masonswho initiated their Apprentices,Journeymen and Master

66 BUERRILLA (lEN. l’IKE, MOST PUISSANT SOy. OR. 0031 WHO BUT A JESUIT COULD INVENT SUCh A DEOK~E?. 62Masons. Four of these clubs, at a London Tavern in1717, dropped Stone Masonry, ~accepted”all who wouldpay; started a religion to lit men for heaven withoutChrist. and thenceforth it took its stand with the falsereligions of the world; based on lying legends, secrecy,mystery and show. Here the Jesuits took it up, as seenabove, to destroy the free agency of men in religion bysworn obedience to unknown superiors. The Jesuits hadexisted since 1540 by the same principles of secrecy andabject submission and so blended readily with the LondonLodge. But England was Protestant and had readthe Bible. The London, York Rite, three degree Lodgeof English Masons, could not be used to restore thePapists, Charles II, James II, and his sons, and destroystubborn English liberty. The Jesuits took up theseexiles; added upper degrees to govern English Masons;succeeded in restoring Charles II, but foiled to restoreJames and his sons. But the degrees they invented andused for the most infamous of purposes, were hardenedinto a “Rite of Perfection,” which the Jew, Morn, withtwelve other Jews, sold fo~ money as their fathers soldChrist. But Mitchell, Daicho and Provost, who werenot Jews, altered and spliced theit “Rite of Perfection’into The Ancient and Accepted Scottieh Rite of Thirtythreede rees. They then sentihis monstrous productionof fraui, falsehood, treachery, treason and blasphemyback to Europe. The Grand Orient, which has sinceexpunged from its Ritual, “God and the Immortality ofman,” adopted this monster Rite and spread it overEurope; while, in this country, its Supreme Grand Commanderis the infidel traitor, the Guerrilla GeneralAlbert Pike, whose initiated Indians massacred Uniontroops at Pea Ridge.But those who imagine that the crushing of popularliberty in Europe and America is the chief end and objectof Masonry, wholly mistake its nature and drift.Like that unclean religion whose temple was in Eph.eons; whose goddess, it was said, “all Asia and the’world worsliippeth ;“ the lodge is a conspiracy againstGod; made by him who waged war in Heaven. Overturninggovernments; crushing out liberty; these arebut its by-play. In the words of its chief authority,Mackey, its intent is to establish on this earth the “Religionin which all mankind agree.” To put the pureworship of Almighty God through Christ, on a morallevel with the worships of horses in Japan; of moitkeysin Hin~booatan; and of snakes, devils and gorillasin Africa.Let us now analyze this “Secret Masters” degree; thefirst of the Jesuit degrees, and fourth of the ScottishRite. All the Rites rest on the three old Stone Masondegrees; else they would lose the name of Masons.The legend or lie on which this degree rests, is, thatSqlomnon, after the death Hiram Abifi, appointed sevenSecret Masters to take the place of the dead one. Theirpersons might be known but their functions were secret.This is truly a Jesuit’s degree. What body of men, unlessthey were Jesuits, would allow seven of their numberto supervise them secretly? How would such menknow what to esteem, right or wrong, till they felt thebludgeon or the poniard of the “Secret Master.” Whobut a Jesuit could have invented such a degree?The Ritual is mostly taken from the Old Testamentwhich Ramsay had studied in Scotland, and Jews andJesuits could assist in forming it. The drapery of thelodge robed everything in black, spotted with tears;the Holy of Holies, the candlestick. of seven lights, areused to inspire awe. The whole Ritual is worship; theBible is extensively quoted. Responses given; “0 Lord,have mercy upon us,” etc., are often repeated. Thescenery is solemn and expensive. The Christless prayerasks that the candidate “may prepare” t& receive theimpress of the Holy Name and be fitted for immortality.And the import of the whole solemn mummery issummed up in the following question and answer:

I,48 “ONE STUPENDOUS DEMONIACAL POSSUSION.“What are you taught as a Secret Maeterr“Th. duty of secrecy and silence.”And, having sported awhile with “the holy place.made with hands, which are the figures of the true,”which the Jewish High Priest alone could enter once ay,~ar, “not witAout blood,” so that familiarity might notbreed contempt, and having been told that “the naturallaw is the word of God, which is written on the heart ofevery man that cometh into the world; which denies, i.stoto, the doctrine of redemption by Christ, and regenerationby the Holy Ghost; the lodge closes with a dirgeand mock funeral, pretending to deposit the heart of adead man in the Holy of Holies, having put the candidateon his knees, an& exacted the perpetually recurringpromise of concealment from him, the farce ends withseven raps of the gavel.What is the true meaning and import of this travestyof methods, long since laid aside, by which God broughtour race, while ignorant as grown up babes, to reverenceand obey apure law and to trust in the sacrifice ofChrist?The meaning and intent of this’ vile counterfeit, consideredas a device of Satan, is:1. To indurate and harden the human heart by praeticingreligious ceremonies without any religion. Nothinghardens men like this.2. To put and keep men in the attitude of receptivityto spirit influence. The whole lodge ceremony is aprolonged prayer to the devil8. To keep the mind buBy while the heart growhard, as in bead-counting, genufiexions and crossings inthe Romish Church; and in the endless ceremonies ofpaganism.4. To keep the masses stupidwhile the cunning man.age them. Thus this fourth grade of the present universalMasonry, and the twenty-nine degrees to follow,as Dr. Dumming has said of the Papacy, is one stupea.dous demonaical poseeasion.”CHAPTER VFIFTH OR PERFECT MAsTER’s’ DEGREE.“This grade was originally established as a gratefultribute of respect to the memory of a departed worthybrother.”Its ritual and lectures furnish many interesting detailsof the mode of his interment, and the honors paid tohis memory. The ceremonies are gloomy and funereal,and well calculated to fill the mind with solemn thoughtsIn this grade are held the lodge of sorrow and areperformed the funeral ceremonies of any brother of theSublime Degrees. There is a lengthy esoteric history,belonging to this grade.DECORATIONS.This lodge is adorned in the same manner as in thepreceding degree, with the following additions:First—The altar on which the urn was placed isoverspread by a canopy of green and gol8.Second—In the south-west is a monument of whiteand black marble, surmounted by an urn traversed by asword, and adorned with a sprig of acacia, and flankedby 16 columns and surrounded by a balustrade. Themonumental inscription is H. ~.Z..J...The compass on the Altar is graduated, the monu-Note N.—(NaItz, le’fait.) ‘Ike fifth degree Is the hneleut andh~eented Scottish Rite. The cewemonlee of this degree were orlgluaflestablished as a grateful tribute of respect to a worthy departed broth.a,. The omeers of the Lodge are a MactM, who reurseenis Admires,the Inspector of the works at Mount !.ebanou. .ini one werden.”—’.Maohe~’a Z.qala~adIa of 1,eemasoaxy. Aztiele Perfect Master.

70 PERFECT MA5TEUS DEGREE. PREFECT MASTER’S DEGREE. 71ment is triangular, and on each side is a rough stone.There is a table before the East, covered with blackand strewed with tears.”The master represents the noble Adoniram,”, GrandInspector of King Solomon, he is styled Thrice RespectableMaster; he is decorated with the ornaments of Perfectionand Prince of Jerusalem and sits under a canopy,holding a setting maulThere is only one warden, seated in the West, whorepresents Stolkin, and is styled Grand Inspector. Hewears a black robe and cap, together with the order andjewel of the grade.The Master oi Ceremonies reprcscnts Zerbal,” Captainof King Solomon’s Guards. lie is decorated with agreen ribbon round his neck in the form of a collar, towhich hangs the jewel.DRESS”:~Black robe and cap; white gloves and whiteapron, with green flap. On the apron is painted or em-9Note tt,—”In the Master’s degree to some of the eontt•nental Rites. end in all the high degrees Where the leiCtidof the degree end the cetemoiiy of reception are inteflded is’~ express grief, the hangings of the Lodge are black streWitwith tears. The figures representing tears era in the formdepicted In the annexed cut. The symbolism is borrov.edfrom the science of heraldry. where these figures are celledguttes. and are defined to he “drops of anything that Is bynature liquid or liquefied by art.” The heralds hs,e six of thest charges.yin., yellow, or drops of liquid gold; white, or drops of liquid shyer’ redor drops of blood; blue. or drops of teers’ black, or drops of pitch; sodgreen, or drops of oil. In funeral hatellments. a black velyat cloth.sprinkled with these “drops of tears,” Is placed in front of the houseof a deceased nobleman end thrown oeer his bier; but there, is Inliasonry. the guttes Se lames, or drops of tears, era not psinted blue.but white.”—Maokey’5 Eacyolopadia of Freemasonry. Article Thays.Note IS.—”Adoniram plsys an important role in the Masonic slsietn.esPeclull~[ 4lIt the high degrces.”—Mackey’e EnOy~lopUdiA of Freemasonry,oniram~Note 30.—”Zerbai, (Scotch Maaonry.)—A name introduced In ScotchMasonry, in the degree of Perfect Master. Elect of Nine, and otbs’ra.The nitme is not historical. “—.-Morria’s Masonic Dictionary, Article Zerba,.Note U,—”The apron is white, with a green flap; sod to the middleof the ap ron must he embroidered or psinted, within three circles, acubiesl stone. In the center of which the totter 3 is inscribed. accnrdin(to the old ritusis; but the fiamarilso yeS end he according to the rilus.of the Southern .turisdiction. —Mackey’s incyoiopisdia of Vraemaaoary.&sticie Perfect Master.broidered three concentric circles, within which is acube stone, with the lAter “Z” upon it.oman :—Is of a watered green” color at the ~nd ofwhich is suspended theJEWEL:“—Which is a compass, open at the segmentof a graduated circle, at an angle of 60 degrees.All the brethren are decorated in the same manner asZerbal.BATTERY :—..Four equi-timed knocks; 0000.AGE —One year at openingand seven at closing,together eight years.nouu OF WORK “—Open at four and close at evening.MORAL:“—That we should learn to pay due respectto the memory of a deceased worthy brother.Note 8l.’—.”Tbe symbolic color of the degree is green, to remind thePerfect Master that. heing dead in rice. he must hope to reylee in rirtue.’‘—Macke,.Zacyclopadje of Freemasonry, Article Perfect Master.Note U.—”Hla jewel Is a compels extended sixty degrees, to teachhim that he should act within zuessure. sod erer pay due regard topatice and equlty.”—Maaksy’a EacyOlopadia of Freemasonry ArticleMasteg.Note 8S.—”A a. Ix?. Hours of work—open at four: close at close ofdsr’—Moxrte’ RLaenic DIctionary, Article Perfect Master.rote S4.—’he lesson is that we should ~57 doe respect to thememo~’ of s deceased worthy brother.”.....No~p,~’ Masoato Dlcticeaty, Ar.erfect Master,

OPENING CEREMONIES. 78OPENING CEREMONIESPERFECT MASTER’S DEGREE.Adoniram—(Four raps 0000.) Brother Inspector, I,the lodge tyled and are we all Perfect Masters?Btolkia—Thrice Respectable Master, we are all PerfectMasters and the lodge is tyled.Adoniram—Brother Inspector, give notice that I amgoing to open this lodge of Perfect Masters,”Stolkin—Brethren, you will please take notice thatriur Thrice Respectable Master is going to open thislodge of Perfect Masters.Adoi,iram—(Strikes 0000.)Stolkin—(Strikes 0000.)Secrelar,j—(Strikes 0000.)Treasurer— (Strikes 0000.)All the brethren rise and make the sign of admirationtogether.aAdo,iiram—Brother~ Inspector, pray what’s the clock?Sgolkin—Thrice Respectable Master, it is four.Adoniram—Since it is four, it is time to set the work-Note 35.—”1’hs 5th degree of tha Ancient and Accepted rIte. Thelegend of this degree Ia founded upon the circumstances of ICing Solo.won’s efforts In mtabiisblng appropriate obsequies as a gratefoi tributeat res’~ct to the memory of a worthy departed brother. The MastagIa sty Most Venerable, and npreaeuts Adoniram. The hangings aregreen; In each corner of the room is a white column; the altar is co,-ered with a black cloth strewed with tears. Tha apron Ia white lamb.akin, lined and bordered with green; in tha center of which Ia pointed.within three circles, a square stone, on which the letter I Ia inscrikel;the flap of the apron Is green. symbolicaily to remind the neophyte that.heing deed in vice. he must hope to reylys in vIrtue. The jewel Ia aeompass open to sixty degrees, the points on the are of a circle.”—Maee~s Mawslegaaila aM lietie.aV at F,eemaaem~, Aetisle 1esf~U-’men to labor; give notice that this lodge of PerfectMasters” is open.,Stoikin—Brethren, you will please take notice thatthe lodge of Perfect Masters is open.Adoninwa—(Strikes one and the lodge is seated.)Mote S4.—”(flootch Meso.zy’)—The second degree conferred in theLodge of Perfection, Scotch Masonry, and the fifth upon the estalogusat that system. There Is a master, who Is styled Might worshipful andflmpectable. and one warden, styled Grand Inspector. The forms,represents Adonlram, the latter, fitolkin, The degree oommemoratee adeparted worthy brother, The hangings are green. There are two pyra.aide at north and south, The jewel Is a gold compase eztends4 to sixtydegrees. The apron fa white, with the mo,ahis part green, Upon theformer It daUneated, within three circles, a cubit stone, exhihiling theletter 1 over a sprig of peecia.”—Ngs,Ig’ Masamie Diotlsmasy~ Astlole~erfeet Master.

INITIATION. 75Pl~O2~OtFIFTH ORCHAPTER VIPERFECT MMTU’S Duouzu.INITIATIOfI,PREPARATION OF CA~DIDATR.Zerl,~tl Proceeds to the Ante-chamber,and having prepared the candidate as aSecret Master, leads hun by the green cordwhich he puts around his neck, to the doorof the lodge, and there knocks four.Stolkin—Thrice Respectable Master,there is an alarm at the door.Adoniraan—Brother Inside Guardian,inquire who knocks.Inside Guardiaiz—(Knocks four, andopens the door.) Who knocks?Zerbal—One who has helpo’i to build amonument to hiram and who desires toknow the circle and its quadrature.Inside Guardian—Thrice Respectable Master, it isone who has helped to build a monument to Hiram andwho desires to know the circle and its quadrature.Adoniraeit—Let him be led in.maid. Guardian—Let him be led in.Zerbal then leads the Candidate by the green cordinto the lodge, and up to the Altar.Zerbal—Thrice Respectable Master, I now lead intoyour presence by the green cord of hope, one who hashelped to build a monument to Hiram.Adoniram—What Monument, Brother Zerbal?Zerbal—Thrice Respectable Master, the plan whichagreeable to the decree of Solomon the Wise, you hadthe glory of designing, having been confided to me, Ichose our most skillful and Worthy Masters, and setthem at work upon the most precious materials, and wehave erected the beautiful obelisk to the memory of himwhose death was so untimely and cruel.Adoniram—With what tools did you work?Zerbal—With the Graduated Compass, which enaabled us to measure and limit our labors with exactprecision so that all might be justly adapted.Adoiziram—By what science did you use this instrument?Zerbar—By’ the science of the Circle and Quadrature.Adoniram—What Circle?Zerbai—A sane mind.Adoniram—What is the Quadrature?Ze,’bal—A sane body.Adoniram—Does the Candidate possess these twoqualities fitly joined and balanced?Zerbal—He does.Adoniram—Then lead him with us to the mausoleumyou have erected, that I~ may behold your work.Adoniratn—(Strikes four, all rise.) Rise brethren andaccompany me. (A procession is then formed withAdoniram and Stolkin’ at the head, Zerbal and Candidatenest, and then the Brethren. When they arrive atthe Mausoleum, they form a half circle, raise theirbands in admiration and exclaim, “Jehovah,”]Note 87.—”In the elu degrees this Ia t1~c name of one of thoee ap.pointed to search for the crimluale commemorated In the legend of thethird degree. It is impossible to trace Its derivation to any flebrewroot. It may he an anagram of a name, perhaps that of one of thefriends or the house of Stuart.”—Maoksy’s ~cyolopudis of Freemsionry.Article Stolkin,

76 PEEFUOT XAmBRS uua..tdoninzm—Brother Zerbal, what feeling induced thbuilding of this Mausoleum?Zerbal—P.espect for the deadAdoniram~—Why respect for the dead?Zerbal—Because the dead body was ‘the dwelling sadsanctuary of th~ soul, because the Grand Architect ofthe Universe made man in his own image, and becauseour mortal members are the it instruments of an immortalmind.Adonirtzm—Brother Zerbal, explain the design andemblems of this monument to the candidate.Zerbal—The circle or balustrade which aurrounds thisobelisk signifies that man has personal rights, whichevery other is bound to respect: The Sixteen columnsfour by four, at the four corners, are the physical virtues‘which should adorn the person of every. Perfect Master,and harmonize with his conscience, which we thus explain:JStrength&condRe.istsn~Third Courage~ ~FbufthEnergyb (I.e AgilityI s—sd VelocityPrecisionAdroitness• ~ (Thee CleanliuSs ‘~• ~ r I~rstsS.~ I Second 1~eatness ~ J Second BDecency o~ 27drd ~ eslthTAird ~.Richness~ 1~bwI Sobriety I,, FoswtAThe three sides are Science, Beauty and Fraternity.The three rough stones are Ignorance, Falsehood andEgotism. They were rejected and condemned by thebuilders.The Sprig of Acacia,” is the vivifying life which pervadesall nature, and the Urn implies the intellectualMote 66.—The steels in the mythic aystem of ?seeinasonIl. 15pe-emlneoti.’ the symhol of the immortalIty of the saul—that impootaMdoettine which it Is the gres~~~eel~ of the Instltnilon to teach.”—Mackeys Enoynlopudia ot , Article Aonob.INITIATION.treasures, or moral conscience, or immortal soal, thebody of man contains.The Sword proclaims the unrelenting enmity we havesworn to the assassins: Ignorance, Falsehood andi~gotism, and H.. Z.~. 3.’. records, fii~t, the name of ourMasonic Master, second, the name of our Secret Masterand third, the name of our Eternal Master in Heaven,and the three united compose the perfect alliance,whichmakes the perfect man.Adoniram—Brother Zerbal, I congratulate you andyour companion; all is perfect and complete. To expressmy gratitude and to reward you both I will nowrecognize this brother to be a Perfect Master upon histaking the oath which obligates every Perfect Masterin the world. Is he willing?Zerbal—He is.Adoniram—Right Worthy Brother, you will thenteach this brother to travel.Zerbal then conducts him four times around the lodgeand every time he passes the East he gives one of thesigns, beginning with the Entered Apprentice, each onein rotation, (See page 77.) During his traveling thefollowing is rehearsed:SCRIPTURE RECITATION.“Remember now they Creater in the days of thy youth,while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh,when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them. Whilethe Sun or the Moon or the Stars be not darkened, northe clouds return after the raiil: In the day when thekeepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong menshall bow them~lves, and the grinders cease becausethey are few, and those that look out of the windows bedarkened, and the doors shall be shut in the streets whenthe sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up atthe voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musicshall be brought low; also when they shall be afraid ofthat which is high and fears shall be in the way, and

78 PEIlrEcT M.IbTER’S DEGREE. INITIATION.79the almond tree shall flourish and tile grass-hopper shallbe a burden, aiid desire shall fail: because man goeth tohis long home and the mourners go about the streets: orever the silver cord be loosed; or the golden bowl bebroken, or the pitdier be broken at the fourtain, or thewheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust returnto the earth as it was: and the Spirit shall return untoGod who gave it.”On the last round candidate is conducted to the tomb,‘md while he and Zerbal are viewing it, the following I.sung by the brcthl~cn:SONO.Come, ye sighing Boos of sorrow.view with me your brothers tomb:Learn from It your fate; to-morrowDeath. i,erhsve, may seal yourdoom.5ad itod solemn Sow oar numbers.While ,llsoonsolate we mournThe loss of him who sweetly slum~hers.?.loulleriisg neath the silent urn.May we all. bIn hopes pomseasing.Trli,niplnstnt lesre the lodge below;Crnus’.,l nlih every earthly blessinglor reutoved from pain and woe.Osie’. when full of life. he ne,i’rP eyed us,faithfol to her laws.!il.iv ue. like him-, be sealons ever.To promote the gl~tIoua coustTo the Er~alted power Almighty.~4.•ttlybreathe en ardent prayerus, ls~’ sacred mound tread lightlyWhile we wipe the felling t,’urA donira,n—Th~other Zerbal, you will now conduct thecandidate to tile altar where he will kneel and take theobligation.OBLIGATION PERFECT MASTER’S DEGREE.I—do promise and swear in tile presence of the(‘~rand Architect of the Universe and this respectable~ I hod gelneverto colflmunicate the secrets of this de-pee to any below the same, unless properly authorizedbymy superiors.That I will defend my rights and respect the riglltsof others.That I will strive to regenerate and improve myphysical ‘organization so it may become the fit instrumentof a pure soul and elevated mind and be adornedby all the vigor, grace, llealth and beauty it can possiblyattain.I further promise to respeet the dead, and finally onearth and in my body to build a suitable monument untoTruth and Jehovah.So may God keep me in righteousness and equity.Amen.Adonirarn—’Tis well my brother. (He then takes theend of the cord and draws it from his neck.) I divestyou of the last ligature which betokens servitude andgreet you with the sign of Recognition of a PerfectMaster on condition you will faithfully observe everything prescribed by onf laws.SIGN OF RECOGNITION.Advance each the toes of theright foot until they meet,bring the right knees together,place one hand on the ether’sheart, then bring the ha~ d towardsthe right side ana torma square.

80 IRENUCT x&wru a DEGREE. INITIATION. 61SIGN 01 ADMIRATION.Raise the hands and eyes toheaven, then let the arms fallacross the abdomen and lookdownwards.lug atriangle.SemS Tsbm.SECOND TOKEN.Interlace theforefingers ofthe right handspressing againstthumbs upright,each other form-Sign of Admiratiol.TRIED TOKEN.Clinch each other as in Master’sgrip, carry left hand between eachothers shoulders and press fourtimes hard with the fingers in theback and give the Master’s Word[mah-hah-bone.]TOKEN.Place one the left hand on theother’s right shoulder, seize eachother’s rigbt hand, the thumbseparate.BATTERY :—Four equl-timed strokes,MARCH :—Make a square by walking four steps andbring the feet together at each step.PASSWORD :—Acacia.SACRED WORD :—Jekovak.THE JEWEL :—Is a graduated compass set at sixty degrees,and with it I now invest you.Adoidrem—(To lodge) Brethren be seated.Adoniram.—(To candidate) My brother you will nowbe conducted by Brother Zerbal to a seat in the [lodgeIand listen with attention to our lecture in this degree.

82 PERFECT MA.BTER’5 DEGREE. LECTuRE. 88LECTURE PERFECT MASTflRS DRORICI~.Adoniram—Brother Stolkin,” are you a Perfect Master?Stollcin—I have seen the circles and the square placedon the two columns across.Adoniram—Where were they situated?Stolkin—On the place where the body of our RespectableMaster Hiram Abiff was deposited.Adoi&iram—.What do these columns represent?Stoilcin—The columns of Jachin and Boaz which Ihave passed to obtain the degree of Perfect Master.Adonirarn—In what part of the Temple were thepillars erected?Stolkin—In the porch.Adoniram—Have those words any meaning?Stolkin—Thrice Respectful Master, they have; thefirst is Cemented, the second is Strength. Besides thebeauty which they added to the building, they conveyedto the minds of those who entered a knowledge of thedivine attributes of that Being to whom the Temple wasdedicated. The Entered Apprentices were called afterthe name of the first column, at which place they metand received their wages. The Fellow .Crafts bore thename of the second column for the same reason.Adonirarn—What was Solomon’s intention in creatingthis degree?Stolicin—To excite the brethren to an active inquiryafter the bloody ruffians who had assassinated our dearMaster Hiram Abiff, the names of whom they were thenignorant of, but suspected they were among the workmen,Solomon ordered a strict and general search to be madeNote 89.—”Stolkfn. (Scotch Macoury.)—A name introduced In ScotchMosonry. In the ,kgrecs of Pcrteci Master. Itleet of Nine. Master Itiectof Fifteen. and others. It in not blstorlcaL”—MoniS Kaaouio Diatien.eq. Article Stolkin.aliiong them; and when he found that three of the numberwere missing whom they supposed to be guilty, hedesired Adoniram to raise a superb monument or tombat the west end of the Temple and place on the top thereofan urn enclosing the heart of Hiram Abiff well embalmed,of which none had any knowledge but the PerfectMasters. Agreeable to those orders the heart ofour dear and much lamented Chief was enclosed in anurn, and placed on the top of the obelisk until vengeanceshould be accomplished. Through the urn was a nakedsword, an emblem of the anxious desire of all the brethrento assist in discovering the assassins and obtainingvengeance. The body was buried in a separate apartmen:from the Temple where Solomen kept his chapter.Adoniram—What have you learned from the degreesyou have already passed through ?~Stolkin—To rule my actions, and purify my heart inorder to merit the degree of Perfection.Adoniram—What signifies the square stone in themiddle of the circles?Stolicin—It teaches us that our edifice should havefor its foundation a perfect stone, that is, that our conductshould be raised on a permanent and imperishablebasis that it may stand the time and test of seasons.Adoniram—What is the meaning of these circles?StolIcin-.—They are emblematical of the Divinity, whohath neither beginning nor end.Adoniram—What is the meaning of the letter “J”which is in the center of the square stone?StolA~in—.—It is the initial of the ineffabie name of theGrand Architect of the Universe and of the sacred wordof the Perfect Masters.Adotiiram—Pronounce it.Stoilcin—Je&ova&.

~184 PEUJECT MASThKS DEGREE.Adousdram—How were you eceived a Perfect Master?Btollci.i—With the point of a spear to my heart and ahalter round my neck.Adoasra,n~~~That occasion the point toyo~ heart?Btolkin—TO cause me to recoflect that 1 ha~ givenmy word to have it torn from out of my breast if I infringeon my obligation or reveal the secrets of Masonry.Adonimm—Why the halter round your neck?Stolk~n—To teach me that my humble situation shouldincrease as I proceed in U~asonry and virtue.Adom.um~How many signs have you?Btoikin—One by five.~~ernmm~Why one by five?Stolkita—In remembrance of the five points in myreception.Adoniram~-What do they signify?Stolkin~-The four towns which I made in travellingand fifth of admiration.Adra1fl.~~Wh5t is the meaning of the tomb youpassed when you entered this ~lodge1?Stollcina—’Tis the representation of the burial placeof Hiram Abiff.AdO%i7atfl~~What signifies the rope that comes fromthe coffin and extends as far as the Temple?Stolkita—The rope of green which the brethren madsof toraise the body of Hiram Pthe coffin.Adoniram~What were you taught at entering?Stoilcita—TO alter my ste from Apprentice, FellowCraft and Master, to cross t~e two columns.~J~~itGmWhy so?Stolkiu~-TO call to my recollections that it has beenby passing the first degrees that I have attained the tb.gree of Perfect Master.LECTURE. 85Adoniram—Is there any mystery hi’dex’. under thissignification?Stolkin—Yes, Thrice Respectable Master, it teachesus that we cannot arrive at the Sanctum Sanctorum butby purity of manners, righteousness of .heart, and thesecrets of the first degrees of which they are the school.Adoniram—Why did you enter at the side of theSanctuary?Stollcin—To teach me to abandoa the common road.Adoniram—What is the color of your lodge?Stolki*—Green.Adornram—Why green?Stollcin—To remind me that by being dead in vice, Imust hope to rise to virtue, and by that to attain thelast degree, in order to make some progress in the SublimeScience, a knowledge which I hope one day topossess.Adoniram—Who can communicate it to you?Stollcin—t3od alone, whose knowledge is beyond humancoxhprehension.Adoniram—What is the meaning of the two pyramidson your left?Stoikin—Egypt, where the sciences first took theirrise.A doniram—What signifies your Jewel?Stolkin-—That a Perfect Master should act withinmeasure and always be attentive to justice and equity.Adoniram—What’s your pass-word?Stollcin.—Acacia.Adonirom—What is the meaning of that word?Stollcin—It is the name of the plant that was placedon the grave of Hiram Abiff, and was common aboutJerusalem. It is the mimosa nilotica of Linn~us, andbelongs to the 23d class and first order called Polygamia.

86 .~ZEFEOT MASTER’S DEGREE. HISTORICAL. 87Adoniiu~m—Thank you, Brother Stolkin.A doniram—Brother Orator, you will now favor uswith the Historical Discourse of this degree.HISTORICAL DISCOURSE BY ORATOR.Respectable and Perfect Brother, newly initiated:Solomon having been informed that the body of HiramAbiff had been found, was happy in having the poorconsolation of beholding his remains. lie gave ordersand strict charge to his Grand Inspector, the nobleAdoniram, to prepare for the funeral obsequies withpomp and magnificence, and ordered all the brethrento attend with white aproas and gloves; he strictly forbadethat tile bloody stains should be washed away untilhe had wreaked his vengeance on the perpetrators of thathorrid deed.The noble Adoniram soon furnished a plan of astately monument which was executed and perfectlyfinished in nine days, made of black and white marble.The heart of Hiram Abiff was enclosed in an urn andexposed for nine days on the third step ascending to theSanctum Sanctorum, previous to the Temple being finished.It was intended that it should be placed on a beautifulobelisk built at the side of the Temple a little to thenorth of the west door, in order to mark out the placewhere the murderers had first deposited him in a pit beforethey removed him to the place where Brother Stolkinfound him under the sprig of Acacia.The heart of the excellent Hiram Abiff was embalmedand exposed to public view in the urn, with the swordrun through the urn. And there the brethren used tocome to express their grief on the oecauion by kneelin 4on the Ihst step ascending towards the Sanctum Sanetorum.At the expiration of nine daya the obelisk beingfinished, the urn with its contents was deposited on thetop of the pedestal.There was also a triangular stone on which was engravenin Hebrew characters I. ~.M..B.. The “I” isthe initial of the Ancient Master’s Word, the M.:. B.:.the initials of the new word; [Mah-hah-Bone] also asprig of Acacia figured on the top. Solomon after this,had all the triangular medals taken f~m the Masterswhen the Ancient Word was changed to the one we nowgive in the third degree.The Respectable Hiram Abiff’s body was interred inthe middle of a great chamber separate from or underthe Temple, with all the honors due to so great a man.It was in this chamber that Solomon used to hold hischapters and confer with Hiram, King of Tyre, on theMystic Art.Three days after the ceremony was over, Solomonsurrounded by all his court went to the Temple andafter having the workmen placed in the same positionas they were on the day of the funeral, he offered up aprayer to the Almighty, and after having finished heexamined the tomb, canopy and repeated triangle, alsothe letters which were engraven thereon, also the pyramids—whenfinding every thing properly executed, hegave the sign of admiration, which was repeated byall the brethren.This, my Brother, ends the Historical Discourse ofthis degree.

1CLOSING CEREMONIESPERFECT MASTER’S DEGREE.Adoniram—Brother Stolkin, pray what’s the clock?8tolkus—Thi~ice Respectable Master, it is evening.Adenira m.—Since it is evening and the work is finished,it is time to refresh ourselves; give notice that Iam going to close this ~ [lodge.JStolkita~-Respectable and Perfect Brethren, you willpleue take notice that our Thrice Respectable Masteris going to close this ~ [lodge.JAdoniram—( Four raps; 0000.)Secretary—(Four raps; 0000.)Trea.urer—(Four raps; 0000.)Adonirarn~—(Makiflg the sign of admiration.) ConaumaitsmEat.All—Answer in the same manner with sign of admirationand admire the tomb.Adoniram—This ~ [lodge] is dosed.HISTORICAL ANALYSISFIFTH ORPERFECT MASTER’S DEGREE.Pet. of the Origin of Freemasonry—P’urther Proof of its Popish Conneetions—DegreesFabricated for Political Purposes—The Fpnersi orLodge-of-Sorrow Ilegree—The Gibberish of Freemasonry Admitted byStandard Autbors—Steaiing and Mangling the 1VrttIn~a of Otbera—“What a Banter on the Human Race Ia Freemaaonrj.To understand this degree we must aee where we are.England, the civil bulwark of Protestantiem in Europe,had executed Charles I. Four years before,(1645), his son, and heir apparent, Charles IF, h~adfled with his mother to France; secretly joined thePapists and Freemasons; and by Popery and ~t1asonry,regained his throne; and Hume, the regular apologistof the Stuarts, says: “His character was, in themain, dangerous to his people and dishonorable to him—self.”(Hume II, 607.) He died .in 1685. All Masonichistories attribute his restoration in 1660, to Masonry,to which he gave the title of “The Royal Art,”because that “it was mainly by its instrumentality thathe was raised to the throne and monarchy restored toEngland.” (Rebold, p. 55.) And Mackey, (En~. Art.Stuart Masonry,) aa do other writers, abundantly confirmthat Mason-lodges and the Jesuites were united inuring his restoration. This was fifty-seven yearsLroc fore the London Grand Lodge bad centralized thelodges at the Appletree Tavern, 1717. But the publicmind had begun to react against the mad whirl of by-•3cts.-..Histortc,l tn?estlgatton. howeyer. has clearly demonatratedthat the present system of degrees is of comparatlyeiy modern origin,being totally unknown to the craft at the time of the reylyal In I?l7.~iglnally there was bat ens degree of InlUatlon, the msmsa of Apprentice.Fellow and Moater being merely the designation of classes of Work.men, and not of S a or ge.Au of InItIation.’ —4teinhaeaaeta PelgiaenS Easly Niatory , page US.

90 DEGREES FABRiCATED FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES.alty, universal corruption and Popery under Charlcs.James II, the runaway king, had followed his motherand brother to Paris. He made his headquarters at“The Jesuits College of Clerniont.” And, says Mackey,“The Jesuits played a very important part in these conferences.Reg~ding the reinstatement of the Smarts,and the extension of the power of the Roman church asidentical, they sought at that time to make the societyof Freemasons subservient to their ends.” And again:“During his (James’s) residence at the Jesuit Collegeof Clermont, where he remained for some time, his ad.herents, among whom were the Jesuits, fabricated certaindegrees, with the design of carrying out their politicalviews.” (Mack?. Ency. Stuart Masonry.) ThePapist, Ramuag, whose genius and learning put him attheir head, was the prime inventor of these degrees. (SeeFolger, Mackey and others.) And by scanning the situationwe can understand these upper degrees.The first degree, as we have seen, gave each old lodgeseven ‘secret Masters,” who, in the relative popular ignoranceof that time, could lead the lodges, as with ringsin their noses, by inviaible hands. Next came this Secondupper degree woven into the whole Rite as TheFifth. It was invented to bury a distinguished Mason,and was adopted as thea funeral, or Lodge-of-Sorrowdegree for the whole, (See note 26, p. 69 of this ~olurns.)This provides the burial of a Perfect Master.however vile or corrupt he may have been. The draperyof the lodge is funereal; the black hangings being goutedwith painted tear-drops, commonly the only team shedin such funerals, except those produced by grog; as thelodge has often no relation to or interest in the deadmason; but to use his corpse as an excuse f’r an advertisingparade, and to hide the meanness of its nature b,the sanctity which attaches to death.The master of ceremonies is called Zerbal, a wordsays Morris, which “is not historical.” (See note 29.)THE GIBBERISh OF FREEMASONRY ADMITTED. 91It is one of the multitude of words invented by Papists,Masons and Mormons which are coined out of nothing,as the words “Herodem,” “Mass,” “Nauvoo,” ete., whichform what is called Gibberish, from the verb jabber.Stolkin is another such term which figures in this dogrec;(Note 37) which Mackey says, “it is impossible totrace to any Hebrew root” (or any other human language,he niight have added). Morris, too, says the wordis not historical (Note 39.) And yet, amid these lowtricks of imposture, quotations are made for the sublimeportions of the Bible, used as funerals; thus literally“Stealing the livery of the court of HeavenToserve the deyll In.’ —Bbaksapeare.This Fifth or Funeral Degree of the Scotch Rite, like-the Royal Arch and many others, has been added toand modified since it was brought over by the Jew,Moi-in, to South Carolina, and woven by Mitchell andDaleho into the web of the 330 Rite.Some eighty years ago, more or less, there was an obscureVcrmont poet who published a little volume ofpoems which he styled “The Mill of the Muses.” Theauthor’s Mill ground the English language badly forthe moat part; but, as often happens to the unlearnedgcnins, one of the poems had exquisite touches of natuee.Its first stanza ran thus:HailITa sighing auns of aorrow,viow with we the autumnal gloom.Learn from thence your fats to-morrow,Dead, perhaps. laid in the tomb.This song, which became widely popular, sung inrural districts, at evening gatherings, and in booth,, atMilitia Musters has been plagiarized to help out thisMasonic funeral degree. When the lodge has marchedto the Mausoleum they sing a song, opening with thefirst verse of that old Vermont poem, thus mangled:

92 “wHAT A BANTER ON THE HUMAN RACE”SONG.Come, ye sighing sons ot sorrow.view with me your brother’s tomb.Learn from It your fate to-morrow;Death, perhaps, meg seal your doom.Some other lines contain borrowings from the samepoem, worse m~ngled, to meet the wants of the lodge.Then follows the ever recurring oath, promised andsworn, in presence of the “Grand Architect of the Universe,”“never to communicate the secrets of this degree;“ with the singular addition: “I further promise torespect the dead, and to build in my body. a suitablemonument to Truth and Jehovah ;“ which sacred nameis bandied about from mouth to mouth as “the sacredword of the Perfect Master’s degree.” Then after thecustomary batch of senseless signs, which no man remembers,or could remember, who does not make Masonryhis trade; the orator sums up by a silly, weak andshabby fiction bearing—That Solomon heard that Hiram’sb’~dy was found, gave orders for a funeral “ofpomp &dd magnificence,” “ordered all the brcthren tobuilt; the heart of Hiram preserved in an urn, placedon the top of an obelisk; and Solomon,” three days aftervisits the place, “makes the sign of Admiration, which isrepeated by all the brethren.”By this degree the words of John Wesley are forciblybrought to mind: “What~a baii ter on the human race saFreemasonry.”If the regalia and rites of the false religions of. theearth were not known to be gewgaws and humbuggery,aenaible men could hardly be persuaded that this funeralfarce of the Fifth Degree could be literally enacted.The elements of its power over mind are:1. It pleases Satan thus to degrade men made in theimage of God, to avenge himself on the God he hates.2. It degrades the Bible by fastening on it, in theminds of Masons, foolish falsehoods and fiction.3. It profanes the nature of death and funerals, makingmen wonder likc heathen instead of worshippinglike Christians.CHAPTER VIISIx’rH OR TNTIMATE SECRETARY’S DEGREE. 4This grade is purely historical and is founded on anevent which took place shortly after the completion ofthe Temple. It is not necessarily connected with eitherof the grades that precede it. The ceremony of introductionis lively and exciting. The lecture contains butlittle symbolic instruction; it is merely a recapitulationof the initiation, and ahistory of the events upon whichthe grade is founded, and together with the eleven gradeswhich follow, it is associated with the twelve signs ofthe Zodiac:ZODIAC AND SIGNS.Nate .—“lntlmate Secretary. (Secretaire latlme.)—The stub Gapesta the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Its emblematic color Ia black.ibowed with tears; and Its collar and the lining of the apron are ret’—~ehers Kaqolopeedia of rrsemaaeary, Jatiele Zatimate Ueeretsq.

94 INTIMATE SECRETARY’S DEGRUN. INTIMATE SECRETARY’S DEGREE. 95VIRGO OR THE VIRGIN.DECORATIQ~S :—The ~ [lodge] represents the audiencechamber of King Solomon’s palace, and ib hungwith black, strewed with tears, and is ‘illuminated bytwenty-seven lights in three clusters of nine each, placedin the same manner as the three lights in a symbolic ~[lodge:] East, West and South.TITLES :“—There are two presidents in this lodge, onerepresents Solomon, King of Israel, and the other Hiram,King of Tyre; there are two-other officers viz: ACaptain of the Guards and a Lieutenant.In the initiation, the first two officers only are present,seated in the East; before them a triangular table, on ita scroll and two cross swords. The other brethren representKing Solomon’s guards, and remain in the firstapartment.CLOTHING :—Solomon and Hiram are clothed in longblue robes with royal mantles of the same color, borderedwith ermine, with crowns on their heads and aceptersin their hands. The brethren wear black robes andcaps, also a collar of fiery red, from which is suspendedthe jewel.JEWEL :—Which is a triple triangle with an eye, earand mouth engraved thereon, viz: the eye on the toptriangle, the ear on the left and thc mouth on the righttriangle.Vote 41.—”Ite ofitoet’s aft only three: Solomon. Kin~ of Israel; flpam.King of Tyre; and a Captain of the Ouarda.’—Maokey 5 hoyelopalGia ii?leemaaonry, hillel. latimat. Secretary.‘aAPRON:—White, lined and bordered with red, with aacroll and golden triangle painted on it, and the lettersA.’. P.’. P.~. in the corners of the triangle.0 LOVES —White, bordered with red.JJATTE1~Y :—Twenty-seven strokes,by three times nine;00000000 0, three times.MORAL:“—Thtit we should be careful never to offendii brother by prying into his secrets; and the criminalityor eavca-dropping.”Vote 43.—”Tbe apron is whIte, lined and edged with redc upou it, ae’r,,ll cliii delt,; to the cortwr of the delta the letters A. P. P. The JewelIc ii chile with the asme initials. —Monte’s Masonto Diotlonary. Art. Intl.mate Secretary.~wote48.—~lts history records an instance of unlawful curiosity, the’punishment of whkh ~ca only uvertid hy the preYlous fidelity of thec,,y’,il’r. “—Maokay’s Encyolopasila of Fisemmeonry, Article Intimate Sec.retail.Wets 44.—””’he lesson. err. thet esYesdropping is unmasonic and thet~oicclliattonr~ its anger.~ —Monies Masonic Dictionary, Article IntimateSecretary.

OPENING CEREMONIESLrTIx~aTu Sucm~x’s” Duom.Solomo*—(Knocks 000000) Captain of the Guards, Iam about to open a lodge or audience of Masters. Doyour duty accordingly.Caf~zin of Guards—Brethren will assemble and formin the north.Captain of Uuarda—Puissant Sovereign, the sentindsawait your orders.Solomon—Brother Hiram, what is the object of ourassembly?Hiram—It is to instruct ourselves.Solomon—What motives have we for this?Hiram—The preparatiou of our souls for immortalityand love of God and man.Solomon—How shall we instruct ourselves?Hiram—Through curio~ity” ~andthe exercise of thephysical and mental powers.Solomo*—When do~ we this work?Hiram—From seven to twelve at eve.Solomo*—What is the hour?Hiram—Seven o’clock past meridian.Solomon-It being seven o’clock past meridian, in the1.5. 4S.—”lntimtte Secretary. Eloeteb Vasuay.J—ihe third degreeconferred in the Lodge of PerfectIon. Scotch Masonry, and the sixth use.the eata of that myatem; It is alto known as Matter by Curloelty.—Morris. Diotleasay. Artiste Z.tl..tt lewetasy.Nets N.—”The ceremony and legend are Intended to paeserve the 15.membmance of an Inatance of unlawful curteelty. the due munlabmeut of tbsoffender being averted only in coutideratlon of hia previona MaRty. 1kgdegree aim teaches that Matona abould cultivate the vlrtuee of 5Iie~g.Juatic., Humanity and Secrecy; and that In the ezecutis, of juetice tbehould not be unmindful of mercy.”—Maoey’a ZaqelegaeiIa eaiflletiemeq.5lreemasenry, Article latbmate e.retasy.I7OPENING CEaEI(ONIE8. 97name of God, and under the jurisdiction of the SupremeGrand CouncilT of Sovereign Grand Inspectors Generalof th~ thirty-third degree, in and for the Sovereign andIndependent State ‘of New York, and of the NorthernMasonic Jurisdiction of the Western Hemisphere in thevalley and by virtue of the authority on meconferred; I hereby declare this lodge of Intimale Secretaryopen for study. Together brethren.(All give the signs, and battery.)~lomon—Now brothers, Sentinels assume your positionsin the purlieus of the chamber of audience, takelodge, see that none approach without permission, andgive warning of all strangers and visitors.Captain of Guards—Attention Sentinels, salute;right facc; forward march. (All retire to the anteroom.)Note 47.—”Scotcb Rite, more familiarly known as the Ancient and Ac.cepted Seottleb rite. The degreca of this rite are, for the meet part.elaborated from the cyatem Invented by Ramety, who claimed that hofound them In scotland. where they bad been planted by Koighta of theTemple and of Malta on their return from Palestine. It I. neediest to mythat these pretensions have no foundation In truth. The Council. andLodges of this rite are governed by Supreme Council. of Grand inepectoreGeneral, of which there are two in the United state., one at Charleston.S. C • end the other at Boston. Mass.‘—Maucym Enoyclopeedla and Die-Memasy of rreemasonry, Article Scotch lit..

INITIATION. 99CHAPTER VIIISIXTH OR INTIMATE SEORETABY’S Duouzu.INITIATION,The candidate must be in the ante-chamber dressed asa Perfect Master, and when the Sentinels retire from thelodge, the Captain of the Guards ord~s one of the brethrento divest him of said dress. In the interim Solomonand Hiram appear, to be conversing before the triangulartable; the candidate is made to approach the door, toopen it slyly and put himself in a listening attitude,‘~ben the guards make a little noise at the door, whichbeing heard by King Hiram he looks about an4 seeinga man listening, he lifts his hands to Heaven and criesin a rage:Hiram—Oh Heavei~s! a spy is at the door!Solomon—Impossible, the guards are at their post.Hiram.—( Without making any reply, runs to thgdoor, seizes the candidate and dIags him in) Here he is.Solomon-Alas lit is my friend Joabert:” What shallwe do with him?Hiram—( Drawing his sword or dagger) His indiscre.tion forfeits his life. We must kill him.Solomon—(Runs to King Hiram and puts his handon his sword.) Stop my brother! stay your anger! 1know the man and his offense may not be so great as itat first appears. Allow me to question him in presenceof all the brethren.Vote U.—”bcabert, The companion of Solemn., and Hiram. The nameappears in several of the high degrees in connection with the above sea.tinned illustrIous Maaons.~ —Masoys Zneycicpaedia an4 Dictionary ef hue-•asenzy~ Article Joabert.Hiram—Do so, and may he be found innooent andtrue.Solornon—(Six knocks; 000000.)The brethren are led into the D [lodge] by the Captainof the Guards and seated, after having saluted theking by drawing the right hand from the left sl~oulderto the righthip.Solomon—Joabert,” what induced you to listen at theinviolate door of this chamber of secret audience?Candidate—Seeing this person (pointing to Hiram)who is a stranger to me, and suspecting the vigilance ofthe guards, I feared for your life, and held myself inreadiness to succor you.Solomon—Is it iiot mere idle curiosity’ whichbrought you here?Candidate—No.Solo.mo n—What do you think of curiosity?Candidate—(Answers as he thinks proper.)Solomon continues his questions, and when he is satisfiedsays:Note 0.—”cabert. This, according to the legends of the high dej~seswas the name of the chief favorite of Solomon, who incurred the diap as.are of Hiram of Tyrs on a certain occasion, hut was suhacquently par.dened. and, on account of the great attachment he bed shown to the personof bis master, was appointed the Secretary of Solomon and Hiram in theirUcut intimate retatlona. lie was afternards still furthor eromotril hm~Soinmon. and appointed with Tile and Adoniram a Provost ani Judge. Hedistinguished himself in his successful efforts to bring certain traitors tocondign punishment, and although hy his rashness be at first excited thr~anger of the king, be was suhacquently forgiven. and eventually receivedthe highest reward that Solomon could bestow hy helug made an Sled.Perfect and Sohilma Meson. The name is evidently not Hrhrcw, or mustat least have under~ne much corruption, for in its present form it cannothe traced to n Hebrew root.’ —Machay’s Incytiopasgia of treemasonay,Article boabert.Vote 55.—~~Ouriosity. it is a very general opinion emeng Masons thata candidate should not be actuated by curiosity in seeking edmiasion intothe Order. But. in fact, there is no regulation tier landmark on the sub.~ . An idle curiosity is. it is true, 11,5 haracterlsiie of p weak mind.ut to he influenced by a laudable curiosity to penetrate the mysteries ofan Institution venerable for Its antiquity und its universality is to be eontroilad by a motive which is net reprehensIble. Thare are. indeed, inlegends of the high degrees some instances where curiosity is condemned:but the curiosity, in these instances. led to an intrusion into forbiddanplaces, and is very different from the curiosity or tiosire for knowledgewhich leads a profane to seek fairly and oponly an acquaintance withmysteries which be baa already lasroed to r.pect. —Mackeys lucycic.gaedia of Freemasonry. Article Curiosity.

100 INTIMATE SECRETARY’S DEGIER. INITIATION. 101Solomon—Captain of the Guards, lead this person tothe middle chamber and detain him until we have de..termined upon his fate, and remember, let him comeforth when wanted; you will be responsible for him.Captain of Guarde—Attention brethren! (aU rise an4form in line when the candidate is placed in the centerof line.)Captain of Guards—Salute! (all salute.)Captain of Guards—Right face, forward march; (allretire to the ante-room and remain for some time.)Solomort—( Six knocks; 000000.)The sentinels enter with candidate and form in linein the West, facing the East.Solomon—Joabert,” approach the East. My brother,the good motive of your curiosity has found favor withus; for such curiosity’ furnishes through the senses, theobject of truth and matter of thought, hence instead ofcondemnation you merit a recompense.I had given the King of Tyre a province of my empirein compensation for the assistance he rendered mein erecting the teniple, but the people of that provincewere ignorant and poor, and when King Hiram discoveredthis he hastened to Jerusalem to reproach me, andhe entered this sacred chamber in an angry mood. Youobserved this and watched us, Hiram seized you, I, Solomonquestioned you, and your motives having beenfound good, we have determined to reward your zeal andVote 51.—Joabert. racotob Mascezyl—Tha name of this person is in.troduced into the degrees of Intimate Secretary. Provost and Judge. andGrand meet Perfect and Sublime Masons in Scotch Masonry He was on.of Solomon’s favorite attendants. He was made Secretary of King Sob.mon and King Hiram. Thu tradition with which Joabert is connected benrions and entertaininL~Tbe name la not hlatoricaL—KoariWs VasamJsDictionary. Artiols JoeVote U.—”OuriOsit7. Freemasonry has in all ages excited the curiosi~of mankind; and curiosity is one of the most prevailing passions in tbahuman breast. The mind of man is kept in a perpetual thirst sfter knowi.edge, nor can he hear to he ignorant of what he thinks others know.”—Kaoop’s Enayelopsedla and Dioticuiry of Freemasonry, Article Onrioi~gervice, and appoint you [ntimate Secretary to the articlesof alliance between us. Do you think you can inviolablykeep secret what we are going to communicateto you, and will you bind yourself by an inviolable obligationin the most solemn manner of your fidelity?Candidats—I can.SoZomon—Then I must receive your pledge andpromise.You will now kneel at the altar, plaee both yourhands upon the Bible, square and compass, and contractyour obligation.OBLIGATION INTIMATE SECUTARY’S DEGREE.I—do promise and swear in the presence of theGreat Architect of the Universe and this respectable(lodge] that I do solemnly bind myself by this oathnever to reveal to any person, directly or indirectly whatis at present to be communicated to me, especially tobrothers of lower degrees.That I will attend all the summonses of this(lodge] and confine myself to the laws and regulationsof it.That [will seek to know the miseries and wrongs ofthe people and strive to find the remedy.That I will endeavor to disseminate education andform the triple alliance of thought, affection and sensation,for the good of myself and all men. And should Ibetray this duty, may my body be delivered unto anatomistsfor dissection and its remnants remain unburied.Amen.iSoZomow—My brother, having contractedyonr obligation,and as the sense of consciousness is the intimatesecretary between reason and tjie affections, you arecharged with ascertaining the wants of the people andwith the execution of measures for their education, theestablishment of industry in order that from poverty,ignorance and wrong they may obtain justice, scienceand wealth.Arise my brother, I receive you Intimate Secretary on

102 INTIMATE SECRETARY’S DEGREE. INITIATION. 106condition that you will faithfully fulfill your duty, andbe as much attached to this order as the person wsewhom you have the honor to succeed in office. Thecolor of thisribbon with which I now decorate you, mustever bring to your recollection the wounds which thatgreat man r~ceived from the traitors who did so in-’humanly massacre him, and likewise of his blood whichhe preferred spilling every drop of than to reveal thesecrets I am going to give you. The jewel which is attachedto the ribbon is a triple triangle. On it are engraveda listening ear, a watchful eye and a discreettongue, which requires all masons throughout the worldto recognize your title to this new dignity.We expect, my respectable brother, that your fidelitywill be proof against all temptations and dangers, andthat this sword with which I gird you will serve to protectyou against any villain who would dare attempt tosurprise you into a confession of our mysteries.I will now invest you with the signs, grips and words2f this degree:upI.u.a~.SIGN.Raise the right hand, then drawit from the left shoulder to the righthip, thus indicating the fall of a scarf.Cross the arms horizontally, raisethem to the height of the breast andthen let them fall towards the hilt ofthe sword while raising the eyes toheaven.as’~Sh.n intimate Siirs.TOKEN.Join right hands, the firsione turns the other’s hand andsays, BeritW’ the other reversingthe hand again says, Neder,then the first one resuming thefirst position, says, Shelemoth.These three words might beinterpreted: Promise of aiY.mplete alliance.1’A.9B WORD :—Joabert (the name of the candidate.).lnswer—Zerbul.’ (the name of the Captain of theUuards.)flATTERY:—Tweiit=-seven strokes, by three timed nine,00000000 0; three times.Brethren, resume your seats and listen .ittentively tothe discourse of our Master of Eloquence upon thenecessity of the pursuits of knowledge and the allianceof the soul, the affections and the senses to create themasonic virtue of curiosity.DISCOURSE BY MASTER OF ELOQUENCE.My brother, newly initiated:The degree of Intimate Secretary into which you hovejust been received is purely historical, and is foundedXovr. C3~—I?~’rWL Ret,., j~s~ e eownaa*. A significant word In severalof ibi h~h ~Vote K.—”Zarhal. The name of King Solomona Captain of the Quardein the degree of intimate Secretary. No such person la mentioned inScripture, nod it is therefore an inyention of the ritualist who faheleatedthe degree.’—Maokay~a Rncyslopaedta of lreeznasonry, Aztiele lerhal.

104 INTIMATE SECRETARY’S DEGREE. INITIATION. 105Solomon, who happened to be alone bemoaning the lossof Hiram Abiff.Hiram King of Tyre, walked in so hastily, and seeminglyin so passionate a manner as to give umbrage to,and rouse the zeal of, one of Solomon’s favorites calledJoabert, whom you this evening have had the honor~ torepresent.Joabert being struck with the notion that he came withsome evil design against his sovereign, was promptedto follow the King of Tyre, and go to the door and listen.After the King of Tyre had entered the apartment ofSolomon, and had conversed with him a short time asregards their treaty, deeming themselves secure fromall eaves droppers, upon looking around Hiram per.ceived a person at the door listening to their conversationand exclaimed, “Oh heavens, we are overheard,” andon an event which took place shortly after the completionof the Temple. This degree, my brother, is not necessarilyconnected with either of those that precede or followit. It appears from what we can glean from Masotiictradition, th~t, previous to the commencement of theTemple, Hiram, King of Tyre, by a treaty made withSolomon, King of Israel, had agreed to furnish for theconstruction of the Temple, hewn timber, framed anddrawn from the forests of Lebanon by Hiram’s people;also hewn stones squared and numbered in the quarriesof Tyre, ready made and fitted for immediate use; healso furnished him with a large number of his (iiblim,stone cutters and sculptors, and of his setters, layers andbuilders; also with a large number bf cedar and fir treesto be used in the construction of God’s holy temple atJerusalem.For and in consideration of which, Solomon agreed togive him 20,000 measures of wheat and 20 of pure oil,year by year; and also barley, wine and honey, and uponthe completion of the temple 30 citiesTM in the land ofGalilee; and there was peace between Solomon King ofIsrael, and Hiram King of. Tyre.A year elapsed befbre the provisions of this treatywere complied with on the part of Solomon; and whenKiram King of Tyre went to visit his newly acquiredterritory, he found the lands poor and the people rudeand of bad morals, and that the keeping of it would beattended with more expense than profit. He thereforewent in person to Solomon to complain of the deceit;when he arrived at Jerusalem he made his entry throughthe guards and went hastily to the apartment of KingVote 55.—The legend of this degree refers to the cities in Galilee whichwere presented hy Solomon to Hiram. King of Tyre; and with whoaf Char.acter the latter was so displeased that he called them the land ot CehaL”—Vs.*e~s Zfe~elopaedIa of lasemaamry, Aztiole Intimate Isinetery.running to the doo~r seized Joabert by the hand anddragged him into the presence of Solomon, saying:“Rere he is.” Solomon, who could not doubt of hisfavorite’s trespass, asked him, “What shall we do withhim ?“ Hiram immediately replied, “We must kill him,~’and drew his sword for that purpose, on which Solomoncoming down from the throne, said, “Stop, my brother,stay your anger, I know the man, and his offense maynot be so great as it at first appears; allow me to questionhim.” Which was immediately assented to by HiramKing of Tyre.After King Solomon, in the presence of Hiram, hadquestioned Joabert as regards his peeping in at the door,he ordert~d his guards to seize him and conduct himfrom the apartment and to be answerable for him whenrequired. After the two kings were left alone, Solomonthus addressed King Hiram:Sire, this is the only person among my favorites

108 INTIMATE SECRETARY’S DEGREE.and lords of my .court who has a real and affectionateattachment for my person. I know him sufficientlywell to be convinced that the indiscretion he has beenguilty of, is less to be attributed to an imperativecuriosity than to his apprehension of any dangerousaccident befalling me; your~ looks, your change ofcountenance and hasty manner in passing through theroom were what excited his curiosity and alarm for mysafety. I therefore entreat you to recall the sentence ofdeath which you have pronounced against him and Iwill be answerable for his “zeal and discretion.”The King of Tyre knowing how agreeable it wouldbe to Solomon that his favorite Joabert should be pardoned,readily consented, and the two kings renewedtheir treaty, which was to be perpetual with differentclauses and prQwises on both sides of eternal fidelity.To which treaty Joaj~rt was Intimate Secretary.Thus my brother, you see what was represented inyour reception of Past Master by Curiosity, IntimateSecretary or English Master.LECTURE INTIMATE 5EORETARY’S DEGREE.Solomon.—Illustrious President, are you an IntimateSecretary?Hiram~—(Lifting his eyes) I am.Solomon—How have you been received?Hiram—By my curiosity.Solomon—Did you run any risk by it?Hiram—Yea; that of losing my life.Solomon—What was done after you were detected?Hiram—I was committed to the care of the guardsand expected to have sentence of death pronouncedagainst me.Solomon—Were they Intimate Secretaries or PexfectMasters?INITIATION. 10?Hiram—I was then ignorant of it, but have sincefound that my resolution, perseverance and firmness hasprocured me the favor of being the first initiated intothis degree.Solomc~n-What are the pass-words?Hiram—Joabert and Zerbal.Solomon-What do ~thesenames signify?Iliram—Joabert is the name of Solomon’s favoritewIlo listened at the door, and the other, Captain of theGuards, and each a commander of the twelve tribes.Solomon—What is the great word?Iliram—J. ~.E.~.H..() ~. V. ~.A.~ men~tioned hiletters.Soloawn—What were you before you were IntimaiSecretary?Hsra rn—A favorite of Solomon.Solomon—From what country did you come?Ilira rn—From Capule.Solomon—Your surname?Hira rn—A Capuliste.Solomon—I-low many governments did Solomon giveto King Hiram in return for the work done by his peoplcfor the temple?Hiram—Thirty.Solomon—Where were you received?JIiram~—In Solomon’s hall of audience; hung withliluck, and illuminated with twenty-seven lights.Solomofl—Wllat signifies the J.x which you see intim window?hiram—Jehovah.Solomon—What does the word signify?Hiram—It is the third pronunciation of the greatname of the Arehiteet of the Universe, which in this

108 INTIMATE SECRETARY’S DEGREE.degree signifies: “Let us return thanks to God; thework is complete.”Solomon-What signify the A.~. and the two- P’s inthe triangle?Hiram—The A means alliance, the bat P, promisq,and the second, perfection.Solomon—Why is the ~ [lodge] lighted by twentysevenlights?Hiram—To represent the 2,700 candlesticks whichSolomon orderea to be made for the illumination ofGod’s temple.Solomon-(Pointing to a screen or painting of unelaborate door standing or hung in the north.) Whatdoes the door in the draft represent?Hiram—The door of Solomon’s palace.Solomon—What means the triangle that hangs toyour ribbon?Hiram—The three theological virtues, Faith, Hopeand Charity. You may give it another explanation:say, Solomon, Hiram of Tyre and Hiram Abiff.CLOSING CEREMONIESINTIMATE SECRETARY’S DEGREE.Solomon—Brother Hiram, what’s the hour?Hiram—Twelve, past meridian.SoZo*wn-It is therefore time for rest, in order thatthe body may recruit its strength to resume its serviceof the soul: Hence I proclaim this college of IntimateSecretaries closed.Solomon—(Nine knocks, 00000000 0.)Hiram—(Nine knocks, 00000000 0; and the ~[lodge] is closed.)

HISTORICAL ANALYSISSIXTH OR INTIMATE SECRETARY’S DEGREE.Notbini bu* Fnl.ehood—A Fortune from Selling Memonic Degrcea—~~MoIea Meant than Meets the Ey~~—E~ibUg Protebatona to AstronemhaTeacblnl—A Government of wolvt.a Over Sheep.The name (Joabert) of the hero of this degree is gibberish,derived from no language living or aead,( SeoNote 49;) and everything concerning the degree isfalsehood. It is not a “legend,” for a legend is an oldstory handed down to be read; but this was made up byRam.ai, (see Note 47) to humbug and inveigle EnglishMasons into recalling the Stuarts; to destro~v Protestismand popular government. Its scene is laid in Palistineto give color of truth to the falsehood that itcame to Scotland from thc Crusades. This is not aharmless fiction but a falsehood invented for gain, as~vine,manufactured in a groggery, is labeled “Madeira’to sell. The soil of France was owned, with meagreexceptions, by priests and nobleg. The latter despiseda Masonry made by London mechanics.So this and the other French degrees were made tosell to these nobles. I-[ence Ramsai~ “claimed that liefound them in Scotland where they had been plnnted bylcnights, princes and nobles, returned from Palestine.”“It is neQtlleQs to say,” says Macoy. “thnt these pretensionshave no foun~iation in truth.” (See Note 47.)This cool statement by one of the first Masonic nuthorities,and Mccoy is such, would be fatal toany swindlingbut a false religion, which hoodwinks its candidateswhilp the devil “blind* their ,tzinda.” But fraud anAA IORTUNR flOM SELLING MASONIC DEG~ERU. 111falsehood do not tarnish Masonic morality and truth.Ra.m.ay’s degrees sold. He amassed a fortune whichenabled him to offer wealth to his Scotch relatives.And Mackey, who out-ranks all other Masonic writers,says of him: “All writers concur in giving the mostfavorable opinions of Ramsay’s character.”. Mid Chambers(quoted by Mackey) asserts that “he was generousand kind to his relatives,” though “on his temporaryreturn to Great Britain he did not visit them in.Scotland, though he sent them liberal offers ~f money,which, however, they refused.” (See the whole article.Rarnsay, in Maoke!)’e Enc7Jclopedia~)But this degree was invented not only for youngFrench Nobles, but for English Masons, who, with theirpredecessors, had sung ale-house ditties in honor of Solomonfor seven hundred years. It must therefore keepin line with the York Rite, or it would not be “Mason?!)divine.” Ramsay, therefore, wrote this SAomonic fiction,which he had a right to do, but not to falsify itsorigin to make money, nor to pass it for truth, with theaid of Jesuits, and the multitude of priests who couldscarcely read their breviaries, to swindle the ignorantmasses in France, at that time, “almost totally uneducated.”The Lodge room in this degree represents Solomon’saudience-room. The man with the gibberiph name,Jeabert, sees King Hiram going to Solomon with angerIn his countenance, being dissatisfied with certain landsgiven him in pay for his help in building the temple.Joabert, a warm personal friend of Solomon’s, creptafter Hiram to hear what passed, fearing Solomon’s assassination.He is discovered, seized by Hiram andabqut to be slain as an eavesdrQpper; Solomon inter-James, saves his friend, being satisfied that he is no spy,

112 “MORN IS MEART THAN MEETS THE EYE.”and Joabert becomes “Intimate Secretary” to KinguSolomon and Hiram.This frivolous fiction is all that this degree adds tFrench Masonry. So weak and worthless is it that itwould long since have passed to the tomb of forgottentrifles, in spite of ~itsnightly pomps, gorgeous draperyand mock-solemn oaths, uniess, from its birth, whileprofessing abstinence from politics and religion, it hadconstantly ,intermeddled with both. While the stupidMasonic masses and a few enthusiasts, who have receivedthe mark of the Image of the Beast in their forehead,have really believed it; the cunning leaders evermorehave had practical objects in view. So that it hasalwa~rs been true of it that“More is meant than meets the eye.”When royalist lodges in England were plotting to restorean exiled pretender to the throne, in their refreshinents,they would hold their glasses over a tub or vaseand “drink to him over the water.” And in France whenthis degree was in the Rite of twenty-five degrees, thenprevailing there, Mitchell, in his large volumes (Vol. I,p. 304), says: “Freemasonry not only became a part andparcel of the levelling schemes of The Illuminati, butgradually crept into the Jacobin clubs, and thus wieldedan influence in bringi~ig about the great Revolution.”True, Mackey says, (Art. Jacobins), while “Abbe Barneland Prof. Robison endeavor to prove that therewas a coalition of the revolutionary conspirators withthe Freemasons who formed the Jacobin Clubs.” • •“it is evident that the Freemasons held themselves alooffrom the political contests of that period.” But theweight of authorities, as well as reason and commonsense are against him. Lamartine, in his history of theGirondista, attributes the moat revolting crimes and1HUMEtTO PRETENSIONS TO ASTRONOMIC TEACHING. uScriuelties to the secret lodges of Paris; which he comparesto knots of poisonous reptiles hid under the greenslime of stagnant pools, seen only when their slimy coveringis blown off by the breezes of popular commotions.”But, in itself and its professed oljects, the mindlessfrivolity of this and other like degreeat, is only excelledby their quack pretensions to morality and science.What is there in this tissue of pompous emptiness towarrant Solomon’s dialogue with Hiram in the openingexercises. Thus:Solomon—Brother Hiram, what is the object of our~&ssembly?Hiram—It is to instruct ourselves.Solomon—What motives have we for this?Hiram—The preparation of our souls for immortalityand the love of God and man.And thenwe are told (see the Ritual) that “this, withthe eleven degrees following,” “are associated with thetwelve signs of the Zodiac ;“ a picture of which is givento save the degree from utter contempt, by this quackpretension to astronomic science.“A~ciated with the Zodiac I” And how? The Zodiacis a belt of constellations through which the suntravels in its journey through the year. And thesegroups of stars have received the fanciful names of animals,of which not one observer of the heavens in amillion ever sees or thinks he sees an image or likenessof. And in his zeal and desire to make a perfect Rite,and monopolize its profit, some quack pretender toscience, when France was crawling with newly inventeddegrees, strung together a Rite of twelve degrees, and,from the almanac, printed a sign of the Zodiac uponeach to make a perfect circle, and so tax and govern the

114 A GOVERNMENT OF WOLVES OVER SHEEP.rest. But why should this Sixth degree be marked withthe sign of the Vtr~qin instead of Aries, the Ram? Andthe next following with that of Libra, or the balanee.instead of Taurus, the Bull? We know no reason andnone is given to the initiate. Doubtless there ia nonebut the whim of the inventor, whose sole object is impostureand cheat. “Cursed be he that maketh theblind to wander out of the way; and all the people shailsay, Am.en.”—Deut. ~27,18.Thirty years after the invention of this degree in theJesuit College Rite of Perfection, Thos. Jefferson wasour minister to France (1784). These Bites had thenoverrun France, and Jefferson said: “A government ofpriests and nobles for a people, is like a government ofwolves over sheep.”The meanness of the thief who misdirects and leads ablind man out of his road into the woods to filch moneyfrom his pockets, is a poor crime beside that of the impostorwho misdirects wanderers into eternity who havelost their road. And such were the manufacturers of~this degree. Such, too, are The manufacturers ofall false religions. They cause their fellow travelers to“wander out of the way of understanding and renjain inthe congregation of the dead.” The only mitigationwhich can be plead for such false teachers, is, that theycome to believe their own teachings. But that no moreexcuses them than suicide juslifies murder.CHAPTER IXSEVENTH DEGREE OR PROVOST AND JUDGE.”This grade was originally instituted by King Solo.mon to aid in preserving peace and order” axrong theworkmen engaged in the erection of the temple, it bt’ingthe especial duty of a Provost and Judge to settle difficultiesand disputes that might arise among the workmen.LINRA ORDALANCE.DECORATIONS :“—The ~ (lodge) of Provost and•Judge must be hung with red and illuminated by fivegreat lights; one in each corner and one in the centre.The Master is in the East, under a blue canopy, surroundedby gold stars; and is styled Thrice Illustrious;Note N.—”Proyoet and Judge. tScotoh Masonryl—The fOuWth degreeconferred in the Lodge of Perfection. Scotch Muanory, and tbe seventh uponthe catalogue of that agate,. There isa master, styled Thrice IllustrIousWho represents Tito. Princ, of tbe ijarodim, tbe First Grand warden antiInspector ~f the 800 Architects, and a chief Inspector. representingAdonirem. “—Morris’s Maaonio ma~Icmq, Lotiole Provost and Judge.Not. 57.—”Proycet and Judge. The seventh degree of the Ancient andAccepted rite. Tbd legend of this degree is founded upon tbe princ.ipleeof Impartiality and Justice. After the death of the Grand Master work.man of the temple. King Solomon. fot the purpose of strengthening hismeans of preserving order among the vast number of craftsmen engagedin the construction of the temple, appointed seven Provost, and Judges, inorder that all complaints amnn~ the workmen might be heard, disputee set.tied and justice odminiatered.’ —Maceye Eneyelopaedis and Dictionary ci1seemaaear~. hUcle Provost and Judge.Note 58.—lbs degree was instituted hy Solomon. to sushi. him to pie.serve order among the workmen. The hangings are red. The number oflights is five. The apron is white, lined with red, and furnished with asocket; below the pocket, the cross keys. The Jewel is a gold key. Thelesson is Justice to all men. Age 4z16. Hours of work. break of dayeight, two and seven.“—Needs’s Masonic Dictionary, Article Provost anAJudge

116 PROVOST AND JUDGE.he represents Tito Zadoc, Prince of the Harodim, theeldest of the Perfect Masters and Intimate Se~cretaries,first Grand Warden and Inspector of the 300 Architects,whose office was to draw plans for the workmen of thetemple.There are two wardens, who represent Adoniram andAbda,’ his father. They are seated in the West andstyled Illustrious Brothers; the rest of the brethren areplaced to the right and left, except the introducingbrother, who sits behind the wardens in the West.CLOTHIKG :5—AIl the brethren in black robes andcaps, apron is white, trimmed with white, with a pocketin the centre, with a red and white rosette below thepocket; on the flap a key painted or embroidered ingold. The pocket is intended to keep the keys of thechest containing the plans. Collar red, from which issuspended the Jewel of the grade, a gold key.BATTERY:— Five strokes by four and one (0000 0.)SYMBOLIC AGE :—Four times sixteen.MORAL OF THE GRADE :—That we should render justiceto all men.HOURS OF WORK :—Eight~ two and seven o’clock.Note U.—”Ahda. A word used in some of the high degrees. He wasthe father of Adoniram. (See I Kings Iv, S.) Lenniug is wrong in eny~ngthat he is represented by one of the officers to the degree of Master inIsrael. He has confounded Abda with his son.”—Mac&ey’e Encyclopasil.ci lresmasoary, Artlele AMa.Note U.—”The spsrtmest represents the middle chamher of King Sob.mon’s Temple; the hangings are red, with a aky-hine canopy in th’b East.The room is lighted with five lights, one in each corner, and one In thgmidilie. Tho presiding officer is atyted venerahle Chief Provost add Judge.The siron is white, edged with red; In the middle ii a pocket with a redand ~hlte rosette. On the dsp is painted. or embroidered in gold, a key.The sash Is crimson, worn from right to left; from it hangs the jewel,which is a key of goid.”—Macoy’a heyslepeedla and Dietimay 51 Uses’maseazy, Article Provost and Juige.OPENING CEREMONIESPROVOST AND JUDGE.”Tito—(Strikes five; 0000 0.) Brother Wardens, arewe duly guarded?Wardens—Thrice Illustrious, we are; and can beginwork.Tito—Where is your master placed?Wardens—Everywhere.Tito—Why so?Wardens—Because God is omniprese’it, and his justiceis universal.Tito—What is the hour?Wardens—Dawn of day, mid-day, eve and night.Tito—(Knocks 0000 0.)Wardens—(Knock 0000 0; all rise.).Tito—This college of Provost and Judge is open;(all give the sign and battery rknocksl after which allare seated.)Note 61,—”Provost and Judge. (?revot et Jugs,) The seventh degre.Of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Bits. The history of the degreerelates that it was founded hy Solomon, King of Israel, for the purposeof strengthening his means of Preserving cider among the vast nuinher oferaStamen eugaged ~n the ,‘onatruction of the Temple. ‘i’ito, Prince Hare.dim, Adoniram and Abda, his father, were first created Provosts andJudges, who were afterwards directed by Solomon to initIate his tavcdteand Intimate secretary, Joahert, and to give hIm the keys of all the beNd.log. In the old rituals the Mastar of a Lodge of Provosts and Judges representslito, Prince Harodim, the first Grand warden and Inspeeter of thethree hundred archltects,”—.Maehsy’s heyclepasila at la’ssmaamsr. haM.de lrevest and Juigs.

CHAPTER XSBvxi~TH DEGlIEE OR PROVOST A~I) JUDGE.INITIATIOS.Tito—Brother Master of Cerenlonies, 3011 will nowretire and prepare the candidate jol’ initiation.PEEPAEAT1O~ Ok’ CAXDIDATE.Master of Ceremonies retires after saluting, and pro-~ares the candidate as an Intimate Secretary, andnocks four and oneAdontram—Thrice Illustrious, our tribunal is di..turbed.Ttto—It may be a call for justice; brothei’ Adonirain,you will send our brother Expert to ~L’Civito knocks as aProvost and Judge.Adonirem—Brother Expert, you will sce who knocksas a Provost and Judge.Expert—(Goes tq~ the door, knocks four cud one,opens the door and says:) Who knocks a.~ ii 1’rovostand Judge?Master of Ceremonies—One who has duli’ fulfilled hisduty as Intimate Secretary, and is now worthy of tileoffice of Provost and Judge.Rxpert—(Shutting the door,) Brothcr Ad~iirain, it isone who has duly fulfilled his duty as Intimate Secretaryand is now worthy of the office of Pro~’ost andJudge.Adontram—Thrice Illustrious, it is one who has dulyperformed his duty ai Intimate Secretary, and is nowworthy of the office of Provost and Judge.INITIATION. 119Tile—Brother Adoniram, has he been well examinedas regards his qualifications and been found worthy?Adoniram—Brother Expert, has he been well examinedas regards his~ qualifications and been foundworthy?Expert—Brother Master of Ceremonies, has he beenwell examined as regards his qualifications and beenfound worthy?Master of Ceremontes—He has, Brother Expert.Expert—Thrice Illustrious, he has.Tito—Then let him be admitted.Expert.— (Opening the door) Brother Master of Ceremonies,let him be admitted.Master of Ceremonies then leads him into the[lodge] and places him between the wardens and altar.Tito—Brother Master of Ceremonies, whom do youconduct?Master of Ceremonies—One who has duly fulfilledhis duty as Intimate Secretary, and is worthy of theoffice of Provost and Judge: His name is Joabert,Tito—Brother Master of Ceremonies, is he well versedin the signs, tokens and words of the previous work, andis he well qualified to receive this?Master of Ceremonies—He is, Thrice fllustrious.Tue—Let him give proof of his knowledge.Master of Ceremonies cause~ the candidate to rehearsethe signs, tokens and words of the previous degrees.Tile—Brother Intimate Secretary Joabert, I am wellpleased with the proofs of study and art you have exhibited,and will now proceed to ascertain if you are afit person to be a Provost and Judge among your fellowsand over your brethren. Brother Joabert, what isjustice?(Candidate answers as he thinks proper,)Tile—My brother, we define Justice thus“Justice

120 PROVOST AND JUDGE.is the equation of right and duty, between man andman, or between the individual and society.” What isequation? What are rights? What are duties? Whatis law?These are questions upon which you should reflect, toascertain wherein right and duty may be absolute andrelative, and wherein law may be natural or conventional.Brother Joabert, a most important question tiowarises:We have a very clear idea of justice. We may knowwhat it is, we may show its origin and necessity; buttell me how is justice to be attained, realized, dispenaedand established?How are we to ascertain that which would be justicebetween man and man, or between society and one ofits mcmbers, in case of contestation?(Candidate answers as he thinks proper.)Tito—Brother Master of Cermonies, teach brotherJoabert to travel.Master of Ceremonies then conducts the candidateseven times round the ~ [lodge.] On the first roundhe gives the Thrice Illustrious the sign, token and wordof an Entered Apprentice; on the second, the sign, tokenand ~vordof a Fellow Craft, and so on until the seventhround, after which I~e stops in front of the altarfacing the East.Tito—(To candidate.) My brother, it gives me infinitesatisfaction to have this opportunily of rewardingyour zeal for masonry, and your attachment for themaster of masters and this I do by appointing you Provostand Judge over all the workmen of this ~ [lodge,1for as we are fully convinced of your discretion, we donot hesitate to confide in you, and to communicate ourmost important secrets to you, which will encourageyou to do your duty in this degTee as you have done inIhe preceding ones which you had the honor of beingadmitted into. Brother Joabert, by accepting the degreeINITIATION.1SIof Provost and Judge you pledge yourself to do inipartizijuBtice to eyery man.To aid you in performing it the Expert will entrustyou with a golden key. It opens the tomb’ which symbolizest~e sanctuary of truth, the sanctuary of conscience,where the heart of Hiram Abiff has been deposited:it opens all the buildings and gives you accesseverywhere. But brother Joabert, before we present youwith this key, or before we entrust you with the means•f doing jwtice, we demand of you the solemn pledgeof every Provost and Judge; are you willing to bindyourself am we hare done?Candidate—I am.Tito—(Five knocks; 00000; all rise.) Brethren bearye witness to the obligation thia Intimate Secretary isabout to aasume, with his hand upon the balance.OBLIGATIONPflOVOST AND JUDGE.I , do solemnly promise in presence of thisassembly, and of my own conscience, that I will keep thesecrets of Provost and Judge; and that I will truly,justly and impartially dispense justice to my brcthrenand to all the world, according to rule and the best ofmy abilities; and lastly bind myself under the penaltiesof all my former obligations, to pay a just and due obedieni,eto the regulations and orders of the council ofPrinces of Jerusalem; so may God keep me in truth,equity, and justice: Amen.Tito—Brother Expert, you will now give brother Joebertthe key and conduct him to the monument.Expert then conducts him to the monument, kz,~eIsand says:Expert—CM.Tito—Ky (Elpert then risen.)

132 PROYOST A~JD JUDGE.Ezpe4—MY brother, these two words, Civi and Ky,are our pass words, the one means ask or knock and itwill be opened the other means arise or seek and itwill be found.The lesson taught is simply this: that justice is onlypossible through truth; to be just we must know thetruth. We should therefore learn to handk the keyof truth, and by investigation obtain evidence.Tito—Brother Expert, you will now conduct our newlymade brother to thc east. (1)oes so.)Tito—Brother Joabert. I now greet you with thegrip and sign of a Provost and Judge.i~Uh~d~Ih..GRIP.fingers of the right~~hhIIhhhPP~,PLack the two littlehands with the forefin-OjOpof P~o~o.t and Judge. ger, one of the other,and give seven light blows with Ihe thumb of the righthand on the palm of the same.SIGN.Place the two first fingers of the righthand on t~ie nose.and’s.U£flantt4~n.ANSWER.Place the first finger of the right hand.on the top of the nose, and the thumb ofthe same under the chin, forming a square.PASS WORD ;—TITo,~ Civi, Ky.SACRED WORD :—Jachinai,~ which is the plural of theword Jachin.GRAND WORDS :—Izrack-Jah, Jehovah, Hiram, Stol—kin, Geometra8s~ and Architect.Note 68.—Tito. A signifioniit word in the high degree.. The ScottlebIl~te rituaRa give the nnn~e of T~to. Pr~nee Harodim, to him who they saywarn the firM who wa~ appohited by Soi~mon a Proicat and Judge. Tbi.zion appears to be aRt.gethi’r inytb~c’aI, the word is not found in the~ebrew Rangijage. uor baa any menning been given to it. He Is representeda. baiilng been at favorite of tbe King ot israel. Be Is said tobave presided OV’F the Lodge of Intendants of tbe Building, and to havebecii one of the twelve illugtrious knights who were net over tbe twelieifibee. that of N.ipbtnll b4~Ing pla~’ed iiader Ida care. The whole ot thislegejid ii. of course. I’onneeted wilh the symboi~e slgnifl’fttion of tboaedegrc~s. ‘—Mackey’s Enc7ciopaedi& of Ereema.onry. hrtiol~ Zito.Note 68.—”A 08111c ‘orrnption of Shekinab, to be fonnd only in theFrench Cw.her. of tbe high degreea. —Mackey’s Enc~c1opa.d1a of Pro..masonry, Article Jaohinai.Note 64.—”Geometry. Iii the mocl~•rn r~tuaIa geometry ii said to beiho buala on which the 8uper~trueture of Masonry is erected; and in the-0ld Constitutions ot the Mediaeval Freewaaona of England the moat pi’omtI3M~t pRace of all the sciences is given to geometry, which Is made S~D0D7~luous wltb Masonry. Thus. In the Halliwell MS.. wblch date, not laterrbai, the latter part of the fourteenth century. the Constitutiona of’!dasoiiry are called ‘tbe Oonatitritlou of the art of geometry according teEucIid. the words gEometry and Masonry being us9d Indifferently throagb~q,ijI the doeamehi; and In the flarleian MS. It Is said. ‘ihum the craft(1eorn~try wis governed tbe,e, and that worthy MaatP? (Huelid) gale itthe I*Ime ~f Geometry, and It Is calied Mav.onrie In tbls land long atter.’In suothet part of the same Ms. ft is tbus defined. ‘The fltth acience iSaglied Geometry, and it teaches a man to mete and mesaI2re ot the earthand other thingR. which sciencE’ i~ Maaonric. “—Mackeys EmQalopmedi.d r.emai@n~, £rtiolo Gsorntz~.

324 PI~ovosT AND JUDGE.Tito——I also invest you with’ your apron, as an emblemof the ardor and zeal of the Masters. The pocketin the apron is intended to keep the keys of the chest-containing the plans.Tito—Brother ~E~pert,conduct our newly electedbrother to the altar and proclaim him duly installed aProvost and Judge.Expert—(Conducts him to the altar.) To the gloryof the Grand Architect of the universe, under the auspicesof the Supreme Council of the 33d degree of theAncient and Accepted Scotch Rite,” in and for theSovereign and Independent State of New York, I dohereby proclaim Brother as a Provost and Judge,.and an active member of our tribunal throughout tIleworld.T’to—Together, brethren. (All give the battcry byclapping hands, four and one.)Tito—Brother Expert, lead our associate to his seatamong us, to listen to our lecture.LECTURE PROVOST AND JUDGE.Tito—Brothcr Adoniram, are youJudge?a Provost andAdonirarn—Thrice Illustrious, I distributed justiceimpartially to all the workmen.Tito—.How did you get admittancc into the ~[lodge] of Provost and Judge?Adoniram—By striking four strokes and a fifth oneafter a little pause.Tito—What do these four knocks and fifth separatesignify?Nets 65.—”Anoisnt and Aecepted sit., or Ineffable degrees; first kneWUIn France, in 1755. as the Emperors of the East and West. with twenty.five degrees. suheequently these degrees were Inersased to thirty-three.under the title ot Ancient and Accepted Bcottlah Rite, at the city ofCharleston. where. in the year 1801. a supreme Council for the southernportion of the United 5tates was organised. 1. 180? another SupremeCooncil was established In New Toek for the northern nortioiz of ft IUnited 5tstea. “—Kacoy’s EnayelepsadlA sad Dfetteaaiy o(tesmaaesq’,Art. Rite.LECTURN. 125Adoniram—The four are emblems of the four frontsof the temple, and the fifth the unity 3f God, whosetemple it is, and to whom is due every homage from us.Tito—What did you meet with at your entrance?Adoniram—With a brother who conducted me to thealtar.Tito—What became of you then?Adonsram—After giving proofs of my skili to theThrice Illustrious, and taking upon myself the solemnobligation, I was conducted to the tomb, caused to kneeland pronounce the word Cit’f, which signifies kneel.Tsto—What answer did the Thrice Illustrious makeyou?Adoniram—He pronounced the word Ky, which signifiesto rise.Ttto—What did the Thrice Illustrious do next?Adotziram—He constituted me Provost and Judge,depending on the good account he had of my zeal forthe craft.Tito—What did he give you?Adoniram—A golden key to distinguish the degree Ihad received, and with this a sign, token, and word, bywhich I may be known as a Provost and Judge.Tito—.-What is the use of that key?Adoniram—To open a small ebony box where all theplans required for the construction of the temple arekept.Tito—What do you mean by this ?“Adoniram—I niean that we are only entrusted withthe word and secret to know where the heart of ourMaster Hiram AblE is deposited.TUo—What is your word?Adoniram—Tito.

126 PROvOST AND JUDGE. LRVTVRR. 127Tito—What does that signify?Admiram—It is the name of the firsi grind warden.He was Prince Harodim” the eldest of the Provost andJudges, and inspector over 300 architects of the temple.Tito—What was Solomon’s intention in creating thisdegree?Adoniram—As it was necessary to establish order andregularity among such a number of workmen, Solomoncreated Tito Prince Harodiin,’ as ~vaaalso Adoniram,who w~s created Chief of the Provost and Judges, andalso the King’s great confidant and favorite, Joabert,who was initiated into the mysteries of this degree, andto him was given the key to open the ebony box thatcontained all the plans of the building; which boxyou have seen in the degree of Secret Master. Thisbox was hung under a rich canopy in the Sanctum Sanctorum:Joabert was sostruck with admiration at beholdingthese things that he fell on his knees pronouncingthe word Civi.Solomon seeing him in this attitude, pronounced theword Ky, and then put the scales in his hands, by whichhis knowledge duly increased.Tito—’.That did you perceive in the ~ [lodge?]A doniram—A figured curtain with a canopy, underwhich was suspended the ebony box containing the plans.Note 6&—”Naz’odlm, PrInce of. In the old icetores of the Ineffahie do.grees it Is said that Tito. the oldest of the Proroata and Judges, was thePrince of Harodim; that ii. chief of the three hundred architects who vs.the Harodim. or additional three hundred added to the thirty-three hundredMenatachifli mentioned in Chronicle~, and Who thus make u 1~ the on.-her of three thousand iii hundred recofded in the first Bonk of ings. andwho in the old l9ctnre of the degree of Provost and Jndge are auppesadto have heen the Rarodim or Rulers in masonry. The statement is amyth; hut it thus attempts to explain the discrepancy alluded to in the~article Ka.rcdlm.”-NaehOY’a EncyclopaedIA Of PrOsElaSesey, Aticls Nor.cairn. PrincO of.Note 67.—”A society termed the Grand Chapter of ilarodim was fornudat London in 1787 under the auspices of william Preston. which hasserved as the model of our Schools or Lodges of InstructIon. A foil Secountof it Is given in Preston’s Dluatrntiens. The term Rerodim signIfiesprInces sad rulers. A side degree of ronsidershid! ropete in this enuntryIs lIkewise termed Rarodim. ‘—Nonha’s MasonIc Die*ienaqd A’tieLeNaredim.Tito—have ~ou seen nothing else?~ Adoniram—I saw a triangle in the ~[lodge] on which were these two letters GA,thus entangled.Tito—What do they signify?Adoniram—That God himself was the Gjeat Architectof the temple, and had inspired David and Solomonwith the plan of it.Tigo—What else have you seen in the ~ [lodge]?Adoniram—A pair of scales which are the emblem ofrectitude, with which we should always execute the dutiesof this degree, as we are appointed judges to decideall disputes that may occur.Tito—Where is the body of our respectable MasterHiram Abiff deposited?Adoniram—TJ nder the footstbol of the throne in thecllapter room, which is separated from the temple, towhich you go by an arch-way on the north side of thetemple.Tito—Where is the heart interred?A doniram—In a golden urnswhich is shut up in theobelisk.Tito—What mean the letters “X’, and “J” whichappear on the north side of your draft?Adonirf.syn—Xinxe” and Jachinaj:—The 1~rst signi.fies the seat of the soul, and the second is the sacredword.Tigo—Wliere were you placed?Adordram—In the middle chamber.Ttto—Have you done any remarkable work since youbecame Provost and Judge?lots 58.—’‘lIAza. A signideant word in the high degrees. DelanonytJuiisur. p. 49) gIves it as Zlnohen. and says that it has teen translatedas ‘the seat of ihe soul.’ But in either form it has evidently undergonemwh rorruptinn as to he no longer comprehensible. “—Kaoke7’a Encyclopaodiaof Fisemasomy, Artiala KIngs.

128 PROVOST AND JUDGE.Ado,tiram—I have ornamented tllc tomb of our dearMaster Hiram Abiff.Tile—What did the Thrice Illustrious ornament youwith, upon being received Provost and Judge?Adonirami—W~th a white apron lincd with red, withwhite and red roscs and a pocket in the apron.Tile—What is the intention of the pockct?Adoniram—The cldest Provost and Judge makes useof it, to put the plans in, which he communicatcs to theMasters who draw them out on their trestleboard.Tilo—What do the white and red roses mean?Adonira.m—The red’ is an emblem of the blood thatwas spilled by our respectable Master Hiram Abiff, andthe white signifies the candor and fidelity of the Masters.Tile—How old are you?A doniram—Four times sixteen.Tile—What o’clock is it?Adoniram—Break of day, eight, two and seven o’clock.Tile—Why so?A doniram—Beeause a Perfect Mt.ster, Provost andJudge should be everywh,~re and at all hours ready tobe at hand, in order to administer justice.Rote 69.—”Red is in the higher degrees of Masonry as predominating acolor as blue is in the lower. Its symbolic significatlons differ, hut theymay generaliy be considered as alluding either ‘to the virtue of fervencywhen the symhollsm is moral or to the shedding of blood when It I, historical.Thus in ihe degree of Provost and Judge it Is historically emblematicof the violent death of one of the founders of the Institutlos;while In the degree ot Perfection it Is said to he a moral symbol of sealf~r the glory of Ged and for our own advancement towards perfection inMasonry and ,irtna.”—XsOhsF’5 Enoyolojssiia d V’sssmaaeery, azuelsReLCLOSING CI~REMONIESPROVOST AND JUDGE.Tite—Brother Adoniram, what is our particularduty?Adouiram—The equity of judgment.Tile—How will you fulfill it?Adoniram—By searching for truth.Tile—Where?Adoniram—Everywhere.Tilo—When?Adontram—At all hours.Tile—What is the hour?Adoniram—There is none set.Tile—Why?Adoniram—Because a Provost and Judge must beready to do justice unto all men at all times and allplaces.Tile—(Raps seven; all rise,) Brother Adoniram willplease notify the brethren that I am about to close this~ [lodge] of Provost and Judges.Adoniram—Brethren, you will please take notice thatthe Thrice Puissant is about to close this lodge 6f Provostand Judges.Tige—Together, brethren. (All give the signs fromthe Secret Master up.)Tile—(Knocks four and one.)Adoniram—(Knocks four and one.)Abd~z—(Knocks four and one.)Tito—I declare this Z [lodge] of Provost andJudges closed.

HISki%ORICALANALYSISSBV~NTH 1)EGIt~E 01 )‘EOVOST A2~D S ULXiE.oing Into toe Loose as a STog moo a Snases Montn—a Silly, weakAnscheonasm—iateilectuai and Moni Ashes—Moore’s Description ofVaise Religions.Masons who have brolceil 4a eacapeil the snare of thelodge tell us: “You have no idea how different thosedegrees seem to us, aa you now correctly recite them,from what they did while we were passing throughthem blindfold; stripped beyond the verge of decency;surrounded by we knew not whom; oaths dealt out tous piecemeal in the night; and we conscious of ourphysical inability to resist.” Others, apparently menof average ability and sense, have said: “I never feelmore perfect satisfaction and delight than when passingor taking others through those interesting, solemn andthrilling degrees.” Outsiders are perplexed by theseconflicting testimonies, and either believe opponentsuf the lodge monomaniaca or misinformed. Rev. J.B. Baird, while an industrious, hard working mechanic,had paid four hundred and fifty dollars for seventeendegrees. Addressing our first national meeting inPittsburg (1868), after describing the agonized struggleshe went through to eheape the suare, Mid you willsay to me: “If the thing is so horrible why did youtake degree after deRree when you kneir what theywere ?“ “I’ll tell you,” said he~ “We go into the lodgeone degree after another, as a charmed frog goes into asnake’s mouth.”This is the analysis and e~pIanation of this SeventhDegree. In itself, the degree is so loose, low and uninA SILLY, wnai ANACHRONISM. 131tellectual, that a man of ordinary sense finds it a taskto read it. The degree preceding this should have followedit in the schedule, as Joaberl’s escape from thedeath of a spy, and his promotion as “Intimate Secretary,”followed the completion of the building of thetemple. Yet here we are taken back to the time whilethe building was going on and when seven ProvostJudges were chosen to rule the three hundred men atwork on the temple.And who is the first Provost and Judge? Why,e~Brolher Joaberl,” who did not receive the Sixth Degreetill after the temple was complete. He is here receivingthe Seventh or Provost Degree, to govern andjudge the men who are at work on the temple before itis done l Glance at the ritual where the Thrice Puissant,Tilo, says:“Brethren, bear witness to the obligation this I ntimateSecretary is about to take.”But Joabert was not yet an “Intimate Secretary” tillafter the temple was done. Yet he here receives the degreeas Inlimale Secrelary, to which he was not admittedtill after the temple was completed; which degree,we are told in the opening, “King Solomon institutedto preserve peace among the workmen engaged inthe erection of the temple.” But beside this silly, weakanachronism, the degree is an attcmpt to surround withawe and dignity; by sworn secrecy, the election of asimple f6reman or officer of the peace, when there isnothing to conceal but the mere fact and mode of theappointment. If this be so, (and it is), then how arewe to account for the fact that this weak and worthlessdegree, with others like it, has come to us from theJesuit College of Clermont in 1754, twenty-two yearsbefore American Independence, and is now the Seventh

132 INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL ASHES. MOORE’S DESCRIPTION OF FALSE RELIGIONS. 133Degree of the leading Rite in the United States and inEurope?A careful reading of the propnet Isaiah, 44th Chapter,will show why no absurdities in a system of falsereligion can be s~ absurd as to break the power of thatreligion over the minds of its devotees. The burtien ofthis chapter is a remonstrance against idolatry. Toshow its utter absurdity the prophet supposes a man toplant, and rear an ash tree; warm himself with part ofit, cook his victuals with another part and worship therest as his god. His explanation of this fatuity, how aman of ordinary sense and understanding could do so,he gives in the following words“They see not nor know. v. 9. They have notknown nor understood, for he hath shut their eyes thatthey can not see, and their hearts that they can not undestand.v. 18. He feedeth on ashes; a deceivedheart hath turned him aside; that he can not deliver hissoul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand.” ix £0.Now that the makers of these degreea have manufactnreda religion, is precisely as true as it is that theman made a religion who burnt half of his ash tree andworshiped the other half. Bare inspection proves this;and if he did not, Masonic authority settles it. Cunningham’sManual of this Scottish Rite, in the First or Secre~Master’s Degree, page 20, says, “Genuine Masonryis a pure Religion.” Masonry then is “a religion,” andbeing man-made is a false religion; and, if so, (here issomething in it which disables its worshippers fromknowing thetruth, as did that religion whose god wasmade from an ash tree. Then the words of Isaiah applyto them and explain how these ineffable degrees live,are kept up. That this Provost degree is intellectual andmoral “ashes,” one needs 6nt to read it to know. Ashesand the lodge bite and stimulate but do not nourish.And the Mason who practices it becomes color-blindwhere Masonry is concerned. “A deceived heart hathturned him aside, that he can not deliver his soul, norsay, ip them not a lie in my right hand.” Nothing butthe power and grace of God can deliver a man whosemind is sunk into that fearful condition.Moore aptly describes the devices of the false prophetsand religious imposters in his “Veiled Prophet ofKhorassan,” thus•~~fl~Q shall have mysterise—a7e, predons stut.For knaves to thrive by—inisteries enough;Dark tangled doctrines, dark as fraud can weave,which simple votaries on trust receivewhile th~ crattler teigo belief—thU they beUeve.~Moore resided sometime in Paris while Masonry wasat its height in the French Capital. And as his “FireWorshipers” ore a picture of the wrongs of Ireland,so the Masonic Mysteries of Paris a’e painted tothe life in the mysteries of his Veiled Prophet; thedebauchery, cruelty and fraud of the leaders, and ~hestupid faith of their duped and despised followers, who,like perjured witnesses, repeat their conned falsehoodstill they believe them. But their belief no more excusesthem than suicide justifies murder; when a mankills another and then himself. Men enter secret sooietiesfrom motives of curiosity, gain, friendship orpopularity. They come to believe in them by practicingtheir rites.

INThNDANT OF THU BUILDING. 185CHAPTER ‘XIEIGHTH DEGRU ou INTENDENT oi THE BUILDING.’SCORPIO ORTHE SCORPION.As the former grade was instituted to supply theloss of the chief builder and the Grand Superintendentand Administrator of Justice in the temple, so the objectof this was to provide in the place of the one principalarchitect, five others, to each of whom should beentrusted the care of constructing everything that relatedto one department of architectural labor.DECORATIONS ~ In this degree the lodge is hung withNote 70.—Intendant of the Building. (Intendant Sn latiment.) ‘Thisdegree Ii sometImes Called ‘Master in israel. • It I. the eighth in tbeAncient sud Accepted Scottish Rite. Its emblematic color is led; and itsprin$pai officers. acording to the old rituals, are a Thrice Puissant. repre.sentlug Solomon; a Senior warden, representing the illustrious Tito. oneof the Barodim; and a Junior warden, representing Adoniram. the sonof AbCs. But in the present rituals of the two Supreme CouncIls of theUnited Stetes the three chief officers represent Adoniram. Joabert andStoikin. but in the working of the degree the past officer assumes the charactor of Solomon. The legend of the degree is. that it was instituted tosupply the of the Chief architect of the Temple. “—Mackeys Encyolo.aedia of asonry. Artiols Ibtendant of the Building.Note 7I.—~’The hangings are red. There are twenty.seven lights, withfive additional ones in the east, where there is a brilliant triangle, enclosinga circle having on its circumference the letters .1. A. I B.. andin the center J. J. J.; also a blazing five-pointed star. showint in thecenter the letter J. The spro~ is white, lIned with red and edged withgreen. In the center a star with nine beams: below the star a pair ofbalanced scales, with acetic upon the fulcrum; on the movable part ofthe apron a triangle, with B. A. 1. in the angles. The Jewel is a goldtriangle, with the letters B. A. .1. in the angles. J. J. J. In the center.and on the opposite side the letter 0. Age SiTtiS. Hours of work openat break of day, close at seven P. M. The lesson is the sure sstabuihmsntof the rigbteous.’~—Merr1as Xsmio Diotionary, Article Intendant of theDuilding.~ed tapestry, and illuminated by 27 lights, in threegroups, one of five li~hta before the Junior Warden; oneof seven lights before the Senior Warden; and the thirdof fifteen lights before the President.In the,East should be a brilliant transparency, a luminoustriangle, enclosing a circle having on its circumferencethe letters J. .A. ‘.1. ~.H.’.and in the centre theletters J. ~.J.~ also a blazing star with five beams;in the centre the letter “J.”TITLES :—The Master represents King Solomon, andis styled Thrice Puissant: The Senior Warden representsTito, and is styled Thrice Illustrious Inspector.The Junior Warden represents Adoniram, and is styleAConductor. The candidate is called Joabert.CLOTHING :—The Thrice Powerful is clothed in royalrobes, with a crown and scepter, the brethren in blackrobes and caps.APRON :—Is white lined with red, and bordered withgreen. In the center of the apron is ,a star with ninepoints, above the star a balance. On the flap is a tiianglewith the following initials: B. ~.A.~.J.•.oiwu:—A red watered ribbon from the right shoulderto the left hip, from which is suspended the jewel;which is a gold triangle. On one side of the triangleare engraved the letters B. ~.A.~J.’. translated “FreeMason; 0! God; thou art eternal.” On the reverse areengraved the words Judah, Jah, translated; “Praise beunto God.”The jewel is suspended from the order by a greenrosette.

OPENING CEREMONIESINTENDANT OF THE BUILDING.Thru Puissant—(Holding a scepter in his hand)Jllustrio is Brother Tito, are we tyled?Tilo.— We are safe and secure here.Thric. Puiaaant—What is the hour?Tite-—The break of day.Thrice Pui.aaani—(Strikes five, 00000; all rise.)Tito— (With a mallet five raps, 00000.)Adoiaittzm—( With a mallet five raps, 00000.)Thrice Puiaaant—As it is break of day, ‘tis time tobegin our work; my brethren, this lodge is opened. (Allclap five with their hands, and make the sign of surpriseand admiration.)Thric~ Puiasant—(Strikes one and the lodge is seatad.)CHAPTER XIIEIGHTH Duonzu on INTENDANT OF T~E BUILDING.INITIATION.(The candidate must be barefooted when introducedin this degree.)Solomon—Illustrious Brother Tito, how shall werepair the immense loss we have sustained in the melancholyand treacherous murder of our never to be forgottenMaster Hiram Abiff? You know he alone wasentrusted with the decoration of the secret chamberwhere every thing the dearest and most respectable ofthe Israelites was deposited; there the ark was to be put.and thereby was the presence and protection of theAlmighty insured. Scarcely had this great man setabout this important work when he was snatched fromus by the most horrid and infamous plot. We musttherefore endeavor to repair the loss of our worthy Hi.ram Abiff. The fine works of the inner chamber are unfinished,and all is in confusion in the sanctuary. MostIllustrious Brother Tito, give me your advice what todo on this occasion.Tito—Thrice Puissant, I am fully convinced of theloss we have sustained, and of the difficulty to repair it,In my opinion the only resource we have left is to appointa chief for each of the five orders of architecture,and that we should all unite in giving every assistancein our power toward completing this third secret chamber.

138 INTENDANT OF THU BUILDING.Solomon—Most Illustrious Brother Tito, your adviceis too good to be neglected, and to show yoi. how much.1 am swayed by it, I will now appoint you, brotherAdoniram and Abda to inspect and conduct the work.You will now send to the middle chamber and see ifthere are any of the chiefs of the five orders of a~’chiteo- Iture there “dead to sin and vice.”Ts’to—Brother Expert, you will repair to the middlechamber and see if there are any of the chiefs of thefive orders of architecture there dead to sin and vice.Expert—(Goes to door and knocks five; 00000.)Master of Ceremonies—{Knocks 00000 from within.)Kxpert—(Opens the door) Are there any of the chiefsof the five orders of architecture here dead to sin andvice?Master of Ceremonies—(Fol, candidate) Therc is onehere—Joabert, dead to sin and vice.Expert—Brother Joabert, are you possessel of zealenough to apply with scrupulous attention to the workwhich the Thrice Puissant will commit to your care?Master of Ceremonies—(For Joabert.) I look upon itas the greatest happiness and advantage that I can beblessed with, to have an opporunity with him in thegreat and glorious object which he proposes; that oferecting a temple to the Almighty, worthy of his glory.&pert—(Shuts the door) Thrice Illustrious there isin the ante-chamber one who says he is dead to sin andvice and looks upon it as the greatest happiness and advantagehe can be blessed with to have an opportunityof assisting in the great and glorious object which isproposed to him; that of erecting a temple to theAlmighty worthy of his glory.Solomon—Let him be admitted.Expert— (Knocks 00000.)INITIATION. 189Master of Cerernonies—(Knocks 00000 from within.)Ezpert—( Opens the door,) Let him be admitted.He then leads him five times around the [lodgejand then by five steps of exactitudc to the altar,Solomo.n—(To candidate,) I will restore thy Judgesas at first, and thy councilors as at ttie teginnxng. Thelight of the righteous shall be established, for the Lordgiveth wisdom; out of his mouth conieth undelstandingand knowledge. Then shhlt thou understand righteousness,judgment and equity, yea every good path.Brother Expert, you will now present the candidatewith a sprig of acacia; cause him to lie down and coverhim with a red veil. (Order is obeyed.)Solomon—My brother, you now personate again, dosbert,one of the most skillful artisans employed in theconstruction ofthe temple. HiramAbjif hadiiot at the timeJosben Petsonaung niram AbIS Dead W Sin and he was murdered.vice.finished the fine works of the inner chamber and Holyof Holies.The beautiful symmetry he nad designed was to oercalized and the utensils that were to be made, were toavoid all disarray and confusion in use.Joabert was selected to take Hiram’s office as he possessedscience and skill of the highest order. He wasthe ablest in the use of numbers and measurement ofwork, but the letters upon the designs prepared by Hirambelonged to the lost word, and it was necessary to knowthrt word to understand the designs. My brother, doyou know that word?Candidate—I ~ not.

140 INTENDANT OF THE BUILDING. INITIATION. 141Solomon—Alas! my brother, the loss of that word isthe cause of the greatest disorder and is productive ofserious errors; and it is with the hope that by the scienceof numbers you will be able to recover tihe lost key tothe designs that we have sent for you.Hence it is, that in your present posture you ate madeto take the place of the deceased master; hence it is thatwe consider you as “dead to sin and vice,” and hope tosee you “alive to virtue and truth.”Brother Expert, you will now cause the candidate torise and place him in a fitting posture to contract hisobligation.Expert raises the candidate, uncovers him and causeshim to kneel on a square flat stone opposite the triangulartable, behind which brother Tito stands, and in thatposture he contracts his obligation.OBLIGATION INTENDANT OP THE BUILDING.I— promise and swear in the presence of th~ GreatArchitect of the Universe, and of the Thrice fliustriousBrethren here present, ever to keep inviolably secretthe mysteries which shall be revealed to me.And to observe all such rules as shall be prescribed tome by the Grand Council of Princes of Jerusaleir., underthe penalties of all my former obligations, besidesthat of having my body cut in two and my bowels tornout. So God help and maintain me in equity and justice.Amen, Amen, Amen.As soon as the candidate has taken the obligation,Expert covers him with, the veil, raises him and seatshim on a stool in the middle of the lodge facing theThrice Puissant.Thrici~ Puissant—My dear brother, Solomon beingwilling and desirous of carrying out to the highest do.gree of perfection possible the work commenced byHiram Abiff, thought proper for effecting this businessto employ the five chiefs of the five orders of architecture,assisted by three Princes: Tito, Abda, and Adoniram,his son. He was well convinced of their zeal andabilities, land hoped soon to see their work completed ina masterly manner. We flatter ourselves my brother thatyou will contribute with all your might to this greatend. Your having once represented a dead man mustnow be to you as an emblem, that in order to succeed inthis great work and execute it with the same spirit asour respectable Master Hiram Abiff would have done,you must also be possessed with the same spirit andresolution as he was; which is to prefer death ratherthan divulge the mysteries of the order. We sincerelyhope you will follow this praiseworthy example.In this degree your duty ;~ Io study the principles oforder, to find what are the laws of order as applied byman to himself, to moral conduct, to mental operations,to acquisition of knowledge and as a consequence tolearn the doctrines and uses of prudence and the differencebetween prudence and fear. In the previous degreesyou acquired the seven points of exactitude, viz:First—As an Apprentice you learned the use of themallet of strength.Second—As a Fellow Craft you handled the chiseland other implements of wisdom.Third—As a Master you used the trowel of bernity.Fourth—As a Secret Master you carried the urn ofself-examination.Fifth—As a Perfect Master you adjusted the keystonewhich joins a sound mind and a sound body.Sixth—As an Intimate Secretarg you opened thescroll of objective knowledge or education.Seventh—As a Provost and dudge you set up thescales of justice and equity.

142 INTUNDANT OF THE BUIWI ~G. INITIATION. 141Behold now upon the altar those scales o( justice areplaced upon a new trestleboard representing the multiplicationtable invented by Pythagoras, and this is toremind you that arithmetic is the first of sciences andthat the Intendant of Buildings received the first scientificdegree of Freemasonry and must know that numbersdisclose the order and harmony of nature.I will now raise you, uot as you were raised before,but as Hiram was raised by Stolkin, under the sprig ofacacia.He then takes the candidate’s right elbow in his lefthand and with the right hand the Master’s grip’ and bythree different pulls lift him up from the stool andthrows off the red veil.Thrice Puissant—Illustrious Brother Tito, you willnow invest our new brother with the signs, grips andwords of this degree.Interlace the fingers of both hands,turn the palms upwards, let the handsfall on the waist, look upwards andsay, Alcar.SIGNS.Place the thumbs on the temples, thehands open so as to form a square,. stepbackwards two paces, step forward twop&ces, then place the hands over the eyesand say, Ben-Rorim.”Place the right hand on the heart, theleft on the hip, balance thrice with theknees, one says Jai, the other says Jak.”Sign of OrbS.sign of5urpstm.Intendant of BulidbgiNote U.—”Deuhhwlm. Corruptly spelled benehorlm jn ~ of the .10rituals. A signiScant wor In the h~h r~sea. probably signifying entb~t Is f ebnrn.’—XaOha75 EnCy Free.aeaq. ~tieje*enhhw~Note W.—”Ual@nides calls it the two-letter name. and darivee itfrom the Tetragrammaton, of which he says it is an abbreviatIon. Coherehave denied this and amert that Jah I. a name independant of Jeho,ah.hut expressIng the aa~e idea @f the Divine hience. It is uniformly tram.isted in the authorized version of the Bible by the word Lad. heing thr.considered as synonymous with Jehovah, except in Psalm lxviii. 4. wherethe original word is preserved: Extol him that rideth. upon the heavemby his name JAH.’ upon which the Targum eamment is: Extol him whouitteth on the throne of glory in the ninth heaven; YAN is his asms. “—Leeheys 3noyelo~eedia of lreemaaoasy. Axtisle Uah.

144 INTNDANT OF TUB BUILDING. INITIATION. 141STOKEN.Strike one with the righthand over the other’s heart,pass the right hand under theleft arm, then seize the rightshoulder with the left hand,one says Jachinai, the otherJudah.”9b. lateadant ofInfldiag.JATTINY :—Five equi-timed strokes; 00000.MARCH :—Five equal steps. The Intendant of theBuilding ascends “the seven steps of exactitude” and“knows the five points of fidelity.”AGE :—Three times nine years.HOUNS OF woux :—From daylight till seven in theevening.MORAL :—That we should apply ourselves with zealand energy to whatever work may be allotted us in thetemple, remembering that the Lord Creator seeth.worn :—Are those given with the token.You will now be conducted to our Thrice Illustriouswho will invest you with the apron, sash and jewel.Thrice Pui.sant—My brother, I now present you withNote 14.—ladah. The whole of Palestine was sometimes called theland of Judsh. became Judab was a distinguished tribe in obtaining posstesion of the country. The tribe of Judab bore a lion In its standard, andhenes the Masonic allusion to the Uon of the tribe of Judab. See alasGenesis xlix. 9, ~J.’.ah is a lions wbelp~ U5e~’a ~qeAsgaeiia atlsemesemry. kt,o~ Juia~.the apron and’sash and the jewel of this degree, whichis a golden triangle. The letters on said jewel are indicativeof the pass word of this degree, the other symboleare already familiar to you.Thrice Illustrious—Brother Expert you will conductour new brother to the altar a~d proclaim him an Intendantof the Buildings and require all brethren to respectand o1~ey him as such.Rzpert—(Conducts him to the altar, and says:) Tothe glory of the Grand Ariihitect of the Universe, underthe auspice. of the Supreme Council of the SSd degreeef the Ancient and Accepted Scotch Rite, in and for theSovereign and Independent State of New~ York I dohereby proclaim Brother—rzs an intendant of theBuildings and I do hereby require all brethren to reapedand obey him as such.)Thrice Illustrious—Together brethren, (All give thebattery by clapping hands five equal times.)Thrice Illuatrtoua—Brother Expert you will nowconduct our brother to his seat among us.Expert conducts him to the East and seats him.LECTURE INTENDANT OF THE BUILDING”Solomon—Brother Tito, are you an Intendant of theBuilding or Master in Israel?Tsto—I have talcen the five steps of exactitude, Ihave penetrated into the inner part of the temple, Ihave seen the Hebrew characters, the three mysteriousJ’s without knowing what they meant.Note I5—’Iate~at at the Building, sometimes called Master IsImel. The eighth degree in the Ancient and Accepted rite. The body incalled a Lodge, and its decorations are crimson; the room Is lighted withEl lights, arranged in three groups of 9 each, and each group forming atriple triangle; on the altar are 5 other lights. The Master is styledThrice Potent, and represents ICing Solomon. This depe. was ihatitutedply the loss of the chief archiect of the temple. — a Zazeole.sad Dietiemy of 1remaaonay~ 4rilels htesdant of tie Building.~

146 INTENDANT OF THE BUILDING. LECTUEB. i47Solomon—How were you receivea?Tito—By acknowledging my ignorance.Solomon—Why were you raised in that degree?Tito—In order to dispel the darkness in which I wasimmersed, and~ to get such light as would regt4ate myheart and enlighwn my understanding.Solomon—Into what place were you introduced?Tito—Into a place full of want and charms, wherevirtue and sovereign wisdom reside.Solomon—What is the duty of Intendant of theBuildings?Tito—Their duty is to keep the brethren steady inthe practice of virtue, by setting them good examplesand to correct their works.Solomon-~.—Why is it required in this degree, beforeyou are admitted, to show that you are acquainted withthe three first degrees in masonry?Tito—To show that it is only gradually we can arriveat perfect ion.Solomon—What do you learn from those three degrees?Tito—The first teaches me moral, the second political,and the third heroic virtue.Solomon—.—Why have you been obliged to take stepsbackwards and forwards in your different degrees?Tito.—To show that the progress toward virtue is slowand gradual, and that by humility we must curb thatpride which is so natural to us, before we can presumeto hope for perfection, and also that we must judge soimpartially of our actions, anl so effectually govern ourpassions, as not to leave anything exceptionable in ourconduct.Solomon—Can you explain the mysteries of our lodge?Tito—I shall endeavor in the best manner I can.Solomon—What do the three mysterious letters Inyour jewel signify?Tito—Judah, Jah, signifying praise be unto God,the third “J,” in the middle of the triangle of the blazingstar is the initial of the sacred and present namelessword.Solomon—What does the circle on the inside of thethird triangle signify?Tito—Thc immensity of God who had neither beginningnor ending.Solonzon—What do the three letters on the inside ofthe circle mean?Tito—Oh! thou eternal alone possessest the attributesof the divinity.Solomon—What are the chief attributes of the divinity?Tita—Beauty (6 letters) Wisdome (7) BoundlessAtercy (14) Omniscience (11) Eternity (8) Perfection(10) Justice (7) Compassion (10) Creation (8). Theseattributes form the number of eighty-one (81.)Solomon—Explain the square of nine to me whichyou see in the triple triangle.Tito—There are in the first nine, 3 attributes, thereare in the second nine, 3 attributes, there are in thethird nine, 3 attributes. And if these are in three columnaand added together, form a square of eighty-one.Solomon—Why do you place Solomon in the temple?Tito—In memory of his being the first who consecrateda temple to the Lord.Solomon—Why do you place a Brazen Sea in thetemple?Tita—To let us know that the temple of God is holyaiid tbt~t we must not enter it before we have been pun..fled from all uncleanliness.

148 INTENDANT OP THE BUILDING. LECTURE. 149Solomon—What does the left side of the temple signify?Tito—Masonry under all the law of types and ceremonies.Solomon—What does the right side of the templesignify?Tito—True masonry under the law of Grace andTruth.Solomon—Why do you place St. John the Baptiston the right side?Tito—Beeause he was the fore-runner of the templewhich .the Lord had ehosen to reside in.Solomon-What is the meaning of the tomb which isunder the threshold of the door of the Sanctuary in thedegree of Provost and Judge?Tito—It was to us an emblem that we may be purifledby death before we ean enter the mansion of bliss.Solomon—What does the eandlestiek with 7 branehessignify?Tito—The presence of the Holy Spirit in the heartsof those that observe faithfully the laws.Solomon—Why were you barefooted at the time ofyour reception?Tito—Beeause Moses was barefooted when he enteredthe holy land.Solomon—What did you hear before you entered the~ [lodge]?Tito—Five great knocks.Solomon—What do they denote?Tito—The five points of Felieity.Solomon—What happened in consequence of themand what was done to you?Tito—The Expert immediately appeared, who sup.ported and carried me around the temple five time..Solomon—What was his intention in so doing?rito—That I might have an opportunity of admiringits beauties.Solomon-What ideas oceurred to you on this oecasion?Tito—Surprise, wonder and grief took possession ofmy mind at that time.Solomon-Why were you thus affected?Tito—I was thus affeeted at the sight of what I sawin the blazing star.Solomon-Pray, what could that be?Tito—The ineffable name of the Grand Arehitect ofthe Uni~i~e.Solomon—Why had that star only five rays?Tito—It was to show that in the construetion of thetemple, the five orders of arehitecture were made use of;secondly, to represent the five points of Felicity; thirdly,the five senses, without whieh no man is perfeet;fourthly, the five lights of masons and fifthly, the fivezones inhabited by masons.Solomon—Whieh are the five points of Felicity?Tito—To walk and intereede, to pray, love and assistyour brethren, so as to be united with them in heartand mind.Solomon—Why were you seized with wonder?Tito—It was on seeing the beauty and ornaments ofthe temple, whereof I saw but a part.Solomon—Why did you not see the whole?Tito—A thiek veil eoncealed a part from me, but Ihope the strong desire I have to improve, and my zealfor the Royal Art, will disperse the eloud in time whichnow obstructs my sight of them.Solomon-Why were you seized with grief?Tito—As all the wonders whieh I saw brought to myremembranee the melaneholy end of our respectable anddear Master Hiram Abiff.

150 INTENDANT OH TIlE BUILDING.Solomon—Did you find nature giving way when youindulged your grief?Tito-I must have sunk under the weight of my afflictionsif I had not been seasonably relieved by thoseabout me, whom I afterwards found to be my brothers.Solomon-How did you discern them to be yourbrothers?Tito-By their invoking the Ineffable name, havingpreviously pronounced Jachinai, which I saw in themiddle of the blazing star.Solomon—Did you promise to keep these matters secret,and under what penalty?Ttto-I did promise the strictest secrecy, and thatunder the penalty of having my body severed in twoand my bowels torn out.Solomon—How were you made to walk?Tito—-By the five points of exactitude.Solomon—What do you mean by this?Tito-I mean the five solemn steps which I took inadvancing to the throne of the powerful King of Israel,when I took my obligation in his presence.Solomon-Why were you obliged to represent a deadman at your reception, and why then covered with afiery red cloth?Ttto-In order to denote to us that good masonsought to be dead to the world and its vices.Solomon—What do the scales imply that were putinto your hands?Tito-It is an emblem of justice, and given me to- denotethat I must do justice by the brethren, and conciliateall difference that may occur among them, andby said scales, I must also weigh my own actions andregulate my conduct, in order to justify the good opinionconceived of me, by being appointed Master inIsrael and Intendant of the Laildings.LECTURE 151Solomon—Have you seen your Illustrious ThriceNissant Master this day?Tito—I have seen him.Solomon-Where was he placed and how clad?Ttto-He wa~ placed in the East under a rich canopybespangled with brilliant stars, and clad in azure andgold.Solomo*—Why was he thus clad?Tito—Because when the Almighty appeared to Moseson Mount Sinai, and delivered him the tablets of thelaw, he seemed to be in a cloud of azure and goldSolomon—Have you any remain8 of darkness aboutyou?Tito-The morning star enlightened me, and the‘nysterious one guided me.Solomon—Where were you thus conducted?Tito—.l cannot tell you.Solomon—How old are you?Tito—Twenty-seven.Solomon—What numbers have you remarked?Tito—Five, Seven and Fifteen.Solomon—Where did you perceive them and what dothey mean?7’ito-I remarked them in the arrangement of lights,and have already explained the first two numbers, thelast represents the fifteen masters, w’ho found the bodyof Hiram Abiff under the sprig of acacia, which partywas headed by Mah-hah-bone.Solomon—Why did you wear green on your apron111(1 ribbon?Tito—To teach me that virtue and zeal in masonryare the only roads to lead me to sublime knowledge.Solomon—What does our jewel represent?Tito—The triple e~scnce of Divinity.

CLOSINGCEREMONIESINTENDANT OF THU BUILDING.Solomon-Brother Tito what’s the hour?Tt~e—..Thrice Illustrious, the shades of evening announcea time for repose.Solomon—Since man must rest, let us close our laborstrustiug in the Grand Architect who never sleeps;but before we retire, brother Tito declare to us themeaning we give in this degree to the triangle, circle,square and blazing star.Tito—The triangle expresses the triple attributes ofthe divine essence, the triple nature of man, the triplecompositiou of the material world. The circle definesthe unity of God-head and the unity of man. The squareimplies the quadrature of a sane mind with a soundbody, and of individuals with society. The blazing star,(having five points) signifies the five points of felicity,or more properly, of order to which man is destined viz:(first) loving, (second) thinking, (third) working,(fourth) speaking, (fifth) designing.Solomon—(Knocks 00000; all rise.)Tito— (Knocks 00000.)Adoniram—(Knocks 00000.)AlZ—(Knock 00000.)Solomon—I declare this college of Intendant. of theBuildings closed.HISTORICAL ANALYSISEIGHTH Duoaiz Oi INTENDANT OF THE BUILDING.3Ia~ot~,y the Image of the Beast—Abeolute Secrecy and Absolute Deapotlam—Caricature of Chriata BcaurrecUom—aulera of the Darknein of thisWorld.“Intendant” means superintendent. The word is ofFrench dialect, where these rites were coined by Ramsayand the Jesuits, which are the sum and substanceof the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite now theruling rite of the Masonic world.This Eighth Degree opens with an endorsement byrepetition of the ridiculous anachronism, that, in thesixth degree Joabert was made Intimate Secretary“after the completion of the temple,” and then was raiseda step higher, to “Provost and Judge,” in the seventhdegree, while the work of the Temple was goingon, involving the Irishman’s “hoist a peg lower.”As Rev. 13, 14, is believed to teach tl~at Popery suggestedMasonry “The Image of the Beast,” and yetPopery and Masonry, in this country, are professed antagonisms;it is of extreme importance that we knowassuredly whether these Scotch Rite degrees were actuallythe work of the Jesuits, the most active and conspicuousorder in the Romish Church.Now the testimony of Rebold, conflrtned by otherMasonic authorities, is: “Another system was establishedat Lyons by a partisan of the Stuarts, and afterwardsworked by the Jesuits.” (Rebold p. 214.) Again“suspicion engendered investigation, and investigationelicited the fact that these ‘unknown superiors’ were noother than leading Jesuits and partizans of the Stuartinterest.” (Ru bold, p. 22.) Pages might be filled with

154 A3SOLUTE SECRECY AND ABSOLUTE DE5PO7I5M. CARICATURE OF CHRIST’S RESURRECTION. 155similar quotations, asserting over and over again, thatRamsag and the Jesuits manufactured the first of these“ineffable” degrees; that they formed the basis of “TheRite of Perfection” of twenty-five degrees formed byDe Bonneville ~n the Clermont Jesuit College. Theywere four years later adopted by “The Council of Emperors,”1758, patented by them to Morin in 1761, sentby him to Charleston, S. -C., and by Morin and othersenlarged, by the addition of eight 4egrees, into thepresent Scotch Rite of 330, which is really the Masonryof our teniples today. Even Mackey, who hates theJesuits, wineingly acknowledges and records the abovefacts. (Encyc. Art. Stuart Masonry.)Thus by clear, abundant Masouie authority, it isproved that the substratum and basis of AmericanMasonry was the work of Papists, and that of JesuitPapists, a society so destructive to civil order thatin the year 1773, a Papal Bull was issued dissolvingthe whole Jesuit order at the demand of France,Spain, Portugal, Parma, Naples and Austria; an orderwhose two main pillars are the same as those of thelodge system viz: Absolute secrecy and absolute despotismand control; not only over Protestantism butover every gQvernment and every institution. This ledihe above Popish governments to demand its dissolutionin 1773. And this knowledge of its origin confirms thewords of W. H. Seward that Masonry “seeks the destructionof every government which it can not control.”This also explains the degrees we are considering,this Eighth degree included. If the story of it weretranslated from its night drama and put in a newspaperit would not be read on account of its insipidity anddestitution of merit. Priests do not rely on the intelligence of the people, but on their superstition, and onthe supernatural power which inhabits superstition.And what but the most dense superstition could or caninduce a crowd to regard and address the chairman ofits night-meeting the club as “Thrice Puissant.” To puton “white aprons lined with red and bordered withgreen ;“ to lead in a candidate bare-footed; all this andmore merely to appoint a superintendent of a building,in place of our “dear Master, Hiram Abiff.”The only use and efficacy of such stuff is to furnish amurdered Hiram, as a counterfeit for a crucified Christ;to raise him from the dcad as a ridiculous caricature ofChrist’s resurrection, “by the strong grip of Judah’slion,” as a travesty on Christ’s word, that He had powerto raise himself from the dead. “I have power to layit down and I have power to take it again.” Threeclasses of minds would be interested in such a travesty;infidels, priests and devils. And these three are interestedin all religious imposture. Their dupes canscarcely be said to be interested; they are “bewitched”rather, as with the sorecries of Simon Magus. Gazingon, and listening to a Roinish mass in an unknowntongue; unknown often to the priest who reads it, thepeople look solemn it is true, but it is the stolid solemnityof cattle in a slaughter yard. But the Mason is belowthe Papist in this; that, at the close of the solemnfanfaronade, he is sworn to conceal it.We have seen from Masonic authors, that Jesuitismis the mother of Masonry; and that Masonry i~ as likeJesuitism as the Image is like the Beast. And we knowwhere this Jesuitism came from. It was born at night,in a cave near the little town of Enresa, in Spain. Theignorant Cavalier who fancied or feigned that God met

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158 MASTER ELIOT OF SINE.jutermixed with flames; in the uorth are uine lights—eight close together, and oue by itself.TITLES :—The Master represents Solomon, aud isstyled Most Sovereign. There is only one Warden, seatedin the West, who represeuts Stolkiu, and is called Inspector,with seveu brethren round him. All the rest ofthe brethren are in the South.CWTHING :—The Most Sovereign in royal robes, theInspector and brethreu all in black robes and caps, orflapped hets.Apron. WasterAPRON — White, spotted withblood lined and bordered with black,On the flap a bloody arm holding adagger; on the apron a bloody armholdiug a bloody head by the hair.Elect of NineORDER :—A broad black ribbon crossing from the leftshoulder to the right hip, towards the lower extremityof which are nine red roses, four on each side, and fromthe ninth is suspended the jewel.JEWEL :—Whieh is a poniard, with a golden hilt, auda silver blade, or more properly a balance with a scrolland dagger on one plate and the decapitated head ofignorance on the other.DRAFT :—The draft of this chapter is an oblong squareat the upper part of which, to the right, is drawn thecity of Jerusalem. On the other side is represented acave not far from the sea, and near Joppa, surroundedwith rocks in which you discover a man lyiug with hishead on a rock, and a poniard at his feet. You also seein the cave a burning lamp suspended from the ceiling;INITIATION. 159also running water and a cup to drink from. On thetop of the mountain above the cave is a figure of a settingsun. In the middle of the draft appears a bush as ifon fire, and burning by the reflection of a rainbowwhich seems to stand fixed in order to point out theasylum the murderer had taken refuge in to elude thevigilance of his pursuers. You also see in the draft awinding road, which leads from Jerusalem to Joppa; onthis road, near the cave, you see a dog; close to the dog aman following him, behind them at some distance areeight other men without order.ANTE-ROOM DECORATIONS —[n the ante-room must bean artificial cave, and a large stone for the candidate tosit on, a small table before the mouth of the cave; on ita poinard and a lighted lamp, below the lamp in largeletters the word “Revenge.” There must also be a springof water and a cup to drink from, also on the floor andat the mouth of the cave an effigy of a man as if asleep.IRis head must be loosed from his body.In the chapter the Most Sovereign sits under a canopyin a chair of state covered with black; before him a triangulartable covered with black and fiery colored cloth.On said table is a bible, scepter and poniard.Solomon uses a scepter, and the Inspector uses i~mallet which he holds constantly in his hauds as a token6f revenge.

CHAPTER XIVNINTH D~oaim~ OR MASTER ELECT OFOPENING CEREMONIESMASTER ELECT owNINE.Moat Sovereign—Brother Inspecto;, what is the hour?Inspector—Most Sovereign, the dog star rises in theeast, followed by the archer, and they are in pursuit ofthe serpent of Ignorance.Moat Sovereign—Brother Stdlkin, are you an ElectedKnight?Stolkin—A lamp lighted me, a cave received me, anda spring refreshed me.Moat Sovereign~—(Knocks eight quick, and one slow;00000000 0.)Stolkin—(Knocks eight quick and one slow; 000000000 with his poniard.(All the brethren knock eight quick, and one slow,00000000 0; with their bands.)Moat Sovereign-This chapter is opened.At a reception the brethren sit with the right leg overthe left, the right elbow on the right knee, the headresting in the palm of the right hand.INITIATION.Vandidate—(Knocks eight and one, 00000000 0.)Stelkin—Most Sovereign, there is an alarm at thedoor.Moat Sovereign—Brother Adoniram, see who knocksat the door of our Chapter to interrupt our deliberations.Captain of Guard—( Goes to the door, knocks eightand one, 00000000 0; then opens door.) Who knocks atthe door of our Chapter to interrupt our deliberations?Master of Ceremonies—A stranger who demands tospeak to the King privately.Captain of Guard—Most Sovereign, it is a strangerwho wishes to speak to you privately.Moat Sovereign—Iet him be admitted.Captain of Guard opens the door and admits thestranger, who goes at once to the King and consults withhim privately for a few momenta, and then takes a seat.Moat Sovereign—Brethren, I have this moment learnedfrom this stranger that he has discovered an individualNot. TI.—”Ei.ct of Nine. (mu do. Neuf.) The ninth degree of theAncient and Accepted Rite. In the old rituals there were two officers whorepresented Solomon and Stolkln. But in the revised ritual ot the SouthernJurisdiction the principal officer, are a Master and two inspector,. Themeetings are called Chapters. The degree details the mode in whichcertain traitor,, who, just hetore the completion of the Temple, has beenengaged in an ezecruble deed of villany. received their punishment. Thesymbolic color, are red, white and black; the white emhlematic of thenurity of the knights, the red of tue crime which was committed and theblack of grief. This is the first of the sin degrees and the one on whichthe whole gin system has been founded. • —Kacksy’s Rneyoloasdia ofFessmaaonty, Arttcls Elect of Nina.

162 lUSTRE ELECT ow N!NU. INITIATION. 188ask the favor of being admitted into the degree of MasterElect of Nine.Most Sovereign~—Wh5t motive induces you to thinkyou deserve such an honor to be conferred upon you?Master,of Ceremonies—My zeal, fervor and constancy,which I promise shall be doubled hereafter, have mademe aspire to beg this favor.Moat,Sovereign—Learn, Brother Joabert, that you areto impute your present admission into this degree andChapter, less to a desire we may have of conferringthis degree on you, than to an inclination we have ofmaking a trial of your conduct and courage, and yourcompliance with the obligations you have contracted inthe different degrees you have received.You may recollect that when you were made a masonafter the light was shown you, you saw all the brethrenwere armed, and you know that it was in your power toclaim their assistance in case you were exposed to anyconcealed in a cave near the coast of Joppa, anawerin~the description of one of the murderers of our lamentedMaster Hiram Abiff. He has also offered to condut~tthose I may select to the place of his concealment.All rise and request to be partakera in the vengeancedue the villai tn.Moat Sovereign—Stop, my brethren, I hereby decreethat only nine shall undertake the journey, and to avoidgiving offense, I hereby order all your names to beplaced in an urn and the first nine that are drawn shallbe the brethren to accompany the stranger.Their names are put in the urn, they proceed to b~alottill the. eighth one is elected.Master of Ceremoniea—( Knocks eight and one,00000000 0; when the brethren resume their former poentions.)Stollcin—Most Sovereign, there ia an alarm at thedoor.Moat Sovereign-Brother Adoniram, i~ee who knocksi~t the door of our Chapter to interrupt our deliberations.Captain of Guard—( Goes to the door, knocks eightand one, 00000000 0; opens it and says:) Who knocks atthe door of our Chapter to interrupt our deliberations?Master of Ceremonies—It is brother Joabert, whocomes to ask the favor of receiving the degree of MastsrElect of Nine.Captein of Guard—Most Sovereign, it is Joabert whocomes to ask the favor of receiving the degree of MasterElect of Nine.Most Sovereign—Let him be admitted.Captain of Guard opens the door; the Master of Ceremoniesand candidate enter and advance to the altar.Most Sovereign—Faithful Joabert, what is your wish?Master of Ceremonies—(For candidate,) I come todanger. You were also aware that those arms were intendedfor your destruction, to be plunged into yourbreast, to vindicate masonry, should you be so wickedas to violate your solemn obligations and divulge thesecrets of masonry or of masons. Still, notwithstanding,these most sacred and solemn obligations and the severepenalties we submitted ourselves to incur in swervingfrom them, there have been people so vile as to violatethose sacred ties and expose themselves to all the tortureswhich they had denounced against themselves.Know my brother, that at this present hour we havein our power one of the perpetrators and murderers ofour respectable master Hiram Abiff, who groans underthe enormity of his guilt, and expects every moment toundergo the rigorous tortures which his crime richlymerits, to serve as an example to deter others5

164 MA52~ER ELECT OP NINE.This, brother Joabert, I have just learned from astranger who is willing to conduct any I may appoint tothe place where this miscreant (or Abiram’) is hidden.My dear brother, this illustrious Chapter being fullyconvinced of your zeal, is much disposed to confer higherdegrees upon you, and as I have decreed that onlynine shall go with the stranger to the hiding place ofthe miscreant, and as eight of them have been selected,an opportunity now offers of your being one of thatnumber, to bring this criminal lo condign punishmentif possible, adequate to the enormity of his crime. Doyou find yourself disposed to vindicate the Royal Art,and sacrifice this traitor in honor of masonry; and doyou feel disposed to be one of that number?Candidate—I do.Most Sovereign-I must now inform you, brotherJoabert, that this man perhaps, is one of your acquaintances,perhaps a friend; nay, he may be one of yourmost intimate ones, but in such a case as this, everysentiment must give way to that of revenge, which, withyou, is to stifle every other consideration. Be assured ofno bad consequences attending your perpetrating the revenge.Besides this is the only opportunity that offersof making us sensible of your zeal by which you will headmitted into this degree. Again I will ask you do youfeel disposed to be one of that number?Candidate—I do.Most Sovereign—Faithful Joabert, I shall now selectyou as the ninth and last of the number. Pursue theNote YS.—”Abtrazn. One •f the traitoroug craftsmen. whaga act ofperfidy form. — important a part of the third dagree remivee in acmeof the high degftea the name of Abiram Akizep. Them word. certainLyhate a Hebrew look; hut the significant word. of Maaonzp have. in thelapse of time and in iheir tranamisalon through ignorant teachers. heecueso corrupted In form that it Ia aimoet impogaible to trace them to anyintelligent floot.”—Maeheya Zaeyeiepeeiia .1 I,aemaaeaay, isUela Abbam.INITIATION. 14murderer of our regretted Master Hiram Abiff, uwkhim, seize him and bring him here to suffer the penaltyof his horrid crime.Most Sovereign—Vengeance?A 11—Vengeance.Most Sovereign—Brother Adoniram, you will nowblindfold brother Joabert and let him be conducted byour stranger to the place where the criminal is.(Candidate is then blindfolded and conducted to thecave.)Captain of Guard—Brother Joabert, you will nowsuffer yourself to be seated, (seats him on a stone oppositethe cave.)Captain of Guard—Be not afraid brother Joabert, Iwill now leave you for a while.Master of Cerem6nies then shakes a parcel of chainsand groans as if under affliction and dread of punishment.Captain of Guard then places Joabert’s left handon the table and his head leaning on it, and his righthand on his thigh and says:6aptain of Guard—My dear brother Joabert, I mustleave you here alone, but you must promise me on theword of a man, that you will remain in this posture thatI now leave you, however alarmed you may be by anynoise you may hear. Attend brother Joabert to whatNote IS.—”Vangaanoe. A word used in the high degreca. flarr~el.Boblson and the other detractors of Freemasonry have sought to find inthis word a proof of the vIndictive character of the Inatitution. ‘in thedegree of Kadoab. say. Earroel (Meinoirea, ii. 810) the asaaaaln ofAdoniram hecomea the king, who must he alain to avenge the Orand?.ia.ater Malay and the Order of Masons, who are the aucceseora of theTempiarSNo calumny was ever fabricated with so little pretension to truth forit. foundation. The reference I. altogether hiatorical; it it the record ofthe puniabment which followed a crime, not an incentive to revenge.The word nakam is uaed in Masonry in preciacly the asme sense inwhich it it employed by the prophet Jeremiah (1. 15) when he apeaka ofaikemat Jehovah. “the vengeance of the Lord”—the puniabment whichGod will inflIct on evil-doera. ‘—Mackay’s Eaoyolopedla of U.aaaaeea,y.Art. vengasasa.

166 MASTER ELECT OP NINE.I say, for if you neglect it, it may cost you your life.What do you say?Candidate—I will.Captain of Guard—And now brother Joabert, as soonas I leave you, when you hear any one knock as a mason,take off the baAdage from your eyes and closely examineevery object around you. When you hear a second knockingin a masonic manner, drink of the cup near your lefthand. And at the third knocking, do as you shall beprescribed by a voice which will direct you.Though I leave you alone brother Joabert, believe methat the eyes of the whole ~ [lodge] are upon you,therefore I beg that you will not fail, punctually tocomply with these instructions. Farewell brother Joabert,I now leave you.Captain of the Guard then leaves him and shuts thedoor briskly, waits for a minute or two and then knocksthe first three.Candidate—(Takes the bandage from his eyes.)Captain of Guard—( Knocks the second three.)Candidate—(Drinks out of the cup.)Captain of Guard—( Knocks the last three and returnsto the Chapter.)Master of Ceremonies—Take that poniard and strikethe villain first on the head and then on the heart. Cutoff his head and take it in your left hand, the poniard inyour right and follow me.Candidate—(Obeys the order.)Master of Ceremonies—(Conducts him to the door ofthe Chapter, knocks eight and one, 00000000 0.)Captain of Guard—Most Sovereign, there is an alarmat the door.Most Sovereign—You will see who knocks at the doorof our Chapter to interrupt our deliberations%INITIATION. 107Captain of Guard— (Knocks eight and one, 000000000; and opens the door) Who knocks at the door of ourChapter to interrupt our deliberations?Master of Ceremonies—Brother Joabert who has discoveredthe place where the traitor Akirop” hos beenconcealed, and has revenged the death of our respectableMaster Hiram Abiff, and comes to lay the villain’s headat the feet of King Solomon.Captain of Guard— (Shuts the door.) Most Sovereignit is Joabert who has discovered the place where thetraitor Akirop has been concealed and has revenged thedeath of our respectable Master Hiram Abiff, and comesto lay the villain’s head at the feet of his Sovereign.Most Sovereign-Let him be admitted.Captain of Guard— (Opens the door and says: Lethim be admitted.Master of Ceremonies and candidate enter and proceeddirectly to the foot of the throne, candidate at thesame time striking the head with his dagger, and cr~ ingrevenge.Most Sovengn—(Looking with indignation says:)Oh wretch, what have you been doing? My orden to youwere, that the traitor should be brought to me, not thatyou should put him to death. Your disobedience of myorders shall cost you your life. Stolkin, put him to death.Brethren all kneel on one knee, and at the same timebrother Stolkin lays hold of candidate’s head and withhis sword stands in the attitude of killing him.Captain of Guard—Thrice Most Sovereign, pardonhim! pardon him! It must have been an excess of zeal,and love for the memory of our respectable Master Hi-Note The name given, in the ritual of the Ancient andAccepted Rite, to one of the ruffians celebrated in the legend of the thirddegree. The word is said in the ritnal to signify an auaaean.—Maokey’sInnyolopeadla of iveemasonry, hitiola Akirop.

168 MASTER ELECT 01 NINE. INITIATION. 169ram Abiff, certainly that prompted him to disobey hisorders. Pardon him.All—Thrice Most Sovereign, pardon him.Most Soveretgn—Brethren I yield to your entreaties,and pardon him in consideration of his zeal for doinghis duty. For i~ was necessary and right, for the authorityof public justice must prevail and all who resist itmust be subdued.Brother Joabert, for the zeal you have manifested inbringing to punishment one of the murderers of our lamentedMaster Hiram Abiff, I shall now confer uponyou the degree of Master Elect of Nine. Come and contractyour obligation.OBLIGATION MASTER ELECT OF NINE.I—do solemnly promise in the presence of theGreat Architect of the Universe, and of the respectablebrethren here present, and who compose this IllustriousChapter of Elected Masters, never to reveal Lhe secretsof this degree, with, which I have been or shall be lnadeacquainted, to any person whatever, but to a brotherknown to be of this degree, and in this I bind myselfby all my former obligations:I likewise promise to revenge masonry in general, andparticularly the most horrid murder that ever was committed.I also promise to protect and support the order andn’y brethren with all my might, credit and power, andalso the Grand Council of Princes of Jerusalem. And ifI fail in any part of this my present obligation and engagement,I submit to perish by the vindictive weapon,which shall be given me as an honorablc mark of thisorder, and as a reward of my zeal, fervor and constancy.So help me God, Amen.Most Sovereign—Rise my brother and receive yourreward. I do hereby constitute you an Elect of Nine’and invest you with the jewel of this degree, which is abalance with a scroll and dagger on one plate, and thedecapitated head of ignorance on the other. (He theninvests him with the apron and kisses him four times oneach cheek and once on the forehead.)SIGN.First one raises the peniardand makes the motion ofstriking the other on the forehead;the other places his handon his forehead as if to exammethe supposed wound.Second raises the arm,strikes at the other’s breast asif with a poniard, and says,Nekam. 5’Note Sl.—”Zleot of Nine. Clootob Naaonq’j—The auth degree cooferredin the lodge of Perfection. Scotch Rite, and the ninth upon thecatalogue of that system. There Is a Master with the title of MoatPotent, representing Solomon. with one warden styled Orand inspector.representing Stolkyn, a Treasurer, Secretary, Master of Ceremonies andCaptain of the Onard. the isiter representing Zerbal. The hangings arered and white. There are nine ilgbte. The apron is white, lined withblack and flecked with blood, having a bloody arm holding by the hair ahloody head; on the movable part a bloody arm with a poinard. Thelewd is a poinard. The age is SilO. The lesson is prudence in lode.meat. —MoMs’s Maaonlo Blotlonaq, hitlole Elect of Nina.Iota U,—”According to the Masoretie pointing, Nahain. A Hebrewword signifying Vengeance, and a significant word in the high degrees.’—Mackay’s Encyclopaedia of Treemaacnzy. Loticla Nekam.

170 MASTER ELECT OF NINE. INITIATION. 171Moat Sovereign-Brother Stolkin, you will now coneduct our new brother to his seat, to listen attentively tethe discourse by our Grand Orator.ANSwER.Place your right hand on your heartsay Nekab.Aoa~ Cr.TOKEN.Clinch the fingers ofyour right hand, andat the same time elevateyour thumb. Thesecond seizes y o u rthumb with the righthand, at the same timeelevating his thumb; signifying the nine elected, eightclose together and one by itself.PASS WORD :—Begoal-Kol.SACRED WORD :—Nekam; answer Nelcak.BATTERY :—Nine strokes by eight and one; 0000-0000 0.AGE :—Full eight and one.HOURS OF WORK :—From break of day until evening.MORAL :—That we should be careful how we sufferourselves to be led away by an excess of zeal, even in agood cause, to execute on an individual the vengeancedue for the violation of divine or human laws.DISCOURSE BY GRAND ORATOR.Thrice ‘Respectable Brother Elected, the unanimityand earnestness with which this respectable assemblyrequested your pardon, dIsposed our heari~ to grant it,especially as your crime was owing to an over zeal. Inthis you have imitated Joabert, King Solomon’s favoriteas I am now going to inform you.You, my brother, without doubt recollect the melancholycatastrophe of our respectable Master Hiram Abiff,whose death is the constant subject of our grief andtears; and in this we take an example from the wisest ofkings, who bemoaned the irreparable loss he has sustainedby his death. You will know that Solomon, onhearing that he was missing, immediately put a stop tobuilding and swore that no person should be paid hiswages until this great man was found dead or alive.You will also recollect that brethren went out in searchof him, and that Stolkin at length found him assassinatedand buried under a sprig of acacia. Stolkin’s goodluck on this melancholy occasion endeared him to theKing, and procured him his most intimate confidence.Solomon after having the funeral obsequies of that greatman celebrated with as much splendor and magnificenceas possible, determined to take public satisfaction of theperpetrators of that horrid crime and sacrifice them tothe manes of his deceased friend. He issued a proclamationpromising a considerable reward to any personwho should detect the place where the villains lay concealed,who committed this horrid murder, declaring atthe same time that he would even forgive the assassin

172 MASTER ELECT 01 NINE. INITIATION. t78himself, providing he would make his appearance in hispresence and ack~iowledge his guilt. But he must giveup his accomplices so as to bring them to condign punishmentand thus expiate the greatest of grimes.This proclamation was out for a considerable timewithout his rec~iving any intelligence concernixxg thematter, when one day Solomon was sitting in his hallgiving audience to more than ninety (90) masters orother officers of the order, Zerbal the Captain of theGuards, came in and informed him that a strange persondesired to be admitted to the King in private, as hehad a matter of the utmost consequence and importanceto communicate to him.The brethren were alarmed at the readiness withwhich the King consented to this private audience, forfear of any danger to his sacred person.Said audience proved of short duration and the king’sspeedy return removed their fears. He informed themthat this unknown person was acquainted with ~heretreatof a murderer of Hiram Abiff, and that he hadoffered to conduct thither, such people as would chooseto accompany him, to inform themselves of the truth ofwhat he had asserted. The brethren all to a man stoodup and offered their services to the King on this occasion.The King was highly pleased with their zeal, butdeclared that among such a number of virtuous brethren,the casting of lots should determine who should have thehonor of being employed in this important matter, tobring this odious victim, on whom he intended to wreakhis vengeance. Consequently the names of all the Intendantsof the Building who were present, were put intoa box, and he declared that those nine whose namesshould be first drawn from the box should be the brethrenappointed to follow the unknown man, and bringthe traitor alive and make him an example to the latutposterity. The lots were drawn, and joy gladdened thefaces of those whose names came out first. They receiveddirections from the King to follow the unknownman who would conduct them to the cave which was thetraitor’s residence since his crime. They obeyed theorder and departed, but one of the nine named Joabert,(whom you this day represented) animated with uncommonardour, and thinking his brethren walked too slow,got ahead of them and was the first to come to the caveor assassin’s asylum, which was at the foot of a bush thatseemed to burn; and a star which had conducted them,appeared to be fixed over the cave. Joabert, inflamedwith rage, entered it, and by help of a lamp (which hungin the cave) saw the villain fast asleep lying on his back,with a dagger at his feet. Joabert seized the dagger andstruck him with all his might, first on his head and thenon his heart, on which the villain sprang up with fury,but immediately dropped down dead at his feet, pronouncingonly the word Nekam.Joabert cut off his head, then quenched his thirst atthe spring in the cave and was joined by his brethren,whom he was just going to meet. They on seeing thehead of the traitor cut off, represented to Joabert thathe had commited a fault by his over zeal, and that bythus putting an end to the villain’s life he had rescuedhim from the tortures which Solomon had prepared forhim.They assured hun that Solomon would not pass unnoticedthis piece of disobedience of orders, but wouldcertainly punish him for it. They also stated that theywould intercede, however, with the king to procure hispardon. After having quenched their thirst, Joaberttook the head and all walked back to Jerusalem. When

174 MASTER ELECT OP NINE.they arrived, Solomon on seeing them was going to giveorders for the intended torture, when he espied Abyram’shead in Joabert’s hands, at the sight of which hecould not restrain his wrath. He at once ordered Stolkinto put Joabert t 9 death, which order he would haye executedif all the brethren had not thrown themselves ontheir knees and begged him off, as the brethren of thisChapter have done for you, my brother.You see what a deal of instruction may be drawnfrom the circumstances attending this history:First—By the death that this traitor suffered, thatcrimes never go unpunished. Sooner or later they meetwith their deserts.Secondly—You may learn from the danger which theimpetuous Joabert was in, how unsafe it is to exceed ourordcrs, and that it becomes a necessary duty literally tocomply with the orders of our superiors.Thirdly—By the pardon procured for this zealousbrother, you may also learn how easily the heart of agood king is influenced to be merciful.You also see how useful it is to have friends who interestthemselves warmly for us on critical occasions.Most Sovereign—(Knocks eight and one; 000000000;all rise.)Moat Sovereign—Let us applaud our newly madebrother by the mysterious numbers. (All clap with theirhands eight and osie.)LECTURE MASTER ELECT OF NINE.Moat Sovereign—Brother Stolkin, are you a MasterElected?Stollcin—The ballot has alone determined that matterand I have been made acquainted with the cave.Moat Sovereign—What have you seen in the cave?LW?URE. 175Stolkin-A light, a poniard and a fountain, witb thatraitor Akirop or Abyram.Most Sovereign—Ofwhat use were these to you?Stoilcin—The light to dispel the darkness of the place,the dagger to revenge the death of our respectable MasterHiramii Abiff, and the spring to quench my thirst.Moat Sovereign—Where were you made a MasterElect?Stollcin—In the hall of audience in Solomon’s palace.Most Sovereign—How many Masters Elected weremade at that time?Stollcin—Nine, of whom I was one.Most Sovereign—From what order and number ofpeople were they chosen?Stolkin—From upwards of ninety, mostly Intendantsof the Building and some masters.Moat Sovereign—What motive prompted you to becomea Master Elected?Stolicin—The desire of revenging the death of HiramAbiff, by destroying his murderers.Moat Sovereign—Where did you find thc assassin?Stoilcin—In the bottom of a cave, situated at the footof a burning bush near Joppa, not far from the sea.Moat Sovereign—Who showed you Ihe way there?Stolidn—An unknown person.Moat Sovereign—What roads did you pass through?Stolkin—Through dark and almost inaccessible roads.Most Sovereign—What did you do when you came tothe cave?Stollcin—I laid hold of the dagger which I foundthere and with it struck the villain so violently on thehcad, then on the heart, that he expired immediately?Moat Sovereign—Did he say anything before he died?Stolkin-Give me first letter of the irat syllable,

trnui176 MASTER ELECT OP NINE.and I will give you the first letter of the second syllable.Moat Sovereign-The first is N. Now give me theother.Stolkin—K.Moat Sovereig,~&—What do these two letters N a~id Kmean?Btolkrn—Nekam, which signifies revenge.Most Sovereign—How was your election consummated?Stolksn—By revenge, disobedience, clemency andeight and one.Moat Sovereign—Explain this.Stolkir~—By revenge I destroyed the traitor, by disobedienceI exceeded the orders given me by the king,and by clemency, through the intercession of my brethren,I obtained the king’s pardon; and lastly, by eightand one, as we were only nine chosen for this business.Moat Sovereign-What did you do after having killedthe traitor?StoLkw~—I cut off his head and quenched my thirst atthe spring, and being fatigued laid myself down to sleepuntil my eight brethren entered the cave crying revenge.Moat Sovereign-Row did Solomon behave and receiveyou when you presented him the traitor’s head?Stolkin—With indignation, as he had proposed tohimself much gratification in punishing that villain,and he even doomed me to death, but on account of myzeal, forgave me.Most Sovereign—What did the dark room representinto which you were conducted before your reception?Stolkin-It is the representation of the cave where Ifound the traitor.Most Sovereign-How came you to be left thereblindfolded?LECTURE. 177Stolkin,—To call to my mind the traitor’s sleep, an4how often we may think ourselves secure after committinga crime, when we are in the most danger.Most Sovereign-How did the Elected walk?Stolkin-Darknesa obliged them to put their handsbefore their eyes and heads, to prevent being hurt orknocking themselves against anything. As the roadswere bad and uneven they were obliged often to crosstheir legs over one another.Most Sovereign-What does the dog represent thatyou see in the Chapter on the road near the cave?Stolkin-The unknown person or the good citizen whoconducted the Elected.Moat Sovereign—What does the naked bloody armwith the poniard mean?Stollcin—The grief still subsisting for Hiram Abiffthough one of the murderers was punished, and it wasdone by a mason; and as yet some unpunished.Moat Sovereign—What emblems do you use to expressthe number of nine elected?Stolkin—The first, by the nine red roses at the bottomof the black order; second, by the nine lights in theChapter; third, by the nine strokes of the scepter andmallet and fourth, by the nine kisses, four on each cheekand one on the forehead. These are the emblems of thenine elected. The red is the emblem of the preciousblood that was spilt in the temple and ordered to remsinthere until revenge was fully completed.Most Sovereign—How do you wear that large blackribbon?Stolkin-From the left shoulder to the right hip withthe poniard hanging at the bottom of said order.Moat Sovereign—Of what color is your apron?Stolkin—White skin, lined and bordered with black

178 MASTER ELECT OF NINE.and spotted with red; on the flap a bloody arm holdinga dagger, on the apron a bloody arm holding a bloodyhead by the hair.Moat Sovereign—With what is the Chapter of theElect hung?Stolkin—With red and white mixed with flames,white flames on the red, and red flames on the white.The one indicates the blood that was spilt, and thc whitethc order of purity of the Elected.Moat Sovereign—Why have you no more than oneWarden?Stollcin—Because the Chapters were always held inSolomon’s palace, where no one was permitted but hisfavorite who was privy to what passed..11oat Sovereign—What more is to be done’Stolkin—Nothing, as everything is achieved, and HiramAbiff avenged.Moat Sovereign—Give me the pass-word?Stolkin—Begoal-Kol.Moat Sovereign—What is the great word?Stolkin—Nekam.Moat Sovereign—Is there no other pass-word?Stolkin—Yes, there are two more by which we know~ne another, Joabert and Stolkin.Moat Sovereign—At what time did the Elected sctout for the cave?Stolkin—Just at dark.Moat Sovereign—When did they return?Stolkin—At day break.Moat Sovereign—How old are you?Stolkin—Eight and one, perfectCLOSING CEREMONIESMASTER ELECT OFNINE.Moat Sovereign-(Knocks eight and one.)Stolkin—(Knocks eight and one; All rise.)Moat Sovereign—(Makes the sign by putting his handon his forehead, and says;) My brethren let us renewour obligations.All make the sign with their poniards together, firstat the head and then at the heart.Most Sovereign—(Knocks eight and one.)Stolkin-(Knocks eight and one.)Moat Sovereign—Brethren, ignorance yields to uurrepeated vows. Let us advance in our labors.I declare this college closed.

HISTORICAL ANALYSISNINTH DEGREE OR MASTER ELECT OP NINE.Rage for a ilaltitude of Degveea—A Drill of Auaasalnatlon and Revenge—Turns Lyncb Law Into a ReligIon—John Qnlny Adam. op MusonloPenaliles—Sweara to “Revenge Masonry In General”—Masonlc MurdersProved in Conrt—”lbei we,, Not at all Aebamed.”We are still in the purlieus of Solomon’s Temple.The motives which made these degrees were: ‘I’herage of the French for a multitude of degrees; tlicirwillingness to pay for them, and the need of the Stuartpretenders for money. Ramaay went to Paris in 1710,seven years before Masonry was transformed from amechanic’s club to a rite of worship in the Londantavern. Ramsay took it at flood tide and it led him tofortune. He invented the Royal Arch degree, and twosystems were drawn from and made out of it by Dunkerlyand Dermott. Born of humble parentage Ramsaywas knighted by the Prince de Turenne. He in conjunctionwith Jesuits developed a rite of six degrees,called after himself. And, says Mackey, “that his highdegrees were afterwards expanded to an unreasonableextent, was not his fault.” And he adds that the RoyalArch “was adopted from Ramsay by the The Council ofEmperors of the East and the West and subsequentlypassed over to the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite,where it still remains the thirteenth degree.” MacketjArt. Ramsay. And w.hile the thirst for sccret degreesproduced them, as a good market produces its supply, it

I8~i A DRILL or ASSASSINATION AND REVENGE. TURNS LYNCH LAW INTO A RULIION. 185was necessary that they should revolve around Solomon’sTemple to give unity to the system by addingdegrees at the top of the York Rite.But thiR Ninth Degree surpasses and excels the threepreceding it, whIch are apologized for as “containinglittle symbolic instruction, being “mere recapitulation,”etc.This Ninth is the degree of “Revenge,” and the Ritualis a drill of assassination. Joabert is sent to arrestAbiram, who, without proof produced, is said to be oneof the murderers of Hiram Abiff and finding him asleepiii a cave, he cuts oI~ his head and brings it to Solomonby the hair. He is reproved for his haste, but rewardedby being raised to the Ninth Degree, and given anapron, white with blots of blood on it, lined and borderedwith black, while on the flap is a bloody armholding a dagger; and on the apron itself, a bloody armholding a bloody head by the hair; and the cry ofVengeance! Vengeance !“ is repeated over and againby Master and members in the cave and in the court.Now, considering that these degrees overran France;considering the ignorance of religion among all classes,owing to the ignorance of the clergy and the fearfulcorruption of the church, no ingenuity of“Earth and bell confederate”could have formed and let loose among the people a devkcebetter adapted to form fiends to work the guillotinein the horrors of the revolution which followed,than this Ninth Degree of the Ancient and AcceptedScottish Rite. Lynch law is fearful, but this NinthDegree turns lynch law into religion. It elevates andadorns lynchers. If Booth, who murdered Lincoln, hadbeen seized, lynched, his head cut of and brought intothe Supreme Court at Washington by the hair, and thebringer had been made Provost Marshal of Washing.ton; told to wear this blood-begrimed Masonic apronwith a poniard for a jewel, or a pair of scales with ascroll and a dagger on one plate and a decapitated headon the other, and the word “Revenge” in large lettersoverthe heads of the judges ;—blameless and beloved as Lincolnwas,and horrified as men were at his murder; ifthedrama of this degree had been enacted in public uponlynching his murderer, it would have tended to throw theworld’s sympathy on the assassin, and sunk the UnitedStates in the esteem of mankin’~ to a level with thethugs of India, or the cannibals of African lodges; whopledge fealty to their order by eating human flesh.Yet Maco~j and Macice7j (Notes 76 and 77) dwell, withtheir accustomed relish, on the ornaments and teachingsof this degree; and the latter (Note 79) says: Barn~eland Robi.oii “have sought to find in the word (vengeance)a proof of the vindictive character of the Institution.”And he adds: “No calumny was ever ta,bricitedwith so little pretension to trUth for its foundation.”If history, and especially American history, presentsmy character capable of forming and uttering a correctand dispassionate estimate of Masonry and its degrees,

184 JOHN QUINOY ADAMS ON XASON!C ?UNALTI.that character is John Quincy A-ams. And his weDknown statement of this matter has been endorsed andapproved by thousands on thousands, including the45,000 Masons who seceded in 1828—32; which is this:That “a humane butcher would not mutilate thd~ bodyof a hog, as Masons swear consent to be mutilated ifthey fail to keep Masonic secrets.” No wise observingman can place such Masons as Mackey, Macoy andothem, aside of Adams, Robison and Barns.l, withoutseeing that something has happened to the minds ofMasons which makes them blind to common, plain religioustruth.A careful reading of this Ninth Degree, and others,will satisfy 999 men in every 1,000 that the whole Masonicsystem and especially this Ninth Degree, is calculatedto harden men and make them vindictive sndcallous to deeds of blood.The Master of Ceremonies orders the candidate (whoobeys) to kill and cut of a map’s head and follow himselfto the presiding officer2of the lodge-meeting, with theponiard in one hand~ and the gory head in the other.Is this lodge play, performed at midnight after prayer,in the presence of the members, calculated to make themloathe assassination and reveuge?The real purpose and object of this assassination drillis not to give zest to an evening’s entertainment. Thepractical purpose and intent is expressed in the oath inwhich the candidate is made to swear:“I likewise promise Lo revenge Ma.onr~i in g.neraZ.”SwEARS TO REVENGE MASONRY IN GENERAL” 185Aud it is well known, or may easily be known by alittle conversation with Masons, that there is no hatredmore vindictive than that with which Masons retard aseceder, who, for conscience sake, secedes and exposesthe secrets if their order. And yet the gentlemanlyand scholarly Mackey (Note 79) says Of Robison andBaimel, who find in this Ninth Degree, proof that Masonryis a vindictive Institution: “No calumny was everfabricated with so little pretension to truth.” And yetRobison knew whereof he affirmed. He had received,carefully written out, in a box, twelve o’clock at night,in Paris, from a Mason who was fleeing from Francewith embezzled public funds, all the degrees of a “PerfectScotch Mason ;“ Parfait Macon Ecosais. Thoughunder no obligation of secrecy concerning these “ineffable”Ramsay and Jesuit degrees, he refrained from publishingtheir rituals so that outsiders could enter lodgesby them, but published the well known book for whichWashington thanked Rev. Frederick Snyder, who sentit to him. This Robison and the celebrated Abbe Barriselare accused by Mackey of “calumny,” because theysay Masonry is proved “vindictive” by this Ninth Defree,which swears initiates to “Revenge Masonry injeneral,” and that with a poniard in one hand mid abloody human head in the other, to show how his oathbound him to “revenge” the lodge.But if Masonry is one consolidated mass of sworncrime, why are not more actual crimes committed by~!asonsl The answer is: For the same reason that

186 MASONIC MURDERS PROVED IN COURT. “THEY WREN NOT AT ALL AsHAMED.” 187Popery does not burn heretics when she will lose morethan gain by it. Masonic crimes are plenty enough inAfrica, as Messrs Hinman and Cole are witnesses, bothof whom have been there; and the latter, Mr. Cole, wasborn there, and l~as been in thc African lodges. Othermissionaries confirm their statements. But thoughidolatry is practiced in Christian as well as in heathencountries, the crimes of idolatry in Christian lands mustbe covered. Nay; lodges sometimes go through thefarce of expelling men whose crimes have made themoutlaws; while in Africa where murder is not unpopularit is well known that human flesh is eaten as proof offealty to the secret orders.But we have murders enough proved in open courtson the lodge, as of Pritchard, Miller, Morgan andothers, to show that Masonry is murderous in practice,as its oaths prove it to be in theory; and is any one soweak as to suppose the mass of Masonic murders arenot secreted as the mass of its proceedings are?The thing, however, to be chiefly noted in this degreeis, that it is a lynch law execution of a supposedmurderer of J{iram by killing him in his sleep and cuttingoffhis head; when this very murder in the third orMaster’s degree has been executed by order of Solomonin a totally different way. (See Bernard’s Light onMasonry, Third Degree.)Now, if this were all professed fools-play, legend,liction or what not, the case were different and mightbe endured. But this open historic contradiction andfalsehood is solemnly sanctioned by men, not children,and that by oaths and prayers to God, and “they werenot at all ashamed neither could they blush.” Jeremiah6, 15.

MASTER ELIOT 01 IIFZENN. 189CHAPTER XVTENTH DEGREE on MASTER ELECT 0? Fxrrum.e’VSCAPEICORNUS Oil THE GOAT.This grade very properly follows that of Master Ele~of Nine, as it gives the continuation and conclusion o,the history of events commenced there: the arrest antipunishment of the two other criminals for the atrocionicrime they had committed, as related elsewhere.DECORATIONS :—The Chapter represents thc audiencechamber of King Solomon, and is hung in black spreadwith red and white tears; in the East is a skeleton repre.Not. 65.—”Maeter Elect of lifte,eu. (Sootob Kaeoaxy.J—The aeveuthdegree conferred I. lbs Lodge of Perfection. Scotch Masonry, and thetenth upon the catalogue of that syate.. There are three officers, a MostPotent Master. repreeenting Solomon; A Grand Inspector. repreeentingStolkin. and a Junior warden. atyled lutroductor; other officera aa in thepreceding grade. The aseembly Ia entitled a Chapter. The banging. arered and white. The apron is white, lined with black, with a representatlomof the Temple. having tower, upon it; on the movahle part, three apikee.The jewel is a poinard. How, of work. 5 a. m. to 5 p. U. The leasneI. the certainty of divine Snatlce.”—Me.ria~a Naesml~ Dietlomay, LetieleReeter Elect ef liftse.,eei~ting Jubelum” (Akirop;) in the West, one representingJubela, (Guibs;) in the South, one representingJubelo (Gravelot) of whose blood the flies have sucked.Each of these skeletons is armed with that tool withwhich they perpetrated the murder of Hiram Abiff. TheChapter is ‘lighted by fifteen lights, five in the East beforethe President, and five before each Warden.‘mLEs :—This meeting is styled a Chapter. ThePresident is styled Most Illustrious Master. The SeniorWarden, Inspector, and the Junior Warden, Introductor.At a reception [initiation] only fifteen elect are allowedto be present in the Chapter, the others remainoutside.CLOTHING :—Apron white, lined and bordered withblack. On the center is painted a square built city,representing Jerusalem, three gates of which are seenin the distance. Above the gates are three heads impaledon spikes.ORDER :—Ia a black ribbon from the left shoulder tothe right hip. Where it crosses the breast, three headsimpaled on spikes are painted thereon.JEWEL :—A balance, with a scroll, square and compass,and dagger on one plate, and three decapitatedheads on the other.Note 5L—”And so we may through thee. mingled Engliab and Frenchgerruptione trace the genealogy of the word Juhelum; thu.. Ohiblim. Gib.Urn, Giballm. Chlhhelum. Jihlinme, Jihelum. Jahelum. and. Snaily. Juhelum.It meant amply a Fellow craft, and wee appeopriataly given ae a commonmine to a particular Fellow Craft, who wee Olatluguleled for hi. treachm.In other word., he was designated, not by a special and dietinctivename hat ha the title of hi. condition end rank at the Tem lo. Hew..the Yellow Craft, who ieee at the head of a conepiracy. La F.I the name.ef the other two Ruffians, they were readily conetructed out of that ofBe f~Iat5et one by a simple change of the termination of the word froma in one, and from em to e in the other. thu. preserving, by aimilarity of name., the Idea of their relationship, for the old ritualsmid thet they were brothere who had come together out of Tyre. Thisderivation emma to me to he eacy. natural end oomprebeuuibie. The~nge from lbllm4han or rether that which from OThelim one-halftofhbelum, the Masonic is oneword, that iehavefarSaderpone extraordinary their treneformetlon from heir w1j~,nel to their presentSeem. —Meehay. Znsyelqaedia, .1 isle Reffiam.

CHAPTER XVIOPENING CEREMONIESMASTER ELECT OF FIFTEEN.Moat Illustrious Master—(Knocks five, 00000; andthe five candles in the East are lighted.)Inapector—[Adoniram] (Knocks five, 00000; and thefive candles in the West are lighted.)Introductor—[Stolkinj (Knocks five, 00000, and thefive candles in the South are lighted.)Master—Brother Inspector, what’s the clock?Inspector—Most Illustrious Master, it is five o’clockand the dawn of justice and truth appears in the East.Master—If it is five o’clock and the dawn of justiceand truth appears in the East, it is time to begin work.Give notice that this Chapter of Master Elect of Fifteenis about to open.Inspector—Brethren, you will please take notice thatthis Chapter of Elect of Fifteen is about to open.Master.—(Knocka fifteen, 00000 00000 00000.)Iuspector—(Knocks fifteen, 00000 00000 00000.)Introductor—(Knocks fifteen, 00000 00000 00000.)Master—I declare this Chapter of Master Elect ofFifteen open.Master—(Knocks one and the [lodge] is seated.)Tmr~ Duoau ox MASTER ELECT OF FIZTBBN.INITIATION.The Master of Ceremonies retires to the ante-room,prepares the candidate, conducts him to the door of theChapter and knocks five, 00000.Introductor—[Stolkin] (Knocks five, 00000;) IllustriousMaster, there is an alarm at the door.Master--Brother Expert, pee who knocks at the doorof our Chapter to interrupt our deliberations.Ezpert—(Goes to the door, knocks five, 00000; andopens it a little.) Who knocks at the door of our Chapterto interrupt our deliberations? Who’s there?Inspectot’—[Adoniraml it is an Elect of Nine; brotherJoabert, who wants to know the other two ruffians”of our respectable Master Hiram Abiff and to arrive atthe degree of Master Elect of Fifteen.Ezpert—( Shuts the door and says:) Most fllustriousMaster it is brother Joabert, who wants to know theother two ruffians of our respectable Master Hiram Abiff,Vote N.—’Eleot ci Fifteen. (ZIn jes Quinse.) The tenth degree Inthe Ancient and Accepted Scottish Bite. The place of meeting Is called aCrapter; the emblematIc color I. hlsck strewed wIth tears; and thegrincipal officers are a Thrice illustrious hiaster and two inspectors. Thebistory of this degree develops the continuation end conclusion of thegenlabinent Inflicted on three traitors who, just before the conclusionat the Temple. had committed a crime of tj~e most atrocious charecter.Th~ degree is now more commonly called Zllnetrious Eln ci the hfteen.The seine degree i. found In the Chapter of Emperors of the East endweet. and In the Rite of M~alm.’—Kaekeya ~eyole,aedlsci I.e..ineeemry, haticle Elect ci Fifteen.Mete U.—Ua*em The traitor, of the third degree are called~amlaa In continental Maeonry and In the high degrees. The Englishend American Mason. have adopted In their ritual the more homely ap.piletion of Reflana. The fabricators of the high degrese ~yauiety of usass for thee. Ainaseins. —Machey’. Eneyclopsedia ciIve~memy, hittele Re~U.

192 KASTEB ELECT OF FIFTEEN. INITIATION. 193aaJ to arrive at the degree of Master Elect of Fifteen.Master—Let brother Joabert be admitted. (Adoniramthem apprehended, and have requested him to causeand candidate enter, and make fifteen steps in a triangularmanner, and a~~vance to the altar.)•to secure them and bring them to Jerusalem, to receivethem to be delivered to those whom I shall send thereMaster—Faithful Joabert, what do you wish?the punishment due for their crimes~Iiaspector—(For candidate,) I wishto know the otherI have selected fourteen of our most worthy brethren,two ruffians of our respectable Master Hiram Abifi, andand zealous masters, and have also selected you as theto arrive at the degree of Master Elect of Fifteen.fifteenth to proceed to the country of Cheth, and secureMaster—Brother Joabert, the zeal, fervor and constancyyou have shown in the preceding degrees, andthe other two murderers and bring them to Jerusalemmore especially in the degree of Master Elect of Nine,to receive the punishment adequate to their crimes. Dohad it not been for the intercession of your brethren,would have cost you your life.It is now six months since the execution of Jubelum,of whom this skeleton in the East is a representation;since which time 1. have caused Bengabee’ one of myIntendants in the country of Cheth, to cause diligent inquiryto be made if any person had taken shelter in thoseparts who might be supposed to have fled from Jerusalem,and I have just received in formation that severalpersons answering the description of the other two ruffianshave arrived there, and believing themselves secure,have began to work in the quarries of Bendaca.” Ihave also written to King Maacha” of Cheth to haveVote I1.—”Bengahee. [ScotchMasonry. i—A name Introduced In ScotchMasonry in the degree of Master Elect of Fifteen. He was intendant’ ofSolomon In the country of Cheth. The name, however, Is not hietoricel.nor Is there any “Country of Cheth” on record.“—.Merrla’e Masonic Die.tkeary’. Article Dengahee.Vote Sg.—”Dendskar. A signIficant word in the hlgb degree. One ofthe PrInces of Intendants of Sciemon, In whose quarry some of the traitorsspoken of In the third degree were found. He Is mentioned in the cats.logue of Solomon’s princes, given in 1 Kings iv. 9. The Hebrew word Isthe macf him who dividee or pierces. In some old rituals weIndbenflao& a corruptlon.’—Maokey’s Enoyclc,aedh of Freemasonry,Article 3e.debar.Mete *.—“Msaoha. In the tenth degree of the Scottish Rite we areInformed that certain traitors fled to “Maacha. KIng of Cheth.” by whomthey were delivered no to King Solomon on his sending for them. In 1Kings il. 59 we find ft recorded that two of the aervante of Shimei fledfrom erusalem to “AchIsh. son of Meacha. King of Oath.’ There canhe little doubt that the carelessness of the early copylats of the ritualled to the double error of putting ~eth for Bath and of supposing thatVasehe was Its king instead of It, kings father. The manuscripte of theAncient and Accepted Scottish Rite tao often copied by unlearned per.sons, show many such corruptions of Hebrew names whIch moderil researchesmust eventually correct. Delsunay. In his ~huIlenr.makes him~~%Tgre. a,,d cells him Mahakah.”MaOhey’s ~neyologaedia of free.Aisle Maseha.you consent to make the number of fifteen for that purpose?Candidate—I do, most cheerfully.Master-Having cheerfully accepted of the appointmnent,you will now together with the reBt of the brethrenwhom I have selected, proceed to the country ofCheth, and gain admission into the presence of KingMaseha, and deliver to him this letter with a request toapprehend if possible the other twp murderers of HiramAbiff and deliver them into your charge, to be securedand brought back to Jerusalem to receive the punishmentdue for their crimes. You will now depart andexecute my orders.Master-Illustrious Grand Captain of the Guards,you will now assemble your guards and escort the brethrento the country of Cheth.Captain of the Guards forms them into line and allretire except the two Kings and Expert.The Senior Warden now dresses in royal robes andtakes the character of Maacha, King of Cheth, and takesthe East.Embassy—(Knocks five, 00000.)Expert—(Knocks five, 00000; and opens the door)Who’s there?

194 MASVEU ELECT OF FIFTEEN.Master of Ceremo.iies—An Embassy from Solomon,King of Israel to King Maacha of Cheth.Expert—Most Powerful King Maacha, it is an Embassyfrom Solomon King of Israel, who desires anaudience with you~r majesty.King Maacha—Let them be admitted.Expert—(Goes to the door, knocks five, 00000; andopens it.) Let them be admitted.Master of Ceremonies with candidate and attendantsenter, approach the throne and kneel on one knee.Master of Ceremonies—Most Powerful King Maachs,Solomon our King, hearing that a number of his subjectshad fled from Jerusalem and taken shelter in this countryand are at tbis present time working in the quarriesof Bendaca, has sent this embassy into your royal presenceto ask permission to search in the quarries for theother two murderers af our lamented Master HiramAbifi; to secure them and carry them back to Jerusalemto receive the punishment due for their crimes. (Handsthe letter to King Maacha, who opens it and pretends toread it.)King Maacha—Illustrious Grand Captain of theGuards, you will assemble a sufficient number of yourguards and conduct these brethren from Jerusalem tothe quarries of Bendaca, cause strict search lo be madetherein, and if the murderers are found, let them bebound in chains and delivered to the embassy, to be sentback to Jerusalem, as I should be most happy in havinMmy country cleared of such monsters.Captain of Guard—Attention guards. (All rise andform into line in the North.)Captain of Guard—Right face, forward march. (AUretire but Expert and the two Kings.)Master of Ceremonies and candidate with .Captain ofthe Guard and members find two of the brethren in theINITIATION. 198ante-room, with sleeves rolled up and working withhammer and chisel on some atone, who take the charac-.ter of the other two ruffians. They are seized by Masterof Ceremonies and Candidate and bound in chains, andare conducted to the door of the lodge.Master bf (?eremonie8~~(Knocks five, 00000.)Introductor—(Knocks five, 00000;) Most IlluatriousMaster, there is an alarm at the door.Master—Brother Expert, see who knocks at the doorof our Chapter to interrupt our deliberations.Expert—(Goes to the door, knocks five, 00000; andopens it.) Who knocks at the door of our Chapter tointerrupt our deliberations?Master of Ceremonies—It is brother Joabert from thecountry of Cheth, having in charge the other two murderersof Hiram Abiff.Expert—Most Powerful, it is brother Joabert havingin charge the other two murderers of Hiram Abiff.Master-Let them be admitted.Expert—( Opens the door.) Let them be admitted.Master of Ceremonies and candidate with two ruffiansenter and proceed to the altar.Master—Brother Master of Ceremonies, what tidingsdo you bring?Master of Ceremonies—Most Powerful King, the two~‘emainingmurderers of Hiram Abiff have been foundin the quarries of Bendaca, have been seized, boundand brought back to Jerusalem, and we now have thembefore you for your righteous judgment.Master-Illustrious Grand Captain of the Guards, letthem be imprisoned in the Tower of Acbizer, and tomorrowmorning let punishment be inflicted upon themadequate to their crimes, and their heads exposed at thegates of tbe palace with tbat of Akirop. Away withthem I away with them, I say!

196 MASTER ELECT OF FIFTEEN. INITIATION. 197(Murderers are conducted out of the lodge.)Master—To whom do we owe this signal service?Master of Ceremonies—To Brother Joabert, who afterfive days’ search discovered them cutting stone in thequarries of Bendaea.Master—And now brother Joabert, for the fervencyand zeal you have shown for our order, in bringing tocondign punishment the murderers of our respectableMaster Hiram Abiff, you will now approach the altarand contract your obligation, and be elevated to thissublime degree in order that yau should become equalwith your brethren. (Joabert kneels at-the altar.)OBLIGATIONMASTER ELECT OF FIFTEEN.I do promise and swear upon the Holy Bible,never to reveal where I have received this degree, noreven say who assisted at my reception, and I furthermorepromise never to receive any in this degree withouta full power from my superiors.Nor to assist at any reception unless in a regularmanner and Chapter of this degree.To keep exactly in my heart all the secrets that shallbe revealed to me. And in failure of this my obligation,I consent to have my body opened perpendicularly, andto be exposed for eight hours in the open air, that thevenomous flies may eat of my entrails, my head to becut off and put on the highest pinnacle of the world, andI will always be ready to inflict the same punishment onthose who shall disclose this degree and break this obligation.So may God help and maintain me. Amen.Master—Rise Brother Joabert, I greet you, and withpleasure put you in posession of the secrets of the degree.alaN.Place the point of the poDiard underthe chin, and draw it downward to thewaist, as if in the act of ripping openthe abdomen.ANswER.Give the sign of an Entered Apprenticewith the fingers clinched and the thumbextended.

198 MASTER ELECT OF FIFTEEN.Token.TOKEN.Interlace each other’s fingersof the right hand.PASS WORD —Elign~im or Eliam.SACRE]) WORD :—Zerbal, answer BenfaA.BATTERY :—Is fifteen strokes by five, 00000 0000000000.HOURS OF WORK:—From five in the morning untilsix at eve.MORAL:—That the unerring eye of justice will discoverthe guilty; and they suffer the punishment theircrimes deserve.Master~(Resuming his seat.) And now my brethrenjoin me in applauding the elevation of Joabert to thedegree of Elect of Fifteen. (All rise and together givethe battery, 00000 00000 00000.)Master—Brother Adoniram, you will now conductbrother Joabert to his seat, to listen attentively to thediscourse by our Grand Orator.INITIATiON. 199DISCOURSE BY GRAND ORATOR.Brother Joabert, in the legends of masonry, the greatestenemy of Hiram or Truth is called Akirop, or Jubelum.He had two companions to whom various nanwshave been given. You, brother Joabert, have pursuedand destroyed them all three. They represent, first,ignorance or darkness, second, superstition or error,third, egotism or ambition.In the legend or mythology of the Persians, they wereAhiriman’ or the evil principle attended by darknessand chaos.In the mysteries of the Egyptians, they were Typhon”the enemy and assassin of Osiris’ assisted by Serapisand Amenthis. Among the Greeks they were Titan,Python and Chimera.Many myths of the overthrow of the enemies of manand nature were invented. Now it is Jupiter, secondedby Apollo and Pan. Now it is Ormuzd,” aided by theMote gO.—~’Ahximan. The principle of evil in the system of zoroaster.and as such opposed to Ormuad. the principle of good. He emanated.pure, from the primitive light, and was the second born—Ormuad beingthe first; hut Abriman. yielding to pride, ambition and hatred .f the firstborn, or principle of good, was condemned by the Eternal to dwell for12.000 years in that part of space where no ray of lijht reaches, at theend of which time the contest between Light and lIar nsm. or Good andEvil, will terminate See Zoroaater.~ —Mackay’s Ennyolopeadia of Free.masonry, Aztiele Ahrlman.Mote •I.—”Typhon. The brother and slayer of Osiris. in the EgyptIanmythology. As Osiris was a type or symbol of the sun. Typhon was thesymbol of winter, when the vigor, heat and, as it were, life of the annare deatro ed and of darkness as opposed to light.’ ‘—Maoksya Enoyalo.Typhon.Mote U.—”During the last age it was a fashion among the materialphiloaophero to erpiain all ancient mythology, and the mysteries in thismanner, in order to show that they bad no religious sense. This wascarried co far that even christ was declared to be nothing but a symbolof the sun and the twelve a~atlea were the twelve signs of the zodiac!we cannot admit that the Osirian myth is to he ezpiained soleiy from theastronomical point of view. It had a higher meaning, and shadowedforth the great mystery ef the world, the conflicts of good and evil, of viceand virtue, and snnouncea that even through persecution and death, ins.tice and truth, and virtue. shail advance to a perfect victory; and thatthe night of death shah yield to an immortal day.“—Macoy’s Encyolo.psedia and Dictionary of Frsemsaonry. hztiol. Osiris.Mote U.—”Ormurd was the principle of good and the symbol of light,and Abrimmn the principle of evil and the symbol of darkness. ii oldPersian re~~ —Mackeys Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Az~ Or.an.

200 MASTER ELECT OF .IFTREN. INITIATION. 201Amahospands and Szeds. They all agu~e in fixing theSolomon having learned this, wrote immediately toperiod of the victory in the zodical sign of Capricornus,King Maacha of Cheth, desiring him to give up thesewhen the sun begins his ascension and when nature resumesher work of annual reproduction. In the degreeceive at Jerusalem the punishment due for their crimes.two villains to the people he should send, in order to re-of Elect of Nine of which you have passed, you haveIn consequence of which, Solomon elected fifteen oflearned that Jubelusn (Akirop) one of the ruffians, wuthe most worthy brethren and zealous masters, in whichkilled in a cave. That skeleton in the East is a representationof him, with a setting maul with which he wasAkirop. They began their march on the 15th day ofnumber were included the nine that went to the cave ofarmed when he knocked down Hiram Abif. His headSolomon had embalmed in order to be exposed until theother two were found out.Six months after Akirop was killed, Bengabee” oneSolomon’s Intendants, made inquiry in the country ofCheth, tributary to Solomon, when he learned thatJubels, (Guibs) and Jubelo, (Gravelot) the two otherasassins5’ had relired there, thinking themselves safe.Note W.—”Ueagabee. Found in some old rituals of the high degreesfor Beudekar. se the name of an Intendant of Solomon. It is Eangaherin the catalogue of Solomon’s officers, 1 KIngs iv. 13, the son of Ocher.or the son of the strong man.’‘—Maskays Rnoyolop.sdia of Freemasonry,Article Bengahee.Note SL—”Thoae who trace Specnlative Msaon.~ to the ancient solarworship, of whom Ragon may he conSidered as the exponent. find in thinlegend a symbol of the conapiracy of the three winter months to destroythe life-giving heat of ihe sun. Those who, like the disciples of the Riteof Strict Observance, trace Masonry to a Templar origin, explain thelegend as referring to the conspiracy of the three renegade knights whofalsely accused the Order, and thus aided King Philip and Po Clementto abolish Tempiarlam and to slay its Grand Master. Hutc~nson andOliver, who labored to give a Christian interpretation W all the symbolsof Masonry, referred the legend to ihe crucifixion of the Messiah, thetype of which is, of course, the slaying of Abel by his brother Cain.Others, of whom the Chevalier flamasy was the leader, sought to give ita political significance; and, making Charles ihe First the type of theDu~lder. symbollsed Cromwell and his adherents as the conspirators. TheMasonic scholars whose aim has been to identify the modern system ofFreemasonry with the Ancient Mysteries, and especially with the Egyptian,which they supposed to he the germ of all the others, interpret the con-Irstors as the symbol of the Evil Principle, or TIphon. alsying the GoodP~ inciple. or Osiris; or, when they refer to the Zoroastic Mysteries ofPersia. as Abriman contending against Ormuad. And hatly, in thePhilosophic degrees, the myth is interpreted as signifying the war ofFalsehood. Ignorance and Superstition against Truth. Of the supposednames of the three Assassins there is hardly any end of variations, fogthey materially dlifer in all the principal Rites. Thus we have the threeJJJ’. in the York and American Rites. In the Adonhiramite system wehave Romvel. Oravelot and Ahiram. In the Scottish Rite we find thenames given in the old rituals as Juhelum Akirop. sometimes Ahiram.Juheio Romvel and Juhels Oravelot. Schterke and Oterfut are in someof the Oermsn rituals, while other Scottish rituals have Ahiram, RomvelEnd Robhen. In all these names there is manifest corruption and thetience of msny Masonic scholars has been well.nlfh exhauste4~ in seek.for some plausible and satisfactory derirstion. ‘—Mackey’s Enoycle.geedia of Freemasonry. Artlois Assassins of the Third Degree,the month Tamoaz, which answers to the month of June,and arrived on the 28th of the same month in the countryof Cheth, and delivered Solomon’s letter to KingMaacha, who trembled at the news and immediately ordereda strict search to be made for the two ruffians, andif found to be delivered to the Israelites, and said hewould be happy in having his country cleared of suchmonsters.For five days there was a strict search made, whenZerbal and Elignam were the first to discover them inthe quarries of Bendaca. They chained theni togetherand loaded them with irons, on which were engraved thecrimes they had been guilty of, to have their approachingfate before their eyes.They arrived at Jerusalem on the 15th of the followingmonth, and when conducted to Solomon, he chargedthem, with the most striking reproaches of their blackcrimes, and ordered them to be put in the Tower ofAchizar, until the day they were t~ bc executed by themost excruciating torments and death proportionable ifpossible to their crimes. On the day of execution theywere tied to two stakes by the neck, middle and feet,their arms behind them.The executioner then opened them from the breast tothe arae-pubi.s, and cross wise, and they were left in thiscondition eight hours, in which time the flies and otherinsects sucked their blood.

1202 MASTER ELECT OF FIFTEEN.Theirgroans and complaint, were so lamentable, thatthey even moved the executioner, who cut off their headsand threw their bodies over the walls of Jerusalem toserve u food for the crows and wild beasts of the forest.Thus, my brother, we close the history of Muter Electof Fifteen.LECTURE MASTER ELECT 01 FIFTEEN.Most Illuatrioua Master-Brother inspector, are youa Grand Master Elected?Inspector-My zeal and my work have procured methis degree.Most Illustrious Master—Where have you been received?Inapectot—By Solomon himself in his audience chamberṀost Illustrious Master-—When did he receive you,and on what occasion?Inspector-When he sent me with my companions tofind the two other ruffians.Moat Illtsstrious Master—Were you inquiring afterthem yourself?Inspector—Yes, Most fllustrious Sovereign, and if Ihad not been named by Solomon I should at my ownexpense have gone to show my zeal in revenging thedeath of Hiram Abiff.Most illustrious Master-You felt then a great joywhen you saw those villains executed?Inspector—The three heads I wear on my ribbon area proof of it.Most illustrious Master-What signify these threeheads?Inspector-—They are the heads of the three assassinsof Hiram Abiff.Most Illustrious Master—What do you mean by threeheads? Did you not tell me you went in search of twovillains?LECTURE. 203Inspector—Because one of the villains had alreadysuffered before the other two were taken.Most Illustrious Master—What were the names of thetwo you brought to Jerusalem?Inspector—One was called JubeLa (Gi~ib) and theother JubeLo (Gravelot.)Most Illustrious Master—How were they discovered?Inspector-By the diligence of Bengabee, Solomon’sIntendant in the country of Cheth.Most Illustrious Master-What method did Solomontake to get them?Inspector—He wrote to lvi sacha, King of Cheth, desiringhim to make a strict inquiry for them.Most Illustrious Master—Who carried and deliveredSolomon’s letter to Maacha?Inspector—Zerbal, captain of Solomon’s Guards.Most Illustrious Master—Did Maacha hesitate togrant Solomon’s request?Inspccto.r—No; on the contrary he gave us guidesand a guard.Most Illustrious Master—Where were they found?Inspector—In a quarry called Bendaca’s quarry.Most Illustrious Master—Who was this Bendaca?Inspector—One of Solomon’s Intendants, who hadmarried one of his daughters.Most Illustrious Master—Row came these two ruffiansdiscovered?Inspector—By means of a shepherd who showed ustheir retreat.Most Illustrious Master—Who perceived them first?Inspector—Zerbal and Elignam, after five days’search.Most Illustrious Master—How were their chainsmade?Inspector—In form of a rule and square, on whichwas engraved the crimes they had committed, in orderto have their approaching fate before their eyes.Moat Illustrious Master—When did you return to

204 MASTER ELECT OF Fl ITEE~. LECTURE. 205Jerusalem?Inspector—The flfteenth of the month Ab, which answera to our month of July.Most Illustrious Master-How long were you on thevoyage? ~monthexactly.Most Illustrious Master-How many masters wereelected by Solomon to go on this expedition?Inspector—Fifteen, of which number I was one.Most Illustrious Master-Was there nobody else withyou?Inspector-Yes, King Solomon sent troops to escortusṀost Illustrious Master—What did you do with theruffians after you arrived at Jerusalem?Inspector-We carried them directly into the presenceof Solomon.Most Illustrious Master-What orders did Solomongive about them?I 1tspector—Afkr he had reproached them bitterly forthe enormity of their crimes, he ordered Achizar, GrandMaster of the household, to confine them in the towerthat bore his name, and that they should be executedthe next day at ten o’clock in the morning.Most Illutrious Master—With what kind of deathwere they punished?Inspector—They were tied naked by their necks andheels to two posts, their bodies cut open from theirbreasts to the ar’se-pubis and cross wise.Most Illustrious Master—Did they continue any timein that condition?Tnspector—They were thus exposed for eight hoursji& the hot sun, that the venomous flies and insects shouldsuck their blood; which made them suffer even morethan death itself. They made such lamentations andcries that they even moved the executioner.Most Illustrious Master-What did he do with themafterwards?Inspector-He was so moved with their cries, that hecut off their heads and flung their bodies over the wallsof Jerusalem, as food for the ravens and beasts.Most Illustrious Master—What was done with theirheads?Inspector—They were fixed on poles by order of Solomonand exposed to public view, with that of Akirop,in order to give an example as well to the people u tothe workmen of the temple.Most Illustrious Master—What was the name of thefirst villain?Inspector—According to the nine elected, they calledhim Abyram, but the word is only an emblem, as it signifiesviLlain or assassin. His right name is Jubelum(Akirop) and he was the eldest of the three brothers.Most Illustrious Alaster—On which gates were theseheads exposed?Inspector—On the South, East and West gates; thatof Akirop on the East gate, that of Jubelo (Gravelot) onthe West, and that of Jubela (Guibbs~) on the Southgate.Note S6.—”Ouibba. The names given to the Amasains of the thirddegree by some of the in,entors of the high degrees are of so singulara form as to hu,e almost irresistibly led to the conclusion that theseliames were bestowed by the adhereuts of the house of 5tuaris uponsome of their enemies as marks of infamy. 5uch. tot instance, is Romyel,the name of one of the Assassins in certain 5cottiah degrees, which iiprobably a corruptIon of Cromwali, Jubelum Guibba, another name of one.1 ihesa traitors, has m,,eh pussieS the Masonic etymologists. I thinkthat I have found its origin in the name of the Re,. Adam Oih, whowas an antiburgher clerg~ ni,,n of Edinburgh. when that city was takenlassession of by tbc young Pretender. Charles Edward, in 1745. the•~iergy generally tIed. lInt Gib removed oniy three miles from the city.where, collecting his I yai congregation, he hnrled anathemas for fivesuccessive Sundays against the Pretender, and boldly prayed for the,i,,wnfall of the rebellion. He subsequently Joined the loyal army, and atFalkirk took a rebel prisoner. So active was Gib in his opposition tothe cause of the house of 5tuart. and so obnoxious had he become thatseveral attempts were made by the rebels to take his life. On CharleeEdward’s return to Prance he erected in 1747 hia ~Primordisl Chspter~ atArras; and in the composition of the high degrees there practiced it isy~y probable that he bestowed the name of his old enemy Gib on ihemost atrocious of the Asussins who figured in the legend of third degree.The letter u was doubtless inserted to prevent the French in pronounelugthe name from falling into the soft sound of the 0 and calling theword Jib. The additional h and a were the natural and customary resultsof a French attempt to spell a foreign proper name.’—Maoksys RnqaJo.gaedi~ of Freemasonry Artiole Guibba.

206 MA5~ ELECT 01 FIPTEEN.Most Illustrious Master-For what reason were theirheads exposed on the gates of Jerusalem?Inspector—Because they had each of them used theirviolence at these gates of the temple on Hiram Abiff.For when Jubela (~uibs) had struck him at the Southgate with a twenty-four (24) inch guage, Jubelo (Gravelot)struck him with a square at the West gate, andJubelum (Akirop) gave him the finishing blow with asetting maul at the East gate, which killed him.Most Illustrious Master—What is the word of theGrand Master Elect?inspector—Zerbal and Benjah.Most Illustrious Master—What is the pass?Inspector~ELignam.4fost Illustrious Master—What are the signs?Inspector—Here they are. You comprehend me?(he gives them.)Afost Illustrious Master—What are the tokens?Inspector—Here they are. (he gives them.) Answerme. (Master answers.)Most Illustrious Master—What’s the clock?Inspector—It is six in the evening.Most Illustrious Master—Why six in the evening?Iuspcclor—BeCSUse it was at that hour when the lasttwo SS5ilSSlfl5 expired, by which the death of Hiram isavenged.CLOSINGCEREMONIESSUBLIME KNIGHTS ELECTED.Thrice Puissant—Brother Inspector, are you a SublimeKnight Elected?Inspector-My name will inform you.Thrice Puissant—What is your name?Inspector—Emeth.Thrice Puissant—What signifies that name?Inspector-A true man on all occasions.Thrice Puissant-What time do you close the Chapter?Inspector-At dawn of day.Thrice Puissant-What’s the clock?Inspector—The dawn of day and tolerance,” 5 pesceand harmony prevail.Thrice Puissant-As day appears and tolerance,peace and harmony prevail, give notice that the Chapterof Sublime‘Knights Elected is closed.Inspector—Sublime Knights Elected, you wili pleasetake notice that this Chapter is closed.Thrice Puissant-Together, (Sublime Knights allClap seven, 0000000; and the Chapter is closed.)lot. lW.—”Tols,ntimn. The pand characteristic of Masonry Is itsmnlarstion in religion and politics. In res~ci to the latter its toleration~s no limit. The question of a mans political opInions I, not permitted~ be broached in the Lodge; in reference to the formee it requires onlyinst. te see the language of the old charge. Masons shall be of ‘thatgeligion in which all men agree, leavIng their particoisr opinions to them.in’~—Xseksga Eneyelepaedl. at lreeaassaq, hatlela !elustlee.

KILLING THE REMAiNING ASSASSINS GY 1113AM. 209HISTORICAL ANALYSISELEVENTH DEGREE OR SUBLIME KNIGHTS ELECTED.“The Dreariest of all Dreary 14o,.ense’—MaUiSe5I Countenaaoe of Es~Sworshipers—Admits the Strong Man Armed.If it has been felt necessary by the Masonic authorsof preceding degrees to apologize for some of them astame, “giving little or no symbolic information,” onewould think this Eleventh Degree needed such apologymuch more. The distinguished Dr. Leonard Bacon, alittle while before he died, read over some of these degrees,and in a letter to the writer, said: “‘Masonryseems to me the dreariest of all dreary nonsense.” Andthat is pre-eminently true of this Eleventh Degree.The lodge is still a “Chapter,” to please the Jesuits,and the clothing of the members the same as in thepreceding grade; the three assassins have been killedthe second time, and it is too soon to invent a newlynching scene. No murder of a sleeping man in acave; no bloody head held by the hair; not even ablood-smeared poniard is here to give relish to the game.Even poor Solomon is grown familiar as a half worncoat or hat; so that his title as lodge master has to bechanged from “Most Illustrious” in the tenth degree to“Thrice Puissant” in this. In short, the degree is mererepetitious dwelling like the dronings of a weary juggler.‘What then caused this~ degree to be selected fromthousands then in France? And what has kept it alivefor 133 years?The answer is given in Note 97, ‘which tells us thatthe fortune of war and the adoption of our presentconstitution, twelve years before, had convinced theworld that there was to be a United States.This Tenth Degree of the Charleston Rite, was theseventh in the Ledge of Perfection, formed in the JesuitCollege (see Note 83) with intent, as its name indicates.to lead and govern all the rest. The lodge was calleda “Chapter,” which means, a Dean and his clergy. Theskeleton of Jubelum, one of the fabled murderers of Hiram,hangs on one side of the hall. The drapery, redand white, the apron lined with black, and the jewel aponiard. The business, or burden, of the degree is thekilling of the remaining two murderers of Hiram, byripping them open from the chin downward and allowing“flies to suck their blood.” The emblematic color,black, flecked with tears. (Note 85.) This degreepassed from the Jesuit College into the Rite of TheEmperors of the East and West, and so was included intheir patent to the Jew, Morin. And, though the threeassassins of Hiram had been killed, by the torture whicheach invoked on himself, in th~e third or Masters degree,which was adopted into this rite as a part of it, theyare here killed over again, with new, diversified tortures;doubtless because the Rite of Perfection invented inFrance and called “Scotch” by Ramsa~j, was intendedto be an independent system, separate from EnglishMuonry, to please the young French nobles who despisedthe English mechanics. But it became necessaryto unite the two, to overtop and bring English lodges tosupport the Stuarts, and that the inventors might availthemselves of English Masonry, which had alreadyspread itself over Europe, as a market for new degrees.The names of these imaginary assassins, invented at

210 SWEARING TO ASSASSINATE SECEDEUS. TO REPLACE POPERY ON THE THRONE OF UNGLAND. 211the Appletree tavern in 1717, are Latin, Jtsbela, Jubeloand Jubelum. But as there was no Latin language tillcenturies after Solomon, any scholar can see the ridiculouspretense of Solomon’s connection with Masonry centuriesafter he was~ dead. Ramsay invented for the assassinsa new set of names, (Mackey Ency. Art. Awzesins)viz: Alcirop, Guibs and Gravelot, to hide fromFrench aristocrats the ignorance of the English inventorsof the lodge. The story of sending to “Maacha, King ofCheth” to find the last two murderers, is metamorphosedfrom Shimei going to “Achish, son of Maachsh, King ofOath,” I Kings, 2, 89, pursuing steadily the plan ofstealing from the Bible freely, everything but the oneMediator and salvation through Him!; thus deceivingmultitudes into the belief that Masonry is very like theBible and equally good. But in the midst of this fraudulentverbosity, the oath of this Tenth Degree has thisdamning clsuse: After swearing consent to have his“body opened and exposed eight hours to flies,” he ismade to swear: “I will always be ready to inflict thesame punishment on those who shall disclose this degree.”This sworn assassination, by torture, increases inintensity as the degrees increase. And yet Masonicwriters with a cool impudence, gained from worshipingthe “father of lies,” affirm that “Masonry knows nopunishment but expulsion from the lodge ! I!”The venerable and beloved Dr. Aydelotte, Presidentof Woodward College, Cincinnati, when asked by a citypastor, who had taken twenty-one degrees: “What jethe matter with Masonry ?“ replied: “Matter with Masonry!It is lie all over.” The holy man had long beforerenounced the three degrees he had taken. (Seethe oath in the Ritual.) We resd from Milton:—Wolves shall succeed for teachers, grievous wolves.Who all the ucred mysteries of heaven.To their own vile advantages shall turnOf lucre and ambition.If everthe words of Paul, expanded by Milton, had afulfillment, it was when Ramsay and the Jesuits ~nventedthese degrees for money and the hopes of promotionby replacing Popery on the throne of Englandcrushing Protestantism in Europe, and free governmentthroughout the world.

CHAPTER XVIIELEVflNTH Dmm OR SUBLIME KNIGHTS ELECTED.’AQUARIUS OR THE WATER BEARELThis grade was originally instituted by Solomon as areward for the zeal and constancy of the true and faithfulcraftsmen who were engaged in the construction ofthe temple. In this degree it is the duty of the SublimeKnights Elected to prepare a proper code of statutesfor the Elected Knights of Nine and Fifteen. Thelecture explains the duties of the Sublime Knights, andthe mystic 0, which was composed of F.:.M. :.W. :.O.:.DECORATIONS :—This (lodge] is held in a lace representingan ante-chamber in King Solomon~ palace.Note 31.—’Subllins Knight meet. Sometimes called ?wslvs IliustrleuaKaighta. The eleventb degree of the Ancient and Accepted Rite. Thisdegree completes the series of Elect degrees, vIa: Elect of NIne. Elect ofPifteen and Sublime Knight Elect. The legend of this degree specifleethat after vengeance had been taken on the traitors. Solomon. to rewardthose who had remained faIthful to their trust. as well as to make roomfor the exaltation of others to the degree of Elect of Pifteen. appointedtwelve of these lattcr chosen hy theIr companions, to constitute a newdegree, on which he bestowed the titie of sublime Elect, and endowedthem with a certain command to provide supplies for the kIn and hhousehold; to see that the lazes were fairly assessed; to snperf tend thecollection of the revenue, and to protect the people against rapacity andestortlon of the taz.gstberers. In this degree is shadowed forth thegreat principle—free constitutions, without which liberty would often behut a nsme—the trial by jusy of twelve men, whose unanimous verdIctis necessary to convict of crime. The assembly is called a Chapter. it Islighted with twelve lights, by threes, in the East. West. North andSouth, esch three forming an equilateral triangle. The presiding officerrepresents King Solomon, and is styled Thrice Illustrious Sovereign; thetwo Wardens are styled Inspectors; the Chapter consIsts of twelve mcm.bers only. The apron is white. lined, edged and fringed with ble k. andthe flap is hiack. In the middle of the apron is painted or embroidereda fisming heart. The sash is a black ribhon. worn from right to ieft.and on which, over the hresst. is paInted or embroidered a flaming heart;and over that the words vinasi, aut Marl. The Jewel is a sword, wornsuspended to the sash. —Maceye Knayelopedla and Dictionary of irs.-masonry. Artiele Sublime Knight me....SUBLIME KNIGHTS ELECTED. 213It is hung with black tapestry strewed with flaminghearts, and is illuminated by twenty-four light..TITLES :—The = [lodge] is called a Chapter. At aninitiation only twelve brethren are permitted to be present.The Muter represents Solomon and is styledThrice Puissant. Instead of Wardens, there is a GrandInspector and a Muter of Ceremonies.CLOTHING :—The brethren are clothed as in the precedinggrade.APRON:—White, lined and bordered with black. Inthe centre of the apron is a pocket on which is paintedor embroidered a poniard surrounded by nine flames.ORDER :—A broad black ribbon from the left shoulderto the right hip, on which are embroidered three inflamedhearts’, or this motto: Vincere Gut Mon. At thebottom of the ribbon hangs a gold poniard with a silverblade.JEwEI,:—The same as the preceding degree, with theaddition of threehearts inflamed, on the balance; one inthe center and one at each end.

OPENING CEREMONIESSUBLIME KNIGHTS ELECTED.Thrice P,Liasant—Brother Inspector, what is yourduty to this Chapter?Inspector—To see that we are all secure.Thrice Puissant—Are you a Sublime K.night Elected?Inspector—Thrice Puissant, my name will convinooyou.Thrice Puissant—What time is the Chapter open?Inspector-.—TWelve o’clock at midnight, the hour otthe reconciliation of reason and feeling.Thrice Puissant—(Knocks seven, 0000000.) I declarethis Chapter of Sublime Knight. Elected open. (Onerap; all are seated.)CHAPTER XVIIIELEVENTH DEGREE OR SUBLIME KNIGHTS ELECTED.’INITIATION.Abater of Cereiiiotties—(Knocks seven at the door.)Iiispector—Thrice Puissant, there is an alarm at thedoor.Thrice Puissant—Brother Expert see who knocks atthe door of our Chapter.Expert—(Goes to the door, knocks seven and opensit.) Who knocks at the door of our Chapter?Master of C~eremonies—Brother Joabcrt, a MasterElect of Fifteen, who has passed through all the precedingdegrees, and beseeches you to confer on him the degreeof Sublime Knight Elected.Expert—Thrice Puissant, it is Brother Joabert, aMaster Elect of Fifteen, who has passed through all thepreceding degrees, and beseeches you to confer on hii~the degree df Sublime Knight Elected.Thrice Puissant—Has his conduct been without reproachand are the Illustrious Knights satisfied with it?Expert—(To Master of Ceremonies.) Has his con-Nate •S.—”Suhlime Knight heated. (Sublime Cb.vtlier sin.). Calledalso Sublin,e Knight Elected of the Twelve. The eleventh degree of theAncient and Accepted 5cotttsh Rite lie legend is that it was instituted byKing Solomon after punishment had been inflicted on certain traitors atthe Temple. both as a recompense for the zeal and constancy of the litus.trious Elect Fifteen, who bad discovered them, and also to enabie himto elevate other deserving brethren from the loser degrees to that whichhad been vacated by their promotion Twelve of these fifteen he electedSublime Knights and made the selection by hailot that be might givenone offense, putting the names of the whole In an urn. The first twelvethat were drawn he formed into a Chapter. and gave them command overthe twelve tribes, bestowing on them a name which In Hebrew signifiesa true man. —Maeheya Enayelapaedia of Freemasonry, Artlale SublimeKnight Elected.

316 5UBLIMZ KNIGHTS ELECTED. INITIATION. 21Tduet been without reproach and are the IllustriousKnights satiaded with his conduct?Master of Ceremonies—All here present are satisfiedwith his conduct.Expert—Thrice Puissant, all here present are satisffedwith his conduct.Thrice Ptsissant—Then let him be introduced in aproper manner.Expert—Let Brother Joabert be introduced in aproper manner.Master of Ceremonies puts a naked sword in his righthand with the blade across his body, a compass in hisleft hand with the points to his heart. Thus arrangedhe conducts him into the Chapter and seats him in theWest iu front of the Inspector.Thrice Puissant-Brother Master of Ceremonies, whyhave you led Joabert into our presence?Master of Ceremonies—To beseech the Thrice Puissantto confer this Sublime degree upon him, for by hisvalor, veracity and vigilance he has won the hearts ofhis brethren, and.they have chosen him to representthem in this assembly of Sublime Elected Knights andto join you in studyingthe laws the Grand Architect haswritten- upon the hearts of all men, so that legislationmay be a unit and a blessing instead of being a curse.Thrice Puissant—The right of the masonic people torepresentation, is consecrated from time immemorial;and on this occasion it is with joy 1 learn the choice ofyour fellows has fallen on Joabert. It is the just rewardof your merit, brother Joabert, and we greet you in thisassembly where you now may see the scales of justiceadorned by the symbols of the affections, to expressthat justice should be tempered with mercy, that thelaw must be conceived in a spirit of love, and that thehappiness of the people does not exclusively dependupon rigid expressions of wrong, but also upon a generousdisplay of sentiment.7’hrice Puisiant—Brother Expert, you will nowteach brother Joabert to travel.Expert divests him of his sword and compasses whichhe hands to the Master of Ceremonies, makes the candidatecross his hands on his breast, and conducts himhrst to the West; causes him to kneel and say Civi.Thrice Puissant—Ky. (Candidate rises.)Expert conducts him to the South where he kneels,from thence to the North where he kneels, and fromthence to the East, in front of the Thrice Puissant, wherehe kneels also.Thrice Puissant—Brother Joabert, you have beencaused to kneel at the four points of the compass inallusIon to the four gates of the temple, and the respectwe should have to enter a place consecrated. You willnow contract the solemn obligation of a Sublime KnightElected.OBLIGATION 5UBLIME KNIGHT ELECTED.I—promise and swear on the same obligatiQns Ihave already taken and contracted to keep secret the degreeof the Sublime Knights Elected, with which I amgoing to be entrusted, as well in regard to masons underthis degree as to the profane. I furthermore promise toadore my God, to be faithful to my country, to be charitable-to my neighbors and brothers, submitting myselfin case of any infraction of this my obligation, to havemy body severed in two, my memory, lost and lookedupon as infamous and foreaworn. So God andhis Holyevangelists be my help. Amen.Thrice Ptsissant—( Puts his sword three times on thecandidate’s head.) Brother Joabert, I greet you as aSublime Knight Elected, and pledge you in a cup ofwine as generous as that poured out by GanymeJe tothe Olympian gods, for it denotes our sincere feelingstowards you as a member of this Council, towards thosEyou represent, as well as towards all mankind.(Wine is then poured out in three glasses, then the

218 StELIME KNIGHTS ELECTED. INITIATION. 219Thrice Puissant, Expert and Candidate touch glasses.)Thrice Puissant—Brother Joabert, we pledge you inthe wine cup and welcome you as a member of thisChapter of Sublime Knights Elected. (All threedrixik.)Thrice Puissatlt—Arise Brother Joabert and receivethe recompense due you. (He then decorates him withthe sash and apron and gives him the sign, grip andword.)SIGN.Cross the arms on the breast, the fingersclinched, and thumbs elevated.Second — Take onethe right hand of theother, and with thethumb strike thrice onIhe first joint of theS.condTokfl.middle finger.3.&TI!ERY :—Twelve equi-timed strokes, 000000000000.HOURS OF LABOR:—From low twelve until daylight.~iss woRn:.—Stotkin; (running of Water.)SACRED WORD :—Adonai.MORAL:—That the true and faithful brother willsooner or later receive his just reward.Thrice Puissant—Brother Expert, you will now conductbrother Joabert to his seat in the Chapter whileour Grand Master of Eloquence delivers the discourse.Sign. Sublime.5nlgbt Ulocted.TOKENS.First—Present to each otherthe thumb of the right hand, thefingers clinched. One seizes thethumb of the other and reversesthrice his wrist. One says Berith,the other one says Neder, the firstthen says Shelemoth.DISCOURSE BY GRAND MASTER OF ELOQUENCE.My dear brother, let your heart be entirely devotedto enjoy the ecstacy of innocent joy, with springs of fulisatisfaction to feel all the emotion that it will inspireyou with; bless a thousand times this happy day whichwill open to you the perfection you desire. In short.congratulate yourself with having reached the degree ofSublime Knight Elected which we have just given you.Do not think that it is one of the imaginary and proudtitles which have neither origin or ground for it.Open the sacred books, search in the holy history andyou will find the Epoch of your state. There you willsee the excellence and privileges of it.I should without doubt pass tjhe limits of an ordinary‘discourse if I was to take up time to let you know thewhole extent of it.I will leave the natural curiosity to those who oughtto be willing to know perfectly the state which they

220 SUBLIMU nnowrs ULEOTUD. INITIATION. 221have embraced, with care to muikis the necessary inquiryfor the knowledge you ought to possess. I will besatisfied to expose the duties and obligations of it.The promise you have just now made and contractedin the quality of( Sublime Elected Knight, is the greatestand most solemn of them all. I will not speak toyou of the prudence with which you have so often laidthe law of, on yourself, you know that virtue too well,and with the.practice of it it must be so familiar ~toyouthat it would be needless to exhort you to it; and forthat reason we fear no violation from your side.I shall only renew to you the importance of the promisesyou just now have made and which are the chiefmatters of your obligation. There is no one in this degreewho has not submitted like you, and in short, if allmen have indispensibly fulfilled those duties you justnow imposed on yourself, with what zeal, what eagernessand what ardour, should not a Sublime ElectedKnight acquit himself.We first promise to love and adore God. This is thenatural law which is engraved in us. I say more, whichcame into the world before us, and who is he that couldtransgress this duty and not render the lawful tributeto him which is owing from us to the vilest creature hehas formed, sustaining us only by the means of his powerwhich he may destroy or annihilate without our beingable to accuse him of rigour and injustice.This is, my Illustrious Knight, the first of your duty,that Reason teaches, Truth shows and Justice establishesto us.Youhave also promised to be faithful to your country.Is there any among us who does not feel it perfectlyand is not fully convinced of the necessity of this partof our obligation of loyalty, as we conform ourselves tothe customs which have been established for all thoewho as well as you, attained to a degree as eminent amthis in which you are now clothed, and to whom is trustedthe glory of justice which you have in your hand.We mu4 now, my brother, explain to you the namesand letters which werc shown you when you were initiatedin our sublime degree and mysteries.It is not one of the common names which has neithersense, reason nor signification. It is a name which is asthose in use in eastern nations, showing the virtue ofthose who are found worthy of having it.Yours in the quality of Sublime Knight Elected isEmeth” a Hebrew word signifying “a true man on alloccasions.” Can tl~ere be any better or more gloriousname, and would it not be a shame and disgrace to anyof us who should expose himself to do anything and becapable of degeneraling from it?Now let us come to the allegorical explanation of thefigures you have seen in the draft: they will serve toinstruct you in the sense and science of your state, andteach you to unfold little by little, the moral sense. Theycontain the precepts you ought to follow, the principleson which you ought to act, and the duties you have tofulfill.The Elected as you know, were those Solomon choseto watch the work which was done in the temple afterthe death of Hiram AbuT. The temple was at last finishedand completed to its last perfection. God appearedsatisfied with this building which was consecrated tohim. It is that cloud in which theyhave been willing tolob U.—”One of the word. in the high degree.. It signifies intsgri~.UgU~, bsusss, and constancy in keepin~ a ~romiae. and esrciaiil!rtth as OppoSed to falsehood. In e • a e tiightlUhot of Twelee of the sloycoth degree are called •Prlnces 3meth.’~ which~ ezaited character who are devoted to trath.~—of 1255580317, Aitiol. Imeth.

222 SUBLIME KNIGHTS ELECTED. INITIATION. ~28The pair of scales you perceive to bean attribute of justice. It is here exposedSyour sight to make you remember thatt is with that you ought to weigh yourproceelng and projects if you are in-trace the image of God in this draft by the trianglewhich you see in the cloud; therefore it is very ~asy tomake from these two figures a jus1~ and true application.Our hearts are the living temple, where are erectedaltars which ought to receive the sacrifices which wemake to the Lora. It should always be a temple ivorthyof him. We can never know too much how to employour time for its construction, neither can we apply ourselvestoo much to carry offerings which may be agreeableto him.To render ourselves worthy of his favors, we ought tocompare to that miraculous cloud which spread itselfover the ark, by which God showed the favorablealliance he had made with his people, which is the chiefobject of the draft now before you. In that box whichhangs at the top of the draft, were deposited the heartsof the victims who were offered to the Lord and whichwerc accepted sacrifices.If the gift you make of your heart is pure, it will becomea true figure of it, and he will not reject the offeringof it if all that lies in it is worthy to be offered tohim.You also see the urn; it was therc Solomon orderedthe heart of Hiram Abiff15 to be deposited, as anauthcntic mark of esteem and tenderness he had for him,which is without doubt a very urgent lesson, which invitesus to re-inflame our endeavors in conducting ouractions of life, that we may be able to leave behind amemory worthy to be consecrated with respect, esteemand veneration.Vote 100.—”Xsaat of Hiram AblE. There Is a legend in dome of thehigh degrees and in continental Masonry thai the heart of Hiram AblEwas deposited in an urn and pieced upon a inOnnment neal the holy ofhofles, and in sonle of the tracing hoards it is represented as a eymhoLThe myth. for auch it is. was probably derlyed from the cery commoncustom in the Middle Ages of persons canaing their bodies to be diumem.bered after death for the purpose of havIng parts of them burled in achurch or some piace which bad been dear to them in Iife.”—2Ia~sy’aEnoyolopaedla of Freemasonry. hittols Ksszt of Hiram AblE.Oul.saG Sy’oit dined to deserve the glorious name ofEmeth. The sword with which you arc armed, andgiven you by the Thrice Puissant has been remittcd youless for a mark of honor and discretion, than to be employed~.toserve, thsn to be used in order to fulfill thesolemn obligation you have contracted.~ The key which you also see in the draftis a symbol to teach you to keep’religiouslyin your heart the secrets with which youare intrusted, as it is a sacred trust that these illustriousbrethren have reposed in you.The zealous charity you ought to have for your brcthren,is figured to you by the emblem of an inflamedheart, a true symbol. of it. As it is the principalobject, and most indispensable dutyof a mason to devote himself to practicevirtue, what care ought not anElected Sublime Mason to have, neverto depart from this principle. He who is in thesuperior degrees ought always to act effectually to renderhimself worthy of that distinction. Charity is of allvirtues, the principal one which satisfies humanity.Instead of the inflamed heart, which was worn (at thetime of the written law) ~s a distinctive mark of theSublime Elected, we wear a cross the form of whichis traced to you. It is the happy epoch of the law ofgrace we live in. Since upon the cross was spilled theprecious blood of the Sovereign Redeemer to whom weare all indebted, we are all obliged to wear it, not asa mark which may please our vanity or our affections,

3,’SUBLIME KNJOHTS ELECTED.but as one of the attributes of our condition and a strikingobject, capable continually to recall us to that divineauthor of nature, that Sovereign Master of our days whohas been willing to render himself a victim for theiniquities of our fathers, and to withdraw them fromthe everlasting torments they had but too much deserved.You see also the two palm trees, very high and loftywhich seem to spread their branches over the tomb ofHiram Abiff. They are the emblem of the everlastingpalm, at which we all of us aim, and which are tracedfor us to be deserving of it.These, my Illustrious Brother are the chief objects ofour draft, which you ought to keep up to, and study thesame and be always the subject of your reflections. Weflatter ourselves (having so fair a road before you thatyou will follow it and never enter any other dangerouspath to scatter you from the many great duties you areto fulfill. You will find the exertion so much the moreeasy for it. In short, keeping firm to your obligationsand faithful to your promises, we shall find in you abrother zealous and officially charitable, worthy of bearingthe respectable name of Sublime Elected Knight,which you have now recejved. -LECTURE.Thrice 1-uiasani—Are you a Sublime Knight Elected?Inspector—Illustrious Thrice Puissant, my name willinform you.Thrice Puissant—What is your name?Inspector—Emeth.Thrice Puissant-What means that name?Inspector—A true man in all things.Thrice Puissant—How were you arrayed when introducedin this Chapter?LECTURE. 225Inspector—I had a sword in my right hand, the bladeacross my body and a compass in the left the pointa ofwhich rested on my breast.Thrice Puissant-Why the sword across your body?Inspector—To remind me that my body alLould besevered in two if I ~as vile enough to reveal the-mysteriesof this degree.Thrice Puissant—And why the points of the compasson your breast?Inspector—To show that my actions were encompassedas I was found worthy to receive the degree of .~ublimeElcctcd Knight.Thrice Puissant—How were you reported in the Chapter?Inspector—By seven knocks.Thrice Puissant—What signify these seven- knocks?Inspector—The seven years that were employed in theconstruction of the temple and its ornaments.Thrice Puissant—What is your sacred word in qualityof Sublime Knight Elected?Inspector—A donai, which is God.Thrice Puissant—And the pass-word?Inspector—Stollcin.Thrice Puissant—What is the sign of the SublimeKnights Elected?Inspector—To cross the arms on the breast, the fingersclinched, and thumbs elevated.Thrice Puissant-What is the sacred sign?Inspector—The promise I made, always to wear thecross in remembrance of my faults, since they are defacedthereby.Thrice Puissant-What is the token of acknowledg•

226 SUBLIME KNIGHTS ELECTED.ment?Inspector—To take the right hand of a brother slidwith the thumb strike three times on the first joint ofthe middle finger.Thrice Puissant—What signifies this token?Inspector—Lo9e to God, Fidelity to my countr~ andCharity towards my neighbors.Thrice Puissant—What did you see on entering theChapter?Inspector—Twenty-four (24) lights.Thrice Puissant—What do they signify?I’ispector—The twelve”~ Masters Elected, snd thetwelve tribes of Israel.Thrice Puissant—What are the names of the twelveMasters Elected?lnspector—Joabert, Stolkin, Terry, Morphy,’’ Alycuber,Dorson, Kerim, Berthemen, Tito, Zerbal, Beniah,and Gaber. The first nine are those who went with thestranger in search of Akirop, the last three make up thenumber of twehe (12) Masters Electe6.Thrice Puissant—What employ did Solomon givethem?inspector—To superihtend all the masters, and there-Note 1O1.—~The nsme’ of the Twelve Illustrious Knights selected to~reulde over the twel,e tribes, a. they have been transmitted to us in theritual of this degree have undoubtedly aauumcd a very corrupted form.The restoration of their corcect orthography, and with It their truesiguiflcstion. is worthy the attention of the Masonic student. ‘—Mackey’s~cycicpeedia of fr.emssewy• Article Snbilme KnIght Elected.Note lOS.—Merphsy. The nsme of one of the twelve inspectors in theeleventh degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. This name,like the others in the same catalogue. hida deSance to any Hebraicderivation. They are sit either Freao~h corruptions. worse even thanjakmai for Shskiush, or they have some allusion to names or events con.nected with the political intrigues of the exiled house of Stuart. whichbad. it is kuowu. a connection with some of the higher degrees sprungup et Arras and other places where Masonry was patronized by theiretcnder. This word Morphey may, for instance, be a corruption forMurray. Jsmea Murray. the second son of Lord Stormoni. escaped to thecourt of the Sluarts in 1715. He was a devoted adherent of the exiled!an~lly and became the governor of the young prince and the chief mm’ister of his father. ~ho conferred upon him the empty title of Earl ofD’,ohar. He died at Avignon in 1770 B~t almost every etymology of thisdud must be entirely conjecturaL~—Xackeya Encyclopaedia of Free.masefry. Article Morphey.LECTURE. 227fore named them Inspectors, that they might be able togive him an account of what was daily done in the constructionof the temple.Thrice Puissant—In what manner were these Inspectorsemployed to survey the conduct of the workmen?lnspector—.Ioabert had inspection of the tribe ofJudaA.Stollein. had inspection of the tribe of Benjamin.Terry had inspection of the tribe of Simeon.Morphy had inspection of the tribe of Ephra.m.Alycuber had inspection of the tribe of Manasseh.Dorson had inspection of the tribe of Zebulofz..Kerimj had inspection of the tribe of Dan.Berthem c-n had inspection of the tribe of Asher.Tito had inspection of the tribe of Naphtali.Zerbal had inspection of the tribe of Reuben.Beniak had inspection of the tribe of issachar.Gaber had inspection of the tribe of Gad.These twelve masters rendered daily an account asInspectors to Solomon of the work done by all thercspective tribes and they received the amount of paymentto be distributed to all the workmen of everytribe.Thrice Puissant—What signifies the tomb at the Westdoor of the temple?inspector—It is the tomb where the body of therespectable Hiram Abiff is deposited. Solomon had itplaced at the entrance of the temple to show the Israeliteshow much he was affected at the loss of that grcaLman; dnd did it in honor of him whom he regarded andesteemed as himself.Thrice Puissant—What signifies the I. ~.H.‘.S.~.which you see in the draft?Inspector—The I.’. is the initial of “Jeva” the firstpronunciation of the Ancient Masters Word; the H.’.

228 SUBLIME KNiGHTS ELECTED. LEOTUEN. 229that of Hiram our respectable Master; and the S.:. thatof Stolkin who discovered the body of Hiram Abiff.Thrice Puissant—Give me a description of the urnwhich is on the top.Inspector—In the urn is the heart of our dear MasterHiram Abiff embalmed.Thrice Puissant—What means the letters N.:. andC.:. on the urn?Inspector—Xinxe, a Hebrew ~vordsignifying the seatof the soul.Thrice Puissant—And what means the key?Inspector—The symbol tilat we only have the secretand depository of the mason’s secret, and ought to ruleour conduct so, to show by example that we are worthyof the trust and charge rcposed in us.Thrice Puissant—And the balance?inspector—Calls to the rcmembrance the obligationslaid on us, to be just to our brothers and neighbors,since we are thosc in whom King Solomon has put allhis confidence by giving us power to exercise justice andterminate disputes which may arise among masonsfrom the apprentice to the degree of Sublime KnightsElected, ~vhichis above them all.Thrice Puissant—And the sword?inspector—To make use of it as we ought to thosewho do not walk in the paths of virtue, and are so vileas to reveal the secrets they are entrusted with.Thrice Puissaitt—How long did you take to completethe temple?inspector—Seven years to complete the whole; six forits constructi6n and one for the ornaments and itsdedication.Thrice Puissant—How long was the building?lnspector—T~venty cubits.Thrice Puissant—How many precious things haveyou in the Chapter of Sublime Knights Elected?Inspector—Five.Thrice Puissant-What do you call them?Inspector—The a 1k of alliance, the golden bor, thetwo palm trees, the candlestick’’ with seven branchesand the veil which is drawn up.- Thrice Puissant —What signiftes the Ark~fljoiAlliance.Inspector—It waaArk of Alliance, the figure of Solomon’stemple consecrated to God and contained the two tablesof the law which God gave to Moses on the holy mountainwhen he contracted an alliance with the people of!srael.Thrice Puissant — Thecandlestick with a e v e nbranches?Inspector—Represents theseven planets and the sevengifts of the Holy Spirit.Thrice Puissant — A n dwhat the veilisa of the tern-~le?~ ..~ Inspectos’—Tlie figure cfNuts 153.—’Golden Candleattek. The golden candleetick which wasmade by Moses for the service of the tabernacle snd was afterwards depositedin the holy pisce of the temple to throw light upon the sitar ofincense and the table of 5howbread,was made wholly of pure gold., andhad seven branches: that is. three on each side and one in the center.These branches were at equal dlslances. and each one was adorned withlowers like lilies, gold knobs afier the form of an apple. and similarones resembling an almond. Upon the extremities of the branches wereseven golden lamps, which were fed wIth pure olive oil, and lightedev,ry eyening by the priests on duty. Its seven branches are explaInedin the Ineffable degrees as symbolizing the seven planets. It is also usedas a decoratIon in Chapters of the Royal Arch. hut apparently withontany positive symbolic signification. “—Mackey’s Encyclopaedia ~ lassmsscma7,Article Goldea Oandlssttok.lots 104.—”The Symbolism of the veils, however viewed, whethe?collectively or separately, represent the laborious. hut at last successfnl.search for divine truth —Mackeys Znoyolopaedia of Treemasmay, ArtIsleVehis, Symbolism of the,

230 sunu ILE KNiGHTS ELECTED.the Babylonian Tapestry which Solomon placed in thetemple to separate the holy places from the most holyand sacred place.Thrice Puissant—And what the golden box?inspector—In that box were deposited the hearts ofthose viclims who~e sacrifice had been agreeable to God.We also ought to deposit our hearts if our actions areas agreeable to him.Thrice Puissant—The palm frees?inspector—They represent the cherubim”’ which didcover the Holy Ark with their wings, as also the joywhich Solomon felt to see a puperb monument raised tothe glory of the Lord.Thrice Puissant—And what signifies the triangle withthe A. :.D.inspector—The cloud that spread over the ark whenSolomon consecrated the temple to show to Solomon itwas agreeable to the Lord. The letters signify Adonai.Thrice Puissant—What reward did Solomon bestowon the twelve Knights Elected after the consecration ofthe temple?inspector—He styled them his beloved, institutedthem Sublime Knights Elected, decorated them with abroad ribbon with three (3) inflamed hearts and a swordof justice to it; saying to them, you have been the conductorsof the works of the temple which I haveconsecrated lo the Lord; be now the supporters of itagainst infidels.Thrice Puissant—What denote the three (3) inflamedhearts?Note 105.—”Cheruhim. The two cherubim that overtopped the mex~,-seat or covering ot the ark, in the hoir of holles. were placed there byMoses In obedience to the orders of God: ‘And thou shalt make twocherubim of goid, ot beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two endsof the mercy-seat. And the cheruhim shall stretch forth their wings onhigh, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, and their faces shalllook one to another; towards the mercy-seat shail the faces of thecherubim be.’ ‘ (Exod. xxv. 17. 19)—Kackay’s Encyciopeadia of Visemasonry,Article Okenahim.LUCTUKE. 231- Inspector—That our hearts ought to be charitable toour brothers and neighbors.Thrice Puissant—Explain to me the five letters youhave on your cross.Inspector—The C.’. is the initial of Civi, (to kneel)K.:. that of Ky, (to riSe) E.’.that of Emeth, S.~. that ofSolomon and A.:. in the centre, that of Adonai.Thrice Puissant—What signify the four kneelingisyou made before you came to the throne?Inspector—The four gates of the temple and the rispect we should have to enter a place consecrated toGod.Thrice Puissant—What signifies the word Civi, thatthe Sublime Elected utter when Illustrious, Puissantgoes to the throne?Inspector—Kneeling before the Great Architect of theuniverse.Thrice Puissant—And the word Ky?Inspector—Rise and receive the reward your zeal andlabor has deserved.Thrice Puissant—What denote the three (3) knocksgiven with the sword on the candidate’s head before itis delivered to him?inspector—Strength, Charity and Brotherly Love weought to have for our brothers.Thrice Puissant—Why have the Sublime KnightsElected naked swords in their hands in the Chapter?inspector—To be always ready to run to the assistanceof our brethren in their defence and that of religionagainst infidels.Thrice Puissant—Why is not your Chapter openeduntil midnight?Inspector—Because some of the Sublime Knights em-

232 SUBLIME KNIGHTS ELECTED.ployed the day by fighting the infidels and the others indeeds of hospitality, and at midnight they must meetto account for what they have done.Thrice Puissant—Why is the Chapter closed at breakof day? -Inspector—To execute during the day what is orderedto be done by the Chapter.CLOSING CEREMONIESMASTI~BELECT OP Firrzuw.Most Illustrious Master—Brother Stolkin, what’s thehour?Stolkin—Victory is ours and Hiram is revenged.Most Illustrious Master—Since victory is ours, andHiram is revenged, we ought to be satisfied and restourselves.Most Illustrious Master—(Knocks five; 00000.)Stolkin—(Knocks five; 00000.)Adoniram—(Knocks five; 00000.)All—(Knock fivc; 00000.)Moe; illustrious Master—I declare this Chapter ofMaster Elect closed.

MANIACAL COUNTENANCE OF FALSE woRsHn’I’Ens. 235HISTORICAL ANALYSISTENTH DEGREE OR MASTER ELECT OFFIFTEEN.The Force of a False RelIgion—Killing the Remaining Assassins of Hiram—Swearing to Assassinate Secedera—To Repiac~ Popery on the Throneof England.“There ye wise saints, behold your light, your star.Ye would be dupes and victims, and ye are.So shall my votaries wheresoe er they raveProclaim that heaven took back the saint It gave;That Eve hut vsniahed troqi the earth awhileTo come again with bright unclouded smiie~So shall they hnild me altars in their seal.Where knaves shall minister and fools shall kneel—veiled Prophet of Ehorasasa.When Joseph Snzith lay shot in Carthage jail, mensupposed Mormonism was done. They miscalculatedthe force of a false religion. It was not intellect, reason,worldly prospects, or popularity that saved it. Atthat time it cou]d offer neither. “The Lord lookethon the heart,” and Satan does the same, when he desiresto bring men to himself.Con~idered as addressed to human intelligence, nothingwould seem more contemptible than this Tenth Degree,and those immediate]y preceding and following it.And yet these degrees were culled from a mass of degreeswhich overspread France in 1754, which weresent to this country by a Jew who had abandoned J’udaismCor the lodge-religion in 1761. And, after fortyyears’ struggle, during the eventful period of our revolution,war and independence, which engrossed all mindsfor the time and hung doubtful as in a wavering balance,the lodge then blazed out into this Scotch Rite ofthirty-three degrees, at Charleston, S. C., in 1801; afterthe degree was invented “to make room for the elevationof others to the degree of the Elect of Fifteen.” Thesame reason is given in Note 98. Conquerors and swindlersmust go on. Ramsay and his Jesuits had created amarket for iww degrees and they must supply it. Standingarmies are kept up by ambitious soldiers expectingpromotion. The old craft, Masonry, had been swungfrom its moorings. The Jesuits had added “Select Master,Perfect Master, Intimate Secretary, Provost andJudge, Intendant of the Building, Elect of Nine, ofFifteen” and now they raise twelve of the fifteen to makeroom for “other deserving brethren of the lower degrees.”(Note 98.) And as each upper degree issworn to secrecy from the next and all below, it matteredlittle what the grade was made of, so that it was agrade.But then there must ever be, besides this, in a falsereligion, a putting the mind in a posture to receive influencefrom devils. This every degree has, whetherdull or sprightly. The rap which opens the lodge putsthe members in communication (en rapport) withSatan, and they became mesmerized by him; each inproportion to the inward consent or prayer which theyyield to him. Observing men can see, in the faces ofnuns, Masons and mediums, an obvious similarity of expression,or of no-expression which is maniacal or demoniac.And the power which produces that no-expression,is the power which keeps up the lodge.The Monks of all ages have shown by their grosserrors and unclean lives that they havc communed withand been influenced or posscssed by uncican spirits. Tnthe early centuries there was a class of Monks in Mt.Atltos, called by a Greek name which meant “navel.

238 ADMITS “THE STRONG MAN ARMED”beiwlasre.” They would sit for hours gazing intentlyon the center of their stomachs and claimed that aftergazing thus for a time they became completely illuminated;filled with a clear and wonderful light. Butlike the whole ~4onkish tribe, they fell into stupid errorsand degrading vices. No matter what the postureor worship is, if it is not commanded of God, it is usedby the devil; and this Eleventh Degree is such a postureand worship and so admits the “strong manarmed” to enter the palace of the human heart.This is enough to explain the power of this stupid degree.But there is another element still. Its pictures represent“The Ark of the Covenant,” which was made byMoses, and “The Golden Candlestick” of the Old Tabernacle,etc.; thus as Milton paraphrases Paul, alreadycited, these“Grievous wolvesTurn all the sacred mysteriesof heavenTo their owh vile advantegeeOf lucre and amhitio~.”And this is done, not by Christian professors, but by“them that dwell on the earth ;“ (Rev. 18, 14) the samemen who make up the lodges. And thousands mistakethc emotions produced by the sight of these once sacredimplements in their midnight orgies for religion.Thus he supports his cruel throneDy mischief and deceit;And drags the sons of Adam downTo darkness and the pit.CHAPTER XIXTWELFTH DEGREE OR GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT.’’PISCES OR THE FISHES.The first eleven degrees of the Ancient and AcceptedRite are a complete course of architecture, and a longand serious study of human nature having been necessarythus to lead man from his primitive state of nakednessto the beneficent forms of society, it must be acknowledgedthat a mason thus experienced in the practicalscience of his profession, has a right to an increaseof knowledge; each mason has his peculiar talent andmerit, which deserves a proportionate reward, but amason who by dint of labor has succeeded inascertainingthe origin of things and in combining them togetherfor the good of mankind, is truly a Grand Master Architect.Note iOL—”Orand Master Architect. The twelfth degree of the Ancientand Accepted Rite. In this the prInciples of operative Masonrybecome promincnt; it is a purely scientIfic degree. in uhich the rules ofarchitecture and the connection of the liberal arts with Masonry aredwelt upon. Although the lectures on the Feliow.Craft degree illustratearchitecture from the same point of viei~, the subject is susceptible ofgreat extension, and under the “Grand Master Archiiect~ numerous de.lalis illustrative of the temple dedicated to the Most high by the wisestman might be worked out. In the absence of distinct information urnmany points there is some exercise for the imasination in furnish nga complete description of 5oloinon~s Temple. which was an astonishingsod magnificent work for the time In which It ~vssbuilt: and it seemsto have been distinguished from all other temples of remote antiquityby its snmptuousness of detail. The principal oflicera of this de~a~the Master, denominated Thrice illustrious, and two wardens. The bodyIs styled chapter. and is decorated with white hangings, strewed withcrimson flames; the ornaments are the columns of the five ordera of architecture.and a case of mathematical instruments. “—Macoy’s Enoycioaeiissad DictIonary of rreeanaacnry, Article Grand Master ArchItect.

238 ORA~JD MASTER ARCHITECT.DECORATIONS :—This assembly is called a Chapter. Itmust be hung with white tapestry strewed with redflames.The five orders of architecture should be delineatedin the Chapter: together with a representation ~oftheNorth Star in the North, and seven (7) small stars surroundingit in form of the Ursa Major, signifying thatas the North Star is a sure guide to mariners so shouldvirtue be the guiding star of every Grand Master Architect.TITLES :—The master seated in the East representsKing Solomon, and is styled Most Powerful; before hima table with a case of mathematical instruments upon it.The Senior Warden in the West is called Grand Inspector;before him a table with instruments upon it. JuniorWarden in the South, the same.CLOTHING :—The brethren are clothed as in thc precedinggrade, with the order, jewel and spron of a GrandMaster Architect. Solomon wears a white robe.APRON:—White lined and bordered with black. In thecentre of the apron is a pocket.ORDER :—Blue ribbon from the right shoulder to theleft hip, at the bottom hangs hangs the jewel.JEWEL :—Is a square medal with equal sides. On oneside of the medal must be engraved four half circleswith seven stars. In the centre is a triangle with the let-~ ters G. A. interwoven thus. On the reversemust be engraved the five orders ofArchitecture; on the top is a level, and below,a square, compass and a cross; in the centrearc the letters B. :.M.:. Below the columns arc thcir initials:Tuscan, Done, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite.OPENING CEREMONIESGRANDMASTER AROHITROT.’’Most Powerful—(Strikes 0 00.)Senior Warden~—(Strikes 0 00.)Junior Warden—(Strikes 0 00.)Most Powerful—What is your duty Brother Inspector?Senior Warden—Most Powerful the Chapter is welltyled and the profane cannot penetrate into our mvsteries.Most Powerful—Are you a Grand Master Architect?Senior Warden—I know what is contained in a perfectcase of mathematical instruments.Most Powerful.—.What is contained in a simple case?Senior Warden—A compass with five points, a parallelrule, a scale, a compass of proportion, a protractor,on which are engraven 180 degrees.Most Powerful—Where were you received an Architect?Senior Warden~—In a white place figured withBarnes.Mete IOS.—”Bund Master Architect. (Grand Maitre Architect.) Thetwelfth degree in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. This Istctiy a scientific degree, resembling in that respect the degree offellow Craft. In It the principles of architecture and the connection ofthe liberal arts with Masonry are unfolded. its officers are there—a Mae.ter and two wardens. The chapter Is decorated with white and redhangings and furnished with the fi,e orders of architecture and a case ofmathematIcal Instruments. The apron is white, lined with blue, and theSewel Is a gold modal. on which are engraved the orders of architecture.Ntis suspended by a stone.coiored rihhon —Machey~ Encyolopandle oflrseaascnry, Article Grand Master Architect,

240 GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT.Moat Powerful—What do they mean?Senior Warden—The white aignifies the purity of theheart and the flames the zeal of the masters.Moat Powerful—What do the stars in the North mean?Senior Warden-~-That virtue should guide. every~ ma-~n in his actions, as the North Star does the marineiin his navigation.Moat Powerful—What is the hour?Senior Warden—The evening star has risen; nightand doubt prevail.Moat Powerful—Since it is so, let us study to findout path.Moat Powerful—(Knocks 0 00.)Senior Warden—(Knocks 0 00.)Junior Warden—(Knocks 0 00.)Moat Powerfid—(Opens the case of instruments)this box is opened.N. B—On a square altar is placed the balance of ~iepreceding degree and at each corner of the altar, iou?columns, Doric, Tuscan, Ionic and Corinthian, whichwith the Composite Column supporting the balancemake the five orders. To ~ach string of the balance isnow attached a star, ~(totalsix stars) which with thenine pointed stars already suspended to the balance, andwhich now represents the North star, makes the sevenstars of the Ursa Minor.CHAPTER XXTWELFTH D~oux OR GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT.IMITIATION.The candidate must be decorated as a Sublime KnightElected.Master of Ceremonies—(Knocks 0 00.)Grand Inspector—Most Powerful, there is an alarmat the door.Moat Powerful—Brother Expert, ascertain the causeof that alarm.Expert—(Goes to the door knocks 0 00; and opensit.) Who knocks at the door of our Chapter to interruptour deliberations?Master of Ceremonies—Brother Joabert not being satisfiedwith the knowledge he has already attained, andthe dignities conferred on him, finds he cannot measuredistance beyond the reach of his limbs, nor can he findhia path through darkness, or in unknown places.Expert—Most Powerful, it is Brother Joabert who,not being satisfied with the knowledge he has alreadyattained and the dignities conferred upon him, finds hecannot measure distance beyond the reach of his limbs.nor can he find his path through darkness, or in unknownplaces.Moat Powerful—Let him be admitted.Ezpert—Let him be admitted.

242 GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT. INITIATION. 243Master of Ceremonies enters with the candidate andstands him between the altar and the West, facing theEast.Moat Powerful—Brother Joabert, what seek you here?Master of Ceremonies—Most Powerful, Brother Joabertnot being satisfied with the knowledge he ha~ alreadyattained and the dignities conferred upon himfinds he cannot measure distance beyond the reach ofhis limbs, nor can he find his path through darkness orin unknown places.Most Powerful—Brother Joabert, the desire to knowthese things is most laudable and should be gratifiedand for the purpose of teaching them I have establishedthis school of Architects for the instruction of thecraftsmen employed in building the temple, to animatethem with a desire of arriving at Perfection in the RoyalArt. But before you can be admitted as a member ofthis school of Architects, you must give me undoubtedproof of your knowledge and skill in the degrees youhave already taken.Most Powerful—Brother Joabert, are you a SecretMaster?Master of Ceremonies—Most Powerful, I have thehonor of being received and acknowledged as such.Most Powerful—Give the Sign, Poken and Word tothe Senior Grand Warden. (He turns and gives them.)[~e page 52.]Most Powerful—Brother Joabert, are you a PerfectMaster?Master of Ceremonies—Most Powerful, I have seenthe circles and the square placed on the two columnsacross.Most Powerful—Give the Sign, Token and Word tothe Junior Grand Warden. (He turns and gives them.)[See pages 79, 80 and 81.]Moat Powerful—Brother Joabert, are you an IntimateSecretary?Master of Ceremonies—Most Powerful, I am, (liftingup his eyes.)Most Powerful—Give the Sign, Token and Word tothe Senior Grand Warden. (1[e turns and gives them.)[See pages 102 and 103.3Most Powerful—Brother Joabert, are you a Provostand Judge?Master of Ceremonies—Most Powerful. I have distributedjustice impartially to all the workmen.Most Powerful—Give the Sign, Token and Word tothe Junior Grand Warden. (He turns and gives them.)[See pages 122 and 123.]Most Powerful—Brother Joabert, are you an Intendantof the Building?Master of Ceremonies—Most Powerful, I have takenthe five steps of exactitude, I have penetrated into theinner parts of the temple, I have seen the Hebrewcharacter, the mysterious J 5 without l~nowing what theynzeau t.Most Powerful—Give the Sign, Token and Word tothe Senior Grand Warden. (He turns and gives them.)[See pages 142, 143 and 144.]Most Powerful—Brother Joabert, are you an ElectedMaster of Nine?Master of Ceremonies—Most Powerful, the ballotalone has determined that matter and I have been madeacquainted with the cave.Most Powerful—Give the Sign, Token and Word tothe Junior Grand Warden. (He turns and give them.)[See pages 169 and 170.]Most Powerfut—Brother Joabert, are you an IllustriousElected of Fifteen.Master of Ceremonies—Most Powerful, my zeal andmy work have procured me this degree.

K-244 GRAND MAsTER ARCHITECT.Moat Powerful—Give the Sign, Token and Word tothe Senior Grand Warden. (Re turns and gives them.)[See pages 197 and 198.1Most Powerful—Brother Joabert, are you a SublimeElected Knight ?~Master of Ceremonies—Most Powerful, my name willinform you.Moat Powerful—Give the Signs, Token and Word tothe Junior Grand Warden. (He turns and gives them.)[Seepages 218 and 219.1Most Powerful—Brother Joabert, it gives me joy unspeakableto find you thus skilled in our Royal Art, andas a reward for the faithful and meritorious, I will nowconfer upon you the degree of Grand Master Architect;come and contract your obligation.Master of Ceremonies then causes him to take threesquare steps to the altar, where he kneels and takes theobligation.OBLI0ATIO~J GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT.I—promise and swear on the obligations I havealready taken and contracted t~ keep secret the degreeof Grand Master Architect with which I am going to beentrusted; as well in iegard to masons as to the profane.I further promise to adore my God, to be faithful tomy King and Country, to be charitable to my neighborsand brothers, submitting myself, in case of any infractionof this my obligation, to have my body severed intwo, my memory lost and looked upon as infamous andforesworn. I further promise and consent that my namemay be written in red letters and hung up in the Chapteras a mark of my infamy.So God and his Holy Evangelist keep me; amen.Moat Powerful—Arise Brother Joabert, you will nowINITIATION. 245take three square steps to the Senior Warden who willinvest you with the Sign, Token and Word of a GrandMaster Architect.He does as ordered when the Senior Warden investshim as follows:sign Grand Master.ArchltecLTOKEN, 0. M. ARCHITECT.Join right hand to the other’sleft, interlacing the fingers;place the left hand on the hip;the brother will do the samewith his right hand.SIGN, GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT.Slide the right hand into’palm of theleft as if holding a pencil in one hand,and in the other a tracing board; makethe motion of tracing a plan on thepalm of the left hand, every now andthen directing the eyes towards theGrand Master as if drawing by dictation.PAss-WORD :—Rab-banaim.’”SACRED WORD :—Adonai.Note IW.—”Rsbblnicsl Hebrew. and signIfying tbe c~Iefof the creSt.teds. • A significant word Ii~ the high degrees. ‘—Xsekey’s Eae7ciopaedJaSt bseme.soar.• Artlol. Babbsaaizm.

246 GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT.BATTERY :—Three stroke, by one and two; 0 00.MARCH—Make three step so as to form a square, thefirst step slow, the two others somewhat quicker.HOURS OF wORK—Open on the day when Solomoncommenced thet building of the temple. Close ‘on theday the temple was completed.MORAL—That virtue is as necessary as talent to everyGrand Master Architect.Senior Warden—Brother Joaberi, you will now takethree square steps to the altar and face the Moat Powerful.(He does so.Moat Povierful—Brother Joabert, Solomon determinedto form a school of Architects for the instruction ofthose who conducted the work of the temple, to encourageand improve such as were worthy, and to promotefrom thence those whose zeal and discretion should makethem deserving the highest degree of perfection, inducedhim to create the degree of Grand Master Architect..Solomon, full of justice, and foieseeing the eventswhich were likely to take place, willing to recompensethe zeal and virtue of the Sublime Knights, that theymight approach nearer the Celestial Throne of the GreatArchitect of the Universe, induced him to cast his eyeson those who were last made Illustrious Knights in orderto effect the promise which God made to Enoch,Noah, Moses and David, that if through ardour theypenetrated into’ the bowels of the earth, it would notavail unless divine providence permitted it.The impravements you will now make, Brother Joabert,iu the study of geometry will no doubt procure youthe means of unfolding the most sublime knowledge.Upon the altar now before you, behol4 a case of mathematicalinstruments for that purpose, containing first,INITIATION. 947the parallel ruler, second, the tracing dividers, third,the scale of parts, fourth, sector, fifth, the protractor;and behold a Lao the Polar Star. Brother Joabert, by thehelp of these we are enabled to measure all distancesand guide ourselves through darkness and unknownplaces.First—The Parallel Rulerenablcs us to draw two linesequi-distant from each other atThe ~ 3ul~. every point; so that they nevercan meet, which signifies that the agreement of theworks of the Grand Architect is determined by meansof equalizing opposition of forces; and hence, that inhuman government the division and balancing of powersis essential.The Tracing Dividers.Second—The Tracing Dividers enable us to drawdistinct and perfect circles and to mark the points theygive us. This signifies that we must have a distinct douignbefore we act.The Scaleof Parts.Third—The Scale of Parts enables us to make all ourdesigns proportionate, so that all the parts and incidentswill agree together in fulfilling the object we seek toaccomplish. This signifies that truth is self consistent andevery distinct truth agrees with all other truth, henceso that one deed may not ultimately clash with another.

w248 GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT.TheThe Sector.Protractor.Fourth—The Sector enables us toadapt our proportions to the limits assigned.This teaches us to reduce ourdesigns to the measure of our~ meansand time.Fifth—The Protractor enables us todraw angled from a given point and toprotract and measure lines at all distances.This shows the necessity of having a fixed and surebeginning in order to discover truth, or to act withconfidence.Sixth—The North Star demonstrates the universalharmony and stability of the works of the Grand Architectof the Universe. In fact the whole planetary systempresents a field worthy the attention of the whole civi-Iized population of the globe, and more particularly themembers of the masonic institution—which was originallya school of science.Each and every planet has by the Grand Architect ofthe Universe been assigned to ~omedefinite position andall of them so arranged b’y divine wisdom to act in concertwith each oth&; the combination of which producesto our view an arrangement, the extent of whichthe human mind cannot comprehend. Some of them aredesigned to shed light to this planet, earth, and amongthose and the greatest of all is the Sun which spreadslight and lustre to all within its circle.You, my worthy brother, having passed through theintermediate degrees and having been endorsed bythese Grand Master Architects who now surround you,and among whom you are now admitted a member, itINITIATION. 240becomes my duty as the Most Powerful to call your at~tention to that great power of attraction known as theNorth Star, and although it does not shed as brilliantrays of light as others, yet it is of equal importance, andin fact, without its assistance all mankind would be likea blind man groping his way over the trackless ocean orthrough the prairies of forests, which stand as temporarybarriers to the walks of man and the waves in theexercise of their irresistible power, advance or recede asnature or God directs, and as the needle is ever true tothe pole by which the mariner can at all times knowthe course be is pursuing. Let it teach you this moral:You are now on board the ship of life, tossed abouton the boisterous sea of trouble, bound for eternity. Thebreakers of malice and pei~secution surround your craft,the quicksands of deceit and hypocrisy are beneathyou, close under your lee are the rocks of perdition.Now my illustrious brother, is the auspicous moment,place your trust in the Great Architect of Heaven andEarth, take justice for yoir Polar Star, prudence at thehelm, temperance for your guide, let your sails fill withthe gentle breeze of charity and you will in the endfind yourself moored in that peaceful harbor, wherethe wicked cease from troubling and the weary are atrest. (Shuts the case of instrumenta.)My brother, apply these to all things, moral, mental,social, religious and political and then we will be proudof you as a Grand Master Architect, to which dignityyou are now admitted and to which you are now devoted,which will procure you knowledge sufficient totake away the veil from before your eyes which yet remainsthere and will enable you to arrive at the perfectand sublime degree. By practicing the many valuablelessons you have learned in the preceding grades, andabove all the study of geometry, and by making virtueyour guide through the journey through life, we hopeand trust that you will be fitted for the dirties of aGrand Master Architect, and gain admission into the

250 GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT.secret place where you may rest from your labors, andwith joy unspeakable, contemplate the pillar of beauty.My brother, the history of the degree which you havejust now taken is short. [would merely say to you thatmasonic traditiQn informs us that King Solomon establishedthis grade with a view to forming a school ofArchitecture for the instruction of the craftsmen employedin the building of the temple and to animatethem with a desire of arriving at perfection in theRoyal Art.’” He was a prince equally renowned for hisjustice, wisdom and foresight; he therefore desired toreward the faithful and meritorious craftsmen, so thatby perfection in the Art, they might be better preparedto approach the throne of God.He accordingly, for this purpose cast his eyes ~iponthe Grand Masters of the workmen. The SublimeKnights Elected as persons properly qualified to assisthim in preparing for the fulfillment of the promisemade to Enoch, to Moses and to David, that in the fullnesof time, God would dwell in a axed temple and thathis name should be there.Thus my brother, ends the degree of Grand MasterArchitect.Nots 110.—If I were to deSne qFreemasonry as an.art I ahould any thatit ~us an art which taugi~t the construction of a spiritual temple. Justna the art of arebitecture teaches the conatruction of a material temple.And I should Illustrate the train of tdeaa by which the Freemasons wereled to symbolise the Temple of Solomon as a spiritual temple of mansusture, hy borroidug the language ~ St. Peter. wbo says to his Christiuninitiates: ‘Ye also. ~s Uyeiy atones, are built up a spiritual house.• Andwith great emphacia. and me attli more illustesti,e, would I cite thelanguage of the Apostle of the Gentiles—that Apostle who, of all others,moat delighted in symbolism and who aaya. •Know ye not that ye are thetemple of God, and that the spirIt of God dweileth In you?,,And this is the reason why Freemasonry is called an art.Baying thus determined the conditions under which Freemasonry becomesan art the next inquiry will be why it has been distinguIshedfrom all other arts In being designated. par szo.l1.nss. the Loyal hit.And here we must abandon all thought that this title comes in anyway from the connection of Freemasonry pith earthly monarchs—fromthe patronage or the membership of kings. Freemasonry obtains no additionto its intrinsic yalue from a connection with the political hesds ofstates. Kings, when they enter within its sacred portsls. are nolonlethinge. but brethren.”—Nankey’s Xnoyelopaedia of FresmasoarT, ArtiabLey~ hit.CLOSINGCEREMONIESGRAND MASTER ARCHITECT.Most Powerful—Brother Inspector, give me the sign?Inspector—( Gives it.)Most Powerful—(Opens his ease of instruments andsays:) Let us work, (all the brethren present arrangetheir instruments on the table three by three.)Most Powerful—(Puts his left hand on the comp.i-~of proportion, leaning on his right.) Brother Inspedoido you know only this work?Inspector—I comprehend another.Most Powerful—Give me the token.Inspector— (Advances and gives it.)Most Powerful—Give me the pass-word.Inspector—Rab.Most Powerful—Go on, Brother Inspector.Inspector—Ba.Most Powerful—Make an end.Inspector—Naim.Most Powcrful—(Makes a triangle with his compacsand rule and says,) my dear brethren, we will finish.All—(Replace tTieir instruments in their cases) wefinish.Most Powerful—Brother Inspector, what’s the hour?Inspector—The two principles are reconciled, andbeauty is generated, the morning star has risen.Most Powerful—(Strikes 0 00.) Brother Inspedorgive notice that this Chapter is closed.Inspector—(Strikes 0 00.) Brethren you will pleasetake notice that this Chapter is closed.Junior Warden—(Strikes 0 00.) Brethren you willplease take notice that this Chapter is closed.All give the sign and the Chaptcr is closed.

IMPO5ITION OF PRBTRNDED 5CIRNTIFIO INSTRUCTION. 253HISTORICAL ANALYSISTWBLFIH Duouz OR GRAND MASTER A3OHITRO~.Masonic .Toua.Soolery and Sbam—The Imposition of Pretended SciantlieInatruetion—Objact inFalsifying History.Macoy (Note 107) declares this degree “purely scientific.”And, though the lodge is still called a Chapterby the clerical inventors, mathematical instrumentsand columns representing the five orders of architectureare introduced, and the lodge-master, now called “MostPowerful,” opens a case of instrumenti upon a tablesurrounded by members and says: “Let us work.”And after their going through some ceiemonial shams,says: “We will finish.” And all respond, “We finish ;“and put up their instruments. Now to see that thia ismere tom-foolery and sham, one has only to look on aMasonic procession and~see who compose it.Judge Daniel sH. Whitney, of Belvidere, BooneCounty, Ill., while Worshipful Master of Lodge No. 60in that place7wrole to the Grand Master of the GrandLodge of Illinois a letter dated July 6, 1861, in whichhe says:“I find myself associated as a Mason with drunkards,blackguards, loafers, gamblers, whore-masters and murderers.”And being tried for this and other statementi, JudgeWhitney gave in proof facts, from the criminal recordsof the county, etc. Now the town of Belvidere and itslodge, would compare favorably with other town, andlodges in the country, and Judge Whitney testified thatthere were upright citizens who were members of thatlodge; yet, to put mathematical instruments in thehands of any lodge in the United States, with a view tolearn or practice the science of geometry or architecturewould be simple bald imposture; an imposition whichwould justify the belief that the men who practiced ithad other, ulterior and sinister objects, which they wereseeking to conceal by so shallow a pretense.The only rational object and use of this Twelfth Depeeis that it gives a drill requiring the candidate b~give the signs of the French degrees from the Fourthup to the Twelfth; to unify and strengthen the imposture,an object kept constantly in view.It is noticeable that no prayer is inserted in this degree;not even to the “Grand Architect,” Adonai, orother impudent substitutes for..the Bible names of God,which appear in the prayers or this rite.It is noticeable also that The Most Powerful callsMasonry, “The Royal Art,” a title given it by CharlesII, (see Rebold, p. 54,) which leads Mackey (Note 110)to a dishonest attempt to disprove the true historicsource of that title, because, forsooth, kings who jointhe lodge are only “brethren.”And yet, Mackey himself, in his articles on Rameag,Stuart Masonry, etc., gives abundant proof that ourScottish Rite sprung up in France, where and when“the lodges were composed of Scotch conspirators andaccomplices of the Jeauits.” (Art. Stuart Masonry.)~That they by Masonry restored Charles and Popery tothe British throne, and that Ramaay altered Masonryto suit the French nobility, and that the title “Royal

254 ODJECT IN FALSIFYING HISTORY.Art,” given Masonry by Charles, was adopted and usedin that French system, sent here by Mann; and thatour American . Masonry u that system. And thisattempt to obliterate the meaning of the title, “RoyalArt,” in this degree, to make the lodge popular in ourRepublic, by denying its history and well known sourceis a part of its one grand system of fraud and falsification.Mackey’s home was Charleston, S. C., the seat of thePike Suprema Council, whose rite was brought there byMorin from a “Council of Emperors” in Paris. Andthe attempt to obliteratethe Romish and “Royal” Originof the Scottish Rite can only succeed by abolishing history.As well attempt to prove that its Supreme Coinmandcr,Pike, did not fight against the United Statesflag at Pea Ridge; and that “Empire” was not the objectof the secession rebellion.UCHAPTER XXImTHIRTEENTH OR ROYAL ARCH”’ DEGREE.ARIES OR TIlE RAM.This is an important arid interesting grade ~n theineffable series for this reason; the more a Freemasonprogresses in the study and practice of his Sublime Artthe more he feels a desire to penetrate Ihe secrets ofnature and to approach us Divine Author. Mattersthat have only been obscurely hinted at and darklyshadowed forth in the preceding grades, in this, rapidlyculminate towards the development of the grand mysteryof masonry, fully explained in the Sublime Degreeof Perfection.The dark clouds and mists that have hitherto veiledthe sacred mysteries now begin to be dispelled; theglorious dawn illumines the East with its bright effulgenceand its rays penetrate into dark and hidden places.Vote IU.—”floyal Aich Masonry. That dl,Ision of specnlati,e Vasonrywhicb Is engaged in the investigation of the mysteries connected with theRoyal Arch, no matter undcr what name or in what Rite. Thus themysteries of the Knight at the Ninth Arch constitute the Royal Archuasonry of the Ancient and Accepted Scottiah Rite Just as much as thoseof the Royal Arch of Zeruhhebei do the Royal Arch of the York endAmerican Rites.’ —Mackeys Encyclopaedia of Freemaaonry, Article Royalh,ch Masonry.

956 ROYAL ARCH DEGREE. IYITIATION. 257In this degree, the candidate travels successivelyThrough the Nine mystic Arches of the First Cause orPrinciple, Existence, God, Immortality, Fortitude,Toleration, Power, Mercy and Joy, which is the term ofevery successful. labor.This degree is closely connected with that whichfollows it, and forms a beautiful, solemn and impressiveintroductory to it.DECORATIONS :—This assembly is styled a College,and as much as possible ought to be holden in a mostsecret place, a vault under ground without doors 6r windows;in the centre of the top of said vault must be atrap door large enough to admit a man. The vault issupported by nine arches, on each of which is writtenone of the following names: Principium, Existens, Potens,Eternitas, In.finitum, Solus~ Misericors, Sapientia,Juatus.This college should be hung with red and white hangingsand illuminated by nine lights; three in the East,three in the West and three in the South.TITLES :—There mnst be five officers in the college.The Master seated in the East under a canopy, representsSolomon, and is styled Thrice Puissant GrandMaster. He is clothed in a yellow robe, over which hewears a royal mantle of blue satin; a crown is upon hishead and a scepter in his hand; he also wears the orderand jewel.The second officer represents Hiram King of Tyre,seated on the left of Solomon, clothed in a purple robe,over which he wears a yellow mantle, together with theorder and jewel; a crown is upon his head and a swordin his hand.The third officer represents Jabulum or ~~abulOna~ theGrand Treasurer, seated in the North, clothed in a bluerobe, and wearing round his neck a white ribbon fromwhich is suspended a Golden Key; on the ribbon is paintedthe initials 3. :.V. ~I. .0. ~.L.’.meaning 1’nveni Verbumin ore leonts.The fourth officer represents Joabert, seated in theSouth, and is styled Grand Secretary; is clothed in blue.The fifth officer represents Stolkin, seated in theWest, and is styled Grand Inspector. He is clothed in ablue robe, wearing the order and jcwel, with a sword iihis hand.Not less than three can be initiated at one time.All the other brethren are clothed in black robes andcaps, with the apron, order and jewel of the degree.APRON :—Purple silk, bordered with white, on it atriangle.SASH:—A broad purple ribbon, worn from the rightshoulder to the left hip, (in some lodges instead of thesash a collar of the same color is worn) to which is suspendedthe jewel.JEWEL :—A Golden Triangle, on one side of which isengraved the Delta of Enoch with rays; on the otherthe trap-door of a vault.Not. 1IS.—”Zahelon. The Greek form of Zehulun. the teuth s~,b ..fJacob. Delannay (ThuInane. p. 79) says that some rituallats suppose thatit is the true form of the word of which abnlnm is a corruption. Thisis incorrect. Jahulum Is a corrupt form of Giblim. Saholon has no con.nection with the high degrees. azcept that in the Royal Arch ha represent,one of the stones in the Pectoral. —Maoka~’s Ene~e1easi1a of Vise.masonry, Aetisi. Zabulo..

OPENING CEREMONIESROYAL ARC H’’ DEGREE.Thrice Puissant—Brother Inspector, what place e.rewe in?Inspector—Thrice Puissant, we are in the most sacredplace in the earth.Thrice Puissant—How came you in this sacred place?Inspector—By an effect of providence.Thrice Puissant—Explain this to me.AInspector—I dug in the ancient ruins of Enoch.penetrated through nine arches 155underground, and in the end I foundthe Delta which God had promisedthe Holy Patriarchs should befound in fullness of time.Delta.Thrice Puissant—What is the Delta?Note 112.—”The history of the degree has been a subject of much die.pute. but all agree that it is the birth of the 18th century. The bestsubetautiated theory is tbat to~ the learning and talent of ChevalierRamsey, tutor to James the Second. the germ of the degree is due. andthat its origin must he set at about the year A. D. 1740. The peculiarform of the degree differs~greatiy in different countries, we hove thesutberity of tbe masonic traveler. K. 0 Cooke, that the English RoyalArch system has no other resemblance to the American form th~zi theone word which conatitutes the mystic key to the whole; that in bbstor~.purposes, order of succession, terms, paraphernalia and obligations thetwo are radically different In all countries it is esteemed as the oem.piement of the Master Masons degree.—Morrbs Masonlo Dictionary.Article Royal Arch Mason.Note 114.—”Enocb. The degeneracy Of uankind became so great beforethe flood, end their perveralons cE pert antediluvian Masonry angrievous, that. s~cording to our tradlth,ns. gijoch feared the geaulnesecrets would be lost and awaliosued • in the predicted deluge. Toprevent which he hid ibe grand secret. engraven on a uhite orientalporphyry stone. in the bowels oS the earth; end being apprehcnaiee thatthe morality end science wbich had been embodied in Freemasonry withinch care would be absorbed in the gensfal destruction, to preserve theprinciples of the science. he huilt two puller. near the spot where theywere concealed, with an inscription in hieroglyphics. importing that nenr itwas a precious treasure, which had been dedicntcd to Ond “—MaccysZaoyelopeedla sad Distisnazy of Vreemae~av, Article Enoch.OPENING CEREMONIES. 259Inspector—A golden triangle, replenished with agreat light, on which was engraved by Enoch, the greatand mysterious name of the Great Architect of theUnii erse.Thrice Puissant—Who are you.Inspector—I am what I am, my name is—.Thrice Puissant—Do you know the true pronunciationof the name of the Great Architect of the Universe?Inspector—It is a sacred name only known by theGrand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons.Thrice Puissant—What is your quality?Inspector—A Knight of the Royal Arch.Thrice Puissant—how were you received in this degree?Inspector—Solomon in company of hiram King ofTyre, to recompense my zeal and constancy, created meinto this degree, ~ith Joahert and Stolkin my companions.Thrice Puissant—Have you anything else to desire?Inspector—Yes, the Sublime Masonry known by thename of Perfection.Thrice Puissant—God may perhaps permit one daythat your wishes may be accomplished, and recompenseyou according to your deserts.Thrice Puissant—(Strikes five; 00 000. All rise andform a circle round the Ark.)Thrice Puissant—Let us pray.PUAYER.Great Architect of the Universe, adorable God in all,be so kiuid and exact our desires in this moment whenwe beg thy divine goodness. In thyself is the true wisdomto which we aspire, and by the strength of thy

260 ROYAL ARCH DEGREE.favor we may hope for thy wisdom which shall makethe beauty we dare to consecrate to them: That is tosay, its beauty may purify our hearts in which we desirecontinually that you may reside. Amen.Thrice Pui4ant—(Strike~ ive; 00 000 with hishands.)Hiram King of Tyre—( Strikes five; 00 000; with hishands.)Inspector—(Strikes five; 00 000 with his hands.)Treasurer—(Strikes five; 00 000 with his hands.)Secretary—(Strikes five; 00 000 with his hands.)Solomon and Hiram now kneel down at the Delta orArk, with the sign of admiration, after a little whilethey help each other and rise; and all the brethrenkneel and make sign of admiration.Thrice Puissant—(Strikes one; 0. All help and raiseeach other.)Thrice Puissant—Brother Inspector, give notice thatthis Royal College is open.Inspector—Brethren you will please take notice tJiaLthis Royal College is open.Thrice Puissant—(Strikes one; 0. All ~etire to theirplaces.)CHAPTER XXIITHIRTEENTH OR ROYAL ARCH DEGR3U.aaaINITIATION.Master of Ceremonies prepares the candidates in theante-room as Grand Master Architects.Master of C~emonies—(Knocks five; 00 000.)Inspector—Most Thrice Puissant, there is an alarmat the door.Thrice Puissant—Brother Expert, ascertain the causeuf that alarm.Expert—(Goes to the door, knocks two and three,then opens the door.) Who knocks at the door of ourcollege to interrupt our deliberations?Master of Ceremonies—These three whose names areToub, Bahani, Hamelabel; Light, Labor and Affection,aspire to recover the true name of God, which has remainedburied for ages under the ruins caused bysuperstition and despotism.Expert—Are they willing to descend into the bowelsof the earth to seek for the treasure?Master of Ceremonies—They are.Note 115.—’Rclal Arab of hasay. The system of Royal ArchMasonry invented early in the last century by the Chevalier Ramsey. itWas the first fahrlcatlon of the Royal Arch degree in an independentform, and, although rejected by the English bisanna. ha heen ado ptedas the heals of the system in many of the continental Rites. The thirteenthdegree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rita is ioobahiy pvery fair representation of it, at least substantially. it ezeroisect someInfluence also upon Dermoit and Duockerley In their oompn~Ition ef theirRoyal Arch a/stems. —Machays Ineyclogeedia of Jrsamaseesy, ArtisleinqaL Arab a £sma~s

262 THIRTEENTH OR ROYAL ARCH DEGREE. INITIATION. 268Expert—(Shuts the door.) Thrice Puissant, there arein the ante-room three brethren who aspire to recoverthe true name of God, which has remained buried forages under the ruins caused by superstition and despotism.Thrice Puissant—What are their names?Expert—Toub, Bahani and Hamelabel; Light, Labor~nd Affection.Thrice Puissant—Are they willing to descend into thebowels of the earth to scek for the treasure?Expert—They are, Thrice Puissant.Thrice Puissant—Let them be admitted.Expet—(O pens the door.) Let them•be admitted.Mastcr of Cerernonies—(Enters with the candidatesmd conducts them to the Altar.) Thrice Puissant, I~‘iavethe pleasure of introducing to you three, brethren,whose names are, Toub, Bahani, Ilanielabel; Light Laborand Affcetion, who aspire to recover the true name ofGod, 3vhicli has remained buried for ages under theruins caused by superstition and despotism.Thrice Puissant—How can thcy hope to find it, brotherInspector?Inspector—With ~eetion for their motives, thoughtfor their guide and labor as their means, they hope torcmove the ruins and penetrate the depths which concealthe treasure they covet.Thrice Puissant—Brethreu, you are at liberty to performthe ~ork you propose, and may the Great Architectof the Universe crown your efforts with success.Brother Expert, lead the candidates to the place ofneareh.(Expert leads the candidates to the East in front ofthe Ark of Alliance.)Thrice Puissant—My brethren, Enoeh” before theflood, desiring to preserve the knowledge of thc name ofGod for future ages, and hoping that one day the descendantsof Noah might be able and worthy of learningit, built a sacred vault in the bowels of the earth,closed the entrance with a key-stone and marked thespot by means of two pillars, Strength and Beauty.On the pillar of Beauty, he inscribed the methods of-Art, and on the pillar of Strength, he inscribed the rulesof moral action.In the vault below, lie had placed the Cubic Stone ofWisdom, by which a knowledge of the name of theGreat Architect of the Universe niight be obtained.Heretofore, my brcthren, you have not been able toopen the sacred vault which is symbolized by the HolyArk before you. If your intentions are good, your mindclear and your hands diligent, God will permit you toremove thc key-stone and penetrate the depths.Thrice Puissant—Brother Expert, you u~ill now causeone of the candidates to remove thc lid of the Ark, andlift the first of the Arches. (Which is done.)Expert—Principiurn.Thrice Puissant—God is tne principle, the owner ofall things, the great supreme cause and Universal Father.Thrice Puissant—Brother Expcrt, you will now causene of the candidates to lift the second of the Arches.(Which is done.)Note l16.—”Enoch. (Sootch Kasonryl—The name of thi, patrIarch isliatriatuied in Scotch Idosonry In the decree of Knights of the Ninth 07Royal Arch. lie was born A Ii. 622. and was translated witbout seeingdeath. A. it i)87 lie is fahied to have built a ,.nhtprranean temple uponthe npot afterwards known as hit lturiiih. This he dedicated to Ged.Therein tic dip. aited the Se. rein of incituile ~t.,su.,ry. ehich remolnedunitiscorered ut Ii the days if Sulomon lie is,, ia lit t~ o great nitiara.respeutively of brass end marble and upon theni indicatod by hieroglyphicsthe fact that the smered treasures lay beneath —Mnrraa~a Masonic Die-Usmary. Article Eacek.

264 THIRTEENTH OR ROYAL ARCh DEGREE. INITIATION. 165Expert—Ezistena.Thrice Puissant—-God is life; in him we live and haveour being.Thrice Puissant—Brother Expert, you will now causeone of the candidates to lift the third of the Arches.(Which is done.)Expert—P ens.Thrice Puissant—God is power, all. things are subjectto his unlimited dominion and irresistible strength.Thrice Puissant—Brother Expert, you will now causeone of the candidates to lift the fourth of the Arche..(Which is done.)Experi—Eternalis.Thrice Puissant—God is eternal, without beginningand without end, unto him the past, the present and thefuture are one.Thrice Puissant—Brother Expert, you will now causeone of the candidates to lift the fifth of the Arches.(Which is done.)Experi—Infinitum.Thrice Puissant—God is infinite, he dwelleth in all,with all, and beyond all. He is the centre which hathno circumference. He is the light which shines in everydirection, without measure or limit.Thrice Puissant—Brother Expert, you will now causeone of the candidates to lift the sixth of the Arches.(Which is done.)Expert—Solus.Thrice Puissant—God is one. Than him there is noother. His design and will are single and immutable.Thrice Puissant-Brother Expert, you will now causeone of the candidates to lift the seventh of the Arches.(Which is done.)Expert-Misericora.Thrice Puissant—God is love, his unbounded andinexhaustable mercy is our trust and our hope, andgiveth joy throv.ghout the Universe.Thrice Puissant—Brother Expert, you will now causeone of the candidates to lift the eighth of the Arches.(Which is done.)Expert—Sapientiez.Thrice Puissant—God is wisdom, he knoweth allthings, past, present and future, and there is no mysteryunknown to him, fo~ his understanding is the arch ofnature.Thrice Puissant—Brother Expert, you will now causeone of the candidates to lift the ninth of the arches.(Which is done.)Expert—Justus.Thrice Puissant—God is justice, his mercy and truthgiveth the weight on onq side, and on the other, hisjudgments are perfect.Expert—(Raises his hands in admiration, bends theknee to the ground and exclaims,) Jehovah.Thrice Puissant—My brethren, when of old, thechosen three had traveled the nine arches, they caine toa Dome and beheld upon the Cube Stone”t the resplendantDelta, on which the true name of the Great Architectof the Universe was impressed in letters of dazzlinglight, they fell on their knees, made the signs of admirationand. exclaimed, Jehovah, as you have done. Butthey were not able to pronounce the ineffable name.Nevertheless they hastened to inform Solomon and HiramKing of Tyre of their wonderful discovery, and thetwo kings caused the Cube Stone and Delta to be placedin a sacred vault of nine Arches similar to the ancientone. This sacred vault was beneath the temple immediatelyunder the Holy of Holies, where the Ark ofAlliance was preserved.Note 1SY.—”Ouhiosl Utous. This symbol is called by the VueaehMasons p1mm euhisue and by the German ouhik stein. It is the PerfectAshier of the Unglish and American systems. See Ashlaw. le,feet.’—Mashers ~qeIopeedia of lreemasoury. Artiels Ouhital Eteas.

266 THIRTEENTII OR ROYAL Audi DEGREE. INITIATION. 267And to reward the three discoverers of.the lost word,he appointed them the guardians of the inestiniabletreasure. Are you willing to accept the office?Expert—We are.Thrice Puissant—Brethren, the Great Architect ofthe Universe hith done you the greate-t of favors, it ishim who hath chosen you to discover the most precioustreasure of masons, and you are his elected. T give youjoy of it. Brother Expert you will now eonduet the candidatesto the Altar, there to contract the most solemnobligation, and I will reward them for their labor.OBLIGATiON, ROYAL ARCH DEGREE.I——do promise before the Great ArchiteeL of theUniverse and this Puissant Royal Assembly, never toreveal the secrets which are to be entrusted to me, especiallywhat is to be revealed to me of the sacred mysteries.I promise to renew my zeal for masonry, andmy friendship for my brethren, and never to separatemyself from this Ro•~al Lodge but by leave from theMost Powerful Grand Master, and of his Grand Officers.] promise never to reveal or consent that a masonshall be received into this degree, but according to ourlaws. I further promise to ~observe at all times, theStatutes and Regulations which shall be prescribed tome by this Royal L~dge and to acknowledge at all timesthe Council of Prinees of Jerusaleni and of the RoyalSecretary for the Sovereign Chief of the Royal Art, itfurnished with authentic title, and submit myself totheir decrees, to sign my submission to the most authenticact of it.And if I fail in this, my present engagement, I con.sent to suffer all the pains of all my former obligations,my body to be exposed as food to the ferocity of thewild beasts.Go God help me in righteousness and equity.Thrice Puissant—By virtue of the authority andpower in me vested as Thrice Puissant Grand Matderof this Royal Lodge, I do hereby proclaim you Knights‘of the Royal Arch, and faithful guardians of the SacredTreasure. Arise Sir Knights, [greet you.Thrice Puissant—Brother Expert, you will now conductthe candidates to our brother Inspector in the West.who will invest them with the secrets of ibis degree, asa reward for their labors.Expert conducts them to the Inspector who givesthem the sign.ASIGN.A d m ir ationraise the handsto heaven, thehead leaning onthe left shoulder,fall on the right‘knee.Second—Ado-Tation, fall onboth knees.First Sign. Royal Arch.TOKEN.Place your hands beneath the other’sarms, as if to help him to rise, sayingat the same time, Be of Good Cheer.The other returns the token, sayingJabulum.Token.

268 THIRTEENTH OR ROYAL ARCH DEORRE. INITIATION. 369BATTERY :—Five strokes, by two and three; 00 000.SACRED WORD :—Jehovah.HOURS OP LABOR :—From evening until morning.Inspector—Brother Expert, you will now conduct thebrethren to the East, to listen to the discourse by thoGrand Orator.DISCOURSE BY GRAND ORATOR.My brethren, it is my intention at this time to giveyou a cl.earer account than you have yet been acquaintedwith of masonry, of which at present you barely knowthe elements. In doing this, it will be necessary to explainto you some circumstances of very reronte antiquity.Enoch,’” son of Jared, was the sixth son in descentfrom Adam and lived in the fear and love of his God.God appeared unto him in a dream and spoke to him byinspiration and communicated to him as follows: Asthou art desirous of knowing my name, follow me andI will acquaint and teach thee. After this a mountainseemed to rise to the heavens, and Enoch”’ was carriedthere, when God showed him a golden triangular plate,enlightened brilliantly ~nd his ever blessed name engravedthereon in Hebrew characters. He gave strictorders never to pro~nounee it.After that Enoch seemed to be carried under groundperpendicularly through nine arches, and in the nintharch he ~aw the tame brilliant plate with the sameNote 11S,—”Znoch. Though the Scriptures furnish hut a meagre secountnf Enoch. the traditions of Freemas.,nry closely theconnect institution. him. byitumerous circumaiauc’ea. with the cans historj ofMackay’s Encyclopaedia of rreemasonq, Artic a Eacek.Note 1l9.—”’The circumstances which ocurred at that time are recorded~n a tndition which forms uhot hus icli culled the great Masonic‘Legend of 5noch.’ and nhirh runs to this effectHooch, being inspired hy the licat High. e,i,i in cowmemoratiou of awonderful yision. heilt a ten,i~ie under ground end dedicated it c God.—Machey’s Encyclopaedia ct r-eamaaanry, Article Eanch.characters and a flaming light around it, which he hadseen before.Enoch being full of the spirit of the most high God,built a temple under ground and dedicated it to God,accompanied with nine arches, one above the other, inthe same form as that he had seen in his dream.Methuselahise the son of Enoch, constructed the buildingwithout being acquainted with his father’s motives.This happened in that part of the world which wasafterwards called the land of Canaan, and since knownby the name of the Holy Land. Enoch”’ caused a triangularplate of gold to be made, each side of which was acubit long. He enriched it with the most precious stonesand encrusted the plate upon a stone of agate of thesame form. He then engraved upon it the ineffablecharacters and placed it on a triangular pedestal ofwhite and black marble, which he deposited in thedeepest arch. When Enoch’s temple was completed, hemade a door of stone and put a ring of iron therein bywhich it might be occasionally raised, and placed it overthe opening of the arch, that the matters enclosed thereinmight be preserved from the universal destructionNote 110.—Wa son. Methuselah. constructed the building, althoughhe was not acquainted with his fathers moUves Lot the erection. Thistemple consisted of nine brick Yanits, situated perpendicularly beneatheach other and communicating by apcrtures left in the arch of eachyagit.’ —Machey’s Enoyciopeadla of Yreemaeoary, Article Zuoch.Note 1*l,—”Enocb then caused a triangular plate of gold to be made.each aide of which was a cuhit long, he enriched it with the most preciousstones and encrusted the plate upon a atone of agate of the mm. form.On the plate he engra,sd. in ineffabie characters, the true name of Deity,and, placing It on a cuhical pedestal of white marble, he deposited thewhole within the deepest arch.when this aubterransan building was completed he made a door ofstone, and, attaching to It a ring of Iron. by which it might be occasionallyraised, he placed it over the opening of the uppermost arch, and socovered it over that the aperture could not be discovcreL Ruoch himselfwas not permitted to enter it but once a year.”—Mackey’s Znc~o1cpeediaetirsemaacnry. Article R~ooh.

270 ThIRTEENTH OR ROYAL ARCH DEGREE.impending, and none but Enoch’” knew of the treasurewhich the arches contained. And behold the wickednessof mankind increased niore and became grievous in thesight of the Lord, and God threatened to destroy thewhole world.Enoch”’ perceiving that the knowledge of the Artswas likely to be lost in the general dcstruetion, and beingdesirous of preserving the principles of the sciencesfor the posterity of those whom God should be pleasedto spare, built two great pillars “‘ on the top of the highestmountain; the one of brass, to withstand water, theother of marble, to withstand fire, and he engraved onNote ifl.—”A uriter in the Freemason’s Quarterly Review soya, onthis auhiect, that “ it aecuip pruhshie that Enuch introductd the speenle’tive principles into the Masonic creed. and thai he orIginated its ixciusivecharacter,” which theory moat be take.,, if it is accepted at all. nithvery considerable modititationa.The )ears of his life may aiso be supposed to contain a mystic meaning.for they amounted to thrt’e hundred and sixty’llve. being ex4ctiy equnito a aniar revoiution. in sli the ancient rites this unmht’r has occupied aprominent place, because it uss the represenlative of the annual courseof ihat tuminiry uhi, h. as the great froetiller o~ ihe earth, was thepeculiar object of divine norahip.“—Mackeys Encyolopsedia of Freemasonry,Artiole Enoch.Note i23.—”Enoch hitoseif is but the symbol of initiatIon, and hisiegend is intended sy,uboiicaiiy to express the dot trim’ that the irueWord or diviun ti nib it its ~ireserved in the antleut i,,itlatlo,ta.‘‘—MackeysEpoyciopaedia of Freemasonry. Article Enoch, Legend of,Note 134,—The legend goea~on io’~inform us that after Enoch hadconipieted the subterraittun temple. tearing that the principics of thosearts and ecininwes uhitli he bad coitivateil nith so much aaaiduity wouldbe l’tst in ibtit general ditltruction of which he had re(elvt’d a propheticvision, he erected tao pillars—the one of marble to withstand the influenceof lire, and the other of brass, to resist the action of aster. Onthe pliiar of brass he engraved the history of the creation. ihe prineipieaof the arts and ci leuces. and the doctrines of Speculative e’reemaaonryas they acre pructited in his times: and on the one of marhie heinscribed characters In hlerogij phics. Importing that hear the spot wherethe~ stood a precious iretisure usa dt’poslted in a sobterranean fault.Josephus girt’s on account of these plilars in the itrat book of his Antiquities.lie aawll,es them to the children of Seth. ahith is hj nomeans a contradli tion of the Masonic tradition, since Enoth was olin ofthese children. ‘1’het lb Ir inventions.’ says .the historian. ‘might notbe lust before they uui.rt’ aulilelently knoati. upon Adam’s prediclionthat thi’ world ntis to he destroyed at one lime by the force of fire andhit another time hr the violeitte nod quantity of water, they made twopill irs—the one of hrick. the other of atone: they inscribed their discoterieson them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyedby the flood, the piiiar of atone might remain and exhibit those discorcilea 10 mutiklnd. and also Inform them that there was another pills,of brick erected by them. Now this remains in the land of Sirlad to thisdat.” ‘—Maskey’s Encyclopaedia of rreamsaoary, Article Enoch.!2I’ITIATIOW.271the marble pillar hieroglyphics, signifying that therewas a most precious treasure concealed in the Archesunder ground, which he had dedicated to God.And he engraved on the pillar of brass, the principlesof the liberal arts, particularly of masonry. Methuselahwas the rather of L*imech who was the father of Noah,who was a pious and good man, and beloved by God.And the Lord spake unto Noah, saying: “Behold, I willpunish the sins of mankind with a general deluge. Thereforebuild an ark capable of containing thyself and familyas also a pair of every living creature upon earth,and those only shall be saved from the general destructionwhich I sin about to inflict for the iniquities of thepeople.”And God gave unto Noah”’ a plan by which the Arkwas to be constructed. Noah was one hundred years inbuilding the Ark; he was six hundred years old when itwas finished, and his son, Seth, was ninety-nine. Hisfather, Lainech, had died a short time before, aged 7i l~years. There was not at this time any of the ancientpatriarchs living save Methuselah, the grandfather ofNoah, who was about 969 years old, and it is supposedthat, he perished in the general ruin.The Ark being finished, Noah agreeable to the instructionshe had received from the Most High, went into itwith his family, and took with him such things as hewas commanded. The flood took place in the year ofNote hiI.—’iloah. in all the old Masonic manuscript Constitutionsthat are extant, Noah and the flood play an important part of the ‘Legentiof the Craft.’ Hence. sa the Masonic system heeaine developed, thePatriareb was looked upon as what was called a patron of Masonry. Andthis connection of Noah with the mythie history of the Order was reD’dered still eloser by the Infijence of many symbols borrowed from theAukite worship, one of the moat predominant of the ancient falibs. Solatimately were incorporated the legends of Noah with the legends ofUssonry that Freemasons began, at length, to be culled, and are stilljiled ‘Nosehidac,’ or the descendante of Noah, a term first applied byAnderson. and very frequently used at the present day. ‘—Mackey’s Znwelcpsediaof lreemasoniy, Article Noah.

S72 TI{IRTEE~TI[ OR ROYAL ARCH’ DEGREE. INITIATION.the world 1656, ~nd destroyed most of the superb mon~iznentsof antiquity,The marble pillar of Enoch fell in the general destruction,but by divine permission the pillar of brass withstoodthe water 1by which means the ancient state of theliberal art. and particularly Masonry has been handeddown to us,We learn from Holy Writ the history of succeedingtimes till the Israelites became slaves to the Egyptians,from which bondage they were freed under the conductof Moses their leader to go and take the promised land.We also learn from the annals of those that were foundin the archives of Scotland, that in a certain battle theArk of Alliance was.lost. in a forest and the same wasfound again by the roaring of a Lion who cessed to roarand crouched on the approach of the Israelites. Said lionhad a short time before devoured a great number of theEgyptians who had attempted to carry away the same.The lion keeping in his mouth the Key of the Ark, andon the approach of the High Priest he dropped the Keyand retired at a distance, crouching and tame, not offeringthe least violence to ~,hechosen people.The same Divine ~historyparticularly informs us ofthe different movements of the Israelites until they becamepossessed of the land of promise and of the succeedingevents until Divine providence was pleased togave the sceptre to David, who though fully determinedto build a temple to the Most High, could never begin;that honor being reserved for his son.The Bible also instructs us that Moses was wellbeloved of God and that he spoke to him on Mount Sinaiin a burning bush and communicated to him his DivineLaws, and many promises renewing an alliance withhim and then gave him the true pronunciation of hisHoly name by which he woul~d always be invoked.It was at this time that Moses replied, “Who MiThou?” .“Godsaid ‘Wk4 fl’fl~4 ~I’flt4is mytrue name,I sin a strong and zealous God.”Solomon being the wisest of princes had fully inremembrance the promises of God to Mose5, that someof his successors ml fullness of time should discover hisholy name, and his wisdom inspired him to believe thatthis could not be accomplished until he hqd erected tothe living God a temple in which he might deposit theprecious treasure. Accordingly Solomon began to buildin the fourth year of his reign, agreeable to the p1st~ven him by David, his father, upon the Ark of alliance,He chose a spot for this purpose, the most beautiful andhealthy in all Jerusalem.On digging for the foundation of Solomon’s temple,they found an ancient ruin of a very large edifice anda quantity of riches, such as Vases, Gold and SilverUrns, Marble Porphyry, Jasper and Agate Columns,with a number of precious stones which were all carriedto Solomon.This virtuous King presuming that on that spot beforethe deluge perhaps, a temple had been erected andfearing it had been dedicated to the service of somefalse God, and fearing lest the true name of Deity mightbe profaned in that place, he would not build there,after which they were unable to find any more precioustreasure.The temple of Solomop was built am we are instructedby masonry and as we know by the melancholy deathof Hiram Abiff.Solomon in building, caused to be erected underground a cavern of nine arches, and which he named theSecret Vault. In this sacred vault he caused to be depositeda triangular pedestial of white and black marblewith the ineffable name of Deity encrusted thereon, ona triangular plate the ssme as was deposited by Enoch.

274 TitiiiTi~NTll on ROYAL ARCh DEGREE. INITIATIOK. ,T6known to the two Kings and the deceased. TheseThis Solomon called by inspiration the pillar of beauty,brethren went to the two Kings and entreated tllem tofor reason of the beautiful arch which t supported, andintroduce them into that secret place. When the twothe sacred treasure which pros idciice had debigned to beKings were renewing their alliance, Solomon answereaencrusted thereon.them with arms extended and head inclining, in thisTo arrive at the Sacred Vault, )ou were obliged topass through atlong narrow piesage of nine arches followingone another by a eomiiimiieation under groundday to the knowledge of wllat yOU now desire.”way: “You cannot expect it, God will admit you onefrom the palace of Solomon.Some days after Solomon sent for three MastersTo this place Solomon used to go in company ofnamed Joabert, Stolkin and Guiblim arid gave themHiram King of Tyre snd Hiraiti Abiff privately, toorders to search once more in the ancient ruins whereenter on holy matters.they had already found many treasures, in hopcs of findingmore.The loss of Hiram Abiff deprived the two Kings ofthis satisfaction as the number of tx~o ~tas insulficieiit toThey departed to fulfill the King’s orders and afterenter there and as three were absolutely necessary. theyarriving at the designatgd spot, Guiblim in working withwere at a lobs who they should choose to supply the placea pick-axe, met with a large iron ring. He at once hailedof Hiram Abiff. Some Master Intendants, SublimeElected Knights and Grand Niaster Architects wcreinformed of the presence of the King of Tyre at Jerusalem,and they were not ignorant of the fact thatwhen Hiram Abiff was alive that Solomon had a particularplace under ground called the Secret Vault’” onlyNets 126.—vault, Secret, As a symbol, the Secret vault does notpresent itaeif in the primary degrees or hissour) It is found oni, inthe high degreca, sach sa the Royal Arch of all the Rites, where it playaan important pan. Dr Oliver, in his Nistonoal Landmarks. (vol ii..p. 434.1 gives. whiie referring to the building or the second Tempte. thefollowing general detail of the Masonic legend of this vault‘The foundations of the ‘i’emiile were opened, and cleared from theacLumulation or rubbish, that a level might he procured fur the rummeacementor the hoiidinh While engaged iu eacavatiout for this par.poae. three fortunate sojourners are said to have discovered our ancientstone of fonudation. nhicb had been deposited in the secret cr1 p1 byWisdom, strength and Besot?, to prevent the communication or ineffablesecrets to profane or unworthy persons. The discovery having bee,, mmniunicatedto the i,rince. prophet and priest or the Jews the stone vii.adopted as the chief corner-stone of the reeditied building, and thusbecame. In a new slid more expressive sense, the type of a more excellentdispensation. An avenue was also accidentally discovered. supportedby seven pair of ililara. perfect and eutire. vihich. from theirsituation, had esesped the fury of the finmea that bad consumed the TI-nt.pie. sad the desolation of war that had destroyed the elty. The Se, retvault ~bich bid been built by Solomon as a seenre depository for rertamsecrets thot would inevitably have been lost without some an, hexpedient for their preservation, communicated by a subterranean avenuewith the kings palace; but at the destruction of Jerusalem theentrance having been closed by the rubbish of falling buildings, it badbeen discovered by the appearance of a keystone amongst the foundationsof the sanctum sauctorum. A careful Inspection was then made.and the invaluable secrets were placcd in safe custody. ‘—MaeksyaEacyolopsadla of rre.maao~r7, Articl, vault. Secret.his companions and they concluded something of extraordinaryvalue must have been deposited there. Thethree brethren then labored with great ardour and zealwith shovel and crow and cleared away the earth thatcovered the ring, when they found it was fixed to a perfeetsquare stone, which ‘vith great labor and pains theyraised and found it covered a most dismal great cell.Guiblim proposed to descend, and for that purposethey fixed a rope around his body and let him down, withthe understanding that if he wished to be raised, heshould make it manifest by shaking the rope. Guiblimaccordingly descended and found himself in an archedvault, in the pavement of which lie found another opening.He descended into that, and there also he foundanother opening through which he went, which broughthim into a third vault and made the like observation ofa fourth opening but was afraid to pursue his search; hetherefore shook the rope and ascended,He acquaInted his companions with the observationshe had made and proposed they should descend in turns

276 THIRTEENTH OR ROYAL ARCH DEGREE. INIUTION. 377to make further observations, but they positively refused.Guiblim acc-ordingly descended on the following conditions:that through every arch he would shake the ropeslightly, and if he wished to ascend he would shake therope violently.When he arrived in the sixth arch he shook the ropeand was hauled up again. He told Joabert and Stolkinthat he had been in six arches and had observed anopening to descend further, and proposed for one ofthem to descend as he had worked hard and was afraidto venture. This however frightened Joabert and Stolkinso much that they absolutely refused to go down.This raised the zeal of Guiblim, and with a lighted 11ambeauhe descended on the former conditions. When hewas entering the ninth arch a parcel of the stone andmortar fell suddenly down from the top and hisflambeanwent out when he perceived the rays of the sun penetratinglively, briskly and directly on a golden triangularplate adorned richly round with precious stones, thebrightness of which so affected Guiblim, it almost deprivedof sight. He immediately made the sign of admirationwhich was the same as Solomon and HiramKing of Tyre had made&when they desired to be admittedin the Sacred Y~ult and Sublime Degree.Guiblim fell prostrate on his knees, his right handbefore his eyes, his left behind his back. Shaking therope three times, on which Joabert and Stolkin drewhim up ani~ he recounted to them the amazing things hohad seen in the ninth arch. By this account to themthey proposed to descend together by a rope ladder madefor that purpose. The three accordingly descended, inthe ninth arch and being amazed as was Guiblirn, theyalso fell prostrate thereat, and after having got thebetter of their surprise they went and raised Guiblimand both exclaimed, Hamaluhick Guiblim, that is co may:Guiblim is a good man, we must keep and recompensehim. They then examined the gold plate on which theyperceived some characters which they did not understand.Said plate was encrusted on the top of an agatestone of the same form. They admired the plate withrespect and conceived that the characters meant theSacred name of God, which name was only known toSolomon, Hiram King of Tyre and Hiram Abuff. Itseemed to them that after the death of Hiram Abiff thetwo Kings not being a sufficient number could never bestowthis degree upon those who aspired thereto, bulthey hoped to receive it by the circumstances of thelifinding the precious treasure. They concluded to raisethe Cube Stone on which this golden plate was fixed andcarry it to Solomon. It was at break of day when theywived. The King of Tyre being with Solomon in hisapartment, who on beholding the precious treasure werestruck with such admiration that they both mutuallymade the sign of admiration and fell on their knees.Solomon first recovering from hip surprise and seeingKing Hiram still on his knees and not yet recovered,Solomon raised him and said Hamaluhick Guiblim.The two Kings examined the characters of the goldplate and found it to be the ineffable name of God, butcould not explain any part thereof to the three elected.Solomon told them that the Great Architect of the Uni-?erse had bestowed on them the most signal favor, andhad chosen them to discover the most precious and raretreasure of masonry. You are his Elected and I wishyou joy! In recompense for their zeal, fervor and constancyhe created them Knights of the Royal Arch, asthey were the only ones that discovered the same andby which discovery the arch was called the Royal Arch.

278 THIRTEENTH OR ROYAL ARCH DUGIIKE. IYIA?!@x. 571He also promised to give them an interpretation of thesacred and mysterious characters which they saw on theGolden Triangular Plate.The three elected observed to Solomon that the firstword he and thee King of Tyre spoke to them was thesame they had mutually pronounced in the Ninth~Arehon seeing the treasure.They also recounted to the two Kings everything theyhad done and seen, by whieh~they had precisely foundthe Sign, Token and Word of this degree, known by thetitle of Knights of the Royal Arch. Solomon then explainedto them that the promise of God was accomplishedof his promise to Noah, Moses and David hisfather, that one d.ay the true name of ~iini by which hewas to be invoked should be diseovQred on a goldenplate, but should be forbidden to write it aiid jiave permissiononly to letter it for their consolation, but neverto pronounce or speak it, and to be very eireum~peet inlettering it.You know the Master’s Word was lost at the constructionof the temple by the tragic scene of Hiram Abiff,our Grand Master Architect; aiid now my dear brethrenwe are happy to hav~ at this present moment the truecharacters which we intend soon to give you the interprelationand pronunciation of. We have now nothing todo hut to recompense you with justice, to the merit dueyour work. You are now stamped by the divine handand certainly merit this signal favor.The two Kings and three Knights took the precioustreasure and carried it to the Sacred Vault by the privateway through nine arches, of which none had any knowledgebut themselves. They arrived at the pillar ofBeauty, and thereat, worked together to enerust theplate on the pedestal. The two Kings seemed gloriouslyvejoiced in work with the trowel on that thing whichGod had destined should be done by their hands only.After they had finished their work, the whole fivetrated themselves to adore the Great Architect ofLroa eUniverse, giving him homage, thanks and praise forhis favorable decree in their favor. The brilliancy ofthe plate, the splendor of the rubies and diamonds,placed one on the other, was sufficiently light for theplace without the aid of artificial light.After their work was done the two Kings changed thename from Secret to Sacred Vault, known only by theGrand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons.It was now time to recompense the three Masters andKnights of Royal Arch, Guiblim, Joabert and Stolkin.The two Kings accordingly gave them the degree ofGrand Elect Perfect and Sublime Masons, explainingthe Sacred Word engraved on the golden plate, whichwas the true name of the most Sacred Omnipotent, andtold them it was the name by which he would be invoked.A pronunciation which has suffered much and hath beengreatly corrupted. It is very certain that from thedifferent varieties of this word, the Moors have takentheir Jubar, and the Latins their Jupiter, as the truepronunciation was not a little lost of the greatest ofnames.Moses having been taught by the Great Architecthimself, relative to the efficacy of this great name provi.ded in Egypt agajnst Drought, Hunger and Sickness.The new elected brethren, Guiblim, Josbert andStolkin, took their obligations before God and the twoKings, never to pronounce that word fully and never topermit any mason to receive this Sublime Degree before~ had given long proof of his zeal and attachment for

284) THIRTRENTH OR ROYAL ARCH DUGEER. INITIATION. 281the craft and also to use the same ceremony to comxaumcatethis mysterious history of the Divine Delta, nearthe Burning Bush where God made the ancient fatherspromise the same.The number ~ofthe Grand and Sublime Elected waaat first three, then five, and continued so until the templewas completed and dedicated, when King Solomon as ereward for their faithful services, admitted to this degreethe twelve Grand Masters, who had faithfully presidedover the twelve tribes, also one other Grand MasterArchitect.Nine Ancient Grand Masters, eminent for their virtue,were chosen Knights of the Royal Arch, and shortlyafter were admitted to the Sublime Degree of Perfection.The nine Knights to be admitted to the Sacred Vaultwere obliged to tyle the doors of the nine arches whichled from Solomon’s Palace to said Vault.The most ancient was placed at the door near theSacred Vault, and the others by degrees to the ninthdoor near Solomon’s Palace or apartment, never permittingan entrance to any except the Grand Elect, Perfectend Sublime Masons, giving the Signs, Tokens andWords of each ArclLI will now give you the pass-word for each arch. Thepass for the first arch is Jub, to the second Jeo, to thethird Jua,”’ the fourth Hayak, the fifth Gotha, the sixthAdonai, the seventh Jacl&anai, the eighth Ilciencharn,the ninth Jachabuium. Those are the passes for eacharch.The brother who gave the sacred word on the insideNote 137,—7uL A corrupted form of the Tetragrammaton, and aSignificant word in the high degrees. —Maeh.~’s Eno7.1e~aadla at Free.maso~. Artieie Ins.was obliged to give the pass-word SkibboletA” threetimes with an aspiration.There were besides the above number 3,568 Masterswho had served at the construction of the temple, andbecoming jealous on seeing a preference given to theabove 25 ~?ifasterswhich chagrined them much as theyhad frequently seen the King’s apartment shut against~them, consequently they sent deputies to Solomon toascertain the cause of that preference.Solomon after hearing the complaint of the deputy,replied as follows: Those 25 Masters have deservedthis preference by their zeal in working the hardest andhave always shown invaluable constancy, consequentlyI have loved and cherished them. Your time has not yetcome. Go, God will permit you one day to be recompensedas you deserve.One of the deputies being of a passionate dispositionand dissatiafied with the reply of Solomon, answered:We also have claims for a higher degree. We know howthe word was changed and can travel into foreign countriesand receive master’s wages as such. Solomon beingstruck with this reply, but at all times full ofwisdom and goodness did not rebuke, but thus addressedhim: Those Ancient Masters deserve the degree ofPerfection, as they have been in the ancient ruins andpenetrated into the bowels of the Earth and took fromNote 133.—”l.t, an ear of corn; and 2ndi~, a stream of water. Asthe Ephraimitea were desirous of crossing the rtyer. it is probable thatthis second meaning suggested it to the Olleaditee as an appropriatetest word on the occasion. The proper sound of the first letter of thisword I. ab, a harsh breathtng which I. ezceedingl~ difficult to he pro.asunced b7 persons whose ,oeai organs haye not been accustomed to it.bch was the case with the fiphealmites, who snhstitnted for the aspire.Uon the hissing sound of a. Thei, organs of roice were incapabia ofe aspiration, and therefore, as the record has it, they ‘could not frameto pronounce it right. • The lesrned Durder remsrks (Orient. Gnat, II133.) that in Arabia the diference of pronunciation among p~raona oiYarions districts is much greater than in moat other places. and inchas easlif accounts for the circumstance mentioned in the peesage ofJudges. —Maebe~a Raqotoaedia St rreemaaesz~, Aitlele saibbelath.

282 THIUTI’.P.NTII OR ROYAL ARCH DUOREE. INITIATION. 2.3ajvived at the designated spot found such strange thingstheywere at a loss to account for the seine, but imaginedthat the presumptuous masters were enveloped in theruins” which they saw had fallen in.Upon strict search they found a few pieces of marbleon which were engraved some Hieroglyphics which theytook possession of, carried to Solomon and reported ae.them an immense treasure to embellish God’s temple.Go in peace and do as they have done. Work to adornthe temple of the mighty God, and he will recompenseyou as you deserve.Those masters being proud and !ain, and much ~frightenedat the reply of Solomon, returned and made a reportof their embassy, and not having been reprimanded,ambition also mixed with jealousy, agreed to go togetherto the ancient ruins. They discovered the ring tolift thetrap and with a ladder of ropes entered the arches withlighted flambeaus.God desirous-ofpunishing those masters for their vainand proud ambition and to give a clear proof of hisjustice and providence, pronounced their doom for theirinsolence, insomuch that when the last of them enteredthe arches fell in upon them successively one after theother, with all their appertenants, in consequence ofwhich the ancient word,13’ which had been corrupted,was entirely lost with them and known only to those wehave spoken of before.After Solomon had heard what befell those masters,he sent Guiblim, Joabe~t and Stolkin to inquire thecircumstances.They accordingly Aeparted at break of day, and havingNote 129.—’The WORD, therefore. I conceive to be the symbol ofDivine Trutb~ sod ail Its modifications—the loss, the substitution, andthe recovery—are but component parts of the mythical symbol wbich rep.resents a search after truth. In a general sense, the word ilseif beIngthcu the symbol of Divins Truth, the narrative of its loss and the searchfor its recovery becomes a mythical symbol of the decsy and loss of theline religion among the ancient nations, it and after Ihe dispersion onthe plain of Shinur, and of the attempts of the wise men, the philosophers,and priests, to find and retain ii In their secret mysteries andinitiations. ~ihich have hence been designated as the Spurins Freemasonryof Antiquity“lint there is a special or individual, as well as a general interprets.tion. and in this special or individual InterpretatIon the word with itsaccompanying myib of a lose, a substitute, and a recovery, becomes asymbol of the personal progress of a candidate from his first Initiationto the completion of his course, when he receives a full deveinpmnent ofthe mysteries. “—Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Frsemasanry, Article LostWord,cordingly. Solomon put those pieces together and sentfor some learned brethren who deciphered those characters,when he ascertained they were the ruins of theTemple of Enochisi which he had built and consecratedto the true God, which he had built before the flood andwhich was destroyed in the Deluge which swept awayevery thing but the nine arches under ground where wasdeposited the Delta or treasure so often spoken of toMoses and David by God, together with the brazen pillarfrom which the history of the Ancient Masters istaken.Brethren meditate upon the grandeur of our mysteries,the ultimate knowledge of which you have not beenmade acquainted, but by your zeal, fervor and constancywe hope one day to see you attain the degree of Perfection,which is the ultimatum of ancient masonry.Note l1S.—”The vault was, therefore, in the ancient myaterlee, sym.belle of the grave; for initiation was symbolic of desib: where aloneDivine Truth is to be found. The Masons have adopted the same idea.They teach that death Is hut ihe beginning of life; that if the first orevanescent temple of our transitory life he on the surface. we mustdescend mb the secret vault of death hefore we can find that sacreddeposit of truth which is to adorn our second temple of eternal life. Itis in this sense of an entrance through the grave into eternal life thatwe are to view ths symbolism of the secret vanit. Uke every othermyth and allegory of Masonry, the historical relation may he true or itmay he false; it may be founded on fact or he the invention of imagination:Ihe iesson is stili there, and the s~mboliam teaches it czclusiveof the history. “—Mackay’s Inoyelogaadia of Yreemaso.ry. Article vault,leastNote l31.—”On the death of Enoch, Methuseish, and Lamech, and thedestruction of the world by the dein e. all knowledge of this temple. andof the sacred treasure which it contaVued. was lost until. in after tim~. itwas scridentaliy discovered by another worthy of Freemasonry, who. ilkeRnoch. was engaged in the erection of a temple on the acme spot.”—~skeys rp.cyeiop.sdla at Freemasonry, Article Ranch.

284 TrnuTUZNTN oi aoi’.aL ARCH DUGURN.Solomon—By virtue of the power vested in me, Idecorate you with the jewel of the order of this Royal”’Degree. It is arepresentation of the Delta found by ourAncient Masters, which you are to wear from a purpleribbon round your neck. Its color expresses the love andfriendship we ever ought to have for the order and ourbrethren in general. Brother Expert, you will now conductthe brethren to seats in the college.Rots 188.—it can never he too often repeated that the WORD Is. InMasonry, the symbol of TRUTH. This truth I. the great object of pillsuItIn Udmonry—the scope and tendency of all Its tovesttpatlons—thspromIsed reward of all MasonIc labor. Sought for dIlIgefitlY In everydegree, and constantly approached hut never thoroughly and Intimatelyembraced, at length, In the Royal Arch the veils which concealed theobject of search from our view are withdrawn, and the inestImable prIzeIs revealed.‘This truth, which Masonry makes the great object of Its inveatliations.I. not the mere tenth of science, or the truth of hIstory. but Isthe more Important truth wb’ch Is synonymous wIth the knowledge of thenature of God.—that truth whIch is embraced In the sacred Tetragrammaton.or omnlfic name. Including in its sIgnIficatIon hIs eternal, present.past, and future existence, and to w~ich he hImself alluded when hadeclared to hoses. I appeared unto Abraham. unto Isaac. and untoJacob by the name of God AlmIghty; but by my ogme Jehovah wasI not known unto them.’“The dIscovery of thIs truth Is then, the essentIal symbolIsm of theRoyal Arch degree. Wherever It Is practlced.—and under some peculIarname the degree Is found In every Rite of Maaonry.—this symbolism ispreserved. However, the legend. may vary, however the ceremonies ofreceptIon and the prelImInary steps of InItIatIon may dIffer, the consum’~ 5~Ion Is always the same—-the great dIscovery whIch represents theattainment of 1’ruth.”—Kacksy5 lnoycloiiasdl& of Fesemasonry. Article3q51 Arab ~tgree.CLOSING CEREMONIESROYAL’” ARCH Duom.Selomon—Brother Inspector, what are you?ln.pector—I am that I am; I have seen the resplendentDelta bearing the Ineffable name, and the CubeStone upon which it was placed by Enoch.Solomon—Did the Cube Stone bear any inscription?Inspector—Yes, J. .V. ‘.1. ‘.0. .L.’. one letter on eachface of the Pedestal; Juveni Verbum in ore Leonia,which reads; I have found the word in the mouth of aLion and that we will defend the name of the GrandArchitect of the Universe with the courage of LAons.Solomon—Have you anything else to desire?Inspector—Yes, to read the Ineffable name accordingto its true pronunciation.Solomon—God will permit one day that your wishesmay be accomplished. What is the clock?Note 188.—”Among the many precious thIngs whIch were carefullyreserved In a ucred vault of KinK Soiomon’s Tem pIs was a portraIt oflbs monarch. paInted by Adonlram. the son of 3lkauah. priest of the secondcourt. ThIs vault remaIned undIscovered tIll the tIme of Herod. althoughthe secret of Its existence and a descrIptIon of its localIty were retaIned bythe descendants of Rlkanab. ~ TIme sped on: the Itomans invadedDeltaln; sod, previous to the crucifixion, certaIn membere of the oid townguard of EdInburgh. among Whom were several of the Royal Order, proeeededto Rome to enter into negofiationa with the soverci a. From thencethey proceeded to Jerueslen’. a~.d Were present at the Ireadfoi scene ofthe crucifixion. They succeeded in obtaining the portraIt, and aim theblue veIl of the Tenipln rent upon the terrible occasion. I may dIsmIssthese two venerable relIcs In a few words. Wilson, in hIs Memorials ofUiinbergh (2 you., publIshed by Hugh Patton). In a note to the MasonicLodges, writes that thIs portrait was then In the possessIon of the brethteaof the Lodge St. Dsvld. This is an error, and arose from the fact ofthe Royal Order then meeting in the Lodge St. David’s mom in Rindfoa’d’aClose The blue veil was converted Into a standard for the trades ofUdinburgh, and became celebcated on many a battle-field. notc.~ly in thePleat Crusade as ‘The Blue Blanket. • 7mm the presence of certain oftheIr number in Jerusalem on the occasion in question, the EdInburgh CityOnard were often called Pontins Pilate’s Prgptorlans. Now, these arefacts well known to many X.llnbnrxbers stIll eiive. ‘—Maokq’s Isoyde.lingua of Fraamaaoaiy. Article Royal Ordar of leotlsad.,

f86 ROYAL ~cu DEGREE.Inspector—’Tis evening.Solomon—Since it is evening, acquaint the brethrmthat I am going to close this respectable lodge by themost perfect and mysterious numbers.Inspector—Bicthren, you will please take notice thatour Thrice Puissant Grand Master is going to close thisrespectable lodge by the most perfect and mysteriournumbers.Solomon—(Strikes five; 00 000.~Grand Trea.surer—(Strikes five; 00 000.)Grand Secretary—(Strikes five; 00 000.)Grand Inspector—(Strikes five; 00 000.) To order,brethren.All form a circle atthe altar, kneel and make the signof admiration; also another sign by placing the righthand on the back, after which they help one another torisc, the Kings first and then the other bt’ethren. Allthen make an obeisance to the Kings.Solomon—This Royal Lodge is closed with ail itshonors.HISTORICALTHIRTEENTH ORANALYSISROYAL ARCH DEGREE.Fa~* History and False Rellgion—Aclwowiedged FabrIcation yetSublime—”Infamoua Scheme for Lucre and Ambition”—Wriz.ing Latin Before it Existed.This singular medley of false history and false rehgionseems to have originated with Remeay in Franceas part of his “system of Masonry culled Scottial&,”which, says Rebold, p. 8~, “had a political object; no lessthan to make Masonry subservient to the Stuart partyand an aid to the Catholic church, by restoring the pretenderto the throne of England ;“ which, continues Rebold“served as a basis for all the Masonic systems inFrance and those exported to different countries on theglobe.”Mackey. a better authority, also speaks of “Ramsay’edegree, (Royal Arch), from which all the continentalsystems originated.” And these writers tell us thatDermoit, who split the London Grand Lodge by secession,twenty-two years after it was formed at the Appletreetavern, and Dunicerly, the bastard son of GeorgeII, both “fabricated” Royal Arch degrees, for the leadingideas of which they were indebted to Ramsay.The only interest we have in the origin of this depee,which Dermott called the “root, heart and marrowof Masonry,” and of which Oliver said: “It is indeicribablymore august, sublime and important than anywhich preceded it,” is to show that it is a patchwork~roduction of apostates and adventurers, distinguishedor neither virtue, piety or patriotism. All the Masonicwriters agree that it was “invented,” “falMcated” and

288 ACKNOWLEDGED FABRICATION VBT SUBLiME. etINFAMOUS SCHEME FOR LUCRE AND AMBITION,” SSPthink this were enough; a story, “legend,” inventedabout the discovery of the ineffable name of God ItSimilar treatment of Washington: a fiction got up andacted year after year, about his name and character,professedly fa4se and without foundation, would subjectthe inventors, if not to abhorrence, certainly to contempt.But here are men inventing, acting and sellingacknowledged fictions about God, and writers pronounceit “sublime I”Scholars know that the Jewish Rabbis, in the declineof religion, in reading the Scriptures, paused and passedover the name of Jehovah in silence, and then read on.This was while the Hebrew language was written withoutvowel points, so that when the Masorites came tosupply vowels the pronunciation of the name was forgottenand the vowel sounds of another name of Godwere affixed to the consonants of the word Jehovah, tosupply the place of the sounds which had been lost bythis Jewish superstition. The “word” never was lost,but the sounds only. The letters which these schemerspretended to have found at the bottom of an undergroundpit, nine arches deep~ on a triangular glitteringgold plate, are taken f~om our Hebrew Bibles, just asthey stood when th~ books were written, and as they stillstand. And- outside the Hebrew, the Greek Zeus, theLatin Deus, the Saxon God, and even the Indian Manitou,in the hands of the Holy Spirit, can convey to thepenitent soul correct ideas of God, though each wordsounds differently from the other. Nothing necessary tosalvation is lost; and if there was, Masonry has notfound it. It has found nothing. The thing lost was asound, and Masons do not claim to have discovered onthat golden plate the sound of God’s name. The FrenchMason still says “Dieu,” and the Englishman, “God;”and the believing Pagan centurion i~ accepted who may.neither. Yet this infamous scheme for “lucre and mibition”has convinced thousands that their gold plate,like those of the Mormon, has revealed truth outside ofand beyond the Bible. And the popularity and power ofthe falsehood, in both cases, depend on the multitudeswho believe the lie and pay for it. The foot note 113says: “The peculiar form of the degree differs greatly indifferent countries.” Indeed!! So we are not sure wehave any Royal Arch degrees” after all I For the formof a degree is the fact of it. One gives us the Arch ofEnoch, another the Arch of Zerubabel, another of Josiah,in whose reign “The Book of the Law” was foundin the rubbish of the Temple, where it was left whenthe temple was forsaken for the lodge-worships andwhoredoms of Baal! But if half a dosen men give asmany totally different and conflicting accounts of onefact, we know that it is a lie and not the truth I Or, asMackey himself calls it in foot note 115 “a fabricationof the Royal Arch Degree,” which, though “rejected bythe English Masons,” is now the Thirteenth Degree of“TI&e Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite,” which nowleads the Masonic world I (Read the Note.) And iffurther proof of imposture and imposition were wanting,it is at hand.This degree starts before tne flood, (see Note 118,)when Enoch’s Arches were built. Now when the candidate“removes the keystone and penetrates the depths,”he finds on the several arches, as he opens them. th.

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292 GRAND ELECT, FUFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.that far onward and above the steps he has already takenfreemasonry is to develop itself on a still larger scale.The Sacred Vault”’ is the last place of rest in themystic field of the first efforts of Freemasonry and proph~esies its future~triumphs. The candidate looks for thelast time at the mystic furniture of the SolomonianSchool, such as the Altar of Sacrifices, typifying materialworship; the Altar of Perfumes, typifying intellectualreligion; the Brazen Sea, typifying impenetrable infinity;the Loaves of Shew bread, typifying the mysticcommunion of mankind; the Golden Tray and Trowel,typifying the fusion of all the races of men and thesecret of their alliance, despite the many differences ofcustoms and laws which divide the sons of the AlmightyFather.On one side and in the past appears the formidableGod of by-gone generations; his names are inscribed onthe Breast Plate of the High Priests of the Jews. Onthe other side and far in the future, the Eternal, Good,Simple, Benevolent, Merciful, Eouitable and ever consolingFather of mankind, whose titles are written withthe blood of that Sublime Teacher, who first of all proclaimedthe existence of a God of Love and Love only.late 1W.—’~ln the early ag~a. the cave or vault was deemed sacred.‘me first worship was in cave temples, which were either n~turaI orformed by art to resenible the excavation, of nature. Of such greatextent was this practice of subterranean worship by the nations of antiqulty.that many of the form. at heathen temples, as well as the nave.,aisles, and chanceis at churches subsequently built for Christian worship,are said to owe their origin to the religious use of caves.from this. too, arose the tact, that the initiation into the incientmysteries was almost always pertormed In subterranean edifices; andwhen the place at initiation, as in some of the Egyptian temples, wasreally above ground, it was so constructed as to give te the neophytethe appearance, in its approaches and its internal structure, of a vault.ha the great doctrine taught in the mysteries was the resurrection fromthe dead—az to dis and te ho Initiated were synonymous term,’.—it wasdeemed ~per that there should he some formal resemblance between adescent into thegrave and a descent Into the place ot initiatinn. ‘Happyii the man,• says the Greek poet. Pindar. who descends beneath thehollow earth having beheld these mysteries, for he knows the end aswell as the divine origin of llte: and In a like spirit 5o~lhocles exclaims,“Thrice happy are they who descend to the shades below afterhaving beheld these sacred rites. for they alone have life In Hades.while all others suffer there every hind of evil. ‘—MaekaVa heyclopsa.ila of Nrsemasonly, Aitiela vault, bw.~GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SLBLIME MASON. 298What an encouragement for a freemason to pursue hi.course and reach the last term of his painful and glo.rious career.The ceremonies in this degree are sublimely grandand imposing and are calculated to give us exaltedviews of the Grandeur, Power and Majesty of God.The lecture and history of this degree are rich toprofusion with valuable and interesting matter relatingto the symbolism and instruction contained in all thepreceding degrees of Symbolic and Ineffable Masonry.DECORATiONS :—The lodge represents a subterraneanvault painted red or hung with red hangings. In theWest is a part of Enoch’s pillar, consisting of piecesfound among the ancient ruins. In the East is thePillar of Beauty, the Burning Bush and a TransparentDelta, with the Hebrew letters “Jod. :.He. :.Vau. :.He. :.“inscribed therein.The lodge is illuminated when at work by twentyfour(24) lights distributed as follows: nine in the East,three in the North, seven in the West, before the SeniorWarden and five before the Junior Warden in the South.PTJRNITURE :—Consists of the Holy Bible, Square andCompass and Triangle, the Altar of Incense, the Altarof Sactiflce, table of Shew-Bread, Brazen Layer, Ark ofthe Covenant, Tables of the Law, Golden Candlestick,Two Brazen Columns, Golden Urn of oil, Golden Vasefilled with water, Golden Goblet filled witll wine, Goldfling and Trowel, a Silver hod of ointment and theCube Stone. Before each of the officers is a white triangulartable.The assembly is styled a Grand Lodge of Perfection,and consists of but twenty-seven (27) members. Itmore are made they must become honorary members.

294 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON. GRAND ELECT, PURFECT AND SUBLIME MASON. 3,5TITLES :—There are ten (10) officers in a urand ~of Perfection.First—Thrice Puissant Grand Master, represent.King Solomon, stationed in the East. He is the firstofficer in the Lodge and presides over the work and confersall the degI~ees of the Ineffable series. His officialJewel a Crowned Compass with a Blazing Sun in thecentre.Second—Deputy Grand Master represents HiramKing of Tyre, seated on the right of Solomon in theEast; Jewel a Crowned Compass with a Moon in thecentre.Third—Senior Grand Warden, represents Adoniramthe son of Abda stationed in the West; Jewel a GoldenTrowel.Fourth—Junior Grand Warden represents Moabonlsvstationed in the South; Jewel a Sword.Fifth—The Grand Keeper of the Seals, representsGalaad,”5 stationed on the left of the Thrice Puissant;Jewel an Ivory Key.Sixth—The Grand Treasurer represents Guiblim,stationed in the North before the table of Shew-bread;Jewel is a Golden Key.Seventh—The Grand Secretary represents Joabert,statiosled in the South before the table of Perfumes;Jewel a Gold Pen. ~Eighth—The Graud Orator, represents Abdamon’”Note 157.—”Moabcn.—Thta word is found In some of the high degreseaccordIng to the French ritual, where It is explained as expressing thesatisfactIon we feel in seeIng the crime ana the criminal punIshed.’ ‘messis no snob word In Hebrew. sad the explanation Is a fanciful one. ‘meword I. undoubtedly a 0.11k corruptian. first In sound and then InIrtiera. at the Master’s word. “‘—Meokey’s Encyclopaedia of frasmasowy,Article Keabon.Note laS.—’‘Galahad. Also apelled Galaad.. Mast probably a corruptiouof Gilsad. Said In the old rItuals to have been the keeper at the SealsIn the ~eottiah degree of KnIghts of the Ninth Arch or Sacred vault ofJames vi ‘—Mackay’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Galahad.Note l3fi.—”Abda,ncn, The name of the orstor in the 14th degree ofthe RIte of Perfection, or the Sacred vault ot James vi. it mesas aServant, from ahad, ‘ta serve.’ sithough aomewhst corrupted In its trans.misaton into the rituals. LEaning 5575 it Is the Hebrew Nab4aana.,‘a servsnt;’ hut there Is noanch word In Hebrew.”’—Machsy’s r~eyele.~aedia of Frssmsscnry. Article Abdamon.glationed in the South near the Altar of Sacrifices b.otween the Junior Warden and Secretary; Jewel a Scroll.Ninth—The Grand Master of Ceremonies representsStolkin, stationed in the North between the Treasurerand Captain of the Guard; Jewel a Staff. Re preparesmud conducts the candidate.Tenth—The Grand Captain of the Guards representsZerbal, stationed in the l~orth between the Ilaster ofCeremonies and Senior Warden.Besides these the Thrice Puissant appoints a IlotipitableBrother, stationed in the North between the Masterof Ceremonies and Treasurer; Jewel a Winged Rod. Hetakes charge of the charity fund and visits vick brethren.Also a Grand Tyler stationed at the door of the entrance;Jewel is a Flaming Sword.ELECTION :—Takes place every year, on the third dayof the month Adar. Besides this day lodges are requiredto observe the St. John’s day and to cekbrate onthe fifth day of October, annually, the building of thefirst temple, also the fifth day of the month Ab, in commemorationof the dedication of that temple.CLOT RING :—AlI the officers are dressed as in the procedingdegree, except they wear the apron, order andjewel of this degree; the officers wearing their officialjewels.The collar worn by the officers is a broad white wateredribbon, with a white and red rosette at the bottom fromwhich is suspended the official jewel. All wear swords.The brethren wear black, loose gowns with hoods behindat back of neck, white gloves and purple and red turbans.APRON :—White, lined and bordered with crimson, aairrow blue ribbon is set across the edge. In the centreof the apron is painted or embroidered a square flat

298 flRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.stone, within which is engraved an iron ring fastenedthereto.GIRDLE :—Of a Perfect Mason, is made of varionqcolored silk, arranged in the following combinafion:3-57-9.ORDER :—A crimson collar, with white and red rosetteat the bottom, from which is suspended the jewel.JEWEL :—A gold compass crowned and extcnded toninety (900) degrees. Between the arms of the\compaesis a medal, on one side of which is engraved a sun, onthe other a blazing star with the Delta in the centre; onthe quadrant are engraved the figures 3-5-7-9.Each Knight wears a wedding ring, in the interior ofwhich are engraved on one side the name of the Knightand the date of his reception and on the other thesewords: “Virtue unites what death cannot separate.”On the Table of Perfumes when an initiation, must bethe Hod and Trowel, with oil to anoint and a pan withburning coals for incense, and on the table of Shewbreadmust be the cup with wine for libation, also a goldring to present to the candidate, besides all the jewelsnecessary for the candidate.OPENING CEREMONIESGRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBuXE MASON.Thrice Puissant—Brother Senior Grand Warden, arewe tyled in this Sacred Vault?Benior Grand Warden—Thrice Puissant Grand Mastsr,we are all tyled, and in security from cowans.Thrice Puissant—Since we are well tyled and insecurity from cowans, my most dearbrethren let us prayto the Great Architect of the Universe that he mayenlighten and inspire us; let us pray with one knee onthe ground. (All form a circle round the Altar andkneel on the left knee.)OPENING PRAYER.Almighty and Sovereign Architect of Heaven andEarth who by thy divine power dost ultimately searchthe most secret recesses of thought, purify our hearts bythe sacred fire of thy love, guide us by thy unerringhand in the path of virtue and cast out of thy adorablesanctuary all impiety and perverseness. We beseechthee that our thoughts may be engaged in the grandwork of our perfection, which when attained will be anample reward for our labor. Let peace and charity linkus together in a pleasing union and may this lodge exhibita faint resemblance of that happiness which theelect will enjoy in thy kingdom.Give us a spirit of holy discrimination by which wemay be able to refuse the evil and choose the good, andalso that we msy not be led astray by those who unworthilyassume the character of the Grand Elect. May

298 GRAND ELECT. PERFECY AND SUDLIME MASON.a sweet perfume ascend from the Altar of our heartsand be acceptable to three, 0 Jehovah, our Adonai.Finally be pleased to grant that all our proceedingsmay tend to our glory, and our advancement in right.eousness. Ble~s and prosper our works, 0 Lord.. Amen.(All rise and sing the following ode, at the Altar.)ODE.Ajr—”lndian Phllo..pker.’~No Solar beam nor Lunar rayfllum~d lb. dark, the marrow way,That led me to the door,I found myself a Knight. and themThe sacred yanit I entered In,Dy mystic numbers four.Twss there, Impressed with holy awe,A gold engra Yen plate 1 saw,With dasallng splendor chine,To us. the Grand Elect aloneIts secret characters are known,Inegeble—Dlvine.Ibis precious Ireacure. long concealed,was by three worthy Knights r..vealed.Where cyst a Temple stood,Its ancIent rulna they erploredAnd foond lb. Grand Mysterious Word.Made known before the flood.Pulmled waa then the promise made.And Beauty’s plllar~ancn dIsplayedThe treasure ilijy bad found.Their ancient zeal and pIety.TheIr daikgerona toll and constancy,Were with due honor crowned.Hours lIke those, we all shall prove.Who, mIred In pure and social love,Perfection’s work pursue.May lb. SublIme Grand ArchitectRy his nnerrlng laws directThe honored, chosen few.May all, who friendships feast partake,The good pursue. the bad forsake,And may each rite and aign,A happy, lasting Influence shed;The quadrant crowned, the oil the bread,The golden ring, the wine.OPENIWS ONREMONIM. 3,.- Long as I lit., this ring PU weal,Symbol of an alliance, dearTo every brother’s heart;And bless the sacred ti, that bindsIn vlrtne~s chain, for virtue JoinsWhat death can never part.Thrice Puissant-Brother Senior Warden, what conductedyou hither?Senior Warden—Thrice Puissant, it is the love ofmasonry, my obligation and a desire to the perfectionof masonry.Thrice Puissant-What have you brought here?Senior Wardeta—A heart zealous for friendship andlove of virtue.Thrice Puissant-What are the proper qualities foracquiring this?Senior IVard.eta—The first two conduct us immediatelyto the third, and when these are properly attainedthey lead us to happiness and ‘~Thrice Puissant-What is the true disposition of anElect and Perfect Mason?Senior Warden—To divest his heart of iniquity, vindictivenessand jealousy; to be always ready to do goodand never employ his tongue in calumniating his brother.Thrice Puissant-How are you to behave in thisplace?Senior Warden—With profound respect.Thrice Puissant—How comes it that rich and poor,prince and subject are here always friends and brothers?Senior Warden—Because there is something in thatDelta, (pointing to it) repeated on the pedestal andfirmament which is greater than you.Nets 14.—”A French system founded by do Bonneville. 1754. whIskainuined that the Freemasons were lbs. lineal deacendants of the Tom-~srs. degrees. and therefore Stephen that Morinall and Ussons others were introduced Knights some Teinplar. modiflestiosa It hadand additiona Into the rIte, and transplanted It in the Dulled Slatesnude, the name of the Ancient and Accepted rite.~’—Ks.ey’a~syh.pelts asS Utetiemy d F,esmase.y, hat. Posfestlam, EMs aS

300 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON. OIDrING OURUONIUS. 801Thrice Puissant—Why is the Delta the subject ofyour respect?Senior Warden—Because is contains the sacred nameof the Eternal God, known, revered and exalted inHeaven and on eartb by the name of the Great Archit?ctof the Universe.Thrice Pu~.ssan i—What age are yau?Senior Warden—Three times three, the perfect number81, when properly repeated by our mysterious calculation.Thrice Pui8sant—Haw, my brather, can you demonstratethis?Senior Warden—I am a Perfect Sublime Elect Mason,my travels are finished and it is now time for me toreap the fr’uit af my labar.Thrice Pui8sani—What did yau contract when youwere made a Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Mason?Senior Warden—I contracted an alliance with virtuednd the virtuous.Thrice Puiuant—What mark have yau got to shawit?Senior Warden—This gold ring, a symbal of purity.Thrice Pui8sant—What’s ~he clock?Senior Warden—Higti twelve.Thrice Puissant—What do you understand by hightwe!ve?Sdnior Warden—Because the Sun at ith zenith dartsts rays perpendicularly into this lodge, intimating thetime to work efficaciously to the end of our perfection,and to profit by it8 generosity.Thrice Pui8san i—Where will you find materials?Senior Warden—In the trea8ury and virtue of thepe?feet masons, ~n regularly composing my actian~ iI’my heart by the square avid cornpass of itivine wisao’~Thrice Puissant—Where is the divine wisdom displayed?Senior Warden—In the hearts of the worthy, uprightbrethren who compoes this respectable lodge, of whichyou are the supporter.Thrice Puissant—And now my respect*ble brethren,I am going to enforce your designs to this effect.Brother Senior Grand Warden, announce that I amgoiug to open this lodge of Grand Elect Perfect”’ andSublime Masons by the mysterious numbers, 3-5-7-9.Senior Warden—Brethren, you will please take noticethat the Thrice Puissant Grand Master is going to openthis lodge of Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Masonsby the mysterious numbers 3-5-7 and 9.Junior Wardet~—(Claps three slow; 000, all na..)Senior Warden—(Claps five slow; 00000.)Thrice Puissani—(Claps seven slow; 0000000, all are~iIent for a moment.)Thrice Puissant—(Claps three; 000.) To order mybrethren; (all make the sign of obligation.)Note Z41.—~Tbo Lodge in which tbe fourteenth degree of tbe Ancientand A~eepted Scottiub Rite a coofened. In England and America thisdegree is calied Grand Sleet Perfeet and Sublime Mainon. hut the Frencbdeuignate it Grand Scottish Mns3n of the Saered Vault of James VI..or BUM ~cmia dO k Vout. User.. du laquos VI. Tbls Is one ofthe eyldencq.—and a Ye~ pregnant oae—of tbe influence ezercised bythe exiled Stnafls and their adherents on tbe Mainonry of that time i~making it an instrument fcq the restoration of James II., and tben ot hiason, to the throne of 3ngland.This degree, as concluding all refecence to the Brat Temple. ha. been‘ailed the ultimate degree of ancient Masonry. It Is the last ot whati• technically styled the Ineffable degrees, bec,uae their inatruetlonsrelate to tbe Ineffasle word.It. place of meeting Is called the 5acred vault. Its principal offi.era are a ‘Thrice Pulagant Grand Maiter. two Grand Warden., a GrandTreasurer, and Grand Secretary. In the first organjmation of the Ritein this country, the Lodges of Perfeetlon were called SuhIIme GrandLndges. and, hence, the word “Grand’ is itill affixed to the title ottbe officer..Tbe tollowiiig mytbical bistory is connected with and related in thisde~~•n tbe Temple was finished. tbe Mamma wbo bad been employedin constructing it acquired immortal honor Their order became inoi,Iloiforml7 pstablisbed and regulated than it bad been befotp. Theirautlon and icser,e in admitting new memberu produced aeuect. mmdmerit alone warn required of the candidate, With thou. principlc Inmtilfrdinto their minds. many of the Grand Sleet left tbe Temple afterits dedicatI~rn. und. diaperuing themaelyes among the neigbboring nationa.instructed all who applied and wee found wcrtby i~ the sublime dev~g•f Ancient Croft Masonry.’ —Msok.~. EaqoIapa.dla of Szmsuaamq.AitioI. ?STfOtiOU, Lode, .(.

102 muD m~aw, m,uor *u~ U~3UXB MASONs. OPINING CER3MONIES. IWSign of Obligation8. 3. P. and 8. Mom.SIGN OF OBLIQATION.Place the right hand on the left side ofthe abdomen and draw it quiekly andhorizontally across the body to the rightside.SIGN OF FIRE.Raise the right hand, open, to the leftcheek, the palm outward, atQthe paine timegraaping the elbow with the left hand.Thrice Puisaant—(Strikes three; 000,all then make the sign of admiration.)kL~~Warn at VIz~£JL~ASign of Admiration.SIGN OP ADMIRATION.Raise both hands open to heaven,the head inclined forward. the eyesdirected upwards; afterwards place thefirst two fingers of thc right hand onthe lips.Thrice Puis.gant—To the glory of the Grand Architectof the Universe, and under the auspices of the SupremeGrand Council of Sovereign Grand InspectorsGeneral of the 33d degree for the Northern Jurisdictionof the Western Hemisphere in the valley’” of—and by virtue of the authority on me conferred by thisSublime Grand Lodge of Perfection, I declare its worksthereof now opened.Senior Warden—Brethren, this Sublime Grand ~ ofPerfection is opened.Thrice Puissant—Together brethren, (all make thcfirst sign.)Thrice Puiaaani—Brethren will now cover and beseated.Not. ML--”!n the capitulat degree. .t the Fftncb Rit.. thu w~~dIa umd inintead ot Orient. to designate the seat of the Chapter. Tb..en such a bcdi a document would be dated from the Valley ot Path.’hatead of the Orient of Pail.. “—Kaokuv’u 2aq.lo~a.di& ~f 2isgma.mi, Litluls VSMq.

INITIATION.805~?OURTEENTHCHAPTER XXIVDuem OR Gwin ELECT, PERFECT ANDStmuxu MASON.INITIATION’.The candidate must be prepared in the ante-room asa, Knight of the Royal Arch by the Grand Master ofCeremonies. He then conducts him to the entrance ofthe narrow passage and gives him the first pass-word,and orders him to knock 3, 5, 7, and give the pass-wordShibboleth three times with an aspiration.N. B.—In the ceremonies of initiation the narrowpassage can be represented by passing through three (3)ante-rooms and giving the alarm at each door or in anymanner as best suits the situation of the room.First Guard—Who comes there?Masier of Ceremonies—At Sub~lime Knight of theRoyal Arch who desires perfection in being introducedinto the Sacred Vault.First Guard—How does he expect to gain admission?Masier of Ceremonies—By the pass.First Guard—’Give me the pass.Candidale—Shibboleth, Shibboleth, Shibboleth.First Guard—Pass.They then Vroceed to the second door and knock 3,5. 7.Second Guard—Who comes there?Masier of Ceremonies—A Sublime Knight of theRoyal Arch who having passed the first guard, desiresperfection in being introduced into the Sacred Vault.-Second Guard—How does he expect to gain admislion?Master of Ceremonies—By the pass!’Second Guard—Give me the pass.Candidate—(Prompted by Master of Ceremonies)El-Hhanan.Second Guard—Pass.They then proceed to the door of the lodge and knock3, 5, 7 and 9.Junior Grand Warden—(Knocks 3, 5, 7 and 9.)Senior Grand Warden—(Knocks 3, 5, 7 and 9.)Thrice Puissant Grand Master—(Knocks 3, 5, 7, and9.) Brother Junior Grand Warden go and see whoknocks at our door as a Grand Elect, Perfect and SublimeMason.Junior Grand Warden—(Goes to the door and knocks3, 5, 7, 9, opens the door and says:) Who knocks at ourdoor as a Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason?Who is there?Master of Ceremonies—A Sublime Knight of theRoyal Arch, who desires perfection in being introducedinto the Sacred Vault.Thrice Puissant Grand Master—Let him be introducedin a proper manner.The door is then opened by the Captain of the Guardwho says, let him be admitted. He enters and is conductedround the lodge to the Altar, they at the sametime pointing their naked swords at his breast. As heenters the Thrice Puissant says:Thrice Puissant—The Lord is in his Holy Temple.His eyes behold, his eyelids try the children of men.Hiram King of Tyre—Lord, who shall abide in thyTabernacle?Thrice Puissant—He that walketh upright and workethrighteousness and speaketh the truth in his heart.

306 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUDLIXE MASON.Senior Grand Warden—He that sweareth to his mhurt and changeth not his oath, who swearei~Ji not by thename of God profanely.Master of Ceremonies—What man is he that desirothlife and loveth max~y days that he may see good?Thrice Puissant—Keep thy tongue from evil and thylips from speaking guile; depart from evil and do good,seek peace and ensue it.Senior Grand Warden—Thus saith the Lord of Hosta,amend your ways and your doings and I will cause youto dwell in this place forever.King of Tyre—Who can say I have made my heartclean, I am pure from sin, for there is not a just man onthe earth who dceth good and sinneth not—no not one.Thrice Puissant-But whoso confesseth his sins andforsaketh them he shall have mercy, saith the Lord ofHosts.Senior Grand Warden—Thus saith the Lord, Heavenis my Throne and the earth is my footstool. Where isthe house ye have builded unto me? For all these thingshath my hands made. But to this man will I look, evento him that is poor and of a contrite spirit and thattrembleth at my word.King of Tyre—From the rising of the Sun, even untothe going down of the same, my name shall be greatamong the gentiles, and in every place incense (at thisword the coals which are in the pan on the Altar of per.fumes are lighted and the incense burnt) shall be offeredunto my narie, and a pure offering, for my name shallbe great among the heathen, said the Lord of Hosts.(Master of Ceremonies then orders the candidate tomake the sign of ‘admiration.JTlwicd Puissant—What do you want, my brother?NITIATION. 30~Muter of Ceremonies—Thrice Puissant Grand Mastsr,he asks the Perfection of Masonry and to be taughtthe true pronunciation of God’s Ineffable 1 ca name.Thrice Puissant—Brethren, do you consent that tillsKnight of the Royal Arch shall be raised to the degreeof Perfection?(The brethren consent by holding up their righthands.)Thrice Puissant—Before I initiate you my brotlicr,into the sacred mysteries of Perfection, you must answerthe questions I am now going to demand of you; otherwiseyou must~ be sent back.Thrice Puissant—Are you an Entered Apprentice?Candidate—Thrice Puissant, my brethren know incto be such.Thrice Puissant—Give the Sign, Token and Word tothe Junior Grand Warden.Candidate gives them by advancing by the EnteredApprentice step.Thrice Puissant—Are you a Fellow Craft?Candidate—I have seen the G.~. and know the password.Thrice Puissant—Give the Sign, Token and Word tothc Senior Grand ~Varden.Candidate gi’~ Fellow Craft step, etc.Thrice Puissant—Are you a Master Mason?Candidate—I know the Sprig of Acacia, and everything it consummates.Thrice Puissant—Give the Pass, Sign, Token andWord to the Junior Grand Warden.Candidate gives Master’s step, etc. (as soon as he pronouncesthe real word I Mah-hah.bone] the brethren runand lunge their swords at him.)Net. 148.—The variona dcgveea and orde~a ~if Scotch Maaonry aweSeemed Ineffahie hecanee of the many Hebrew name, of Deity intcoducedSeto them. The pronunciation of aeme of theae names cannot be made~‘ meetal Ilpe. “—Mm,iaa Kaae Dietimry, ktiola Iaatabla Ma.amy.

308 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.Thrice Puissant—What have you done? You aifrightus my brother on speaking this word so high. We arealways ready to rnuiish the indiscretion of those personswho pronounce this word so high and loud for fear someof the profane might hear you, but as you did not do itwith a bad intention we freely forgive yon.Thrice Puissant—Are you a Secret Master?Candidate—I have passed from the Square to theCompass, I have seen the tomb of our respectable MastarHiram Abiff and have shed tears thereat.Thrice Puissant—Give the Sign, Token and Word tothe Senior Grand Warden.Candidate gives the Secret Master’s step, .etc.Thrice Pussant—Are you a Perfect Master?Candidaie—I have seen the three circles and the threeperfect squares placed on the two columns across.Thrice Puissant—Give the Sign, Token and Word tothe Senior Grand Warden.Candidate gives them, and as soon as he pronouncesthe word “Jeva” or “Jehovah,” all cry out, what do yousay?Thrice Puissant-We are always alarmed when wehear this word given, and are always ready to put anyman to death who dare to pronounce it, or the leastsyllable of the sacred mysterious name.Thrice Puissant—Are you an Intimate Secretary?Candidate—My curiosity is satisfied which had almostcost me my life.Thrice Puissant—Give the Sign, Token and Word tothe Senior Grand Warden.Candidate gives them.Thrice Puissant—Are you a Provost and Judge?Candidate—I render justice to all workmen withoutany distinction.INITIATION. 309Thrice Puissant-Give the Sign, Token and Word tothe Senior Grand Warden.Candidate Gives them.Thrice Puissant-Are you an Intendant of the Building?Candidate—I have made the five steps of eiactitude,hive penetrated into the innermost part of the temple,have seen the effect of the great light in the middle ofwhich I perceived certain Hebraiccharacters which wereunknown to mx..Thrice Puissant—Give the Sign, Token and Word tothe Senior Grand Warden.Candidate gives them.Thrice Puissant-Are you an Elected Knight?Candidate—One cavern received me, one lamp lightedme and one fountain refreshed me.Thrice Puissant--Give the Sign, Token and Word tothe Senior Grand Warden.Candidate gives them.Thrice Puissant—Are you a Grand Master Elect?Candidate-—My zeal and labor have procured methis degree.Thrice Psd~sant-Where were you received and bywhom?Candidde-—By Solomon himself in his study.Thrice Puissant—When were you received and onwhat occasion?Candidate—When he sent me with my companionsto search for the two other ruffians who destroyed ourGrand Master Architect Hiram Abiff.Thrice Puissant-How came they to be discovered?Candidate—By the indu~try of Benjah or Bengabee.Solomon’s Intendant in the county of Cheth.

310 GRAND ELUOT, IRRFEOT AND SUBLIME MASON.Thrice Puissant—Give the Sign, Token and Word tothe Senior Grand Warden.Candidate gives them.Thrice Puissant-Are you a Sublime Knight Elected?Candidate—Myi name will inform you.Thrice Puissant-What is your name?Candidate—Emerk is my true name.Thrice Pui.ssant—Give the Sign, Token and Word tothe Senior grand Warden.Candidate gives them.Thrice Puissant-Are you a Grand Master Architect?Candidate—As I possess all the science of mathematics,I know also all the attributes.Thrice Puissant—Give the Sign, Token and Word t.the Senior Grand Warden.Candidate gives them.Thrice Puissant—What is the Most Sublime Degreeyou have received in Masonry?Candidate—The thirteenth, which I received by per.nii~ion of Divine Providence.Thrice Puissant—Explain this to me, my brother.Candidate—I searched in~ the bnknown ruins and atlength found the Divine Delta”’ which had been prom.ised the Holy Patriarcfi~s should one day be found.Thrice Puissant—What do you understand by theDivine Delta?Candidate—It is a triangular gold plate filled withrttys, on which was engraved by Enoch the sacred nameof Almighty God.Note 144.—”Tbe name of the toneth letter of the Greek alphabet. Tat~’rm It Is a trange. and was conaldered by the ancient Sgyptlana aaymhol of See, and also of God. In the Scottish and French syatema. andalan that of the KnI 1btu Tem~,lar the tria loot delta I. a aymhol of theUnspeakable Nam.~. —Kaoq a me7alag~6Ja aM DietIonaa~ at lie.maa7. AaUd. Da~ta.INITIATION. 311Thrice Puissant—I presume, my brother, you are acquaintedwith that mysterious name?Candidate—I am not; my time has not expired; theSacred name is only known by the Grand Elect, Perfectand Sublime Masters. All my hope is in God, that Ishall arrive at a knowledge of it in fullness of time.Thrice Puissant-What is your quality?Candidate—Knight of the Royal Arch.Thrice Puissant—What is your name?Candidate—Guibelim or Jahbulim.Thrice Puissant—Give the Sign, Token and Word tothe Senior Grand Warden.Candidate gives them.Thrice Puissant—What do you now desire, my brother?Candidate—The Sublime Degree of Grand Elect, Perfectand Sublime Mason.Thrice Puissant—(Giving the sign of Admiration.)God will permit you this day to receive what you somuch desire.Senior Grand Warden—Brother Grand. Master ofCeremonies, you will now retire with the candidate untilhe is wanted. (Master of Ceremonies and candidate retire.)Thrice Puissant—My dear brethren do you again consentthat this Knight of the Royal Arch be passed tothe degree of Perfection? (All hold up their righthands in taken of consent.)Thrice Puissant—Let us applaud by 9-7-5 and 3, to..gether, brethren. (All applaud.)Thrice Puissant—Brother Captain of the Guard letthe candidate be admitted.Captain of Guard—(Goes to the door, gives it.) Letthe candidate be admitted.Master of Ceremonies enters with candidate and conductshim around the ~ flodge] and to the Altar, durlugwhich the Thrice Puissant recites:Thrice Puissant—And Moses called all Israel and said

312 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON. INITIATION. 313unto them, hear U Israel the statutes and judgmentswhich I speak in your ears this day, that you may learn,keep and do them.The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers butwith us, even us who are all of us here alive this day.The Lord talketh with you face to face in the mountout of the midst of the fire, (I stood between the Lordand you at that time to show you the word of the Lordfor ye were afraid by reason of the fire and went not upinto the mount) saying I am the Lord thy God whichbrought thee out of the land of Egypt from the house ofbondage: Thou shall have none other God before me.Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God invain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that takethhis name in vain, keep the Sabbath day t~ sanctify it asthe Lord thy God hath commanded thee, six days shaltthou labor and do all thy work, but the seventh ‘day isthe Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt not doany work, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thyman servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thine ox, northy ass, nor any of thy eat~le, nor the stranger that iswithin thy gates, that thy man servant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.Honor thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thyOod hath commanded thee, that thy days may be prolongedand that it may go well with thee in the landwhich the Lord thy God giveth thee.Thou shalt not kill, neither shalt thou commit adultery,neither shalt thou steal, neither shalt thou bearfalse witness against thy neighbor, neither shalt thoudesire thy neighbor’s wife, neithcr shalt thou covet thyneighbor’s house, his field, his man servant or his maidaervant~ his ox, or his ass, or anything that is thy neighbor’s.These words the Lord spake unto all your assemblyin the mount, out of the midst of the fire of theclouds and of the thick darkness with a great voice, andhe added no more, and he wrote them in two tables ofstone and delivered them to me.Thrice Puissant-My brother, do you know in yourconscience since you have been made a mason of havingbehaved falsely to any of your brethren or of havinghurt them in their character or family, religion orcountry?Candidate answers as he thinks proper.Thrice Puissant-Have you ever communicated or letescape from you any of our mysteries to cowans?Candidate answers.Thrice Puissant—What would you have done to theassassins of our respectable Master Hiram Abiff had youlived in those days? Would you have revenged hisdeath?Candidate—I would have done as Joabert didThrice Puissant-Have you always been mindful ofthe obligations you have contracted in the presence ofthe Grabd Architect of the Universe?Candidate answers.Thrice Puissant-Did you ever find anything in yourobligations which was contrary to and against your religion,the state or anything else which could hurt yourdelicacy?Candidate answers.Thrice Puissant-Remember, my brother, if you approachcool and indifferent to our sacred mysteries youwill be the more blamable after receiving the Degree ofGrand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Muon than you would

814 GlAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON INITIATION. 315have been before, and will have more to answer for atthe great and awful day of judgtnent, when the secretsof all hearts shall be disclosed. This degree, my brother,you are now about to receive is the Perfection ofMasonry. You will be bound to the order by an indispensableobligation, which is now unknown to you,but when it is communicated I hope it will be permanentlyfi~zed in your recollection.My dear brother, demonstrate to us the goodness ofyour heart by a steady pursuit of virtue and a sincerelove for all good brethren, but particularly for thosewho receive you into their fellowship and have givenyou their support and protection, who are your fellowsand superiors. What do you say?Candidate—I will.Thriee Puissant—My dear brother, as you are nowdesirous of being taught the true pronunciation of God’sIneffal~le name, are you ready to ventureyour life in thedefense of that supreme mystery when it shall have beenentrusted to your care and are you desirous of contractingyour new obligation?Candidate—: am, most sincerely.Thrice Puissant—If you are go, my brother, and washyour hands in the Brazen Sea to prove your innocenceand that you have not revealed any of your former engagements;our forefathers used the same ceremonywhen they were accused of crimes to prove themselvesguiltless.Thrice Puissant—Brother Master of Ceremonies, conductthe candidate to the Brazen Sea. Let him purifyhis hands and then conduct him to the Altar of Sacrifice.Master of L’eremonies—Leads him to the Brazen Sea,causes him to wet and wipe his hands, and leads him tothe Altar of Sacrifice,, causes him to recline his hea8against it, takes an axe and holds it suspended over thebare neck of the candidate. When he says, before thisAltar of a broken and contrite spirit, with the fire ofholy zeal, drag by confession your sins and mortify themby hatred thereof, offer them up in a renewed consecrationas a sacrifice acceptable and well pleasing unto God.May we all offer up to him on the altar of our heartssacrifices of humility and praise, with the fire of ferventcharity. Let us offer a sacrifice of joy in the tabernacleof the Lord and sacrifice the sacrifice of thanksgivingwherefore to do good and communicate; let us forgetnot, for with such sacrifice is the Lord well pleased.Let us pray.INITIATORYPRAYER.Almighty and Sovereign Grand Architect of the Universe,thou who ridest in the Heavens by thy name Jali,let all the earth keep silence before thee; there is no Godlike unto thee in the heavens above nor in the earthbeneath. Thou who keepest covenant with and showe~tmercy unto thy servants who walk before thee with alltheir hearts, when we draw nigh thy majesty, may weever preserve thy love and the characters of thy ineffableessence engraven indelibly upon our hearts.0 purify our hearts we beseech thee by the fire ofthy love and guide our feet in the way of peace, the perfeetpath that shineth more and more unto the perfectday. May we all have an interest in that covenant whichis well ordered in all things and sure; may we dwell togetherin unity and be all of one mind, having compassionone toward another and love as brethren.May all Elect Masons like the Elect of God put on acharity which is the bond of Perfection; may our loinsbe girt with the girdle of truth and, finally having beenfaithful in all our course, may we be brought to beholdthe light Ineffable and be admitted into that sacred

316 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.INITIATION.817place where the Sun shall no more give light by day;neither for brightsiesa shall the Moon give light, but theLord our Adonai shall be unto us an everlasting lightand our God our glory. Amen.Thrice Puissant-My brother, you are now in; themost sacred and secret place in Masonry, the sacredmysteries of which are now going to be revealed to youas we repose the utmost confidence in your discretion.Come, my brother, add to our satisfaction by swearingfidelity to us.Master of Ceremonies—Leads the candidate eightquick steps and one slow to the Thrice Puissant, havingthe sign of Elected Master on him, when he kneels andcontracts his obligation.OBLIGATION GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.•I do most solemnly and sincerely swear on the HolyBible, and in the presence of the Grand Architect ofthe Universe and this respectable lodge of Grand Elect,Perfect and Sublime Masons, to be faithful and true tomy religion.I do furthermore swearthat I will never take up armsagainst my country or ever Lenter into any conspiracy orcabal against the same, or come to a knowledge of suchintention from any other without communcating it tothe proper authorities.I do furthermore swear never to reveal, either directlyor indirectly, to the Grand Master Architect or Knightof the Royal Arch, or to any person or persons whateverto whom it doth not belong, the mysteries of this ourSacred and High Degree, or any other matter or thingthat shall occur or take place in our lodge.[ promise an equal regard for my brethren of thisRoyal Degree without distinction of riches or poverty,noble or ignoble birth, and to give no other prefcrenctbut to those who are greatest in virtue.That I never will refuse to acknowledge a brother‘who is a good man in any situation, country or condition.in which he may be placed. ro support him if he is inwant, if I can do it without injury to my family.I do furthermore swear that I will, if possible, meetmy lodge at least twice a year, namely, on the 27th ofDecember and the 24th of June, and as often as myaffairs will conveniently permit; I promise to visit mybrethren in sickness and help and assist them with mycounsel, with my purse and with my arm; to give themconsolation and assistance, whether in affliction or inpain, and in the common vicissitudes of life.I furthermore swear that I will never lie with mybrother’s wife, nor dishonor his sister, daughter nor anyfemale of his family, knowing them to be such.I further promise that I will never make, or assist inmaking, or by my presence, give sanction to the makingof any person to the degree of Grand Elect, Perfect andSublime Mason who is not or has not been a Master orNominal Past Master of a regular Symbolic Lodge.I furthermore swear that I will not acknowledgebelonging to or be a member of any Sublime Lodgethat may be established within the distance of twentyfivemiles of one already legally and properly established.In failure of this, my obligation, I cot.sent to have mybelly cut open, my bowels torn from thence and givento the hungry vultures.So God help and maintain me in triith and equity.Amen.

318 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND S~ELIME MASON.Thrice Puissant—My brother, salute the Bible threetimes. (Candidate obeys.)Thrice Puissant—Rise, my brother, and receive thesame consecration which every successive Champion ofthe Secret Vault has received since its discovery.Thrice Puissant—Brother Master of Ceremonies, conductthe candidate to the Altar of Perfumes (obeys andcauses him to kneel).Thrice Puissant—By the power transmitted to meand which I have acquired by my assiduity, labor andintegrity I make sacred your heart, lips and eyes withthe Holy oil that apointed the pious Aaron, the penitentDavid and the Wise Solomon.May your heart ever throb with a hope of immortality,may your lips ever invoke the true name of the GrandArchitect of the Universe, and may your eyes beholdhim face to face and not fail when they awake in thedazzling glory of his presence. I now stamp you withthe seal of the Grand Architect of the Universe (stampshim), to the end that you may always live in his adorablepresence and that he may always be in your heart andmind and that an ardent zeal and constancy may alwaysbe the rulc of all your actions.Brother Master of Ceremonies, you will conduct thecandidate round the lodge to the table of Shew-bread.Thrice Puissant—(Rehearses.) Behold how good andhow pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together inunity. It is like the precious ointment upon the headwhich ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard,that went down to the skirts of his garments. Ointmentand perfume rejoice the heart; so doth the sweetness ofa man’s friend by hearty counsel. ff he reprove me itphAll be an excellent oil. If thy brother be waxen oldINITIATION. 319and poor and fallen into decay thou shalt relieve him.dive of thy bread to feed the hungry and of thy wine tocheer the sorrowful, and forget not to pour the oil ofconsolation into the wounds which sickness and afflictionmay have rent in the bosom of thy fellow traveler.By kindness and commiseration fail not to pour thebalm of oil and wine into the bleeding heart.Our labors of duty and love will soon be over.As the lightning writes its fiery path upon the darkcloud and disappears, so the race of men walking amidthe surrounding shades glitter for a moment through thegloom and vanish frcni our sight forever.Thrice Puissant— (Now presents him with first thebread and then the wine.) Eat with me of this breadand drink of this wine out of the same cup with me thatwe may learn- thereby to succor each other in time ofneed by a mutual love and participation of what wepossess. (Both eat and drink.)Thrice Puissant—(Presents to him a gold ring, saying:)“Receive this ring and let it be remembered byyou as a symbol of the alliance you have now contractedwith virtue and the virtuous.” You are never, my dearbrother, to part with it while you live, nor to bequeathit at your death except to your wife, your eldest son oryour nearest friend.Candidate—I promise.(All now partake of bread and wine awl makE ~libation according to ancient custom, a~ practiced at theSacrifices.)(Thrice Puissant now returns to the thronehiram, King of Tyre—Thrice Pui~sant 6rand Master,shall we now communicate the true Pronunciationof the ineffable name to the candidate?

320 GRAND ELECT~ PERFECT AND SUBUME MASON. INITIATION. 331Thrice Puissant—Brother Hiram, to the best of yourability give the mystic name which the High Priests ofthe Israelites knew how to utter. (All form a circleround the Altar.)!hrjo. Pulaaant—Lol ~4atnre guards our vestal fire.which never, never can espire.with hearts that never change or falter,we here aurrouud our common Altar.Religion builds it, and a beamFrom Heavens own Throne, no fitful gleam,wraps it in fiamea. While band in hand.we round this Disaing Alter atand.tat us. as Elect Masons truevirtues eternul league renew:While celebrating friendship’s feastMay love he onr ever welcome guest,And now in adoration bowTo him to bears and seals each vow.Glory to God who reigns aboveAnd to our fellow creatures love.(All kneel and communicate the word “Jod.‘.He.~.Vau. .He. ~.“ around the Altar; Hiram King of Tyre,the Thrice Puissant and candidate together. AU rise.)Thrice Puissant-Have a care, this pronunciation isprobably erroneous, and it is vain for man to supposethat God has a proper name, or if he has one that itcould be uttered by the human voice. Thp variouswords by which he has been addiessed in differentagesand countries are all equally holy and true, if he whospeaks them has a pure conception of the Divine Attributesand perfect rove toward the Divine Entiety.His name is unutterable; no lips can speak it, no earcan hear it, but it resounds in the heart of him wholoves and adores. We greet you, my brother, as aKnight of the Sacred Vault.Thrice Puissant—Brother Grand Master of Ceremonies,you will now communicate to the candidate theSigns, Token and Words.sign or ObligationI. U. P. and 5. Masse.SIGNOF OBLIGATION.1’lace the right hand on the left side ofthe abdomen and draw it quickly andhorizontally across the body to the rightside.FIRST TOKEN.Join the right hands, reversetheni thrice. The firstbrother says, “Berith” thesecond says, “Keder,” thefirst then saya,”Shelentoth.’~WORDS.First Pass II’ord—Shihboleth.First Covered Word—Jabuluin.

822 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.URAND ELECT, PREFECT AND SUBLIME MASON. 323SIGN OP FIRE.Rai~e the right hand open to the leftcheek the palms outward, at the same t4megrasping the elbow with the left hand.SECONDTOKEM.Give the Master’s Grip,one says, can you go further?WORD.Second Covered Word—Makobirn, Interpreted,”That’she I He is dead.”Second Pass Word—El-Hhanan.Sign of Admiratioe.SIG& OF ADMIRATION.Raise both hands opened to heaven,the head inclined, the eyes directed upwards,afterward place the first two£ngers of the right hand on the lips.Second Token.ANSWER.The other slips his hand along theother’s forearm up to the elbow.Each then places his left hand onthe other’s right shoulder and balancethrice, the legs crossed fromthe right.THIRD TOKEN.Seize each other’s right hand, grasp eachother’s right shoulder with the left handand then pass left hands behind eachother’s back as if to bring one anoihercloser.WORD.Third Token.Third Covered Word—.Adonai.Third Pass Word—Bea Makeb, Bamearah, interpre.ted, “Thank God we have found.”

324 GRASP ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASOA.SACRED WORD :—Jehovah.GRAND WORD :—Jod. ‘.He. ~.Van.‘.He.. The grand ineffableand real name of the Almighty Grand Architectof the Universe, and never to be pronounced.BATTERY :—Twenty-four strokes by three, five, sevenand nine; 000 00~00 0000000 000000000.MARCH :—Eight hurried steps and then one slower,altogether nine.AGE :—Seien times seven years.HOURS OF WORK :—From high twelve till midnight.Thrice Puissant—My dear brother, I now salute youas a Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason, and withgreat pleasure decorate you with the symbols of thegrade.COLLAR:—This coHar of flame color is emblematic ofardent zeal, affection and charity.CROWN :—The crown on your jewel is a symbol of theroyal origin of the grade.COMPASS :—The compass extended to ninety degreesdenotes the extensive knowledge of the Grand Elect.SUN :—In the centre, that our actjons should be asopen as the full blaze of the noonday sun and our charityas diffusive as its beams.JEWEL :—This jewel suspended on your breast shouldremind you to be attentive to your duties and admonishesyou ever to walk so a~ to adorn your station.GIRDLE :—I also invest you with the girdle of a GrandElect, Perfect and Sublime MasonThe Girdle’4’ was used of old to strengthen the bodyand to enable man to continue and persist in his labors.It is therefore an emblem of activity, promptness andNote 145.—”Girdle. In ancient aymboiogy the girdle warn always consideredas typical of chastity and purity, in the Brahmanicsl initiations.the raudidate was prr’seoted with the Zennar, or sacred cord, as a partof the ancred garments. and Gibh~ nays that ‘at the age of pubertythe faithful Persian wns investe4 yith a mysterious girdle; fifteen~enuiiections were required afire he 3ut on the sacred girdie.~ The oidTempiara assumed the obilyntions of poverty, obedience and chsatity4and~ girdle was given them, at their initiation. as n symbol of ‘theinst of the three vows As a symbol of purity, the girdle is slill usedin many chivalriC initiations, and may be prnperiy considered as theaririogue of the Mssonc at,ron.~—M*Oh5F’5 Enoyalopandia of mesasscm?.Article Girdle.INITIATION. 325,,erseverance.The Girdle was used to bind on the garments andprevent them from flying open and discovering ournakedness and is an emblem of charity, to the observanceof which virtue you have been laid under new obligations.The Girdle was also used for ornament and, beauty.Let it be your endeavor to be adorned with and rich inthose virtues which its various colors represent.These are arranged by three, five, seven and nine.The three are blue, red and yellow, by a due mixtureof which the primitive colors” are formed.The five consists of these three and a green aicd purple.The seven of the five with white and black.And the nine of these seven and stone and flamecolors.The Blue”5 is an emblem of friendship and fidelity.The Red”’ of zeal.The Yellow’” which resembles gold, of wisdom, whichNets IU.—’Golus Symbolism of. wemyss I. his Claris Symbelica,says ~Coior,which is outwardly seen on the habit of the body. Is nym.boliralir used to denote the true state of the person or subject to whichit is a”piied. according to its nature. This definition may appropriatelybe borrowed on the present occasion, and applied to the system of Masonic colors. The color of a vestment or of a decoration is never arbitrarilyadopted in Frcemasonry. Every color is selected with s view to itspower in the symbolic alpbabet. and it teaches the initiate some instruc~tive moral lesson., or refers to some important historloal fact in thesystem,” ‘—Mackeys Esayelepeedia of Fresmassery, hatiels OsIm. lym.beilsa of.Note 147.“DIne. This ii emphatically the color of Masonry. It is theappropriate tincture of the Ancient Crsft degrees. It is to the Masona symbol of universal friendship and begevolence. because. as it is thecolor of the vault of heavea, which emhraces and covers the wholeglobe, we sre thus reminded that in the breast of every brother thesevirtues should be eqoally as extensive. ‘—Mackeys Zacyotopasdia ciFreemasonry, hillel. Dine.late 14*,—”wbere red is not need historteally, and adopted as amemento of certain tragicel circumstances in the history of Masonry1it is alwsys. under some modification, a symbol of seal sod fervency.~—Mackeys EncyclopaedIa of Freemasonry. Article Red.Nats 149,—’Ysllow. Of all the the colors, yellow seems to be theleast important and the least general in Masonic symbolism, In otherinstitutions it would bays the same insignificance, were it not that ithas been adopted as the representative of the sun, and of the soblemetal gold. Ihus, in colored hiasonry, the small dots, by which thegold in. an engraved coat of arms is designated, are replaced by the yel.low color. La colombiere. a wench hersidic writer, u,s. (Science Esro.ique. p 30.) in remarking on the connection between gold end yellowthat as yellow, which is derived from the sun is the moat exaltsu&of colors, so gold is the moat noble of metsia.~ —ibokeys Zasyolopesiloof Fresmasemny, Article Fellow.

326 OI~AND ELECT, PERFEcT AND SUBLIME MASOlt.said the wisest of Kings, is better than fine gold.The Green”’ is an emblem of hope.,The Purple”’ of dignity and majesty of conduct.Purple is a Tyrian color and reminds us of the allianceinto which you have now entered.The White’’ is an emblem of innocence.The Black”’ of modesty and seriousness of demeanor.The next color is that of stone, as stone is distinguishedfor firmness and durability; so this color teachesus constancy and decision’ of character.The flame color reminds us to cultivate ardent affectionand charity. The various colors united in this girdleare expressive of that unity and the olive interwovenof that pesec whIch should link us together.And as these colors shine in your girdle, so let thevirtues they represent shine in your heart and life.Your apron I now invest you with is white, lined andbordered with crimson; these colors symbolized havealready been explained to you.Note lao,— This idea ot the unchangipg immortality ot that which isdivine and trite, was always connected by the ancients with tbe colorof green. Among the Egyptians, the god Phtha, the active spirit, thecreator and regenerator of the world, the ~goddesss Pascbt. the divigeproserver, :tnd Thoth, the instructor ~of uteri in ihc sacred doctrines oftruth vere alt painted Ic the hieroglyphic s’stem with green flesh.”—Mackeys Enuyulopaedia of Freemasonry Article Green.Note 151.—Among the gentile nationa ot antiquity purple was cou~sidered rather as a color of dignity than of veneration. Bud was deemedan emblem of exalted office. Hence Homer mentions it as peculiarlyappropriated to royalty, and virgil speaks of purpura regum. or ‘the pur.plc of kings.’ Putty says it was the color of the vestments worn bythe csrly kings of Rome~ and it has ever since, even to the presenttime, bee,, cotisidered as the becoming insignia of regal or supremeauthority ‘‘—Mackey’s Enoyclopsadia of treemasonry, Article Purple,Note l58.—’White, White is one of the most ancient sa welt asmost extensively diffused of the symbolic colors, It is to he found insil the aucient mysteries, where it conatititted, as it does in Masonry.the investiture of the candidste. It always, however, and everywbefehas borne the same sianifleation as the symbol of purity and innocence.”—Mackeys Encyci,paedia of Freemasonry, Article White.Note IN—Black. Black, in the titisonic rittini, is cnnstnnt!y ikesymbol of grief, This is perfectly consist’nt with its use i~ the worldwhere black has from remote antiqttity been adopted as the gttrmeniot mourning, ‘—Machey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry. Article 31Mb.IXITIATION.Thus, my brother, by your uleritoriotifi ~nd blamelessconduct, constancy and integrity you have attainedthe tith,’ of Grand Elect, Perfect ~nd Sublime Mason,which is the summit of Ancient Craft Masonry, andupon your arrival to which I sincerely congratulate you.I most earnestly rccolIlillend to you the strictest careand circumspection in your walk through life that thesublime mysteries of this degree be not profaned, andas to what remains of completing ~‘ourknowledge in theAncient 5’~tate of Mnconrv I will cttll sour attention toour Grand Orator, who will now (leliver the discourse oftllis degree.DISCIM’ll’.” BY OIINND os troa.My dear brother, “lieu the Tenipl&’ of solomon wasfini-hued tim-c nw~on- ~ihtowele emplo~’ed In the con-~trnction of that ~tatel~’td dice acquired inllnortal honor—.‘i’Ia’ir order bet tulle lttOi’e uniformh~’ v~tablIshed andre’.rulated than it had been before. Their thelicacy inatlinitting hew lnelltbt’r— ilito tlteil’ ordet’ brought it to ahigh degree of re~peet, as tlte merit of each candidatewas tIle only t’iiIg tltc~’ paid attention to, WitlI theseprinciples instilled ilIto tlwir minds many of the GrandElect, Perfect and Sublime Masons being able workmenleft Jerusalem after the dedication of the temple anddispersed themseli’e~ among the hteighboling kingdoms,instructing all wIlo applied and ~t’erefound worthy ofreceiving the Sublime Mysteries of thIe Royal Art.Notwitllstanding these precautions the order in thethree first degrees Inilltiphied over the face of the earth,so that their numbers were without i,toasurc, And bytheir indiscriminate nrlitiis~ion tlteir seoret’~ were disclosed,their knowledge became common ;illd the degrees

828 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SURLIME MASONS. INITIATION. 329fell into great disrepute. The Grand Elect and rerfectMasons were so cautious in concealing the mysteries ofthe higher degrees of masonry that they determined toinitiate only as far as the third degree.You are aware, m~y brother, that many unworthy masonsof the lower degrees have by their imprudencesuffered their signs and tokens to be discovered bycowans. These occurrences chagrined the Perfect Masons,who were but few in number, and they endeavoredto stop the evil, but all their exertions were fruitless.The Craft degenerated, as receptions were obtainedtoo easily.The intervals of the degrees were broken into toohastily, and mere amusement was Xreferred to usefulstrdction. Innov2tions increase and new doctrineswere introduced which destroyed all the old and usefulregulations of the order.These differences occasioned disputes, quarrels, heartburnings, jealousies and dissensions, which in the endproduced the discovery of the mysteries of the first threedegrees to the vulgar and profane.How happy it is, my brother, that those unguardedbrethren were ignorant of the Sublime Mysteries of theGrand Elect,. Perfect and Sublime Masons. Let us, mybrother, endeavor to prev~ent these degrees from sharingthe same unhappy fate by preserving them in theirAncient Perfection as we have traveled to obtain theknowledge of the Ancient Elect, and to imitate them intheir devotions, whose principal study was the contemplationof the adorable attributes of the Grand Architectof the Universe.Solomon expressly chose this word for the AncientMasters to fill the princival workmen with venerationfor the great and eternal God, to whom the temple wasdedicated and also to incite them to perform theirs~veral duties cheerfully while employed in erecting atemple to his Holy name.This wise King knew the force of hismost Holy name;.he also knew that he had appeared to Moses in theBurning Bush and had declared to him his true name,and that he was the only Patriarch who knew it; alsothat he would be invoked by no other name- in the temple.My brother, the real and ineffable name of the GrandArchitect of the Universe as given by God to Moses wasthe Master’s Word. When our Grand Master HiramAbiff was killed, by his courage and magnanimity itsdiscovery was prevented, which frustrated the hopes ofhismurderers. It was then determined never to entrusta secret of so much importance to any person; andanother word was used in its stead until the discoveryof the brilliant Delta by the Knights of the Royal Archin the ruins of Enoch, on which was cngraved theIneffable name which constihites the Perfection of Masonry.Solomon, King of Israel, and Hiran~, King of Tyre,communicated the interpretation of the characters onthe brilliant Delta to none but the Grand Elect, Perfectand Sublime Masons, under whose immediate protectionthey placed it in the Sacred Vault under the SanctumSanctorum of the temple, by which cowans have neverbeen able to discover the place where the Sgcred namewas deposited, as a strict gwird was kept to prevent theadmission ‘of any but the Grand Elect, Perfect and SublimeMasons.The temple was begun in the fourth yearof the reignof Solomon, the third after the death of David, fourhundred and eighty years after the passage of the RedSea, and on the second day of the second month, called

330 ~1RAND ELECT, PERFECT AND ~T’BLIME MASON. TNTTTATTO&. 331Jyar, in the year of the world 2992, and was completedin a little more than seven years.After a solemn invocation of the blessings of theEternal God at tfie dedication of the house erected tohis name, Solomonc held a feast with all the children ofIsrael for fourteen days, during which period lie gaveaudience to all the workmen.The first ~ss the Grand Elect, Perfect and SublimeMasons who were introduced mb the Sacred Vault, andat the same time the Grand Master Architects were inthe King’s apartment.lie admitted to the degree of Perfection some of themost virtuous of the brethren and made them mostsolemnly promise tc. live together in peace, unity andconcord, and to exercise the works of charity and benevolencein imitation of their deceased chief, and tomake justice and equity the babis of their actions;~toobserve a profound silence of thii~ degree and not to revealit to any person but thosc who are entitled to receiveit and had given proof of thicir zeal, fervor andconstancy in support pf the craft; to assist each otherand to relieve their mutual wants; to inflict vengeanceon traitors and to punish perfidy and injustice.The King then blessed them in the name of the LordGod of Israel and showed them the Ark of Allianceopened, from whence the Eternal Jehovah, the GrandArchitect of the Universe, delivered his oracles.He ordered many sacrifices and admitted them to alibation, embraced them and gave each of them a goldring as a proof of the alliance which they had formedwith virtue and the virtu6us and made them severalpresents with permission either to remain in Jerusalemor to travel into foreign countries.0n the second day he admitted the Masters and.Knighta Elected into the middle chamber and theremade them promise in the most sacred manner never todepart from the principles of virtue. To bear in theirrecollection the conduct of their respectable and muchlamented chief as a model, to live in unity with eachother in their wants and necessities and to faithfullyguard the mysteries of the order and never communicatethem to any but those who had merit sufficient to deservethem.He then gave them the degree of Grand Master Archi.tect and decorated them with the honors thereof, andalso bestowed on them some other favors and permittedthem also either to remain in Jerusalem or retire as theythought proper.On the third day lie gave audience to the FellowCrafts in the Eastern part of the temple and rewardedthose who appeared to him to be virtuous with the degreeof Master.On the Entered Apprentices he conferred the degreeof Fellow Craft and introduced them into the Porch ofthe temple; he then made them promise never to forsakethose principles of virtue, of which their Ancient Chiefwas a memorable example; to live united and mutuallyto assist each other in carefully preserving the Signs,Tokens and Words, and never to communicate them toany but those whose unexceptionaWe characters entitlethem to that favor. He then made them several presentsand permitted them to retire out of the city if theypleased and to enable those to prosecute their journeywith ease and satisfaction, and as farther reward fortheir good conduct lie gave orders to his Intendants todefray their expenses. Thus far this wise and virtuous

332 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON. INITIATION. 333King of Israel behaved worthy of himself and gaineduniversal favor; but in process of time, when he had advancedin years, his understanding became impaired andhe grew deaf to the voice of the Lord and was strangelyirregular in his conduct.Proud of having erected an edifice to his maker andmuch intoxicated with his great power, he plunged intoall manner of licentiousness and debauchery and profanedthe temple by offering incense to the Idol Molochinstead of offering it to the living God.The Grand Elect and Perfect Masons saw this andwere sorely grieved and fearful that his Apostasy’”would end in some dreadful consequence and perhapsbring upon them their enemies~ whom Solomon vainlyand wantonly defied. The people, copying the folhesand vices of their King, became, proud and idolatrous,neglecting the worship of the True and living God forthat of idols.Those masons who had instructed their children in thepaths of virtue, agreeable to the principles of their order,endeavored by their council and example to detertheir fellow citizens from in~-piety~and licentiousness butwithout success. A gre~t majority of good masons leftJerusalem that they might not behold the dreadfulpunishment which awaited the idolatry of the people.Note 154.—”The Temple was completed in the year of the world5000. Thus far the who King of Israel had behaved worthy of him.seif. and gsiue& unlverssj admiration - hut In process of time, whenhe had advanced in years, his understanding became impaired; be grewdeaf to Lie voice of the Lord and was strangely irregular In his conduct.Proud of having erected an edifice to his Maker, and Intoxicatedwith hia great power. he plunged into all manner of iiceuiiousneas anddebanchery. and profaned the Temple. by offering to the idol Moioch thatincense which should have been offered only to the living Qod.The Grand Elect and Perfect Masons saw this, and were sorelyguieved. afraid that his spostasy would end in some dreadfni consequences,and bring npon them those enemies whom Solomon had vaingloriouslyand wantonly defied. The people, copying the vices andfollies of their king, became proud and idolatrous, and a~leci~ theworship of the tine God for that of idrle.’~—Maeksys Enoyclopaedia ofVx..masanry, Article Perfection. Lodge of.As an adequate punishment for the licentiousness of thepeople, God permitted divers nation to make war onthem and to pillage their country. Ten of the tribesfell from the house of David and elected Jeroboantheir King, by the style of King of IsraeLRehoboam governed the tribes of Judah. In thismanner were the tribes of Israel divided and under twodistinct governments for 254 years, when the ten revoltedtribes, having become weak and degenerated byfollowing the wickedness and idolatry of the Kings whogoverned them, fell a prey to Shalmaneser, King ofAssyria, who in the reign of Hosea, King of Israel, besiegedthe city of Samaria, laid their country waste apdutterly extirpated their government; such was thewretched fate of a people who disdained subjection tothe laws of the house of David, and whose impietyended in their destruction.In the third month of the reign of Jehoiachin, Kingof Judah, Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, took thecity of Jerusalem and carried off the King captive andcut into pieces all the vessels of the temple. Zedekiahwas then made King of Judah and had reigned elevenyears.On the seventh day of the fifth month called Ab,Nebuzaradan, Captain of the’ Guards, entered Judahwith fire and sword, took and sacked the city of Jerusaleni,razed its walls and destroyed that superb model ofexcellence, the temple. The people were carried captivesto Babylon and the conquerors carried with them all thetreasures of the temple. This happened in the year ofthe world 3470, 470 years, 6 months and 10 days afterits dedication.The Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons whowere at Jerusalem at that time exerted themselves ‘withgreat bravery and fortitude in its defense, but withouteffect, for as soon as the temple had fallen into onegeneral heap of ruins they directed their whole attentioDto the preservation of the Sacred Vault from injury and

3~-l GRAND ~ PERFECT AND ~~flLIME MASON. INITIATION. 338the golden plate from being discovered.For that purpose a part3’ fought their way into theSacred Vault, where they found the golden plate on theagate stone uninjured. (They alno discovcred the bodyof (lalahiad. son of ~ophoris, a considerable man amongthe Perfect Mssons and chief of the Levitas.)Galahad was the guardian of the Sacred Vault andtook care of the burning lamp. I-us fortitude andmagnanimity was not excelled by Hiram Abiff, who 400years before lost his life rather than to reveal the Master’sWord. Gelaha preferred being buried under theruins of the temple rather than to discover to the barbari~.nsby his coming out of the place where the greatesttreasures were deposited. They then cried Bea-Makehand Bawcarah; that is to say, “Thank God, we havefound it.”This is the grand password and known by those whoare guardians of the sacred treasure.It is difficult to express the excessive joy which theyfelt on the disco~erv of the Sacred Word, and, beingfearful that the sacred characters should be found out,they defaced it and broke down the tables of gold, asthey found it impossible to carry away the agate triangularstone. They therefore overset and broke thepedestal on which the Saertii name had been deposited.They took from Galahad the robes of the enief of theLevites and retired, well satisfied with their success anddetermined that in future no trace of the Sacred nameshould be found but in the hearts cf good masons. Fromthis determination we derive the custom of spelling themost holy name of names, letter by letter, without givinga syllable. This word was used in the temple whenit was rebuilt under the order of Cyrus and is observedby the Grand Elected to this day.Once a year the High Priest, in the middle of a numberof brethren who had received the degree of Perfee.tion, formed themselves in a circle to spell the Sacredword and,at the same time the people without the templewere ordered to make a great noise lest they shouldbe overheard. By which means the habit of writing orpronouncing the great and awful name was lost, as theywere uncertain of the number of letters which composedit and of the real interpretation and sublime meaningor the great name of their God. It defines his essence,his existence, his unity, his goodness and his eternity inone word.The Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons whohad penetrated into the ruins of Enoch and who acquiredthe inestimable treasure left Judali and went intoother countries. Some went into Egypt and Assyria andothers crossed the Sea and went into Europe; many settledin England, Scotland and Ireland. They retainedtheir virtue and faith inviolable and afforded each otherthose fraternal acts of kindness which endear us to eachother and gave to the world such striking proofs ofwisdom, virtue and integrity that they became the admirationof the people among whom they lived. In consequenceof which innumerable applications were madeto them for initiations.The good brethren chose from among them such aswere found famed for the exercise of virtue and moralityand invited them to deplore the uncertainty of humanevents.They also laid before them the conduct of Solomonas a memorable example to shun vice and practice virtuein imitation of their beloved and much lamented

336 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUDLIME MASON. INITIATION. 337Master Hiram Abiff. They exhorted them to invokethe blessing of the adorable, I am, who was, and is, andwill be the eternal father of those who love him andobey his laws, many of them were initiated agreeableto their wishes.When the Princes of Europe united their forces toconquer the Holy Land and deliver Jerusalem fromthe hands of the barbarians who had it in possessiona number of the Grand Elect with other masons voluntarilyoffered their services in so holy an enterpriseupon condition of being allowed the privilege of choosingtheir own Chief, which was granted them. Theyhoisted their own standard and departed.In the tumult and disorder of war they still retainedand exercised the most virtuous principles, union andharmony reigned in their tents. They lived togetherwithout distinction of rank and acknowledged no generalbut in time of action. They gave mutual assistance toeach other and extended their charity to the indigentand distressed, even among their enemies.In action they were valiant and~enterprising and renicredsuch signal service to~ the confederate army thatthey received from them the highest honors.The Princes were surprised at the prodigies of valorwhich were performed by the masons, and when theylearned that their courage and zeal, their virtue, theirdisinterestedness and union were founded on the broadbasis of the mystic institution they solicited the honorof initiation.The rrinces promised a strict observance of all thelaws and regulations of the Craft and were initiateinto the masonic mysteries. They were instructed isour history and taught the mystery of universal remIigionu and benevolence which binds our members togetherin one band, in every clime and in every stationof life.The great political revolutions which have so frequentlychanged the form of Empires have never affectedour glorious profession. We possess all theprinciples and forms in their pristine purity.Let us, my brother, offer our prayers at the throne ofmercy that we may never be divided. Amen.LECTUBE GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASOH.Thrice Puissant—Brother Senior Grand Warden,what are you?Senior Grand Warden—Thrice Puissant, I am aGrand Elect, rerfect and Sublime Mason. There isnothing but what is revealed to me.Thrice Puissant-Where were you received?Senior Grand Warden—In a place where the raysof the Sun and Moon are not wanted.Thrice Puissant-Where is that place situated?Senior Grand Warden-Under the Sanctum Sanctolet.155.—”The tendency of all true Masonry is towards relillon.If it make any progress. its ~rogrem is to that holy end.its ancient landmarks, its su lime ceremonIes. its profound .ymholasnd allegoriea.—aIl inculcating religious doctrine. commsndlng reilglonsobservance, and teschlng religious truth. and who csn deny that it is’eminentlys religious instItutiOn?Hut, besides, Masonry is, in mU iii forms, thoroughly tinctured witha true devotional spirit, we oven and close our lodges wIth prayer; weinvoke the biessing of the Most High upon all our labors; we demandof our neophytes a profession of trusting belief in the existence and theanperintending care of God; and we teach them to how with humility andreverence at his awtul name, while his holy law is widely opened uponour altars. Freemasonry is thus identified with religion; and althougha man may be eminently relIgious without being a Mason. it is impussihiethat a Mason can be irue and trusty~ to his Order unless he is arespecter of religion and an observer of religious principle.But the relIgion of Masonry is not sectarian, It admits men of everycreed within its hospitable bosom, rejectIng none and approving none foehis peculIar faith. It is not Judaism. though there is nothing in itto offend 5 Jew; it is nut ChristianIty. but there is nothing In It repng•agut to the faIth of a Christian. its religion is that general one ofastare and primitive revelstion.—hsnded down to us from some ancientand patrIarchsi priesthood—in wbieh all men may agree and in whlcbno men can differ.”— Machey’s Eneylmlopinedi* of lreemaaofhl. jyticieReligion of Masonry.

338 (IRAXI) EI.ECT, PERFECT AND SrSLIXsiE MASON.rum of the Grand Architect of the Universe, in a lodgeand sacred place called the Sacred Vault.Thrice Puissant—Who introduced ~ou into thatplace?Senior Grand Wa,’den—Thic most wise and puissmtimtof all Kings.Thrice Puis.sant—Tn what way did you enter thatplace?Senior Grand Warden—Through a long narrow pimosagecolnposed of nine arches.Thrice Puissant-How ~vereyou introduced into thislIoly Vault?Senior Grand Warden—By three knocks.Thrice Puissan 1—To what do these three knocks .illude?Senior Grand Warden—To thie age of toy apprentIceshipand the number of Knights Elected who penetratedinto the bowels of the Earth and took from thence theprecious treasure of the Grand Fleet, Perfect and SublimeMasons.Thrice Puissant—What folhouetl these knocks?Senior Grand Warden—Five other knocks, whichdistinguished the age of the Fellow Craft and also thenumber which was completed by the arrival of Guibhim,Joabert and Stolkin with t~ie precious treasure whichDivine Providence had ordained to be deposited in theSacred Vault, where these three brethren found it;Solomon, King of Israel, and Hiram, King of Tyre,nlaking the nunmber.Thrice Puissant—What answer was made to thesefive knocks?Senior Grand Warden—Seven other knocks, whichalluded to three things: First, the Age of a Master.Second, that there were chosen seven Expert Brethrento replace our Grand Master Hiram Abiff. Third, thatSolomon was employed seven years In the constructionof the temple.Thrice Puissant—What answer was made to the sevenINITIATION. 339knocks?Senior Grand Warden—Nine loud knocks, whichmark the age of a Perfect Master, and which, whenrepresented by the numbers of the Grand Elect, Perfectand Sublihe Masons, make eighty-one.Thrice Puissant—What followed these nine knocks?Senior arand Warden—The door of the ninth vaultwas opened and I entered into the most Holy and sacredplace of all the earth, at the same time I pronouncedShibboleth,’ 5’ Shibboleth, Shibboleth, with an aspiration.1’hi’ice Puissant—What is the meaning of that word?Senior Grand llo,’den—It is the first password andsignifies plenty.Thrice Puissant—What dId you perceive on enteringthat holy place?Senior Grand Warden—The most brilliant light,which dazzled my eyes and struck me with amazement.Thrice Puissant—What was the brilliant light thatso affccttA you?Senior Grand Warden—It was the Ineffable and realname of the Almighty and Grand Architect of the Universe,engraven on a triangular plate of gold upon an~agate stone, which had been deposited there by one ofMote 156.—”Slgniiles an ear of corn and a stream or Sood of water.The name given to a test or criterion by which the ancient Jews soughtto distinguish true persons or things from false The term originatedthus After the battie gained by Jephtbsh over the Epbratmites, (Judgesill I the Gileadites. e(O,flanOE’d b3 the former, secured all t~3e passesof the river; and, on an F.phraimite attempting to cross, they asked himIf he was of Ephraim. If he saId no. they bade him pronounce theword Shibboleth which the Ephraimites from inability to give theaspirate. gave Kibboleth. By this means he was detected as an enemyand imniedtfltelv slain In modern times this word has been adoptedinto ~olItienl end ether organleations as a pass or watchword.Macny a Encyolopsedla anal DiotiOnalT of I’reembsony, hz’tlole Ihib.holeth.

340 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON. INITIATION. 341the ancient patriarchs and was found by the Knightsof the Royal Arch.Thrice Puissant—What do you call the Pedestal onwhich it was placed?Senior Grand Warden—The Pillar of Beauty.Thrice Puissant-In what manner did we receive thisbrilliant Delta?Senior Grand Wardeui—By the laborious search ofthe Ancient Knights of the Royal Arch, who discoveredthis inestimable treasure among the ruins of the templebuilt by the Patriarch Enoch.Thrice Puissant—Explain the name to melSenior Grand Warden—I cainnot.Thrice Puissant—How will you make me sensiblethat you know it?Senior Grand Warden—Makobin and Machbenah’were substituted in the place of it.5’Thrice Puissant—What is the meaning of tltt-ewords?Senior Grand Warden—Understanding, Knowledgeand Wisdom.Thrice Puissant—To whom d~id God first communicatethis Word?Senior Grand Warden-To Enoch before the flood,by whose care it was preserved and transmitted to us,and also to Moses, when the Almighty showed hilnselfto him on Mount Sinai.Thrice Puissant—What became of the word afterwards?Senior Grand Warden—It was effaced, and the Gold.en Plate on which it was engraved was melted downNote 1I7.—”Macbenac means in O.lic tbe blesseS son.’ This wordthe Stuart Masons applied to their idol, the Pretender, the son of Charim1.”— Mackay’s EnayoiopsediA of lreeinssoazy, Atieie Mae.by the pious and zealous masons, after the destructionof the temple by Nebuzaradan, being fearful that theDivine Delta should fall into the hands of the impious,the sacred name would be profaned.Thrice Puissant-What have you perceived in thedegree of Illustrious Knight?Senior Grand Warden-Twelve great lights.Thrice Puissant-What do they allude to?Senior Grand Warden—Twelve masters who wereelected by Solomon to carry on the works of the templeafter the death of Hiram Abiff and who commandedthe twelve tribes of Israel.Thrice Puissant—What were the names of the twelvemasters?Senior Grand Warden—Joabert, Stolkin, Terry, Morphey,Alycuber, Dorson, Herim, Berthemar, Tito, Zerbal,Benachard and Tabor, the first nine were those whowere elected to search forthe traitor Jubelum (Akirop),one of the assassins of Hiram Abiff.Thrice Puissant-Over what tribes had they the inspection?Senior Grand Warden—Joabert overJudah.Stolkin over the tribe ofTerry over the tribe ofMorphey over the tribe ofAlycuber over the tribe ofDorson over the tribe ofHerim over the tribe ofBerthemar over the tribe ofTito over the tribe ofZerbal over the tribe ofBenachard over the tribe ofTabor over thd tribe ofthetribe ofBenjaminSimeon,Ephraim,Manasseh,Zebulun,Dan,Asher,Naphtahi,Reuben,Issach 5?,Gad.

342 ORA~D ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASOU. INITIATION. 848These masters superintended the working of thetribes, paid them their wages, and rendered daily anaccount of their proceedings to Solomon.Thrice Puissant—Do the lights allude to anythingelse?Senior Grand Warden—To the twelve Princes ofSolomon, and their governments, who furnished sustenancefor the workmen and the King’s household.Thrice Puissant—What are their names and thecountries over which they presided?Senior Grand Warden—Hur, the son of Hur, IntendantGeneral in Mount Ephraim.Aminadab; son of Aminadab, in the region of Dor,he was married to Yaptha, Solomon’s daughter.H..,ed, the son of Hosed, in Amboth and all Hoper,etc.Baana, son of Basna, in Taawich Megiddo, etc.Deter, son of Dett=r,in Mahaz-Bethshemeshi, etc.Geber, son of Geber, in Ralnoth Gilead, etc.Ahinadab, son of Jctdo, in Mahanaim, etc.Ahimaaz, in Napittali, married Basmoth, Solomon’sdaughter.Baana, son of Hushica, in Asheraloth, etc.Jehoshaphat, son of Pernah, in Issachar, etc.Shimei, son of Elah, in Benjamin, etc.Gebor, son or Un, in the country of Gilead, etc.Thrice Puissant—Why do the Secret Masters wear theivory key?Senior Grand 1Vard~’n—To remind them that theGrand Elect, Perfect slid Sublime Masons are the onlydepositaries of Ancient Masonry. The secrets of whichmust be carefully locked up from the profane.Thrice Puissant—What is The meaning of the tombat.the east door of the temple?Senior Grand Ward,~n—It is the tomb wherein wasplaced the body of our much lamented and respectablevaster Hiram Abiff, which Solomon caused to be erectedthere as a testimony of the high esteem the brethrenhad for that Great Architect.Thrice Puissant—What is the meaning of the Balanco?Senior Grand Warden—It teaches us tc be just andequitable.Thrice Puissant-What signifies the Sword whichthe Grand Master of Ce~emonies held naked in his handat your entrance?Senior Grand Warden—It is employed to defend ourillustrious Grand Master and to punish those who shalldepart from virtue, and shall be so perfidious as to revealthe secrets committed to their care, Solomon gavethose who were deserving, the name of favorite, andconstituted them Sublime Knights, decorated them witha large black ribbon, on which wis painted a flamingheart opposite their breast. He desired them not totravel without this mark of distinction, and instead ofthe poniard gave them a sword of justice and said: “Asyou have been the conductors of the work of the templeyou are now to defend it with the sword.”Thrice Puissant—What is the meaning of the inflamedheart?Senior Grand Warden—The ardent charity we shouldhave for each other.Thrice Puissant—What is your word in quality ofKnight Elected?Senior Grand Warden—Beguel-Kol, and signifies byhim or through him every thing was discovered, thereare three pass-words necessary to be known, first Nekamwhich signifies vengeance, second Stolkin, the name ofhim who found the body of Hiram Abiff under the sprigof Acacia, third Joabert, who cut offthe head of Abiram,(Akirop) and brought it to Solomon in compauy with

844 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.his eight companions.Thrice Puissant—What is the meaning of the eightlights together and one by itself?Senior Grand Warden-The nine elected who wentin search of Jubulum, (Akirop.)Thrice Puissant-Have you received any distinctionsince you have been made a Knight Elected?Senior Grand Warden-Solomon being willing to rewardthe trouble of the Elected, advanced them to thedegree of Sublime Knights and joined to their chapterthree zealous brethren to make 4heir number twelve. Heshowed them the riches of the temple and gave to eacha golden key that they might be distinguished from therest of the brethren, and gave them the name of Emethor (Amar-Jah,) a word which signifies truth, or a trueman on all occasions, he also gave them command of thetwelve tribes of Israel.Thrice Puissant—Have you penetrated any farther?Senior Grand Warden—Solomon soon after initiatedme into the degree of Grand Master Architect, to recompenseme for my zeal, fervor and constancy, and inthe end to lead me to the celestial throne.Thrice Puissant—What was the name of the strangerwho acquainted Solomon with the place where the traitorJubelum, (Akirop) had secreted himself?Senior Grand Warden—His name was Perignan”’ heNote SIS.—Peitamn. whe,, the Rio degrees were arat inyeoted.the legend referred ~o an unknown perioD, a tiller of the soil, to whomKing Solomon warn indebted for the information which led to the diarosenof the craftamen who had committed the crime recorded in thethird degree. Thu unknown person, at Orat designated aa •l’Inconnu.afterwarda recelsed the name of Perignan. and a degree between theale .f nine and the eli ef iftean waa inatituted. which was called theRio of Perignan.’ and, which became the auth degree of the AdornhiramiteRite. I am ntterli at a bee ca to the derisation or radicalUe*niog of the word. hut am inclined to the tbeor~ which glsca tothis. as well aa to man7 other worda in the high degrees, a referenceto the adherenta. or to the enemiea. of the eniled honac of Stnart. fntwboee sake ceseral of theaedefreea were eatabliahed. ‘—Kanhe~’a Zuap’.elegmadla of lreemaaon,7, lenignanINITIATION. 345was a squarer and polisher of marble in the quarry ofGibelum, near Joppa, not far from the sprig of Acacia,when the body of Hiram Abiff was found, he was notenrolled among the workmen of the temple, but for thispiece of essential service Solomon rewarded him andenrolled him among the workmen and changed his nameto Guiblim because he continued to walk therein.Thrice Puissant—What signifies the three lights placedat the door of the Elected Knights?Senior Grand Warden—The three Fellow Crafts whoassassinated our respectable Master Hiram Abiff.Thrice Puissant—What was their origin and whatwere their names?Senior Grand Warden—They were from the tribe ofDan, and sons of the same parent, they were called firstJubelum, (Akirop) and by some Aben, (Akirop,) thesecond was Jubelo, (Gravelot) and the youngest Jubela,(Guibs.)Thrice Puissant—What became of the two youngerbrothers of Akirop?Senior Grand Warden—They fled to the country ofCheth.Thrice Puissant-How came they to be discovered inthat country?Senior Grand Warden—By the assiduity of BengabeeSolomon’s Intendant in the country of Cheth.Thrice Puissant—What method did Solomon take tohave them arrested?Senior Grand Warden—He demanded them of MWachaKing of Cheth, to whom he wrote on that occasion.Thrice Puissant—Who was the bearer of Solomon’sletter to King Maseha?Senior Grand Warden—Zerbal, Captain of the King’s

346 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON. INITIATION. 347guards.Thrice Puissant-Did the King of Cheth hesitate todeliver them up?Senior Grand Warden—No, he gave a guard to escortthe messengers an~ search with them.Thrice Puissant—Where were they found?Senior Grand Warden-]n a quarry called Bendaca.Thrice Puissant—Had not Solomon an intendant ofthat name?Senior Grand Warden—He had, one who was marriedto one of his daughters.Thrice Puissant—How came they to discover the twoassassins?Senior Grand Warden-By the intelligence of ashepherd who showed them the place of their retreat.Thrice Puissant—Who were the persons who sawthem first?Senior Grand Warden—Zerbal and Elignam, afterfive day’s search.Thrice Puissant—In what manner were they carriedup to Jerusalem?Senior Grand Warden—In chains, with their handsfastened behind their backs.Thrice Puissant—What was the form of the chains?Senior Grand Warden—A square, a rule and a mallet,on which was engraved the kind of punishment theywere to suffer at Jerusalem.Thrice Puissant—On what day did they arrive atJerusalem?Senior Grand Warden—On the fifteenth day of themonth Nissan, anna 3775; which answers to the monthof April.Thrice Puissant—How long was it before the assassinswere executed?Senior Grand Warden—One month.Thrice Puissant—How many masters did Solomonsend to search for them?Senior Grand Warden—There were fifteen, of whichiinmber 1 was one.Thrice Puissant—Were there no other persons?Senior Grand Warden—There were troops whichwere sent as an escort.Thrice Puissant—What was done with the two assassinswhen they arrived at Jerusalem?Senior Grand Warden—They were carried beforeSolomon to whom they confessed their guilt, afterwhich they were confined one day and one night in adungeon in the tower of Achizar, after which they wereled to execution.Thrice Puissant—What kind of punishment did theyreceive?Senior Grand Warden—At the hour of ten in themorning they were tied, naked, to two stakes, their armsand legs extended, their bodies were then opened fromtheir necks to the middle and in that condition theywere exposed to the heat of the sun for eight hours duringwhich time the flies and other insects feasted ontheir blood and entrails. At length their cries were solamentable that it drew tears from the executioner, whoin commiseration of their suffering severed their headsfrom their bodies, which were given to the wild beastsfor food and their heads were placed on the South andWest pinnacles of the temple. The head of Akiropwho was killed sometime before was placed on the Eastpinnacle, as a memento to the people to avoid suchhorrible crimes.Thrice Puissant—What are the words of the Electedof Fifteen?Senior Grand Warden—Zerbal and Elignam; the firstis the name of the Captain of lhe Guards who apprehendedthe assassins in the quarry, and the last God’s

348 GRANI) ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON. INITIATION. 349people~Thrice Puissant-What hour was it when the tworuffians expired?Senior Grand Warden—At six in the evening vengeancewas completed.Thrice Puissant—What is the meaning of the lettersB. ~.N.~ which you see in the triangle of the IntimateSecretary?Senior Grand Warden—The alliance of Moses andAaron, the same of Solomon with Hiram King of Tyre;they also signify alliance, promise and perfection.Thrice Puissant—What is the word of the GrandMaster Architect?Senior Grand Warden—Rab-Banain, (master builder.)Thrice Puissant-In what manner were you afterwardsrewarded?Senior Grand Warden—Divine providence was graciouslypleased to direct my researches into the bowehof the earth, wherein I discovered the brilliant Delta onwhich was engraved the sacred name of the Almighty.As a reward for my zeal Solomgn gave me the degreeof guardian of the narrowapassage which leads to theSacred Vault.Thrice Puissant-What quality did you receive onthat occasion?Senior Grand Warden—That of Knight of the RoyalArch.Thrice Puissant—By whom were you received?Senior Grand Warden—By Solomon King of Israeland Hiram-King of Tyre. As a reward for my laborthey also gave the same rank to my two companionsJoabert and Stolkin.Thrice Puissant-What was your name then?- Senior Grand Warden-Guibelum.Thrice Puissant—What is the sign of the Knight ofthe Iloyal Arch?Senior Grand Warden—That of Admiration.Thrice Puissant—What is the Token and Word?Senior Grand Warden-Here it is, (he gives it), theword is Jabulum.Thrice Puissant—Are you a Grand Elect, Perfcct andSublime Mason?Senior Grand Warden—I have penetrated into themost sacred place of all the earth.Thrice Puissant—What is the name of that place?Senior Grand lVarden—It was first called the SecretVault, but after the Divine Delta was placed therein itwas called the Sacred Vault.Thrice Puissant—Where do the Grand Elect, Perfect~ndSublime Masons Work?Senior Grand Warden—Tn a holy place under ground.Tiwice Puissant—Where is that place situated?Senior Grand Warden—Under the Sanctum Sanetorumof the temple of Jerusalem.Thrice Puissant—What is the work of the Perfectand Sublime Mason?Senior Grand Warden—Respectfully to preserve inour hearts the sacred mysteries of masonry. To sanctifythose who have been initiated. To practice the purestmorality, and to aid and assist, to succor and defendour worthy brethren.Thrice Puissant—Where do the Perfect and SublimeMasons travel?Senior Grand Warden—Through all the Equators ofthe Globe to spread the knowledge pf their divinemysteries.Thrice Puissant—What does the Sacred Vault contam?Senior Grand Warden—The precious treasure of theGrand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons.Thrice Puissant—What is that precious treasure?

350 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.Senior Grand Warden—The Divine Delta on whichis engraved the sacred name of the Almighty God.Thrice Puissant—Where is that precious treasuredeposited?Senior Grand Warden—On a pedestal which is calledthe Pillar of Beauty.Thrice Puissant—What is your name?Senior Grand Wdrden—Jabulurn or Guibelum.Thrice Puissant—What does that name signify?Senior Grand Warden—Elected friend, favorite andzealous brother.Thrice Puissant—How many figurative signs havethe Grand Elect. Perfect and Sublime Masons?Senior Grand Warden—Nine, but three are mostnecessary to be known.Thrice Puissant—Give me thc principal ones?Senior Grand Warden—The first is cutting your bellyacross, in token of your obligation. The second is relativeto the burning bush, and the third is silence, byputting the first two fingersof the right handonthelips.Thrice Puissant—Go on my brother and givo me thesix others.,S~’njor Grand Warden—The fourth is Admiration, (seepage 323.) The fifth:interlace] all y~our fingers,hands raised overthe head, palms outward. (this sign serveto call a brother.) thesixth Admiration, (seepage 323.) Answer,look over your ehouldersalternately. Theseventh, clap yourhands on your thighs.Eighth alan.INITIATION.The eighth: put your hands, shut,to your mouth, as if to pull outyour tongue, then place it on yourheart. The ninth, raise your handas if ~u had a poniard in it tostrike a brother’s forehead, toshow that vengeance is eomp,leted.Thrice Puissant—What are theTokens?Senior Grand Warden—Theprincipal ones are three in351number: first, that of Intinia t e Secretary, B. .N. ..5.~.which signifies promises of acomplete alliance (see p. 3’18)The second, Circumspection:advance the hands reciprocallyfirst to the master token, thento the wrist, then to the elbow,and the ~vord is Gabaon.’Tbe third is Defiance, Resistanceand Remembrance: advancereciprocally the handsas in the fourth degree, draw-Token of CircumspectiuiiNote ib9.—’Gabaon. A signiSant word in the high degrees Oliveransa. (Landm., I. 335.) In philosophical Masonry, heaven, or. morecorrectly speaking. the third heaven. is denominated Mount Gahaco.which is feigned to he aecesaible only hy the seven degrees that rem.muses the binding staircase These are the degrees terminating in theRoyal Arch.’ Gabeon is (leSned to signify a high lace. • it is the~epiuagint nod viilgate form of Gshaon, which was Ii~e city in whichthe tehernecle was stationed during the reigns of David and Solomon.The word means a city built on a bill. ajid is referred to in 2 CbConI. 3. ~5oSolomon. and all the congregation wiih him, went to the highpiaco that was at Giheon: fur there was the tahernacle ot the con~gregation of God.’in a ritual of the middle ci the inst century. it is sold that OsbanonIs the name of a Ilaster Mason. —Kankey’s Enoyolopaeiia. haticleGabaca.

352 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MA8O~#.ing them to each other threetimes; then place the left hand onth~ brother’s back, then on hisneck as if to raise him.Thrice Puissant-What are thepass-words?Senior Grand Warden-Thereare three principal ones: the firstis Shibboleth three times with anaspiration. The second is El-Hanan. The third is most essentialto be known and is Bes-Makeh,~amearah, which is interpreted“thank God we have found it.” Token or Reeistane~ ~odThrice Puissant—Wliat are the eov~reff words?Senior Grand Warden—There are~tF~ee: The firstis Guiblim or Jabuluni. The second is Makobim, whichinterpreted; “That’s he! He is dead !“ The third isAdonai, Supreme lord of all,Thrice Puissant—Give me the word?Senior Grand Warden—Thrice Puissant, I cannot, Iam riot able to pronounce it Machbenah and Mah-hahbone,were substituted in~ its place. You know what Imean, Adonsi is the last covered word for this mysteriousone.Thrice Puissant—How do you enter into a lodge ofPerfection?Senior Grand Warden—With firmness and constancyin my heart.Thrice Puissant-Why do you always stand in a lodgeof Perfection in a posture of surprise?Senior Grand Warden—In allusion to Moses who wasobliged to stand in that position when he received thetable of tne laws from the Almighty, and also the twoINITIATION. 353Xings, Solomon and Hiram, who were seized with sur-.prise. when they beheld the sacred name on the GoldcnPlate which was brought to them by Guibelum, Joabertand Stolkin.Thrice Puissant-What signifies the sign of cuttingyour belly.Senior Grand Warden—An allusion to the wounds ofour respectable Master Hiram Abiff.Thrice Puissant-What are the tools of a GrandElect, Perfect and Sublime Mason?Senior Grand Warden—A shovel, Crow and Pick-axe.Thrice Puissant—What use do they make of them?Senior Grand Warden—They served to discover andraise the square stone on the top of the arches whichwere built by Enoch and also to break the pedestal onwhich the treasure was deposited when the templewas destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar and to prevent thesacred name of names from falling into the hands ofthe profane. They melted down the plat~ and determinednever to write, engrave or pronounce it, but to treasureit in their hearts.Thrice Puissant—When the Grand Elect came to theVault did they find anything besides the pillar ofBeauty?Senior Grand Warden—Yes, they found the body ofGalsad.Thrice Puissant-Who was Galaad?Senior Grand Warden-He was the son of Sophoris,a considerable man among the Perfect Masons, andChief of the Levites, Galaad was the guardian of theSacred Vault, and to him was entrusted the care of thelamp which burnt without ceasing in that Sacred andHoly place. His fortitude and x~aguanimity were not ex•

354 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.celled by Hiram Abiff, who 400 years before lost hisliferather than reveal the secrets of a Master Maaon. SoGalaad preferred being buried under the ruins ratherthan to discover to the barbarians by his coming out ofthe place where the greatest of treasures were deposited.Thrice Puissant—What did the Grand Elect do ~withthe body of this worthy chief?Senior Grand Warden—They wished to follow theexample of Solomon, by burying him with every masonichonor and then to erect a superb monument to his memory,and perpetuate to future generations, the heroicsacrifice he had made of himself to preserve the inestimabletreasure of the Sacred Vault of which he was thefaithful keeper, but ‘the distress in which the brethrenwere involved by the capture of Jerusalem prevented it.They took away his habit, consisting of his Tiara and arobe of fine linen which they burnt, and they interredhis body in the ruins of the Sacred Vault under thePillar of Beauty.Thrice Puissant—Hour did Solomon live after thededication of the temple?Senior Grand Warden—This ~vise king, this king sovirtuous whom God had appointed to rule over the childrenof Isracl became deaf to the voice of the Lord, an~lwas strangely irregular in his conduct. Proud of havingerected an edifice to his maker ~nd intoxicated with hispower he plunged into all rnanncr of licentiousness anddebauchery and profaned the temple of the Most Highby offering incense to the idol Moloch. which only shouldhave been offered to the living (lod. These crimes penetrateddeeply into the hearts of the good masons, thegreater part of whom voluntarily exiled themselves fromtheir country, that they micht not be spectators of thepunishment which they feared the Almighty would inflictupon Jerusalem. They accordingly left Judeiand went into foreign countries among strangers.Thrice Puissant—How many years did Solomonreign?INITIATION. 355Senior Grand Warden—Forty years, and died whenhe was ninety-four, and was buried in Jerusalem.Thrice Puissant-Who was king of Jerusalem after8olomon?Senior Grand Warden—Rehoboam, his son.Thrice Puissant-Did anything remarkable happenin his reign?Senior Grand Warden-God permitted the kingdomof Israel to be divided as a punishment for the sins ofthe people of Jerusalem as had been predicted by theprophets.Thrice Puissant—Relate to me the punishment of thekingdom of Judah.Senior Grand Warden—When the crimes of the peepiehad become insufferably great, God permittedNebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon to make war uponthem, who following the predictions of the prophetssent Nebuzaradan his general, who reduced all Judeswitn fire and sword, took and sacked the city of Jerusalemand reduced the temple of the living God to a heapof ruins. The conquerors carried with them as captivesinto Babylon, Zedekiah ‘~ and all his people, also all theornaments and treasures of the temple. This happened470 years, 6 months and 10 days after its dedication.The Grand Elect and Perfect Masons who were at Jeruuslemat this time exerted themselves with great bra,-Nate 150.—”Zedeklaia. & personage in some of the high deg~ees.wiume meianchoi tate is described in the Second Book of Kings and inthe rophecies of Jetemlah. He was the twentieth and last king ofJudd. when Nehuchadnesgar had in his second siege of Jeruaakmdepesed Jehelachin. whom be carried as a csptlye to Babylon. he placedSedekiab on the throne in his stead. By this act’Zedeklab becume tributawy tn the king of the ebaidees, who ezacted from hIm a solemnsethof Ideilty and obedlenee. Th’n oath he obsersed no longer thantIll an opportunIty occurred of YloIating It. in the language of theauthor of the Books of chronicles, ~he rebelled agaInst King Nebuchad.mar. who had made hIm swear by Ood.~This course soon brought down upon hIm the yengeance of theOfeuded monarch, who inyaded the land of Judah with an Immensegg~. ‘—Eaeknga Enqolope.edia at 1seeinasonz~, Article 5s4.kish.

356 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON. INITIATION 357ery and fortitude in its defence, but without effect, forsoon beholding the temple of God falling into one gentiralheap of ruina~, they directed their whole attentionto the preservation of the Sacred Vault from injury andthe Golden Plate from being discovered. For this purposea party of them fought their way into the SacredVault where they found the golden plate on the agatestone uninjured. Their joy was excessive on this occasion.They all cried out Bes-Makeb Bamesrah, that is,“thank God we have found it.”Thrice Puissant—What did they do after this discovery?Senior Grand Warden—They retired contented, resolvingthat in future they would never trust this holyname to be written or engraved, but to preserve it faithfullyin their hea~rts and that their descendants shouldonly know it by tradition, from thence arose the customof pronouncing the letters only, without joining thesyllables which was observed afterward in the templewhich was built by Cyrus.Thrice Puissant—How long did the captivity of thebrethren continue a fter the destruction of the temple byNebuchadnezzar?Senior Grand Warden—The first captivity was seventyyears as was predicted by the prophet Jeremiah.Thrice Puissant—How did the Israelites behave inBabylon during their captivity?Senior Grand Warden—They repented of the crimesof which they were guilty and by example of the Grand.Elect, who were with them, they worshiped the onlytrue and living God as the prophets had before writtenThrice Puissant—Who were those prophets?Senior Grand Warden—Habalckuk, Zechariah, Hag.gal and Malachi.Thrice Puissant-Who was it gave liberty to theIaraelites and permitted them to return to their owncountry?Senior Grand Warden-Cyrus,”’ king of Persia, whowas the conqueror of all the East. He not only gave permissionto the Israelites to return to their own countryand rebuild the city of Jerusalem, but also presentedthem all the sacred vessels which had belonged to thetemple, and which had been preserved by the care ofMithridates, the second treasurer.Thrice Puissant-Where do the Grand Elect, Perfectand Sublime Masons work this day?Senior Grand Warden—In a place chosen to re-establish the edific&which had been ruined by the traitors.Thrice Puissant-What are the wages of our success?Senior Grand Warden—Virtue, which all may obtainwho desire it.Thrice Puissant-What recompense do you expect?Senior Grand Warden—The destruction of vice andthe knowledge and love of my brethren.Thrice Puissant-What do you find in the place whichhas been chosen?Senior Grand Warden—Dead Bones, Blood and aBurning Lamp.Thrice Puissant-What did you do with the lamp?Note i61.—”I’he personal relation, to Gad’s people, which were sustainedby this might: conqueror. are fnIl of masonic Interest. The JewIshnation had been broken up by Nebuchadnessar Ifty years before hisconning. and the remnant, not destroyed, carried away to Dahylon.where Cyrus found them. Be became to them 5 generous liberator anda Just guardian of theIr rights. Nearly 250 years before that perIod.the h Iseish had sunounced hIm by mae as ‘the Shqbsrd of theLord,’ who should perform slI Gods pleasnee and rehalld the city andtemple.—Imlah ill,. This he hsstened to do. snd only two years attNhis conqneet of Bahylon. issned his celebrated decree, which was. Iaeffect. the re-establIshment of the JewIsh ustlon. ‘—Eawls’a Nasunle

358 GRANfl ELECT. PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.Senior Grand Warden— I put it out.Thrice Puissant-Then you were in darkness?Senior Grand Warden—No, Thrice Puissant, I hadno aecasion for lamp or light, I was enlightened by iboeffulgence of the most brilliant and Divine Delts.OATH OF ALLEGIANCE.To be taken by e,ery broiher when adranced to the degree otGrand Elect. Perfect aud 5ubimme Masou.In presence of the Grand Architect of the Univerae,and of this respectable assembly of Freemasons, Isolemnly promise to obey the general regulations of theSupreme Grand Council for the jurisdiction of theWestern Hemisphere, and to acknowledge said SupremeGrand Council as the only authority of the Scotch Ritein said jurisdiction, and I further promise and swearthat I will have no intercourse as a mason of said Ritewith any masonic body of masons pretending to be subjectto any masonic authority of said Rite in this jurisdictionother than said Supreme Grand Council ofwhich the I1lu~trious brothcris now Sop.ereign Grand Commander. So help me God.CLOSINGCEREMONIESGRAND ELECT, PERFUCT AND SUBLIME MASON.Thrice Puissant—Brother Senior Grand Warden fromwhence came you?Senior Grand Warden—Thrice Puissant, from Judea.Thrice Puissant-What did you bring from thence?Senior Grand Warden—The precious treasure of theGrand Elect engraven upon my heart, which I will giveyou.Thrice Puissant-Approach my brother, (the SeniorWarden leaves his seat and approaches the Thrice Puissantwith the sign of admiration and whispers in his earthe ineffable word, letter by letter.)Thrice Puissant—(Strikes three and says,) brethrenwill please form the chain around the altar, (allkneel on left knee and rorm with hands above theirheads,) the Thrice Pirissant then whispers in the ear ofthe brother next to him the ineffable word, that brothergives it to the next and so on until it reaches the ThricePuissant again.Thrice Puissant—My dear brethren, the word whichwas lost is found, engraved in the deepest part of ourhearts, let us retire in the dark and purify our heartsfrom all uncleanliness. Let us pray.CLOSING PRAYER.Direct our steps, Oh Adonsi, Supreme Lord and Masterof the Universe, grant that we may shun the pathsof the wicked and not fall into the pit which our enemieshave made for us, that the effulgenoe of divine wis-

360 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.CLOSING ~RIRILONIUS.361dom may enlighten us, that we may possess the means ofbeing charitable by the gifts of this providence, andgrant oh Lord that we may not be unsuccessful purlabor; blesa and sanctify our works that we may kii jwand acknowledge(thy power and strength and grant thatthe virtue which masonry teacheth may be firmly engraftedin our hearts. And the honor and glory shall beascribed to thy most holy and mighty name. Amen.(All now take their places.)Thrice Pu~ssant—Brother Senior Grand Warden,what’s the clock?Senior Grand Warden—Thrice Puissant it is midnight.Thrice Puiwznt—Why do you say it is midnight?.Senior Grand Warden—Because after labor comesrest and night is the time of iniquity.Thrsce Puissant—What brought you here?Senior Grand Warden—The desire of practicing incommon with my brethren the arts of virtue, justice andcharity.Thrice Puinant—What is it that atiracts you here?Senior Grand Warden—The brilliant and adorableDelta.Thrice Puissant—How comes the Delta so often mentionedin this degree?Senior Grand Warden—To learn the power, goodness,mercy and majesty of the Grand Architect of the Universe,the God of Heaven and Earth, the Eternal Fatherof nature.Thrice Puissant—What do you carry from hence?Senior Grand Warden—A great deiire of doing good.Thrice Puissant—What can a Grand Elect, Perfectand Sublime Mason desire more when he is come to theSublime Degree of Perfection?Bel&ior Grand Warden—The Eternal, “Beatitude”for which he will ever sigh without ceasing, and whichhe can only acquire by his good works.Thrice pui.uant~~Brother Senior and Junior GrandWardens, acquaint the brethren that I am going to closethis lodge of Perfection by the mysterious numbers, 3, 5,7 and 9.Senior Grand Warden—Breth~n you will please takenotice that the Thrice Puissant Grand Muter i~ goingto close this lodge of Perfection by the mysterious numben3, 5, 7 and 9.Junior Grand Warden—Brethren you will please takejwt.ice that the Thrice Puissant Grand Master is goingto close this lodge of Perfection by the mysterious numbers3, 5, 7 and 9.Thrice Puiuant~~(KflOCks three; 000. All rise.)S~giiior WardeR~(Kflocks three; 000.)Junior Warden~—(K~flocks three; 000. All make thesign of Admiration.)Thrice puia&znt~(XflOcks live; 00000.)8enior Warden— (Knocks five; 00000.)Junior Warden~-~(KY1ocks five; 00000. All make theuign of Admiration.)Thrice pui.asant~—(KnoCks seven; 0000000.)Seiiior Warden~~-(KnOCks seven; 0000000.)Junior Warden—(Knocks seven; 0000000. All makethe sign of Admiration.)Thrice Puj.,saiii—(KnOCks nine; 000000000.)Se~iior Warden~-(KnockS nine; 000000000.)Junior Warden~—(KnOcks nine; 000000000. All makethe sign of Admiration.)Thrice Puiueant—To the glory of the Grand Archi-

382 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SDBLIMF SON.tect of the Umveree and under the auspices of the Sn.preme Grand Council of the Sovereign Grand InspectorGeneral of the 33d degree for the northern jurisdictionof the Western Hemisphere in the Valley of New York,and by virtue of ~heauthority on me conferred by. thisSublime Grand Lodge of Perfection, I declare its worksthereof now closed. Brothers Senior and Junior GrandWardens, officers and brethren of this 8ublime Grandlodge of Perfection, I admonish you to retire in peace,to practice virtue and religion and to always live as becomesthose who live in the immediate presence of theGrand Architect of Ihe Universe, and may God bless ourcountry and our arms.Thrice Puissant—Together brethren, (all clap, 3, 5, 7and 9.)STATUTES AND REGULATIONSFOR THE GOVERNMENT OF ALLRuouI~An Lon~rn ov PERFECTIONTRANSMITTED BY THESOVEREIGN GRAND COtfl~CIL or SUBLIME PRINOES OFTEE ROYAl SECRET, AT Bm~uN, P&nisAND Bonmux.ARTICLE 1ST.No lodge of Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masterscan proceed to work by electing officers or receivingcandidates unless warranted by a Charter from the SublimePrinces of the Royal Secret or from a Grand Inspectorof the order or his Deputy, duly signed andsealed, wilhout which they are to be regarded as irregular,and the work declared null.ARTICLE 2ND.No lodge or Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mainterscan correspond with any other such lodge, exceptsuch as are reported by the Secretary General of theGrand Council to the Grand luspector or his Deputy,and by him communicated.ARTICLE 3D.Whenever a lodge of Perfection is made acquaintedwith the existence of another lodge of Perfection notincluded in the list furnished itself by the Grand Inspectoror his Deputy, it should at once advise theGrand Inspector or his Deputy thereof, that it may bemade known to the Grand CounciL

~64 STATUTES AND REGULATIONS. LODGES OF PERFECTION. 366ARTICLE 4TH.If any brethren assemble irregularly for the purposeof initiating persons into this degree, they should bereprimanded, and no mason of a regular lodge canrecognize or visit Ihem on pain of sneh penalties as thelaws of the lodges of Perfeetion shall prescribe.ARTICLE 5TH.If a Royal lodge of Grand Elect, Perfect and SublimeMasters should expel one of its members for misconduct,information thereof must forthwith be given tothe Grand Inspector or his Deputy, that he may be ableto notify thereof the-other regular lodges and the GrandCouncil. If a regular lodge should violate the laws miposedupon it by the solemn provisions of our secretconstitutions or should refuse to submit and to ask forgivenessin the most humble manner by a petitionsigned by all the members eonfessing their fault, showingat the same time that they have eeased to work untilsueh time as it shall please the Grand Couneil of theSublime Prinees to relieve them from interdietion, topardon them, and receive them again into favor.ARTICLE 6TH.Any new lodge that may eome into possession of newdegrees, relating to the order in general should immediatelymake the same known to the Grand Inspectoror his Deputy.ARTICLE 7TH.The present statutesand regulations must be read toevery brother when he takes the degree of Royal Arch.He must promise punctually to obey them, and at alltimes to recognize the Knights of the East, Princes ofJerusalem, Knights of the East and West, Knight~ ofthe White Eagle, Knights Rose Croix, PatriarchsNoachite, Knights of the Royal Axe, Grand Pontils,Knights Princes Adept, Knights of the White andBlack Eagle, Sovereign Princes of the Royal Secret andthe Grand Inspectors and their Deputies as his chiefs,whom he must promise to respect and their Council te.follow in whatever they direct. He must also promise toincrease in zeal, fervor and constancy for the order, tothe end that he may one day attain to the degrec ofGrand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason, and to besubmissive and obedient to the statutes and regulationsheretofore made, or that may hereafter be made by theSovereign Princes, chief of the order of masonry, andthat he will pay them all the honors to which they areentitled and to add more force to such obligation, hemust sign a submission in due form.ARTICLE 8TH.Every lodge of Grand Elect, Perfect and SublimeMasons should have nine officers, including whom thenumber of members should not exceed twenty-seven.The Thrice Puissant is not counted among the nineofficers. He represents Solomon. Hiram King of Tyresits on his right, in the absence of the Grand Inspectoror his Deputy.First—The Qrand Keeper of Seals, representingGalahad, son of Sophonia chief of the Levites, who sitson the left of the Thrice Puissant.Second—The Grand Treasurer, representing Guibumm,the confidant of Solomon, who sits in front of thetable of sLew-bread.Third—The Grand Orator, representing Abdamon,who explained to Solomon many enigmas and the

366 STATUTES AND REGULATIONS. LODGES OF PERFECTION. 367hieroglyphics engraven on the pieces of marble foundin the ancient ruins of Enoch on the mountain of Aceldema”’who sits near the Altar of Incense in the North.Fourth—The Grand Secretarij, representing Joabert,the favorite of the two allied kings who sita in theSouth opposite the altar of incense.Fifth—The Senior Grand Warden, representingAdoniram, son of Abda, Prince Harodim of Labanuswho after the death of Hiram Abiff was inspector of thelaborers on Mount Libamis and the first of the sevensecret masters, who sits in the West.Sixth—The Junior Grand Warden, representing Mahabon,the most zealous master of his time, and a greatfriend of Hiram Abiff, who sits in the West, on the leftof the Senior Grand Warden.Sea,enth—The Grand Master of Ceremonies, representingStolkin, one of the three who discovered the ninearches and the Delta, who sits in the North.Eighth—The Captain of the Guards, representingBendia or Zerbal, who held that office during the allianeeof the two kings and who sits between the two GrandWardens.Ninth—One Tyler or two, that the lodge may be wellguarded.ARTICLE 9TH.The Thrice Puissant and other officers are to be electedevery third year. No one but a Prince of Jerusalemcan be elected to preside. The election is to be held onNote IU.—’Ao.ldsma. From the 5yro.Cbaldsic. meaning ash ofblood. so called beraume it was purchased with the blood-money whichwas paid to Judas tacariot for betraying his Lord. it is situated onthe slope of ibe bills beyond the vs hey of Hinnom and to ihe southof Mount Zion. The earth there was believed. hy earl, writers, tohave poaseased a corrosive quality, by means of which bodies deijoaltedin it were quickly consumed; and hence it was uaed by the Crusaders.then by the Knight. Hoapitailers. and afterward, by the Armenians. a.a place of aepulture. and the Empreas Helen is said to have builta charnel-house in its midst. Dr. Robinaun (Ulbileal Rasesrobes. I..~ . 524.) says that the field is not now marked hv any boundary to di..ingulab it from tbe rest of the field. and the former charnel-house isnow n ruin. The field of Aceldama is referred to in the ritual of theKn%bts Templars. ‘—Mackey’s Eucyolopasdia of Freamasom. Articleam’.the 3d day of the 12th month Adar, which answers tothe 21st day of February, that memorable day of theyear 2995, when the precious treasure was found bythree zealous master masons under the ruins of our ancientpatri.rch Enoch. The mode of electing either ofthe officers or a candidate depends on the particularlaws of the lodge, but when the officers have been electedthey must take an obligation to the Grand Inspectoror his Deputy, that they will perform the duties oftheir office with zeal, constancy, fervor and affectiontowards their brethren.ARTICLE 10TH.Everything like party organization and cabal is absolutelyprohibited in conneetion with the election ofofficers, on pain of.expulsion and erasure of membership.ARTICLE 11TH.All the brethren must, in open lodge, wear all theirdecorations. A brother who eni ers a lodge without hisornaments or the insignia of some higher degree shalllose his right to vote at that meeting, and pay into thetreasury such fine as the lodge shall impose.ARTICLE 12TH.Lodges of Perfection are to be held on specified daysand at fixed hours, whereof the brothers shall have dueand regular notice from the Secretaiy, in order that ifbusiness of importance prevents any brother from attendinghe may a~vise the Secretary thereof by letteron the morning of the day of meeting, whereof theSecretary shall inform the lodge in the evening. Thisthe brethren shall not omit, under such penalties as theThrice Puissant and the lodge may determine.ARTTCLE 13TH.All loages of Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Ma-

368 STATDTES AND REGULATIONS. LODGES OF PERFECTION. 369sons mi~st mutually visit each other, by deputations a,correspondence, as frequently as possible and communi..cats to each other whatever light they may acquire.ARTICLE 14TH.The Grand Secretary shall issue to every brother whois about to travel, a certificate signed by the ThricePuissan., the Wardens and the Grand Keeper of theSeals, who shall there affix the seal of the lodge andcounlersigned by the Grand Secretary. The signatureof the brother to wftom it is granted must appear in themargin.ARTICLE 15TH.The Grand Elect, ‘Perfect and Sublime Masons mayadmit to the degree of Perfection such brethren as areworthy thereof, and who have held offlee in symboliclodges, and to all the degrees that precede that of Perfectionto wit: Seeret Master, Perfect Master, ConfidentialSeeretary, Provost and Judge,~Intendant of theBuildings, Elect of the Nine, Elect of the Fifteen, IllustriousKnight, Grand Niaster Arehiteet and Knight ofthe Royal Arch.The Thriee Puissant may confer three degrees at oneand the same time on each brother by way of reward forzealous serviec, and may at last eonfer the degree ofGrand Elect, Perfeet and Sublime Mason when theproper time has elapsed.ARTICLE 16TH.Besides the feast days of the 24th of June and 27thof December, the Grand Elect, Perfect and SublimeMasons, must every year, on the 5th of October, celebratethe rebuilding of the first temple of the Lord.The Prince ‘who is oldest and highest in degree, willpreside, and if the two Wardens be of inferior degree,their plaees will be filled by sueh brethren higher in degreeas the president shall appoint and so with all otheroffleers.ARTICLE 17Th.All matters whatever must be proposed by a GrandElect, Perfect and Sublime Mason and the memberswill vote in order commencing with the youngest, andwhenever a candidate is proposed to the lodge it mustbe shown that he respects and is attached to his religion,that he is a person of true probity and discretion,and that he has given proofs of his zeal, fervor and constancyfor the order and his brethren.ARTICLE 18TH.When the Wardens are n,otified by the Thrice Puissantof his intention to hold a lodge, they must attendand with all their might advance the prosperity of thelodge. The Master of Ceremonies must also be notifiedin advanee that he may prepare the hail.ARTICLE 19TH.The Grand Keeper of the Seals, will have the Sealsready for reeeptions, set everything in order, and affixthe seals to all eertifieates or other documents signed bythe officers of the lodge.ARTICLE 20TH.The Grand Orator will deliver a discourse at each reeeption(initiation) enlarging therein upon the excellenceof the order. He will instruct the new brethren, explainto them the mysteries and exhort them not toslacken in their zeal, fervor and constancy, that theymay attain to the degree of Grand Elect Perfect, andSublime Mason. If he has noticed any indiscretions onthe part of any brethren or any dispute aipong them, he

370 STATuTES AND REGULATIONS. LODGES or PERFECTION. 371will advise the lodge thereof, that it may endeavor tobring about a reconciliation.ARTICLE 21ST.The Grand Treasurer will safely keep all funds devotedto eharitabte purposes, as well as moneys receivedfor receptions. He will keep a regular book of aeeounts,at all times ready to be examined by the lodge, and aseharity is an indispensable duty among masons, thebrethren should volontarily contribute to the fund forthat purpose, eaeh according to his means.ARTICLE 22ND.The Grand Seeretary will keep a reeord of all thetra.nsaetions of the lodge, plainly written, and alwaysready to be inspected by the lodge, the Grand Inspectoror his Deputy, he will dispateh all orders issued by theThrice Puissant within such time that they may reaehtheir destination in due season. He must prepare allrequisitions that are to be transmitted to the lodge tothe Grand Council, the Grand Inspector or his Deputy,or into foreign eonntries and li’e will take the greatestpossible care to keep the business of his offlee in perfectorder.AETICLE 23iw.The Master of Ceremonies must repair to the templein due season so as to have everything ready that thework may not be delayed. He is always one of the exsminersof visiting brethren and introduces them accordingto their degrees, consequently he ought to be atall points instructed in the several degrees and possessthe confidence of the lodge.ARTICLE2-ITII.The Captain of the Guard ~cesthat the Tyler doeshis duty, and it is his business to see the lodge welltyled. He reecives all visitors wearing his hat andsword in hand, unless they are Princes masons in whosepresenee lie is uncovered. lie will advise the ‘rhriccPuissant whenever a visitor desires to be admitted, willassist in examining him, and will in all eases preeedethe brethren in the eerernonie~ of instruetion. When hereports that the visitor is a Prince mason, sueh visitorwill be received with all the hionor~,, the brethren formingthe vault of steel with their swords, and the GrandMaster of Ceremonies eondueting him to the foot of thethrone and afterwards to an elevated seat near theThrice Puissant.ARTICLE 25Th.If any lodge is for good cause dissolved or teniporarilvinterdieted, the ofijeers thereof must deposit the thartcr,regulations and statutes, and all the papers of the lodgewith the Grand (ouneil if there be one, and if not withthe Grand Inspector or his Deputy, where they will remainuntil the lodge is allowed to resume labor, and ifthe members of sueh lodge ~.liouldnot submit to the decisionof the Grand Council, their disobedienee withtheir names, degrees and eivil eharaeters, are to be notifiedin writing to all the recognized lodges in the twoHemispheres, that they may incur the contempt of allmas~as.May the Grand Architect of the Universe avert sogreat a misfortune and inspire us to seleet good men forour brethren, that thereby the order may attain Perfeetion-

372 STATUTES AND REGULATIONS. LODGES or PERrECTION. 373ARTICLE 26TH.If any member of the lodge that has been dissolved bythe Grand Council, shows that body by petition, that heis innocent, he shall be restored to favor and affiliatedwith another lodge.ARTICLE27TH.Nothing that is done in a lodge should be made knownoat of the lodge, except to a member of the same, .undersuch penalty as the lodge shall inflict.ARTICLE 28TH.No visitor can be admitted until the lodge is opened,nor until he has been scrupulously examined by two wellinformed brethren and he shall take his obligation alsounless more than one member of the lodge shall statethat they have seen him sit in a rgularly constitutedlodge of at least the degree of that which he seeks tovisit.ARTICLE 29TH.Every lodge may have two Tylers, whose good charactershould be known. They will be clothed at theexpense of the lodge and wear the proper jewel at thebutton hole of their coats.ARTICLE 30TH.The Knights and Prinees Masons being the greatlights of the lodge, all complaints against them shall bemade in writing and presented at the next lodge meeting.The lodge shall hear and decide and if a partythings himself aggrieved he may appeal to the GrandCouncil which shall determine in the last resort.ARTICLE 31ST.Secrecy as to the mysteries being of indispensableobligatioD the Thrice Puissant Grand Master shall beforeclosing any lodge ineuleate that duty on the brethrenin the usual manner and form.ARTICLE 32~D.If a member be siek, any member knowing thereofmust forthwith inform the Thrice Puissant in order thathe may receive the neeessary attention, and the BrotherHospitaller must visit him to see that he is properlycared for.ARTICLE 33nn.When a brother dies, all the brethren are obliged toattend his funeral in the usual manner.ARTICLE 34TH.If a brother meet with misfortunes, it is the duty ofevery brother to visit him.ARTICLE 35TH.If the Thrice Puissant be not present at a lodge meeting,for one hour after the hour fixed for opening, andthere be five brethren present the oldest offleer will forthe time take the throne and proeced regularly with thework, provided the Grand Inspeetor and his Deputy areabsent, but if either of them be present, he shall heinvited to take the throne, with all the honors, the samehonors being paid the Deputy as to the Inspector in theabsence of the latter.ARTICLE 36TH.To secure regularity in the lodge the Thrice PujasantMaster and the Grand Inspector or his Deputy mustkeep a list of all the members of the lodge, showing thedegree and eivil eharaeter of each, to be laid before theGrand Couneil and transmitled to all the regular lodges.They will also advise the Grand Tnspector or his Deputyof every matter of interest communicated to the lodge.ARTICLE 37TH.If the members of any lodge deem it necessary tomake any alterations in the present constitotiona and

.374 STATUTES AND REGULATIONS. LODGES OF PERFRCTION.regulations, that ean only be done by petition in writingpresented to the lodge prior to the annual feast. If themembers, upon mature consideration of the matter proposed,find nothing therein contrary to said statutes andregulations, the proposition in writing shall be transmittedto the Grand Couneil of the Prinees, and if theyapprove it, it shall be sent to the Grand Inspector or hisDeputy for the Distriet, who shall decide thereon, noneof our aneient customs, obligations or eeremonies beingchanged, nor the force of our present eonstitutions andregulations diminished, on pain of interdiction..Whereof all lodges of Grand Elect Perfect and SublimeMasons and of Ancient Masons, regularly estab-I ished under our protection shall so govern and directthemselves for the future, in every place in the worldwhere our order is established, being under the directionof the Inspector, his Deputy or the Princes Masons, individuallyor in Grand Council if there be one; wheretoto give force and actuality, we have resolved to createInspeetors and Deputy Inspectors who shall travel byland and sea, to take note and observe in all lodgesregularly constituted.A eopy of whieh laws and regulations shall be deliveredto our aforesaid Delegates, Deputy Inspectorswith authentic Patents and Powers in due form thatthey may be recognized and duly empowered in theexereise of their,funetions.So decreed by our Chiefs and Worthy Protectors inlawful assembly of true science and ample power asrepresentatives of the Sovereign of Sovereigns.Done at the Grand Orient of Paris, Berlin and Bordeaux,in a holy plaee under the Celestial Vault, nesrthe B. ~ the 25th day of the 7th month of the yeer1762, and transmitted to the very Illustrious and ver~~Puissant Prince Stephen Morin, Grand Inspector of allthe regular lodges in the new world.At the Grand Orient of Berlin under the CelestialVault, the day and year above mentioned and certifiedby us, Grand Inspectors General and Deputies, the 22ndof December, 1768.[Signed.]Etrenne Morin.Mose.s Cohen.Spitzer.Hyman Isaac Long.

TITLES FIT FOR THE DIALECT OF A MAD HOUSE. 377HISTORICAL ANALYSISFOURTEENTH DEGREE, ORGRAND ELECT PERFECT ANDSUBLIME MA.SoN.Lcd em Diamolved b7 the Lutheran Retormation—TItie, Fit for theDialect of a Mad.houae—Traveatiea Chriatlan Ordluancem—The Cata.comba of a New worahlp—inidellti It. Mother, Rebellion it~ Cradle—Conjuring and Legerdernialn—Satan SW. their Heart. with Uea.That this was one of the Ram.sa~ degrees is provedby its name in France :-‘—“Grand Scotch Mason of perfection,of the Vault of Jas. VI.’, Mackey, (Note 141)admits this name to be proof that it was invented andused by Jesuits to destroy Protestantiam and restore theStuarta; (see Art’s Lodge and Rite of Perfection,) butframed by Ramsay in the Jesuits’ College at Paris. Atfirst the rite was fourteen degrees. Afterward it wasenlarged by Dc Bonneville to twenty-five, (1754,) inthe same college. Then, four years later, it was mergedin “The Council of Emperors, 1758; and sent by themto the United States, by the Jew, Morin;—inereased inCharleston, S. C., in 1881, to 330, where it stands now.England was Protestant.—The German Lodges, Reboldsays, p. 54, were nearly all “dissolved” by the.Lutheran. Reformation. Germany has a ProtestantEmperor; England a Protestant government; andFrance, unhappy France, fell between the upper andnether millstones of a corrupt church and infidel lodges,whose Grand Orient has since voted to strike from itsRitual the words: “The existence of God, and the immortalityof man!” After the flight of the Stuarts in1688 to the Jesuits’ College in Paris, and their recognitionby the French King, France became the breeder ofvolcanoes for all Europe, and, that America shouldreceive the Freemasonry which now covers the UnitedStates, from such a source, is as if Benedict Arnold andAaron Burr, both of whom were Masons, had formed asystem of secrat lodges to “elevate mankind,” and Europehad received and adopted them! The very termsand titles of this degree—”Grand, Elect, Perfect andSublime Mason,” are fit for the dialect of a mad house;and they recall to mind the Scriptare: “Madne.ss is intheir hearta while they live, and after that they go to thedead.” Bat there is a method in this madness. It makesmoney like Mormonism and Popery. And, like literalmadness in rabid animals, its venomous virus produces azeal of proselytism, like the restless longing of hydrophobiato bite itself into whatever living thing is freefrom it. And this degree reveals the secret of this terriblemoral enemic.We assume that Christianity, the Bible of the Christiannations, is true, and that the vagaries of the heathentribes is untrue. And, if so, then that which attemptsthe entire subversion of the Christian system, is not alocal, particular evil, like robbery or fraud, but a fundamental,and universal one; and this total subversion isprecisely what is attempted by ‘this degree. Thus.1. It acorns and scoffs at the God of the Bible. Weread in its Ritual:“The candidate looks for the last time on the Solomonianschool.” “On one side, and in the past, appearsthe formidable God of by-gone ~erations; his name isinscribed on the Breast-plate of thp High Priest of theJews. On the other side, and far in the future, theEternal, Good, Simple, Benevolent, Merciful, Equitablean& ever consoling Father of Mankind, whose titles arewritten with the blood of that Sublime Teacher, whofirst of all proclaimed the existence of a God of Love.~d Love only.”—Ritual page 595.

378 TRAVESTIES CHRISTIAN ORDINANCES. TEE CATACOMES OF A NEW WORSHIP. 37~It requires but a glanee at this plain paragraph to seethat it is a seoff at the Jehovah of the Old Testament,who is the Jesos Christ of the New. And its ignoranceequals its impudenee. The name of this same “SublimeTeaeher” is dropped from the Scriptures quoted .in theLodge, in many of the degrees; and his religion, on thealtar of the lodge, is put on a level with the worshipsof “four-footed beasts and ereeping things.” See Note155 of this degree. And as to Christ teaehiing a “God ofLove only;” “The Seriptures,” whieh Christ endorsed,teaehi that “Justice and judgment are the habitation ofHis throne !“ Nay, this same “Sublime Teaeher” saidof sornc: “These shall go away into everlasting punishment.”2. This degree makes a false use of the Deealogue,and a profane use of the Lord’s Supper.~Vhilethe eandidate is led into and around the lodge,the Thrice Puissant reads the ten Commandments;knowing, as he must, that the Deenlogue is not the Mason’slaw of life, but the Lex Naturw or Law of Nature.(See the Ritual, page 812.) Maekey says: “The ten(‘onzniandments are not obligatory upon a Mason!” (SeeArt Decalogue.) And on page 319 of the Ritual, theThriee Puissant and Candidate take solemnly conseeraledbread, and drink wine from a eup. The obviousand intended effect of whieh must be to degrade theDeealogue, and rival and run down Christ’s commemoratii’esupper.3. Then the eandidate is made to swear (p. 817), notto “take arms,” or “enter into any conspiracy against hi.country.” Nevertheless the ten Lodges of the Districtof Columbia all entered into sueh a conspiracy before theRebellion, and Pike, Sovereign Grand Commander ofthis Rite, initiated, in Federal Lodge, Washington, andfought Indians against the Union at Pea Ridge, Ark.And years before, Southern Lodges, and Charleston, theseat and headquarters of the Supreme Council, werecombined in a conspiracy to break up the country; andall the while this oath was being administered by and toconspirators! to quiet the fears of Northern Masons andinsure the suceess of the Rebellion. The effect of suchwholesale fraud and sanetimonious false swearing,whether intended or not, could only be to make Christ’sreligion of sincerity and truth, an impossibility Withinits influence.4. But that the intention of the framers of this degreewas to make a clean riddance of Christianity is provedby history, a~d is evident from the degree itself.The eminent French patriot, poet and historian, Lamartine,writing of the times when this degree and itsSeottish Rite originated, says: “The Spirit of Philosophyhad organized oeeult associations after the imageof Freemasonry.” “Between the initiated and existinginstitutions, the war was concealed, but the moredeadly.” “These lodges were the ealaeombs of a newWorship.”—Htat. the Girondists, vol. 1, p. 188.What that new underground religion was, is seen onthe preceding page: “Frederiek the Great was thecorrupter of the Empire.” ~‘ * * “Military men,edneated in Ihe Sehool of Frederick, aeademies modeledafter the genius of Voltaire; colonies of Jews enrichedby war, and Freneh refugees formed the public mind.”p. 187. And again on the next page: “The sect ofIlluminees, founded and guided by Weishaupt, wasspreading in Germany in eonjunetion with the Freemaeonsand the Rosicrucians, p. 187.This testimony of Lamartine is mild, impartial, reliable,and concurrent with all the sound writers of thatday. And never, perhaps, since the march of time be-

380 INFIDELITY iTS MOTHER, REDELLION ITS ORh3IZ. CONJURING AND LEGERDEMAIN. 381gan, were the destinies of society in the hands of men socompletely abandoned of God and goodness as the personsnamed above and their followers and associates.Voltaire’s writings guided, and his spirit animated them.And his commoli reference to Christ, was in the words:“Crush the wretch I” And these minds controlled theideas which controlled the public mind and thoughtwhen and where The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Ritewas born and named, “Rite of Perfection;” and suchmen were its god-fathers. Its mother was infidelity,and its cradle rebellion. And whether the pretence ofMitchell and Daleho that the Charleston Supreme Councii,and its “Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite,” werechartered by the infidel monarch, Frederick, in 1786, befact or fiction, the double-headed eagle, which wasthe banner of both Frederick and the Charleston Counci!,proves the identity of their spirit, nature and intent.But what is this degree in itself? Its legend saysthat the real name of God was lost, till it was found byMasons, engraved on a three-cornered gold plate, in“the ruins of Enoch.” Whether the Mormon, Jo. Smith,who was a Mason, took his story of gold plates from thisone, or invented a like legend of his own, the two aresimilar in origin, nature, and effect. They both utterlydestroy Christianity, while pretending to favor aniexpand it.If we turn to the Ritual (page 320,) we see in this degreemen kneeling, and repeating the Hebrew names ofthe consonants which spell Jehovah, which consonantsthey say they found on that three cornered gold plate, ina cave dug before the deluge. They hear no name pro.nounced. The letters were never lost. The pronunciationof the name was lost, by the silence of superstitiousJews, who, in reading, paused and passed it. That isnot recovered. Our word Jehovah was formed, as weand Freemasons now pronounce it, by uniting its ownconsonants with the vowel sounds of A donai. That triangularplate, had there been one, could not speak.They pretended to find letters on it, and shout that theyhave found the true name of God; and some of themhint that our Savior stole the name out of the latterTemple, to conjure and work his miracles by! whiletheir whole trick is the conjuring and legerdemain ofwhich they accuse Christ IBut what do they mean to accomplish by it? We answer,what they mean is, obviously, what they get, viz:money and power over mind. And what the devil, whoinspires them, means, is equally plain. He knows that“This is life eternal, to know the living and true Godand Jesus Christ whom he hath sent.” He knows, too,that the Holy Ghost is ready to lead penitent, believingmen to God through the one only and Eternal Mediator—“The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world,”and so He is the Eternal Soul of the Old Testament andthe Subetance of the New. And Satan. wishes to keepmen from coming to Christ to be saved. And if he canso stultify and besot men that they will believe thatRamsay “fabricated” this degree, and yet that it tellstruth and “elevates men” !—That the story is manufactured,made up, and yet the name is real, and Masonrya good thing! Then he has accomplished the ruin ofevery such deluded man! He has taken away God, andthe only Mediator by whom finite creatures can come toHim; and set his dupes to gazing on imaginary letters,on an imaginary gold plate! And this is as good asworshipping the moon, or praying to spirits (devils,)

382 .‘,ATAN FILLS Tiik:lit hEARTS ~lfa1 LILS.WitI) one’s fingers on a table ;—he accomplishes a doublepurpo~e ;—ht=plucks men from God and chains them tohimself ;—he sets them, to “behold and wonder,” andtheui lie knows that they will “despise and perish” as theydo ;—he inserlsthimself into their worship ;—me~merizcsthem as conjureis mesmerize men ;—charms thcm asserpents charm rabbits and birds ;—fills their heai’ts withlies as hc did Ananias and Sapphira ;—“possesses” them,in short. And if he fails to convince their understandor“blind” their minds, he drags them, perhaps,into vices to disable them for doing good.~ueh is this Fourtecnth degree of The Ancient andAccepted Scottish Rite. Of course, all who receive itaiitl the degrees prceeding it, do not become its vietinis,but multitodes do. And when once he has set up hisstrong hold in the pulpit. lrnr, press, and above all, incolleges and schools;“Ten thousand rove the nooda and br,ikes among.~stw.,rdand some neatward and all wrengAll lose the way to God. None “find rest to their souls.”after Satan enters into them, as he entered Judas andAhithophel. But ~veare “complete in Christ,” bceauselie is our way to God, who is Infinite a~d Immovable.CHAPTER XXVFIFTEENTH DEGREE OR KNIGHTS OF THE EAST ORSWORD.’ 5’DECORATIONS —This assembly is styled a Council, twoapartments are necessary, the first is the apartment ofthe East representing a Palace, fitted up in the easternstyle with water green hangings, with throne, canopy.etc. Over the throne is a Sun, etc., behind the thronemay be a representation of the dream of Cyrus; in theWest are two arm-chairs.SECOND APARTMENI’ is the hail of the West andrepresents the ruins of the Grand Lodge of Perfectionat Jerusalem, with red hangings, and illuminated byseventy lights, in groups of seven each or usually twentyfive,viz: Three in the North, five in the South, sevenin the West, and nine in the East, and the Delta, makingtwenty-live. In the passage between these two roomsNote 1U.—”Knight of the East or Sword. The 15th degree of theAncient and Accepted rite it refers to those valiant Masons who, withtrowels in band and sworda by their aides, were every ready to constructand defend the Iloly City and 5nnctuary. It is founded on the eircumstanceof the assistance rendered hy Darins to the Jews. who, liberatedftom their captivity hy Cyrns had been prevented hy their enemies fromrebuilding the temple. This degree requires three aparments. styled Maliof the west end Hail of the East. between which must be an antechamberor passage, representing the road from Jerusalem to Perala.The first apartment represents the encampment of the Masons amongthe ruins of Jerusalem. The hangings are crimson. The mom islighted with 70 lights. disposed in groups of 7 each, in commemorationof the 70 yeara’ captivity. The second apartment represents thecouncil chamber of Cyrus, King of Persia. and should he decoratedaccording to the customa of the Orientais. In the ante-room. soparatingthe two apartments. must be a solid bridge, resembling stone.with a representation of running water under it. The jewel, of gold.is three trianglea. one within the other, diminishing in size, andinclosing two naked swords, crossed hilts downnard. resting on thebase of the inner triangle ‘—Maooya Enoyolopudia and DtatioaaqlPsemusonry. Article Knight of the Ealt or Swond.

384 KNIGHTS Oil THE EAST OK SWORD.KNIGHTS OP THE EAST OR SWORD. 385should be a wooden bridge guarded atarmed men.both ends byTITLES FIRST APARTMENT.Sovereign Ma~ter, represents Cyrus.Master of Cavalry, represents Senior Warden.Master of Infantry, represents—Junior Warden.Master of Palace, represents Orator.Master of Finance, represents TFeasurer.Master of Dispatches, represents Secretary.Master of Ceremonies.Captain of the Guards.CLOTHING :—The Sovereign Master, Master of Palace,and the Master of Dispatches are clothed in Royal Robes.The Sovereign Master wears a crown and uses a Scepter.All the brethren in Robes of Red or Yellow, with capsor turbans, with a sun embroidered on the front. TheSovereign Master, Master of Palace and the Master ofDispatches, each wear a red or green collar round theneck, from the end of which is suspended a Golden Sun.SECOND APARTME!JT :—Sovereign Master is StyledThrice Excellent. Wardens are styled Excellent Wardens.All others are styled Venerables.water colored girdle fringed with gold.All wear aIn the second apartment the presiding officer in thefirst part of the reception represents Ananias, seated inthe East and styled Sovereign Grand Master, clothed asthe other brethren, hut wears a crown and holds a gavelin his hand. His jewel is three triangles interlaced,suspended from the end of the order.In the second part of the reception he representsZerubbabel.The Senior Warden sits in the West clothed as theother brethren; his jewel is a square ~vithin three triangles.The Junior Waiden’s jewel is a level ~ ithin threetriangles. The Captain of the Guard is clothed as theother brethren, wearing the sash and jewel. All thebrethren wear green mantles or cloaks trimmed witheed, and the sash and jewel, and armed with swords;two cross swords are embroidered on the front of thesword belt.ORDER :—Water green colored sash with a green rosetteat’ the bottom, worn from right to left.JEWEL :—The same as the Grand Master Architect,with the addition of two steel cross swords on it, orsuspended from it.APRON :—White, lined and bordered with green, twovross swords, painted on the flap. On the apron arethree links of a chain of a triangular form, below theman arched bridge, on the center arch the letters L.0.~.?.•.BANNER:—Green silk, bordered with red, on it a lionAnd a wolf, emblems of the tribes of Judah and Benja.min.

K~TOIIT5 OF TiIF~ EAST Oil s~voRD. 387OPI~NING CEREMONII~SKNIGHTS OF TILE EAST on SwORD.’”[All the oflicers being at tileir stations except theSovereign Master.]Master of (Javalr~—Sir Knights, the Sovereign Masterhas o,rdered us to asselnbie to hold a Council, letus be attentive to what lii will propose to us. Here hecomes! [Sovereign Master enters, marches up to thethrone, strikes one with the poninich of his sword andbrings it to a s~llllte. All return the salute.]Sovereign Master—Sir Knigllt, Master of Cavalry,what is your duty?Afaster of Cauoh~q—To see that tIle Council is secure,that none may titter who are not true Knights.Sovereign ALmlcr—Szm’ haigllts, Masters of Cavalryand Infantry, Illake your inspection. (Thc~ leave theirstations, e=~ait1inehotlI doors and return.)Master of Cavalry—Sovereign Master. the guards areat their posts, tile Council is secure, and we may deliberatein safety.Note 154.—”Enigbt of the East or Sword. [Scotch Masonry.]—Thc’first dcgit’t’ (cinfc’rreil in the Cinnill of Prlo.’eo cit Jcrus,clc uc $eictch~i.csnnry,s.d tlcc’ ti I Ic’entb ci~on the en to usc. ut ttcict s.c .Ini. Thec,Illcc,r’c .rc. C3rus the ~overt’Igci Nel.iu.ic. lb. Spitter Ii. nirol. the.tu,iii.r Cencral, Ouncid Muster cf the Psicci. t~r.cnd Mustir if Cere’•co.,.ic~. On. uid ?.inntc’r of Itislo I he,. ii ccl ~rii nil t’.i~itoii if (luard.The hangings of the Oeuucccll th,.nctcer ore cc ntt’r-grt~ei. tii[c.’t rc , ef [hi’ii., ii of the Vc’orkmecc. red. Ilici c nrc’ sevc’u.t3 light liii’ .i vr~,ct is~chftp, lined and edged ‘c [tic grcn•cc, ,. nil iits 1cli~ a . i lii to of threelink’.: icpon the niccyoble pirt, tic.’ crenocil swords cccl. the scime,s the Orand Master Architect. cc filch ice tcigu’thcr wIth • rcc”””t ticcordsst the hot[em. I lent fcc c,~cc’,c, I lc,• uuid if Ihe arctic c .c’:crs cit esp—tIvIt~ hour to close, the i’c.mplettoe cit the ciceocid T.’ei~ili’. Age 7O.’—Mania’. Masonic Dictionary. Azticlo Knights ot the Epat or Sword.Sovereign Master—Sil’ Knight, Master of Cavalry, isthat sutlicient?Master of Cavalry—It is not, Sovereign Master, weshould be ~atisfied that all present are entitled to a seatin the Council.Sovereign Master—Satisfy yourselves, Sir Knights,Masters of Infantry and Cavalry. (They leave theirstations and receive the pass-word from each Knightand return.)Master of Cavalry—Sovereign Master, all present areKnights of the East or Sword.Sovereign Master—Together, Sir Knights. (All clapAve and two; 00000 00.) Glory to God and our Sovereign.Sovereign Master—I declare this Council of Knightsof the East or Sword open. ITe then strikes and says,be seated, Sir Knights.

INITIATION. 389CHAPTER XXVIFIFTEENTH DEGRER OR KNIGHTS OF THE EAST 03~iiwORD.INITIATION.The first part of the initiation is in the Grand lodgeof Perfection. The Master of Ceremonies prepares thecandidate as a Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason,conducts him to the door and knocks 3, 5, 7 and 9.Captain of Guard—Tbrice Puissant Grand Master,there is an alarm at the door.Thrice Puissant—See the cause of that alarm, venerableCaptain of the Guard. [Captain of the Guard goesto the door, knocks 3, 5, 7 and 9, opens it and says:]What is the cause of this alarm?Note 165.—Knight of the East. (Oheuliar 5’ OrIent.) This isa degree which has been extensively diffused through the most lm~portant Rites, and it ewes its popularity te the f.ic’t that it commemo.rstecs in its legend and its ceremonIes the labors ef the Macions in theconstruction of the second Temple“1, it is the fifteenth degree of the Ancient sad Accepted ScottishRIte, the description of which will apply with slight modtficstions tothe same degree in all the other Rites, It is founded upon the historyof the assistance rendered by Cyrus to the Jews who permitted the,to relorn to Jerusalem, and to commence the rebuilding of the house ofthe Lord, Zerubbobel, therefore, as the Prince of the Jews, and Cyruathe tdng of Persia, sa his patroci, sre Important personages in thedramo of reception; which Is conducted wIth grest impressi,enesae,en in the old and somewhat Imperfect rItual of [be Inst century,hut which has been greatly Improved, I thInk. is the modern ritualsado~d by the Supreme Ceciccells of the United Stales.n of a Knight of Ihe Rail Is as hroad green wateredribbon, worn as a baidric from left to right. The sash or girdle isof white watered silk, edged above, and fringed below with gold. Osit is ecnbrcildered a bridge, with the letters L. D. P. on the arch, andalso on of her parts of [he girdle human heads, and mutilated limbs.and crowns, acid swords, The apron Is crimson, edged with green.a bleeding head and two swords crossed on the flap, sad on the apronthree trlanglea Interlaced formed of trIangular links of chains. The~ triangles interlaced enclouiaf two naked swords,’~—Enayplopasdia of Freemasonry, hat ole Knight of the bat.Master of Ceremonies—A Grand Elect, Perfect andSublime Mason, who solicits the honor of being createda Knight of the East or Sword.Captain of Guard—Is this an act of his own free willand accord?Master of Ceremonies—It is.Captain of Quard—By what further right or benefitdoes he expect to obtain this privilege?Master of Ceremonies—By the benefit of the SacredWord, and with your assistance we will give it. (TheCaptain of the Guard retires and the word is given as inthe lodge of Perfection, when all rise.)Captain of Guard—Who is this brother, venerableGrand Master of Ceremonies, and whence comes lie?Master of Ceremonies—His name is Zerubbabel’” aPrince of the house of Judah who comes from Babylonto view the ruins of the temple’ and the holy city.Captain of Guard—What does he desire?Master of Ceremony—To offer his sei~vices to hisbrethren who have returned from captivity.Captain of Guard—Let him wait a time with patienceand I will inform the Thrice Excellent Grand Master oflot. 1U.—”Thls eminent Prince who in wisdom. Influence and sealfor God’s honor, was only second to Solomon himself, Is Introducedinto the degrees of Royal Arch and Red Cross Knight, also into varloosdegrees of Sc~otcb Masonry, occupyIng the seine relation to the secondtempleAfiolomon did to Ihe first. So prominent. Indeed, was hispositlo., that the Second Temple I. most frequently called after hisname, The name Z.rubhahel signifies ~begottenIn Babylon,’ referringhe his nativity. He I. called ‘the son of Shealtiel. He was theace, or head, of the Iribe of Judah. at the time of the return fromf~ flahylonish ca1’ tivity. himself, B, and C. pisied 536. Of himself the at decree the head of Cyrus of those heImmediately of his countrymen avaiL, ‘whose spirit GeS had raised to go up to buIldthe House of the Lord which Is in Jerusalem.’ It was probable thathe was In the service of the King of Babylon. for he hsd a Chaidaicmane. 5heebbsssar. and was appointed hy Cyrus governor of Jades.BeIng armed with s grant from thai King. of timbe, and stone forthe building, and of money for the expenses of the buildere. he collectedthe materials, including cedar trees fro~ Lebanon, and gottogether masons and csrpentera to do the work by the openin ofsecond year of their return. But ml~~~ntatlens at the Court ofPersia esat a blight upon the prospect, and for many years Cue workof building ceased. In the second year of Darina, however. B C, 520.a favorable decree was secured, gained, according to masonic tradition.by a personal appeal from Zenibbahel, who had spent some of the~re of Ils youth with Darius. while the latter was a private~n.”—Merriaa Masonic Dictionary5 Astisle Zasubbehel.

390 KNIGHTS OF TIlE r.A~T OR SWORD. INITIATION. 391his request. (Captain of the Guard enters, approachesthe throne, knocks 3, ~? 7 and 9.)Thrtcc Excellent—What is the cause of this alarm?Captain of Guard—Thrice Excellent Grand Mast*I,there ts without 1 a Grand Elect, Perfect and Su~b1iIlIeMason who solicits the honor of being created a Knightof the East of Sword.Thrice Excellent—Is this an act of his own frcc willand accord?Captain of Guard—It is.Thrice Excellent—Wllo is . this brother, venerablt’Captain of the Guard, and wllence comes he?Captain of Guard—his name is Zcrubbabel’~Prince of thc house of Judah, who comes from Bab~lonto view the ruins of the temple and the holy city.Thrice Excellent—What does lIe dcsire?Captain of Guard—To offer his scrviccs to his breti’.ren who have rcturned from captivit~.Thrice Excellent—You will retire and let this Princeof the house of Judah be admitted.Captain of Guard—(Havmlig opened the door) it istile order oI~ the Thrice Excellent Gland Master, thatthis Prince of the house of Jimdali bc admitted.Thrice Excellent—(Knoeks three; 000. All rise.)(Master of Ceremonies and candidate enter, approachthe altar and salute.)Note 157.—”Tliici traditional history relotes that 2erohbabel. forthe protfiction of hit people, armed 7 000 Masons, and placed them Inthe ‘.an to repel such as should oppose theIr march to Judes. Theirmureb cuss unimpeded as far en iii.’ bank, of the Euphrates. whereth”y found an armed force opposed to their paaaage. A conflielensued, and the enemy was cot to pieces •‘r drowned at the i)aa~sg..of the bridge. The emblenotie color of the degree is In itll~nloti ii’this circumstance The journey ceenpird four months. ned in aeveutdays from thrir arrival the work of restoring the temple wan cootmenced.Tue workmen were dIvided Into clascies. over each of whicha ,hlcf. with two aqeletants, cicina t,iaoe,l F’.very degree of etch classwas paid according to Its rank find ci, h cItes lied Its diStineilve modesof recognition ‘—Macoy’s Encyclopaedia and Dmotiosary of Freemasonry.Articlo Knight of the East or Sword.T/srice Excellent—My brother, tllis lodge has beenselected to rule and govern the remnant of the childrenof Israel, who have returned from captivity where theyhad been carried after the destruction of Jerusalem andKing Solomon’s temple by Nebuchadnezzar”’ King ofthe Chaldeans. We cannot receive you as befits yourrank, for we are poor and discouraged, as our once noblecity still remains in ruins. But we welcome you, andrejoice that you have not forgotten your brethren, andthank you also for your kind offer.Master of C~rsmonies—(For Candidate) Thrice ExcellentGrand Master, this is the first year of the reignof Cyri~slsa King of Persia, and he hath made a proclamationthroughout all his kingdom, and put it also inwriting, saying, “thus saith Cyrus King of Persia. TheLord God of Heaven hath given me all the kingdomsof the earth, and he hath charged me to build him anIlouse at Jerusalem.” I have come hither at the requestof my brethren to offer up our prayers unto theGod of Israel, that lie will cause Cyrus the King to rememberhis proclamation and set free all the childrenof Israel now in bondage, and let them go up to Jerusalemwhich is in Judah and rebuild the house of theMote 168.—’ ‘Nebuchadnessttr was engagcd during his whole reIgnIn wars of conquest. Among ntb,’r nations who fell beneath hisvictorious arms was Judes. whose king, Jeholakim. was slain byitehuchadneaaar. and his son. Jehotachin. ascended the Jewish throne.After a reign of three years. he was deposed hy Nehochadnessar. andhIs kingdom given to his uncle, Zedeklah. a monarch distinguished forhis vIces. Having repeatedly rehelled against the Babylonian king,Nebuchadnemar repaired to Jerusalem. and after a sIege of eighteenmonths, reduced it. The cite was leveled with the ground, the Templepillaged and burned, and the inhabItant., carried captive to Babylon.”—Mackey’s Enegolopeodia of Freemasonry, hztlole Nsbuehada.asar.lots 1U.—”The Jews. who bad been carried away by Nehuehadesmaron the destruction of the Temple, were then remaining sacaptIves in Babylon. These Cyrus released A. M. 8466. or 3. 0. 586.and soot them back to Jerusalem to rebuild the house of God, underthe care of Joshua. Zermibbahel. and Haggal. Hence, from this con.nectlon of Cyrus with the history of Masonry, lie plays an buportantpert In the ritualS of many ‘of the high degrees.“—Mackay’s Emepolo-9eeiia of Freemasonry. Article Cyrus.

392KNIGHTS OP THE EAST OR SwoRD.Lord God of Israel which is in Jerusalem.TArice Excellent—Brethren let us offer up our prayer,for the success of the noble prince Zerubbabel.PRAYER, KNIGHTS OP THE EAST OR SWORD.Thou, 0 Lord, wilt save the afflicted people and wiltlevel the high towers of pride. By thine aid have I runthrough a troop of enemies, and by my God I lesped insafety over a wall.As for God, his way is perfect, the word of the Lordis tried, he is a bucklerto all those who trust in him, forwho is God save the I,~ord? Or who is a rock save ourGod? He teacheth me to war, so that a bow of steel isbroken by mine arms. Thou hast also given me theshield of thy salvation, and thy right hand hath holdenins up, sud thy strength hath given me power. I havepursued mine enemies and overtaken them, neither didI turn sgain until they were consumed. I have woundedthem and they were not able to rise, they are fallenunder my feet for thou hast girded me with strength untothe battle. Thou hast subdued under me those that roseup against me. Therefore will I praise the Lord forevermore.Amen.Master of Ceremonies—(For candidate) Thrice ExcellentGrand Master, I will now retire, and after I havevisited the ruins of the temple I shall return to Babylon,and if possible obtain an audience with Cyrus”’ theKing and remind him of his proclamation, and endeavorto obtain the liberty of our brethren in captivity,to enable us to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the houseof the Lord.lots 1YS.—TbIs dIstInguIshed character. the found.’, of the Peg’.I. Introduced In Scotch Masonry In the degrees of KUIEbSand Grand Master Ad.vitam; in Chivalri. Masonry, in thedegree of lCulgbt of the Bed Cross, and In Chapter Masonry, in thedagree of Royal Arch.“Re defeated the Median King. shoot B. C 1159. and began acareer of cooqoest. which made him the hero of the Rast. Thirteenhe defeated Crwsus and conquered Lydia. He captureS~‘bylon,3. c. M5. He fell In battle. B. C. 823. HIs monument isSill shown at Paseryad,. In pnod preservatIon. “—Noiris’s K~Ie~onary. ArtIcle Oysm AstasmINITIATION. 393Thrice Excellent—(To candidate) Again we thankyou Zerubbabel foryour kind offer. We will also furnishyou with an escort to the Persian frontier while we offerup our prayers for your success.Thrice Excellent—Excellent Senior Grand Warden,you will take a sufficient number of guards; let Zerubbabel”’view the ruins of the temple and the holy city,and conduct him to the Persian frontier, for he bearsthe tears and distresses of his brethren.Thrice Excellent—Brethren, I declare this lodge ad-Journed.Master of Ceremonies and Senior Warden conductthe candidate to the ante-room, divest him of his ornaments,bare his head and neck and bind his waist withchains, throw a black veil over his head, etc., meanwhilethe brethren retire to the first apartment, representingthe court of Cyrus, when the officers take their stations.Master of Ceremoniea—( With candidate knocks 5 and3 on the door.)Master of Infantry—Sir Knight, Master of Cavalry,some one knocks as a Knight of the East or Sword.Master of Cavalry—Sovereign Master, some oneknocks as a Knight of the East or Sword.Sovereign Master—Sir Knight, Captain of the Guardsee who knocks. (Captain of the Guard goes to thedoor, knocks 5 and 2, then opens it.)lots 171.—”Zercijhhabel. in writIng the life of Zerubbabel In aMasonic point of view. It is Incumbent that reference should be madeto the legends as well as to the more strictly historical details of hiseventful career, ~W’~ ihe traditIons of the Royal Arch, and someother of the high degrees. Zerobbabel Is not less Intimately connectedthan Ia Solomon with those of Pyinbollr or Ancient Craft Masonry. ~‘ounderstand those traditioss properly, they moat be placed in theirappropriate place In the life of him who plays so Important a partin them. Some of these legends have the concurrent auppoet ofScripture, some are related by Josephus. and some appear to haveno historical foundation, without, therefore, vouching for theIr authentIcity,they must be recounted 1 to make the Masonic life of the builderof th complete. ‘—Knoheg’s aoyeiopaadls of Freemasonry.

394 KNIGHTS OF TIlE EAST OIl SWORD.Captain of Guard—Who knocks, and “dIaL do youdesire?Master of Ceremonies—I beg if possible, that ~ouwould procure me the honor of speaking to the king.Captain of quard—Who are you?Master of Ceremonies—A Jew by nation, a Princeby blood, descendant from the race of David and thetribe of Judah, but a captive and slave by misfortune.Captain of Guard—What is your name?Master of Ceremonies—Zerubbabel.”’Captain of Guard—Whatis your age FMaster of Ceremonies—Seventy years.Captain of Guard—From whence came you?Master of Ceremonies—From Jerusalem.Captain of Guard—What motives bring you here?Master of Ceremonies—The tears and distresses ofmy brethren.Captain of Guard—Wait a while and I will go andintercede with the king for you. (Captain of the Guardshuts the door and approaches the altar.)Captain of Guard—Sovereign Master, there is withoutone who desires the honor of being admitted intoyour presence.Soverci~qn Master—Who is he?Captain of Guard—A Jew by nation, a Prince byKate lV3.—”Zen,bbabel (sown In Babylon), a Prince of Zudab, nonof shealtiel. of the royal housc of David. was the leader of the firstcolony of Jews that returned from captivity to their native land undcrthe permission of Cyrus. carrying with them the precious vesselsbelonging to the temple for the service of God. With the aid ofJoshua and his body of priesta Zerul’hahel proceeded, on his arrivalin Jerusalem. to rebuild the fallen city, beginning with the altar ofburnt-offerings, in order that tbe dolly services michi be restored. ‘rhosamaritana. however, having been offended at beIng expresaly excludedfrom a share in the land, threw ohatarles in the way to hlndhr thework, and even procured from the Persian court an order that It shouldbe stopped. Accordingly. everythIng remained auspended until the seeondyear of Darius Ityataspla in. C. 521 ~. when the restoi’stion wasreaumed and carried to completion, through the Influence of Zerubbabelwith the Persian monarch This sublect Is heantifullv exemplified inthe degrees of the Rast end Sword and the Knight of the Red Cross.”Maooy’s Encyolopsedie and DIctionary of rreemnaaonry. katie!. ZerubbebeLINITIATION. 295blood, descendant from the race of David, and tribe ofJudah, but a captive and slave by misfortune.Sovereign Master—What is his name?Captain of Guard—Zerubbabel.Soverei~’n Master—What is his age?Captain of Guard—Seventy years,Sovereign Master—What motives bring him hither?Captain of Guard—The tears and distresses of hisbrethren.Sovereign Master—Let him be admitted. (Captain ofthe Guard opens the door, they enter and the Master ofCeremonies conducts him seven times round the roomwhile the following is read:Sovereign Master—By the rivers of Babylon, therewe sat down, yea, we wcpt when we remembered Zion,we hanged our harps upon the willows in the midstthereof, for there they who carried us away captives requiredof us a song, and they who wasted us, requiredof us mirth, saying sing to us one cf the songs of Zion.How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?if I forget thee 0, Jerusalem, let my right hand forgether cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tonguecleave to the roof of my mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalemabove my chief joy.Remember, 0 Lord the children of Edom in the dayof Jerusalem, who said, raze it, raze it, even to thefoundation thereof. 0 daughter of Babylon, who art tobe destroyed, happy shall he he who rewardeth thee asthou hast served us. Happy shall be he that taketh anddasheth thy little ones against the stones. (When thisis ended they halt in front of the Master of Cavalry.)Master of Cavalry—What motives bring you hither?Master of Ceremonies—I am come to implore the

K396 KNIGHTS OF THE EAST OR swoRD.bounty and justice of the king.Master of Cavalry—On what occasion?’Master of Ceremonies—To beg grace for my brethren,masons in captivity for seventy years.Master of Cavalty—Who are you?Master of Ceremonies—Zerubbabel a Hebrew Prince,sprung from the race of David.Master of Cavalry—What is the grace you-would ask?Master of Ceremonies—TO see my brethren set free,to suffer them to return to Judea and rebuild the temple,revive the laws of the God of Battles and the ordinancesof Moses.Master of Cavalry—Brother Master of Ceremonies,let the candidate face the East. (Master of Ceremoniescauses him to do so.)Master of Cavalry—Sovereign Master, tbere stanaishere in the West one who desires the honor of beingadmitted into your presence.Sovereign Master—What brings him hither?Master of Cavalry—lie comes to implore your bountyand justice.Sovereign Master—On what occasion?Master of Cavalry—wTo beg grace for his brethren,masons in captivity for seventy years.Sovereign Master—Who is he?Master of Cavalry—Zerubbabel, a Hebrew Prince,sprung from the race of David.Sovereign Master—What is the grace he would ask?Master of Cavalry—To see his brethren set free, tosuffer them to return to Judes and rebuild the temple,revive the laws of the God of Battles and the ordinancesof Moses.Sovereign Master—Since motives so praiseworthy haveUNTIAYION. 397brought him hither, permit him to approach our presencewith his face uncovered.Master of Cavalry—Brother Master of Ceremonies,cpnduct the candidate to the East. (Master of CeremoniescQnducts him to th~ East, causes him to kneelbefore the Sovereign Master and takes the veil off hishead.)Sovereign Master—This is indeed Zerubbabel, whosaved my life at the risk of his own. Arise’ Zerubbabeland prefer your request. (Master of Ceremonies causeshim to rise and says:)Master of Ceremonies—(For candidate) SovereignMaster, the tears and lamentations of my fellow captivesand the remnant of our people at Jerusalem have compelledme to appeal to your justice and mcrcy. Manyremain here in bondage and all anxious for the happyday to arrive when they shall be engaged in rebuildingthe holy city and the house of the Lord. They haveprayed me to obtain an audfence with your augustmajesty to implore your clemency and that you will bepleased to restore to those their freedom who are now inbondage, to enable them to return to the land of theirfathers and to aid and assist in rebuilding the house ofthe Lord.Sovereign Master—(To candidate) Zerubbabel, I haveoften heard of your fame as a wise and skillful masonand I have a profound veneration for that ancient andhonorable institution, and a sincere wish to become amember of the same; I have also, like yourself lamentedthe seventy years’ captivity of the Israelites. I nowpromise to grant your request if you will communicateto me the secrets of masonry which distinguished theJews from all other nations.Master of Ceremonies—Sovereign Master, when ourGrand Master, Solomon King of Israel communicatedto us the first principles of masonry, he informed us

398 XWICTTrS or TIlE EAST OR SWORD. INITIATION. 399that equality was its foundation. Equality does notreign here. Your rank, your superiority, your titles andyour court are not admissible in the place where instructionsare given in our mysteries. Solomon also taughtus that Truth w~s a divine attrib~’tp and the foundationof every virtue. To be good and true was the first lessonwe were taught in masonry. Myengagements are sacredand inviolable, I ani unable to revcal our secrets, and ifliberty is to be obtained at such a price, I would preferan honorable exile or a glorious death.Sovereign Master—Sir Knights, I admire the discretionand virtue of Zerubbabel. He deserves liberty as areward for his firmness. Zerubbabel, you are free.Guards free Zerubbabel from those chains and that garbof slavery. (The brcthrcn take off his chains) and maythose badges of scrvitude never again disgrace thehands of a mason and more especially those of a Princeof the house of Judah. Sir Knight, Master of Ceremoniesconduct Zerubbabel to the seat of honor.Master of Ceremonies—Sovereign Mdster, permitZerubbabel to thau,k thee for thy great clemency andfavor, and at the same time to again urge the prayersand entreaties of his brethren in bondage. In the firstyear of thy reign, thou didst issue thy Jioval Proclamationand promised to give them their liberty and permitthcm to return to the land of their fathers and aid andassist their own kindred and brethren in rebuilding thehouse of the Lord. Wilt thou not harken unto theirvoice that thou mayest reign in peace and prosperity onthy throne that God hath given thee?Sovcreign Mastv’r—Princes, Generals and Knights, Ihave for a long time meditated to give the captive masonstheir liberty. It troubles me to see those people inshams. Their God, whom they call their mighty God,has appeared to me in a vision, and methought this Godthreatened me like a roaring lion ready to fall upon anddevour me, methought I heard th~sc words from hismouth wl~ich signifies in our language, render my peopletheir liberty, or thou shalt die. Alarmed at the sight,I endeavored to escape by flight but my feet refused toobey. Then I saw Nebuchadnazzar and Belshazzar,Kings of Babylon, lying prostrate and loaded withchains, and above them in a bright glory the ineffablename. Amazed and terrified, I awoke. From you thercfore,beloved Princes, [ expect counsel in this matteras regards what I must do to the people of IsraeL (Allobserve a profound silence for awhile.)Master of Palace—Sovereign Master, the voice whichyou heard in your dream was that of thc Great ‘~rc1iitectof the Universe, who long since through his prophetsforetold your coming, and gave you dominion overthe East. The captives are the children who have beenin bondage seventy years. The God of their fatherswhom they call their mighty God, commands you to freethem from bondage, and permit them to return to thcirown country, that they may assist their brethren in rebuildingthe house of the Lord. The chains upon theprostrate Kings, warn you of your fate should you refuse.The roaring lion represents his anger that willovertake and destroy you if you disobey his commands.Thus, Sovereign Master do I interpret your drcam andwould counsel you to render the people of Israel theirliberty and live.Sovereign Master—Grand Master of Palace, I willharken unto thy voice. Zerubbabel,I consent that Israelbe sent at liberty, even that they are permitted to

400 KNIGHTS Gi THU EAST OR sWORD. INITIATION. 401return to their own country or remain in my dominjoiw,and that you may go and build a temple to the mightyGod, and that the vases and all the other ornaments ofthe old temple be raised and restored to you for theornamepts of the New. Further, I appoint you chiefover all the Jewihh nation and command that they obeyyou as such, and as an authentic mark of my good will Iarm you with this sword. (Invests him with it) to combatwith your enemies and to make you formidable toouch of your brethren that might combat against you. Ialso invest you with this green sash and apron, (invest.him) in imitation of those worn by the ma~ons employedat the building of Solomon’s temple. I will now deliveryou in charge of Nebuzaradan, my general who will instructyou in the art of war and give you guides and anescort to conduct you in safety to your brethren, whereyou will found the new temple. Thus I decree GrandMaster of Cavalry. You will now retire with Zerubbabeland instruct him in the art pf war, procure guardsand an escort for him to conduct him in safety to hisbrethren. (After he retires the brethren go into thesecond apartment and the officers take their stations.When all is ready the Master of Ceremonies conductshim to the bridge which he attempts to cross, but isopposed by the guards who rob him of his apron andsash. He attacks them and drives them off, crosses thebridge and arrives at the door of the second apartmentor lodge of Perfection, and the Master of Ceremoniesknocks 5 and 2.)Excellent Senior Warden—Thrice Excellent GrandMaster, there is an alarm at the door.Thrice Excellent—Venerable Captain of the Guard,see the cause of that alarm. (Captain of the Guard go..to the door, knocks 5 and 2, then opens it.)Captain of Guard—What is the cause of this alarm?Master of Ceremonies—Zerubbabel, Prince of thehouse of Judah, I wish to see my brethren, that I mayinform them of my deliverance from Babylon, and thatof the unhappy remnant of the fraternity which havebeen freed from captivity. (Captain of Guard shutsthe door.)Captain of Guard—Thrice Excellent Grand Master,it is Zerubbabel, Prince of the house of Judah, whowishes to see his brethren that he may inform them ofhis deliverance from Babylon and that of the unhappyremnant of the fraternity who have been freed frombondage.i’hrice Excellent—(Knocks 5; 00000. AU rise.) LetZerubbabel be admitted. (Captain of Guard admitsthem, they enter and halt at the altar.)Alt-Health to Zerubbabel Prince of Judah.Captain of Guard—Thrice Excellent Grand Master, Iintroduce to you Prince Zerubbabel .who wishes to bereceived into the bosom of our fraternity.Thrice Excellent—Zerubbabel 1 welcome you, andwould be much pleased to hear an account of yourdeliverance.Master of Ceremoniea—(For candidate) Thrice ExcelleutGrand Master, on my arrival at Babylon, Cyrusme permission to enter his court and approach therave of his throne and implore his bounty for my brethrenin captivity. He was touched with the mysteries ofthe fraternity and armed me with this sword for thedefence of my brethren and honored me with the titi.of brother among his companions. He granted me myfreedom and committed me to the care of his faithfulsubjects who conducted me on my journey and assistedme in conquering my enemies at the passage of theriver Euphrates, where notwithstanding our victory welost the marks of distinction which had been given us bythe king.Thrice Excellent—My brother, the loss which youhave met with shows that the justice of our fraternitywould not endure the triumph of pomp and grandeur.In decorating you with those honors, Cyrus was notguided by that spirit of equality which has always char-

402 KNiGHTS 01 THU RAST OR swoRD. INITIATION. 408aeterized you. By this loss all the marks of distinctionreceived by you from that Prince have disappeared, butyou have preserved that of Freemasonry. But before Icommunicate to you those secrets, wi~eh since our captivityhave been~ preserved among the remnant of ourfraternity, we must require of you assurances that youhave not lost the sentiments or knowledge of masonryduring your servitude. How far have you advanced inmasonry?Master of Ceremonies—(For candidate) To that ofPerfection.Thrice Excellent—Oive me the sign.Master of Ceremonies—(Gives it) or more generallythe candidate.Thrice Excellent—Give to the Master of Ceremoniesthe grip and words.Cand:date—(Gives them.)Thrice Excellent—Sir Knights, I believe Zerubbabelis worthy to participate in our new mysteries. What sayyou? (All answer by holding up their swords.)Thrice Excellent—Venerable Master of Ceremonies,you will conduct Zerubbabel by three steps to the altarand there let him kneel and contract his obligation.(Master of Ceremonies causes him to advance by threesteps and kneel at the altar, when the Thrice Excellentleaves the throne, goes to the altar and administers thefollowing obligation:OBLIGATION KNIGHT OF TilE EAST OR SWORD.I—promise and swear in the presence of the GreatArchitect of the Universe, and before all the brethren,Knights of the East here present and assembled, on thefaith of an honest man and freemason, to be faithful inmy religion and laws of the state, and as far as in mypower never to reveal the mysteries of the degree ofKnights of the East, and never receive into this degreeany brother but conformable to the ancient statutes andconstitutions of the order, under the penalty of beingdishonored and losing the title of a freemason, and ofbeing deprived of the advantages of the Council. SoGod maintain me in uprightness and justice. Amen.Thrice Excellent—Venerable Master of Ceremonies,you will now conduct our brother to our Excellent SeniorGrand ‘Warden who will invest him with the signs,grip and words of this degree. (Thrice Excellent returnsto the throne, seats the brethren and the Master ofCeremonies conducts the candidate to the Senior Warden.)Excellent Senior Grand Warden—My dear brother, Irejoice at the favors yob have received from our SovereignCyrus, for by his bounty you and the nation havebecome free. He has armed you with a sword to. defendyourself against your enemies. I will now decorate youwith this sash, worn from the right shoulder to the lefthip, and now put you in possession of the signs, gripand words of this degree, which are as follows:SIG~l, KNIGHTS OF THE EAST ORSWO~.Raise the right hand to the left shoulderand move it downward to the righthip, with a serpentine motion as if torepresent the motion of the waters of ariver; then draw the sword and bring it tothe guard as if to fight.

7404 KNIGHTS OF TIlE EAST Oil SWORD.TOKEN.Seize mutuallythe left hands, thearms lifted and extendedas if to~repulsean attack; atthe same time makewith the right handthe motion of clearingthe way; thenpoint the swords toeach other’s heart.One says Judah theother answers.Benja~min.Token.MARCH :—Proceed proudly by five long steps and holdthe sword high.BATTERY :—Seven strokes by five and two.AGE :—Seventy years.PASS WORD :—Iaaborou, hammain or liberty of passage.GRAND WORD :—Shalal, Shalom, Abi, in Latin Restoravitpacem patri. lie resotored peace to his co~mtry.SACRED WORD :—Raph-O-dOIfl.Senior Grand Warden—(Continuing) My brother, thedestruction of the temple subjugated masons to suchsevere calamities we feared that their captivity and dispersionmight have impaired their fidelity to their engagements,and for this reason we have been obligedwhile rebuilding the temple to remain in a secret andretired place, where we carefully preserve some of theruins of the ancient temple.We do not introduce any to that place unless we knowthem to be true and worthy masons, not only by theirsigns, grips and words, but also by their conduct. ToDhITUTION. 405those, and those only we communicate our seciets withpleasure, and we require as a pledge that they shouldbring with them some remains of the monuments or or-Riaments of the old temple. Those which you receivedfrom Cyrus are aufilcient.The object of our labors is to rebuild the temple ofthe Great Architect of the Universe. This sublime workhas been reserved for you.The engagements into which you, with us have enteredunder the name of Zerubbabel require you to aidand assist us in rebuilding the temple in its originalsplendor. The sword which Cyrus has given you is tobe used in defending ydur brethren and punishing thosewho would profane the august temple which we raisedto the, glory of the holy one of Israel. It is on theseconditions you participate in our ceremonies. VenerableMaster of Ceremonies, you will now conductZerubbabel to the brethren and satisfy them that he hasthe signs, grip and words, after which you will conducthim to our Thrice Excellent Grand Master in the East.(Master of Ceremonies conducts him to the North andEast ,columns and he giv.es each Knight the signs, gripand words. He then conducts him to the Thrice ExcellentMaster.)Thrice Excellent—My brother, your deliverance byCyrus and having been ereatcd a Knight by him, I nowpresent you\with this trowel. (Presents it,) a symbolof your new dignity, that hereafter you may labor witha trowel in one hand and use the sword with the otherto defend ourselveR against our enemies should we everbe attacked, for in that manner we have proceeded torebuild it.[Presents him with sash and girdle.]Receive this girdle as a mark of true knighthood,

406 KNIGHTS OF THE EAST OR SWORD.which you acquired at the River Euphrates by the victoryyou obtained over those who opposed your passage.(Presents him with a green rosette.]Though we do not admit among our ceremonies anyof the decorations which were given to you by Cyrus,yet we are willing to preserve their remembrance by arosette of that color.[He affixes it to his coat and presents him with thecollar and jewel.]This collar and jewel is the badge of the Knights ofthe East or Sword. May justice and equity, representedby the sword, be your guide.(He next presents him with the gloves.]Knights and Princes, I hereby declare Zerubbabel tobe a chief and a ruler over the labors of masonry.Zerubbabel, ascend the throne of the Sovereigns of ourlodge, preserve the triangular stone of this edifice, andrule the workmen as Solomon, Hiram and Joabert havedone before you. [Seats him on his right hand.IThrice Excellent—Join me Sir Knights! [All clapthree times with their hands and at each time say witha loud voice, Zerubbabel.]Thrice Excellent—Illustrious Grand Orator, you havethe floor.ADDRESS BY GRAND ORATOR.My brother, after the destruction of the holy city andthe temple by Nebuzaradan, he took all the prisonerswhom he had captured and carried them away intocaptivity into Babylon, making his triumphal entranceinto Babylon with an immense number of these unfortunatesin chains, not excepting even the unhappyking Zedekish himself, who died three years after. HeINITIATION. 407ordered the links of their chains to be made of a triangu~iar”’shape in order more fully to insult the captiveJews, who he knew had a profound religious venerationand respect for the triangle or delta. Great was thesorrow of the masons when they witnessed the destructionof the temple, the grandest work of human hands,which had been directed by the Great Architect of theUniverse himself. Their tears never eeasd to flow, untilthe day of their liberation, when they were permittedto build it anew, after the model of the former one.This grace, after seventy years of captivity was accordedto them by Cyrus King of Persia, a prince faniousalike for his brilliant victories and great humanities.This great conqueror, master of the EasternwOrld had a singular and remarkable vision. He appearedto hear a voice from the Heavens directing himto give liberty to the captives. The Prophet Daniel,who had become one of the favorites of the monarchand arrived at honor and rank in his court, explained tohim the true interpretation of the vision.Zerubbabel, a Prince of the house of Judah, havinggained admission to the presence of King Cyrus dcmandedof him the freedom of his nation and permissionto return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple.The King graciously granted the request and maderestitution to him of all the treasures which had beencarried away from the holy temple by his predecessorsand honored Zerubbabel with the title of Knight of theorder, and directed that every facility and assistanceshould be afforded him and his compatriots, and issueda royal edict to that effect. Then Zerubbabel assembledall the Israelites, the number of whom were forty-twothousand three hundred and sixty (42,360) exclusiveNet• 173.—”ChsIn. TrIangular. One of the legends of FreeinauonrlleNa us that when the Jewls~ Masons were carried ma capHvea fromlerusalem to Babylon by Nebuebadneasar. they were hound by trL&ngularebalom. which was Intended am an additional Insult because to themthe triangle, or delta. was a symbol of the Deity, to be uaed only onmewed ocesslona. The legend is of course apocryphal, and Ba worthg~ Ing except am a ~~~ndary symbol. —Ua*e,~m ~eyeiqma~Ia d

408 KNIGHTS OP TUE EAST OR 5~ORD. INITIATION. 409of the slaves. He then made choice of those freemasonswho had escaped the fury of their enemies at the dcstructionof the temple to the number of seven thousand(7,000) whom he created Knights, and placed atthe head of th~ people to fight such astheir passage into Judes.might .oppoeeAfter Zerubbabel had received from the Grand Tressurerall the riches of the temple he took his departureaccompanied by his people, on th~ day which correapondswith the 22nd of March.He prospered on his journey as far as the banks ofthe Euphrates which separates Judes from Syria.The Knight Masons who arrived there first, foundarmed troops to prevent their passage on account of thetreasul’es they carried with them. The remonstrance ofthe Knights and the Edict of Cyrus”’ were equally unavailableto restrain their insolence and they fell on theKnights Masons but were repulsed with such ardourthat to a man they were either drowned or cut to piecesat the passage of the bridge.After this victory”’ Zerubbabel caused an altar to beNote 174.—”Oywua. Thia prince was mentioned by the prophet lasish,two hundred years before he was horn mm the reeto of the templeat Jerusalem. And accordingly, miter tl,e seventy yes’~’ofesptivit.~Babylon were accomplished. It pleased the Lord to direct him to fasuethe following proclamation. The Lord God of Heaven bath given me allthe RI~~ms of the earth. and he bath charged me to build him amhouse at Jerusalem, which is In Judab. Who Is there among you ot allhia peoplet his God be with him, end let him go up In erusalem whiebIa in Judab, end build the house of the Lord God of Israci he is theOo%wbicbia in Jerumalem. ‘—Ma.oys Euoyoloj,emdia and Dtotieuas~Aztieh Oyrus.Note lYS.—”Their peogreas homewards was not altogether unattendedwith danger; for traditlon Informs us that at the river Euphrates theywere opposed hy the Assyrlana, who. incited by the temptation of thevast amount of golden vessels which they were carrying, drew up ishostiie array, and, notwithstanding the remonatran~ of the Jews. andthe edict of Gyros, disputed their pammage. Serubbabei, however, repulsedthe enemy with such ardor as to ensure a signal victory, moat of theAsayrlans having been slain in the battle, or drowned in their attemnt tocross the river In their retreat. The rest of the Journey was unfi,ter.rupted. and, after a march of four months. Zeruhbabel arrived at Jern..1cm. with his weary foilowers. at seven o’clock in the morning of thed of June. five hundred and tbirty.five years before Christ. ‘—Naehsy’sopeadia ml lummaaengy mole Sasubbabelseseted on the field of battle on which an Holocaust tothe God of armies was offered.The Israelites then passed the river and arrived atJerusalem, where after seven days rest, with the assist-.ance of a number of Jews who had escaped from thefury of the war and the rigors of the captivity had beenwandering, dispersed and miserable near the ruinswhich had once beenthe scene of their grandeur.Among this number were several Grand Elect, Pei.feet and Sublime Masons,’who had received a knowledgeof the mysteries from their ancestors and mettogether secretly to mourn over the misfortunes of theirbrethren and to practice the ceremonies of their order.These zealous masons sought among the rubbish andruins for the entrance to the sacred vault, which hadnot been discovered by the enemy at the destruction ofthe temple, and after diligent search were successfuland used to meet there and practice their mysteries,being animated with the hope of some day seeing theirlabors renewed. They continued to elect a chief topreside over their assemblies until Zerubbabel’s returnwhen they began the foundation and work of the newtemple.Hardly was the work begun however, when theKnights Masons were disturbed by false brethren fromSamaria, who, jealous of the glory the two tribes ofJudah and Benjamin, were to acquire being now free,resolved to declare war against them in order to defeattheir design of rebuilding the temple. Zerubbabel beluginformed of their intentions ordered that all theworkmen should be armed with a sword, so that whilethey worked with a trowel they might defend themselvesand repulse the enemy when required.

410 KNIGHTS OF TEE EAST OR SWORD.The construction of the new temple lasted forty-six(48) years, beginning in the reign of Cyrus and endingin that of Artaxerxes, and constructed in the same manneras the first one by Solomon.This second ~temple having been destroyed ~bytheRomans, the Knights Masons of the present age descendantsof those who constructed it are obliged underthe guidance of a new Zerubbabel to raise a third templeto the glory of the Supreme Architect of the Universe.LECTURE KNIGHT OF THE EAST OR SWORD.Grand Orator—Venerable Master of Ceremonies, areyou a Knight df the East?Master of Ceremonies—I have received that character,my name, my robes, my sword and niv firmness,well assures you thereof.Grand Orator—By what means did you arrive at thishigh degree?Master of Ceremonie8—By my humility, my patience,and frequent solicitations.Grand Orator—To whom did you apply?Master of Ceremonies—To a King.Grand Orator—What is your first name?Master of Ceremotiies—Zerubbabel.Grand Orator—What is your origin?Master of Ceremonies—I am an Israelite of the tribeof Judah.Grand Orator—What is your prc~fession?Master of Ceremonies—Masonry.Grand Orator—What buildings did you erect?Master of Ceremonie8—Temples and tabernacles.Grand Orator—Where did you construct them, beingdeposed of land?Master of Ceremonies—In my heart.Grand Orator—What is the surname of a Knight ofthe East?.lfaster of Ceremonies—That of a Freemason.Grand Qrator—Why are you a Freemason?Master of Ceremonies—Because the masons whowrought in the temple of Solomon were qualified such,and of course they and their descendants were declaredexempt from any and every charge and duty; even thatof going to war, their families being called free byexcellence, but in process of time having been subdued,they only recovered their right through the bounty ofKing Cyrus, who confirmed it to them, thus, thereforethey are called most free.Grand Orator-.-Why did Cyrus give the Israelitestheir liberty?Master of Ceremonies—Because God appeared to himin a dream and charged him to set his people free andallow them to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the templewhich had been destroyed.Grand Orator—What are the duties of a Knight ofthe East?Master of Ceremonies—To love and adore God, tohold tradition in honor, to succor our brethren innecessity, to anticipate their wants, to receive withfriendship strange brethren, to visit the sick and comfortthem, to aid in burying the dead, to pray for thosethat are under persecution, to love mankind in general,avoid the vicious, never frequent a place of debauchery,nor women of infamous life, to be religious in adoringyour maker, and an exact observer of the laws of hiscountry. In fine, to follow the precepts of masonry inall its points and render justice and honorto the Princesof Jerusalem, and respect to all superior orders.Thrice Excellent—Brother Orator, you will now readthe statutes and general regulations of the Knight. ofthe East. [He does so.]

CLOSINGCEREMONIESKNIGHTS OF THE EAST OR SWORD.Thrice Excellent—(Strikes 5 and 2 with the pommelof his sword,) Princes and Knights, this council isdosed.Thrice Excellent—(Together all clap 5 and 2.) Glorybe to God, Honor to our Sovereign and prosperity tothe Knights of the order. AU retire.YIPTBBNTSLHISTORICAL ANALYSISDiouu, KNIGHTS OP THE EAST OR SWORDA Jewish D~gree—”3eUeve a Us That Tbe7 All Might be Daed.”This is a Jewish degree. There is no hint as to whoinvented it. But “The Kni~iht of the Sword” was the15th in the “Rite of Perfection,” which the Jew, Mann,brought from France. This rite had 25 degrees. ButMacag says (Encyc. Art Rite of Perfection,) StephenMann and others introduced some modifications andadditions into the rite and transplanted it into theUnited States, under the name of “The Ancient and AcceptedRite.” But who are Stephen Morin and others?Robert Folger, 33, and “Ex-Secretary General,” saysthat thirteen out of sixteen of them were Jews; ofcourse, ex-Jews, for some of the degrees complimentChrist, which sincere Jews will not do. They were thereforeJews who retained nothing of Judaism but itshatred of Christ—(Foiqer’s History, p. 88.) Hencethis fiimsey degree bespatters the Jews with praise.7,000 of them cut to pieces and drowned an armed forcein the Euphrates, “to a man,” as Jack Falstaff deniolishedhis enemies, in fiction, (see Note 187), and theRitual (p. 399), makes King Cyrus say, as the candidate’schains are being taken off: “May those badges ofservitude never again disgrace the hands of a Mason;and more especially, those of a Prince of the house ofJudah I’~ Their leader, Morin, was afterward cashieredand recalled by the body which appointed him, forfalsehood, and forgery of Masonic Constitutions, andsunk out of history. No one knows where he died.(See Folger, p. £1, Doc.) And the whole web-work ofthis degree shows its Jewish origin. Though, in thepreceding degree God is insulted as a “formidable God,”and the candidate is told he is to leave “the Solomonian,mystic furniture behind him,” yet the stories of this do-

414 “BELIEVE A LIE THAT THEY ALL MIGHT BE DAMNED’gree are Jewish ;—the Scriptures read are Jewish;—theapron given by Cyrus is of the pattern worn by thebuilders of Solomon’s temple, and Solomon himself isreferred to by nanie four or five times in this degree.In short, the degree came from the brains of Jesuits;strained through the brains of ex4ewa, whose motive indestroying Christianity, like that of Judas, in betrayingChrist, was money.But, in Note 171, as if to crown the infamy of thisdegree, and its fellows, we have these remarkable wordsfrom Mackey:—“Some of these legends have the concurrent support ofScripture; some are related by Josephus; and some appearto have no historical foundation.”Now if a rational, deliberate, artful design was formedto destroy popular confidence in the Bible, this was theway to do it :—To form a mass, or degree, made up ofinspired Scripture, uninspired human history, and mereprofessed fiction, all mixed and mingled together indiscriminately;and to go through solemn repetitions ofthis mixture, night after night, for weeks and monthsandyears; attended with oaths, solemnities and prayers;with promises and threats of murder, by mangling, if thesacred thing should be revealed f—in short, to do justwhat is done in the actings, and repctitions of this andother degrees; and to charge and collect vast sums ofmoney for them ;—together, forms a compound of jugglery,deceit, fraud, swindling, and profanation, whichdevilsonly could have invented, and bewitched men onlycould practice. It contains the swindling of lotteriesand mock auctions. It blends Bible with fiction, andtreats them as alike true and sacred. And the dupeswallows the compound and ruins his soul as the bedvis ruined by eating sawdust in meat, or sand in sugar.If the Meson believes it, he trusts in lies. If he dish.-lieves it, he despises the Bible. And while the HolySpirit is grieved and insulted and driven away by itsprayers, the devil enters the worshippers who are left“to believe a lie that they afl miqht be damned.TMCHAPTERXXVIISIx’rERNnI DEGREE OR PRINOES op JUuSAIZM.’”DECORATIONS :—Two apartments are used in the cereinonyof reception.FIRST APARTMENT :—Called the hail of the West,representing the hall of the Knights of the East orSword at Jerusalem, hung with yellow colored hangings.The East represents the interior of the SanctumSanctorurn, with the sacred furniture in its properplace; in the first part of the reception a large curtainor veil is drawn across in front of the entrance to it, inthe third part of the reception this curtain or veil isdrawn aside. In front of said curtain in the East is acanopied throne elevated on five steps, covered with yellowcolored cloth; near it is an altar covered with thesame on which is a sceptre, sword, trowel and scales.A bal;ince held by a hand is painted on the front of saidaltar. All the officers occupy small thrones covered withthe same cloth. The hall in the last part of the receptionis illuminated by twenty-five lights, in groupsof flue each.Mote 176.—’‘Prince of Jeruislem. The lath degree of the Ancient andAn•ept.ul rite. Tt,e history of this degree is founded Upon the ineldeotsttWI .. .srr,d during tbe building of the second temnpi.’. at whieb timethe Je~a were much annoyed by the eot,staggt and malIcIous iuterteregmceof taint itomaritans tbeir ahcP’ut enemies. This degree Is ilosely eon.he. led oith, and a continuation of. the degree of the Knight of the Eastend ~~~ord. to ~tbleh the reader Is reterr..d for a more detailed sl,,tetneimt.‘th..r,’ at,,.uld be too principal apartments in addition to the snie•rnom.‘Ib- liret uptitment represents the eourt of Zerulihabel at J.’rusaicm.Ti,.• imangiugs are of seliron color, except the East. whIch is hung withhhite. i,lu,•. red and violet colors. in stripes. The sceond apartmentr.~preae,,ta the couueil “h.~anber of Darius. King of Persia. The hangIngsare green. time thr,,ne anti canopy sagron color. In It Is no Masonicftrnlt,.re —Macaye Enoyclopaedla ~ndDictionexy of Preeaaaonsy. AillolePrises of Jaqaiem.

416 PRINCES OF JERUSALEM. PRINCES OP JERUSALEM. 417SECOND APARTMENT:—Is red, representing an easterntalace and should be fitted up with as good taste andInowledge of eastern customs as may be suggested.TITLES —The officers of a Council of Princes ofJerusalem shall be styled and take rank ap follows:First—The Most Equitable Sovereign Prince GrandMaster. Jewel, hand of justice and mallet.Second—The Grand High Priest, Substi~ute Deputy.Jewel, a circle surrounding a Delta.Third—Most Enlightened Grand Orator. Jewel samesa in the lodge of Perfection.Fourth—The Niost Enlightened Senior Grand Warden.Jewel, pillar of strength and a shield.Fifth—The Most Enlightened Junior Grand Warden.Jewel, a compass resting on the segment of acircle.Sixth—The Valorous Grand Secretary and Keeper ofthe Seals and Archives. Jewel, a balance in equipoise.Seventh—The Valorous Grand Treasurer. Jewel, anoblong square and a vase.Eiqhth—The Valorous Grand Master of Ceremonies.Jewel, a trowel and a plumb.Ninth—The Valorous Grand Master of Entrances.Jewel, a spear.Tenth~—The Valorous Grand Hospitaller. Jewel, asin the lodge of Perfection.Eleventh—The Valorous Grand Tyler. Jewel, a flamingsword.All the jewels should be of gold and on square medals.MEETINGS :—Arc called conventions, the brethren ValorousPrinces.QUORUM FOR BUSINESS :—Five members of a Councilof Princes of Jerusalem shall constitute a quorum foropening and transacting business, provided always theMost Equitable, the Grand High Priest or either of theWardens ~vn presexit.ELECTION :—Axniually on the 20th of the monthTebet.INSTALLATION :—The 23d of the month Adar, onwhich days a feast should be held.DRESS :—The officers and brethren are clothed inyellow robes and caps, with red gloves and swords,with a shield and cilirass.OFFl~ERS :—Wear their official jewels suspendedfrom yellow collars.BRETHREN :—Wear the sash with the jewel suspendedfrom the bottom of it.SASH :—Yellow, edged with gold, worn from rightto ~ft. On it is embroidered a balance, a hand ofjustice, a poinard, five stars and two crowns.1”—A gold medal. On one side is engravedJE~ELLa hand holding a ‘balance in euipaise, on the other atwo edged sword in a perpendicular position, hiltdown, with the~ ,,~tters D. ‘.Z.’. one at each side of itand five stars surrounding the point.APRON :—Red, lined and bordered with yellow; onit are painted the temple, a square, a buckler, a triangleand a hand. The flap is yellow; on it is a balanceand the letters D. .Z.GLOVES :—Red.BATTERY :—Five, [in some councils] five times five.AGE :—Ninety-two years.HOURS OF WORK :—From sunrise until the middleof the day.Note 1Th —“The jewel is a model of gold; on which is engrawed ahand, holding an equal bsLancet a double-edged awe?d, surroundedby five stars; on one aide of which is the letter D. and on theother the letter Z, the initials of Deriua and Zenibbabel. ThePrinces of Jerusalem are sometimes styled ‘Chiefs of Masonry, andawe authorized to visit and Inspect all lodges of Inferior degrees.’—Macag’s ~aeye1opacd1a and Dieliousry of N~eeumeefzy, hillel.Puma. of Jesusmiesm.

OPENING CEREMONIESPRINCES OF JERUsAi.EM 11’Most Equitable—Most Enlightened Senior GrandWarden, how comes it that we use two apartments lflthis degree, one yellow and the other red?Senior Grand Warden—Most Equitable SovereignPrince Grand Master, because one apartment representsJerusalem an holy place, where the first templewas erected, and the other red, Babylon, in allusion tothe blood that was shed in the different combats thatwere fought on the road between Babylon and Jerusalemby the Knights Masons when they returned fromcaptivity.Most Equitable—It it is so, Most Enlightened Seniorand Junior Grand Wardens, acquaint the ValorousPrinces here present that I am going to open thisCouncil.Senior Grand Warden—Valorous Princes, the MostEquitable Sovereign Prince Grand Master, informsyou that he is about to open this Grand Council. Beattentive to what he proposes.Junior Grand Warden—Valorous Princes, the MostEquitable Sovereign Prince Grand Master informsNote 1~S.—Vrtnce of Jerusalem. [Scotch Masonry.1—Tho seconddegree conferred in the Council o( Princes of Jerusalem. scotchEssonry. and the sliternth upon the catalogue of thai system. Theomcers are. Moat Equitable, representing Zerubbabel; Grand HighPriest, representing Jeshua; a senior and Junior Most EnlightenedGrand warden, Grand Keeper of the seals and Archives, GrandTreasurer. Grand Master of Ceremonies, Grand Master of Entrancesand Grand Tyier. The apron is white, bordered with gold lace andlined with aurora color; on it are the emblems of the degree. Thalewel Is a square silver medal, displaying on both sides a balanceIn equlpolse, Iwo-edged sword, with five stars surrounding the pointand the letters D. and Z. on opposite sides. Hours of work, sumelsetill sunset ‘—Merits’s Mmaoofe Diettinacy, hillel. Vita., ofJerusofem.OPENING CEREMONIES. 419you ~that he is about to open this Grand Council. Beattentive to what he proposes.Most Equitable—Most Enlightened Senior GrandWarden, what’s the clock?Senior Grand Warden—Most Equitable SovereignPrince Grand Master, it is five in the morning.Most Equitable—(Kiioeks three; 000; All rise.)Order Valorous Princes! Draw swords! Carryswords! Present swords!Most Equitable—To the glory of the Grand Architectof the Universe, in the name and under the auspicesof the Supreme Council and Sovereign GrandConsistory of Supreme Chiefs of Exalted Masonry forthe United States of America, their territories anddependencies and by virtue of the authority on meconferred. I declare the works of—Council ofPrinces of Jerusalem opened.Most Equitable—Carry swords! Return swords!Most Equitable—(Together! All give the sign andbattery.)Most Equitable—(Knocks one; 0.) Be seated ValorousPrinces.

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4~8 SOV3RHIGN PBINCU 01 lOSE OROIL INITIATION. 479CHAHGk~ TO CANDiDATE.I congratulate you my brother on the recovery of theword, which entitIes you to this degree of Perfect Masonry.[shall make no comment or eulogium on it. Itssublimity will no doubt be duly appreciated by you.You perceive, no doubt, with satisfaction, that you~werenot deceived when you were promised an aim Sublimewhich makes you perfect in the mysteries of masonr’and unveils to you its allegorical emblems. To thatpoint we are about to arrive. Now that you have attainedthis high estate in masonry, you have found in itall that is beautiful and good; you have become per rect.The sublime and the true have been developed to youreyes. It is not enough, my brother, to have been ab]e~merit and acquire it, you must more and more renderyourself perfect in it aiid study to draw from it fQr thefuture all the fruita possible, and rhay you my dearbrother long enjoy it among us. Grant us that friendz~hip,which is the bond of all associations, and be assuredof ours, which you have now acquired.I will now instruct you in the signs, tokcns and wordaof this degree.UtguSIGN OP RECONCILIATION.Raise right hand and with index fingerpoint upward.ANSWUB.Point downward with index finger ofright hand.U’SIGN 01 THE GOOT SERPHIED.Cross the arms on breast with hands ox.tended and eyes raised to heaven.SIGN OP HELP.Cross the legs, the right behind the left.

J________________480 SOVRDNIGN PRINCE 011082 O3OU. INITIATION. 481this Sovereign’” Chapter of Rose Croix, I do herebyconstitute and ‘creale you a Sovereign Prince of RoseCroix de Herodem and Knight of the Eagle and Pelicanthat you may eljoy now and forever all the privileges,prerogatives and titles attached to this sublime degree,as virtue and humanity are the foundations of it. Ihope my brother never to see you diehonor the ribbonwith which you have been invested.ANIWULlot. l~5.—3ose Croix. loywelga Wrtnm ot. 3e~au.e Ct Lb gtit~ L..~LL.JImportance In tbe Masonic •yatem. and of the many privileges pcfl~aedby it. PO,S~S.Ou,. the epithet of •Soverei a ba, been almoet univeruattythe beitowed Motbeiupon Ooarn’II the ot degret tbe Ancient of Prince BudotAccepted me roix. Beottish Reeentlv. Rite at bowe.e~. Charlee.tnn be. diucarded thu title, and dhected thut tbe word Soverelgn abali•nlv ~Drtiedto the tbirty.tblrd degree of the Rite; and tbia I. now3 Soutbern 5u~isdictton ot tbe United fitatee. ~MaokJ~raYrmmaaonh7. Axtici. Na.. O,.4z, Uo~ez.tgs WilmaSame except ieii leg th. right LcTornGive the sign of the Good Shepherd; face each other,bow; place reciprocally crossed hands on breast and givethe fraternal kiss and pronounce the pm word.PASS WORD :—Emniaiiuel.SACDBD wow:—I. :.N. :3 :.I.:. Mn; lettered by Uiepersons giving it alternately. They are the initials ofthe latin worda; Jeaus, Kazarenue, Rew, Judaorue*signifying Jesus of Nazareth, King of th~ Jews. [InLatin I and J are interchangealle.]Maater—Go, ~nybrother, and make yourself known toall the members of this Sovereign Chapter and returnagain. (Candidate passes from one to another whisperingthe pans-word in the ear of each, then returns andkneels before the alt&r when the bret)2ren gather aroundhim and each places his right hand on him.)Maagcr—(Investiflg candidate with ribbon and jewelof degree.) By virtue o~ the authority vested in me by

TO STEAL THE POPULARITY OF RODENT BRUCE. 488PHILOSOPHICALANALYSISEIGHTEENTH D10~, OR SOvEREIGN PRINCE OF ilos:CRoIx DE HEBODEM, AND KNIGHT OP THEEAGLE AND PEUCAI~T.Pretended Seoteta Origin Cf Degree Futge.—To Steat the Poputarity ofRobert Brnce.—Roae Croix HeLL, a Murnontc Cartcatn*w.—itnpndebt andDetatible Mimicry.The review of this degree appropriately closes Vol.1, of this work. To understand it, read carefully thefoot-notes, taken from the masters of Masonry, andseers of religious antagonism to the Bible and God.From these Masonic teachers we learn that this degreeof the Rose (or blood-red) Cross “was founded by theJesuits for the purpose of counteracting the insidiousattacks of Free Thinkers upon the Romish Faith,”(Note 186.) This testimony of Clavel is obviously true.“It is conferred in a body called a Chaptcr,”(Note 188)which is the Romish name for a Dean and his Clergy.“The word is now exclusively appropriate for lodgesconferring degrees higher than the Symbolic,” or OldYork degrces, (Mackey’s Cyclopaedia, Art. Chapter.)These “higher” degr~es, we need scarcely say, areFrench; inventedin the JesLits’ College of Clermont,Paris; and that. at the time when Scotch mind led theProtestant world. Scotland had overthrown and expelledPopery without shedding a drop of Popish blood;though her own martyrs shed plenty I France then ledthe false worships of the Anti-Christian world, by infidelityand superstition in the form of atheism andRoinanism. And this Rose Cross degree was falsely derivedfrom Scotland by Oliver, who said it was institutedby Robert Bruce, in a mountain called “Herodem,”(Note 187.) This stupendous falsehood was inventedfor the double purpose of giving Masonry the popularityof Robert Bruce~ the hero of Bsnnockburn; and deriving.this degree from Scotland, then the leading nation ofpure Bible Christianity I But, as here stated by Clavel,(Note 186.) the degree was invented by Jesuits, topopularize and protect priestcraft and the ~Romishsuperstition,from atheism which is born of priestcraftwhich makes the lovely and simple religion of Christ soshockingly abhorrent that men revolt at it, and mistakingpriestism for Christianity, flee to atheism to get ridof it. To comprehend this, read carefully thin expose,which, depicting the hall or halls where this, so called“emincntly Christian” degree is enacted, thus describesits lodge room:“The First Apartment represents Mount Calvary, andis hung with black,” and lighted with wax candles.“The Second Apartment contains a transparency representingthe ascension of Christ ;“ and“The Third Apartment represents Hell” as a lake ofboiling brimstone, out of which “human beings encircledwith flames,” are attempting to crawl, while “devilswith pitchforks” are pitching them back. Such is theroom, and such the drapery of the rooms where thin degreeof the Rose Cross is enacted, of which the MasonicLexicographer, Mackey, says, “everything, in short,about the degree is Christian.” See (Note 198.)This is about as just, fair, and true a picture of BibleReligion as would be a painting of the Slavery-Rebellion,representing it as a Hell of War, Poverty,Liquor, Poison, Arson, and Negro-whipping with RobertToombs, Jefferson Davis, John B. Floyd, Judah P.Benjamin and others, creeping up the banks to get out;with Johan Most and his Anarchists thrusting themback with hot pitchforks, over the dead line of Libby and

484 ROSE CR055 hELL, A MASONIC CARICATURE.Andersonville, with Lincoln in the distance looking ousmiling.Doubtless the Hell of the Bible, which is a hell of sinand wrath made by sinners, and preferred by them toHeaven, is hotter than flames, and more offei~sive thanbrimstone. But this Rose Cross Hell is a Masoniccaricature invented by priests, to scare sinners and keepthem paying Peter’s Pence, to support them in luxuryand vice. Such a Hell is in short a stupendous Masonicfalsehood; a double-acting caricature, to manufacture aRomish population of weak and timid’ dupes; andsturdy, stujid atheists.But the use Masons now make of it is succinctly explainedin the expose (p. 476) where the Muter ofCarqmonies “leads the candidate around the room threetimes ~“ calls his attention to the “representation. of thetorments of the damned,” and then tells him:“The horrors which you have just seen are but a faintrepresentation of those you shall suffer if you breakthrough our laws, or infringe the obligation you havetaken.”This degree thus cl~rly proves and shows the identityand oneness of Popery and Masonry; both in theirorigin and their~ object. Both are the invention ofpriests. Both are false religions. Both farm men’s interestin eternity that tyrants may tax and govern themin time.Both this degree and the 17th, preceding, are calledby Masonic Authorities, “entirely philosophical,” (Note182,) and they are. They lay hold of the Apocalypsewhich has been largely a sealed book to Christ’s Churchand they thus use “the Revelation of Jesus Christ” forthe purpose of Devils; who, by entering Judas Iscariot,IMPUDENT AND DETESTABLE IUMICBY. 485procure the crucifixion of Christ; and then seize theCross on which the world’s horror was enacted; to turnIt into an idol, draw away the sinner’s attention fromthe sufferer; and cheat mankind out of salvation by hisdeath.Now when you have waded through the gewgawa andtrumpery of these two devil caricatures of the Revelation,ma(le by these 17th and 18th degrees, whcre the,most sublime and awful realities are degraded by themost impudent and detestable mimicry; as “the angelsholding the four winds of the earth.” (Rev. 7, 1,) per-~onifiodby men, called Masons, holding, and whiskingbladders filled with wind; with which more diabolicalbalderdash; then open your Bibles and read the Revelationitself, which wonderful book is a series of tableauxor plates, in the war against idolatry; down to the finalgathering of Gog and Magog to the great battle-day ofGod; and you will clearly discern “the Philosophy ofthese two devils’ degrees which is to degrade the Revelationof Jesus Christ.”

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