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THE COMPLETE RITUAL

OF THE

Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite,

PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED.
By A SOVEREIGN GRAND COMMANDER, 33°
^ITH AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OP THE ORDER, INTRODUCTION
AND CRITICAL ANALYSI3 OF EACH DEGREE
-By-
President J. Blanchard of Wheaton College,
OVER FOUR HUNDRED QUOTATIONS FROM STANDARD
MASONIC AUTHORITIES CONFIRM THE ACCURACY a
OF THE RITUAL AND SHOW THE CHARACTER
OF MASONIC TEACHING AND DOCTRINE.
VOLUME 1

EIGHTH TO EIGHTEENTH DEGREE INCLUSIVE

EZRA A. COOK, Publisher

Incorporated
26 E. Van Buren St., Chicago, Illinois*
1920
 COPYRIGHT 1&15 BY
EZRA A. COOK, PUB., Ufa
 PUBLISHER’S PREFACE
Had not an extended trial demonstrated most
clearly that in no way can the arguments against a
secret order be put before the public so effectively as
in close, connection with the ritual thereof, I should

not have ventured the great expense of publishing this

Illustrated Ritual of the Scottish Rite.
Rituals sell readily to both lodge members and out-
siders, while the most eloquent address on the subject,
however replete with important facts and arguments,
seldom secures many readers.
Although many members of any secret society would
decidedly prefer to have the analysis of the degrees left
out, and I have declined repeated offers to buy entire
editions of one thousand copies of different rituals at
my regular rates, provided I would furnish them with-
out note or comment, not less than half of my sales of

rituals are to members of these orders, and hundreds,

when ordering a ritual, are careful to give their lodge

connections, supposing they could not otherwise get the

desired 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
4 publisher's preface.

a skeleton exposition of the degrees, many members of

these orders, when purchasing rituals, took pains to
intimate or pronounce them incorrect.
When they see that the foot-note quotations from the
standard authorities of the order prove the correctness
of the ritual, and form a skeleton exposition, they nat-
urally consider themselves absolved from their oath of
secrecy, and in hundreds of instances frankly admit the
accuracy of the ritual, even without the asking.

The substantial correctness of this Scotch Rite Ritual

is proved by extensive foot-note quotations from the
" Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, by Albert G. Mackey,
M. D., Fast General Grand High Priest and Secretary
General of the Supreme Council, 33°, Southern Juris-
diction of the United States.”

“ General History, Cyclopedia, and Dictionary of

Freemasonry, by Robert Macoy, Past Deputy Grand

Master of Sew York and Nova Scotia: Past Grand —
Secretary of New York: —
Grand Recorder of the Grand
—
Commandery of New York: Representative of the
Grand Lodges of Wisconsin, Illinois and Nova Scotia,
and the Grand Council of New Brunswick etc., etc.,
and
((
George Oliver, D. D., Provincial Grand Steward and
Grand Chaplain, Deputy Grand Master of the Province
of Lincolnshire and Past Deputy Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of Massachusetts and the
“ Dictionary of Freemasonry, by Robert Morris, D,
V., LL. DP
 publisher’s preface. 5

For the History of Freemasonry and especially of this

Scottish Rite; besides the authorities named above, the

following are relied on and quoted in the Introduction,
Historical and Philosophical Analysis of the various
degrees, viz.

“History of Freemasonry and Masonic Digest , by

I. IF. S. Mitchell , Past Grand Master ; Past Grand-
.”
High Priest , and Past Grand Chaplain of Missouri
Origin and Early History of Masonry, by Steinbren-
ner.

“The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite; by Robert

B. Folger, M. D., Past Master 83° ; Ex-Secretary Gen-
eral,” etc.

“The History of England by David Hume.”

“History of the Girondists by Alphonse dc Lamar-
tine.

“General History of Freemasonry in Europe, by Em-

manuel Rebold, Past Deputy of the Grand Orient of
France, president of the Academy of Industrial Science,
and Member of many Philosophic and Scientific So-
cieties.”

“ Book of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, by

Charles T. McClenachan, 33°; Past Grand Master of
Ceremonies of the Supreme Council.”
“Manual of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite,
by Will. M. Cunningham, M. A. K. \ T. *. Sovereign
Grand Inspectior General 33°.
“The Life of Aaron Burr, by Matthew L. Davis.”
“History of the M. IF, Grand Lodge of Illinois, by
6 publisher's preface.

John C. Reynolds, Worshipful Master of Tyrian Lodge

333; Deputy Grand Secretary,” etc.

“ Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Illinois” from

18Jj.O to I860 inclusive.

The first three Masonic degrees, termed “Blue

Lodge,” or “Ancient Craft Masonry,” being common to

all the Masonic Rites, are not given in this work, but

the full, accurate and profusely illustrated ritual of

<c
these degrees will be found in Freemasonry Illustrat-

ed,” also published by Ezra A. Cook. The Signs, Grips,

Pass Words, etc., termed the “Secret Work” of these
degrees, and also of the entire Scottish Rite are given

in their order at the close of the Second Volume of

this work. The Publisher.
 CONTENTS
Page.
Preface * 3
Introduction 20
Formation of the Firstr Grand Lodge 21
The Chevalier Ramsay’s Career 22
Lies No Disparagement to Masonic Morality 23
The Scottish Rite Brought to America by a Jew 24
This Jew Branded an Audacious Juggler..., 25
Freemasonry the Child of Jesuitism 26
—
CHAPTER I. Historical Sketch of the Scottish Rite 27
Importance of the Scottish Rite 28
Born in the City of Nullification and Rebellion 20
The Traitor and Mason Aaron Burr 30
Masonic Conspiracy to Destroy the Union 31
General Jackson’s Freemasonry 32
Patriotism vs. .Masonic Obligations 33
Destroying the Supreme Council’s Records 34
Abominations and Demon Worship 35
Full Page Engraving, Lodge of Perfection.... 36
—
CHAPTER II. Lodge of Perfection 37
History of the Rite of Perfection. Note 1 37
The Temple, Arrangement, Furniture, Etc 38
Spiritual Man Represented by a Material Temple. Note 2 38
Officers Represent the Planets. 39
—
CHAPTER III. Fourth or Secret Master's Degree 40
The First of the Ineffable Degrees. Note 3 40
The Lodge Hung in Mourning. Note 4 40
Form of the Lodge, Order and Jewels 41
“Solomon is Seated in the East.” Note 5 41
“Adoniram, Called Venerable Inspector** in the West.”
Note 6 41
Style of Apron in Secret Master's Degree. Note 7.... 41
Symbolic Age, Hours of Work and Moral 42
Opening Ceremonies., Secret Master’s Degree 43
Sign of Silence 43
Adoniram a Most Prominent Personage. Note 8 43
—
CHAPTER IV. Fourth or Secret Master’s Degree. .*
44
Preparation of Candidate, Secret Master’s Degree. ... 44
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Mock Scripture Recitation by Solomon ® r

*

Obligation, Secret Master’s Degree ]]]]]^'**‘*'

Mock Funeral Procession Zz
Heart of Hiram Abiff in a Golden Urn, Note ]" ’
9 ] ] 47
Elohim, the Hebrew Title of Deity. Note 10.
..... 48
The Sanctum Sanctorum or Holy of Holies.... 49
Initiatory Prayer, Secret Master’s Degree. ..]]]]]]]’
50
“The Laurel Crown in Masonry,” Note 11...]' 51
“The Olive Plant is a Symbol of Peace.” Note
-••••
12 51
The Key a Symbol of Secrecy. Note 13
Token, Secret Master’s. Degree .....! 59
Sign of Silence, Secret Master’s Degree!*.'.'.]'. 59'
Mackey Confirms the Name of the Pass Word. ’

Note 14 50
The Sacred Word of the Degree also Confirmed.
Note 15 50
Historical Discourse by Grand Orator......... '

Blue Lodge Degrees Not Conferred by Supreme

Council
Note 16 gg.
Triangle Enclosing Ineffable Name. Note 17
] 53;
“The Shekinah of Masonry.” Note 18 ]
]
55
The Ineffable Degrees. Note 10 53
Lodge Use of Other Names of Deity. Note 20...
^4
Kabbalistic Mysteries and Angel’s Alphabet. Note 21 54
. Foundation for and Scope of Secret Master's Decree
Note 22 ......' 55
Masonic Symbolism of the Circle. Note 23
The Ark of the Covenant and its Contents
53
The Seven Branched Candlestick 5-
]

Symbolism of the Word Seven. Note 24 r~

Closing Ceremonies, Secret Master’s Degree...]]]..]]] 50
The Duty of the Secret Master. Note 25 -g
Historical Analysis, Secret Master's Degree
59
How Masonry Got Its Title “The Royal Art”.].]]]]] 59
Similarity of Masonic Jugglery and Priestcraft fio
The Higher Degrees Invented by French Jesuits]]]]]] 61
Lodge and Popish Secrecy and Subjection ]]]]] G2
Each Trying to Charter. Tax and Govern Others. . ] ] ] ] 09
Inveutcd by Jesuits and Sold by Jews
Freemasonry a Religious Pestilence ]] g~
Guerilla Pike, Most Puissant Sovereign Grand Com-
mander gg
“Who Rut Jesuit Could Iuvent Such a Degree?”.
a
. . 97
“One Stupendous Demoniacal Possession.”...
CHAPTER V. — Fifth or Perfect Master’s Degree.]]]]]]
gg
99
Object In Establishing Tin's Degree. Note 26 .... ]] 99
Decorations of Lodge Room for This Degree. Note
27 70
“Adoniram Plays an Important Role.” Note 28 ?. 70
Zerbal the Captain of the Guards. Note 20 ......
.
70
Description of the Perfect Master’s Apron. Note 30 ! ]

Symbolism of Color of the “Order,” Green. Note 31 71

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Page.
Jewel of the Degree and Its Symbolism. Note 32 71
Age and Hours of Work. Note 33 71
Moral of the Degree. Note 34 71
Opening Ceremonies, Perfect Master’s Degree 72
The Legend of the Degree. Note 35 72
“The Degree Commemorates a Departed Brother.”
Note 36 73
CHAPTER VI.— I nitia TioN, Perfect Master’s Degree 74
Preparation of Candidate 74
Search for the Criminals. Note 37 75
The Sixteen Columns - 76
Acacia, “the Symbol of Immortality.” Note 38, 76
Scripture Recitations 77
Initiatory Song 78
Obligation of Perfect Master’s Degree 79
Sign of Recognition, Perfect Master’s Degree 79
Sign of Admiration 80
First Token. Perfect Master’s Degree 80
Second Token . 81
Third Token 81
Lecture, Perfect Master’s Degree 82
Stolkin, “a Name Introduced in Scotch Masonry.”
Note 39 82
Historical Discourse by Orator 86
Closing Ceremonies, Perfect Master’s Degree 88
Historical Analysis, Perfect Master’s Degree 89
Date of the Origin of Freemasonry 89
Degrees Fabricated for Political Purposes 90
The Gibberish of Freemasonry Admitted. 91
“What a Banter on the Human Race.” 92
—
CHAPTER VII. Sixth or Intimate Secretary’s Degree... 93
“Its Emblematic Color Is Black.” Note 40 93
Officers of the Degree. Note 41 94
Intimate Secretary’s Apron. Note 42 95
- Moral or Teachings of the Degree. Note 43 95
Eavesdropping Is Fnmasonic. Note 44 95
Opening Ceremonies, Intimate Secretary’s Degree 96
The 'Degree “Also Known as Master of Curiosity.”
Note 45 96
An Instance of Unlawful Curiosity. Note 46 96
The Pretended History of the Scotch Rite False.
Note 47 97
—
CHAPTER VIII. Initiation, Intimate Secretary’s Degree. 98
“Joabert, the Companion of Solomon and Hiram.”
Note 48 98
Joabert’s Curiosity and Rashness. Note 49 99
“A Laudable Curiosity.” 'Note 50 99
JoabertMade Secretary of Solomon and Hiram. Note 51. 100
Freemasonry Excites Curiosity. Note 52 100
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Obligation, Intimate Secretary’s Degree 101
Sign, Intimate Secretary 102
Token, Intimate Secretary 103
Discourse, by Master of Eloquence 103
Berith a Significant Word. Note 53 103
Name Zerbal Invented by the Ritualist. Note 54 103
The Legend of the Degree. Note 55...’’. 104
Lecture, Intimate Secretary’s Degree 106
Closing Ceremonies, Intimate Secretary’s Degree 109
Historical Analysis, Intimate Secretary’s Degree 110
Nothing But Falsehood 110
A Fortune from Selling Masonic Degrees Ill
“More Is Meant Than Meets the Eye” 112
Humbug Pretensions to Astronomic Teaching 113
A Government of Wolves Over Sheep 114
CHAPTER IX. — Seventh
Degree, or Provost and Judge. . . . 115
Officersand Their Titles. Note 56 115
The Legend of the Degree. Note 57 115
Decorations, Apron, Moral of the Degree. Note 58. ... 115
Adoniram and His Father, Abda. Note 59 116
Represents Middle Chamber of Solomon’s Temple.
Note 60 116
Opening Ceremonies, Provost and Judge 117
History of This Degree. Note 61 Ill
—
CHAPTER X. Initiation, Provost and Judge 118
Preparation of Candidate 118
Obligation Provost and Judge 121
Grip and Sign Provost and Judge 122
Answer to Sign 123
Tito, Prince of Harodem, First Provost and Judge.
Note 62 123
Jachinai, a Gallic Corruption of Shekinah. Note 63.. . . 123
Masonry Erected on the Superstructure of Geometry.
Note 64 123
Lecture, Provost and Judge 124
Origin of the Scottish Rite Degrees. Note 65 124
Tito, Chief of the Three Hundred Architects. Note 66. . 126
The Grand Chapter of Harodim. Note 67..., 126
“ Zinwe A Significant Word.” Note 68
. . 127
Red the Symbolic Color of the Higher Degrees. Note 69. 128
Closing Ceremonies, Provost and Judge 129
Historical Analysis, Provost and Judge 130
Going Into the Lodge As a Frog Into a Snake’s Mouth . 130
A Silly, Weak Anachronism 131
Intellectual and Moral Ashes 132
Moore’s Description of False Religions 133
CHAPTER XI. —
Eighth Degree, or Intendant of the Build-
ing 134
Legend, Emblematic 'Color, Etc. Note 70 134
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Decorations, Jewel and Moral. Note 71 134
Opening Ceremonies, Intendant of the Building 136
—
CHAPTER XII. Initiation, Intendant of the Building.. 137
Preparation of Candidate 137
Joabert Personating Hiram Abiff 139
Obligation, Intendant of the Building 140
Sign of Surprise, Intendant of the Building 142
Benkhurim, a Significant Word. Note 72 142
Sigos of Admiration and Grief 143
Jah, Another Name of Deity Used As a Pass. Note 73. . 143
Token Intendant of the Building 144
“Masonic Allusion to the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.”
Note 74 144
Lecture, .Intendant of the Building 145
“Sometimes Called Master in Israel.” Note 75 145
Closing Ceremonies, Intendant of the Building 152
Historical Analysis, Intendant of the Building 153
Masonry the Image of the Beast 153
Absolute Secrecy and Absolute Despotism 154
Caricature of Christ’s Resurrection 155
Rulers of the Darkness of This World 156
—
CHAPTER XIII. Ninth Degree, or Master Elect of Nine. 157
History and Object of This Degree. Note 76 157
Clothing, Apron, Jewel, Etc 158
Opening Ceremonies, Master Elect of Nine 160
—
CHAPTER XIV. Initiation, Master Elect of Nine 161
Details of Which Traitors Received Punish-
Mode in
ment. 77 Note 161
“ Abiram One of the Traitors Craftsmen.”. Note 78.
. . 164
“ Vengeance A Word Used in the High Degrees.”
.

Note 79 165
Akirop. Name of a Ruffian of the Third Degree.
Note 80 167
Obligation Master Elect of Nine 168
Sign, Master Elect of Nine 169
“A Bloody Arm. Holding by the Hair a Bloody Head.”
Note 81 169
“ Nakam . A Hebrew Word Signifying Vengeance.”
Note 82 169
Answer to Sign, Master Elect of Nine 170
Token, Master Elect of Nine 170
Discourse by Grand Orator 171
Lecture, Master Elect of Nine 174
Closing Ceremonies, Master Elect of Nine... 179
Historical Analysis. Master Elect of Nine 181
Rage for a Multitude of Degrees 181
A Drill of Assassination and Revenge 182
Turns Lynch Law Into a Religion 183
John Quincy Adams on Masonic Penalties 184
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Swears to Revenge Masonry in General 185
Masonic Murders Proved in Court 18d
“They Were Not At All Ashamed"’ 187
—
CHAPTER XV. Tenth Degree, or Master Elect of Fif-
teen 188
Officers of the Degree, “The Jewel is a Poniard.”
Note 83 188
The Fellow Craft Ruffians. Note 84 188
Opening Ceremonies, Master Elect of Fifteen 190
—
CHAPTER XVI. Initiation, Master Elect of Fifteen.... 191
“The Punishment Inflicted on Three Traitors.” Note 85. 191
“A Variety of Names for These Assassins.” Note 86.. 191
Bengabec. “Intendant of Solomon in the Country of
Cheth.” Note 87 192
“ Bendekar A Significant Word.” Note 88.
.
192
“Certain Traitors Fled to Maacha, King of Cherh.”
Note 89 192
Obligation, Master Elect of Fifteen 196
Sign, Master Elect of Fifteen 197
Answer to Sign 197
Token, Master Elect of Fifteen 198
“Aliiriman. The Principle of Evil.” Note 90 199
“Typhon, The Brother and Slayer of Osiris.” Note 91 . . 199
“The Night of Death Shall Yield to an Immortal Day.”
Note 92 199
“Ormuzd Was the Principle of Good.” Note 93 199
Bengabee “in. the Catalogue of Solomon’s Officers.”
Note 94 200
“Assassins of the Third Degree.” Note 95 200
Lecture, Master Elect of Fifteen . 202
“Guibbs, Another Name of One of These Traitors.”
Note 96 205
Closing Ceremonies, Master Elect of Fifteen 207
Historical Analysis, Master Elect of Fifteen 208
The Force of a False Religion 208
Killing the Remaining Assassins of Hiram 209
Swearing to Assassinate Seceders 210
To Replace Popery on the Throne of England 211
—
CHAPTER XVII. Eleventh Degree, or Sublime Knights
Elected * 212
The Legend of the Degree, Decorations, Etc. Note 97. . 212
Opening Ceremonies, Sublime Knights Elected 214
—
CHAPTER XVIII. Initiation, Sublime Knights Elected. . 215
Called Also Sublime Knights Elected of the Twelve.
Note 98 215
Obligation, Sublime Knights Elected 217
Sign, Sublime Knights Elected 218
First Token. Sublime Knights Elected 218
Second Token, Sublime Knights Elected ^ . 219
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Signification of the Word Eraeth. Note 09 221
The Heart of Hiram Abiff. Note TOO 222
The Scales, Key and Heart 223
Lecture, Sublime Knights Elected 224
Names of Twelve Illustrious Knights Corrupted.
Note 101 226
“
Morphey . The Name of One of the Twelve Inspect-
ors.” Note 102 226
Ark Seven Branched Candlestick
of Alliance and 229
“Its Seven Branches Are Explained in the Ineffable
Degrees.” Note 103 229
“The Symbolism of the Veils.” Note 104 229
The Two Cherubims That Overtopped the Mercy Seat.
Note 105 230
Closing Ceremonies, Sublime Knights Elected 233
“The Grand Characteristic of Masonry Is Its Tolera-
tion.”Note 106 233
Historical Analysis, Sublime Knights Elected 234
The Dreariest of All Dreary Nonsense 234
Maniacal Countenance of False Worshipers 235
Admits the Strong Man Armed 236
—
CHAPTER XIX, Twelfth Degree, or Grand Master Archi-
tect 237
“It Is Purely a Scientific Degree.” Note 107 237
Decorations, Titles, Jewel, Apron, Etc 238
Opening Ceremonies, Grand Master Architect 239
“This Is Strictly a Scientific Degree.” Note 108 239
CHAPTER XX. — Initiation, Grand Master Architect 241
Obligation, Grand Master Architect 244
Sign, Grand Master Architect 245
Token, Pass Word and Sacred Word 245
Rab-banaim , “the Chief of the Architects.” Note 109.^245
Parallel Ruler, Tracing Dividers and Scale of Parts. 247 . . .

Sector, Protractor and North Star 248

Freemasons Symbolize the Temple of Solomon. Note 110. 250
Closing Ceremonies, Grand Master Architect 251
Historical Analysis, Grand Master Architect 252
Masonic Tom-foolery and Sham 252
Imposition of Pretended Scientific Instruction. ........ 253
Object in Falsifying History 254
—
CHAPTER XXI. Thirteenth, or Royal Arch Degree 255
“The Mysteries Connected With the R'oyal Arch.”
Note 111 ? 255
Decorations and Titles of Officers 256
“
Zabulon , the Greek Form of Zebulon.” Note 112 256
Opening Ceremonies, Royal Arch Degree 258
Origin of the Degree. Note 113 258
“Enoch Feared the Genuine Secrets Would Be Lost.”
Note 114 258
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Opening Prayer, Royal Arch Degree 259
—
CHAPTER XXII. Initiation, Royal Arch Degree 261
The Degree Invented by Ramsay. Note 115 261
Enoch “Fabled to Have Built a Subterranean Temple.”
Note 116 263
Cubical Stone, the Perfect Ashler of English Masonry.
Note 117 265
Obligation, Royal Arch Degree 266
Signs of Admiration and Adoration, Royal Arch Degree. 267
Token, Royal Arch Degree 267
Discourse, by Grand Orator 268
Traditions of Freemasonry Connect Enoch With Its
History. Note 118 268
The Masonic Legend About Enoch. Note 119 268
Methuselah Connected With Enoch’s Underground Tem-
ple.. Note 120 269
Door to Enoch’s Nine Subterranean Arches. Note 121. . 269
Mystic Meaning of Enoch’s Age. Note 122 270
“Enoch Himself Is But a Symbol of Initiation.”
Note 123 270
Enoch’s Marble and Brass Pillars. Note 124......... 270
Noah “Called a Patron of Masonry.” Note 125 271
Masonic Legend of the Secret Vault. Note 126 274
The Pass Word Jua “a Significant Word.” Note 127.. 280
History of the Pass Word Shibboleth. Note 128 281
The Lost Masonic “Word.” Note 129 282
“Death Is but the Beginning of Life.” Note 130 283
Enoch’s Sacred Treasure Discovered by a Freemason.
Note 131 283
“The Great Object of Pursuit in Masonry.” Note 132. . 284
Closing Ceremonies, Royal Arch Degree 285
Masonic Possession of Temple Veil, Rent at the Cruci-
fixion. Note 133 285
Historic Analysis, Royal Arch Degree 287
False History and False Religion 287
Acknowledged Fabrications, Yet Sublime 288
Infamous Scheme for Lucre and Ambition 289
Writing Latin Before It Existed 290
—
CHAPTER XXIII. Fourteenth Degree, or Grand Elect,
Perfect and Sublime Mason 291
History of the Degree, Decorations, Etc. Note 134.... 291
Sacred Vaults. Note 135 291
To * Die and to Be Initiated Synonymous Terms.
Note 136 292
“Seeing the Crime and Criminal Punished.” Note 137. 294
Qalaad, “Keeper of the Seals.” Note 138. 294
“Abddmon, the Name of the Orator.” Note 139 294
Opening Ceremonies, Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime
Mason 297
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Opening Prayer 297
Opening Ode 298
The Rite of Perfection. Note 140 299
This Degree the Last of the Ineffable Degrees. Note 141. 301
Sign of Obligation, Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime
Mason 302
Sign of Fire, Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason. 302 .

Sign of Admiration, Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime

Mason 303
Use of the WordValley" in Masonry.
‘
Note 142. 303
—
CHAPTER XXIV. Initiation, Grand Elect, Perfect and
.

Sub-Mason '304
Called Ineffable Because of Hebrew Names of Deity.
Note 143 307
The Delta ‘‘a Symbol of Fire and Also of God."
Note 144 310
Initiatory Prayer 315
Obligation, Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason.. 316
Initiatory Ode 320 -. . . . .

Sign of Obligation, Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime

Mason 321
First Token 321
Sign of Fire, Second Token and Answer 322
Sign of Admiration and Third Token 323
"The Girdle Is Still Used in Many Chivalric Initia-
tions." Note 143 324
Symbolism Note 146
of Colors. 325
Blue "Emphatically the Color of Masonry." Note 147. 323
Red "a Symbol of Zeal and Fervency." Note 148 323
SymUblism of Yellow. Note 149 325
4 Green the Symbol of Immortality. Note 130 326
Purple "an Emblem of Exalted Office." Note 151 326
White “the Symbol of Purity and Innocence.” Note 152. 326
Black "Adopted As the Garment of Mourning.” Note 153. 326
Discourse by Grand Orator 327
The Apostacy of Solomon. Note 154 332
Lecture, Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason 337
"The Religion of Masonry is Not Sectarian." Note 155. 337
"By This Means He Was Detected As an Enemy.”
Note 156 339
“Macbenac Means in Gaelic the Blessed Son." Note 157. 340
Perignan, the Discoverer of Assassins. Note 158 344
Fifth Sign and Answer, Grand Elect, Perfect and Sub-
Mason 350
Eighth and Ninth Signs and Token of Circumspection.. 351
“ Gabaon "a Significant Word in the High Degrees."
,

Note 159 351

"Zedekiah, a Personage in Some of the High Degrees."
Note 160 855
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Cyrus, “the Shepherd of the Lord.” Note 161 337
Oath of Allegiance, Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime
Mason 353
Closing Ceremonies., Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime
Mason 339
Closing Prayer 359
Lodge of Perfection, Statutes and Regulations..-.- 363
Aceldema ; Field of Blood. Note 162 36G
Historical Analysis. Grand Elect, Perfect and Sub-
lime Mason .. ... 376
Lodges Dissolved by the Lutheran Reformation .'576

Titles Fit for the Dialect of a Madhouse 377

Travesties, Christian Ordinances 378
The Catacombs of a New Worship 379
Infidelity Its Mother, Rebellion Its Cradle 380
Conjuring and Legerdemain , 381
Satan Fills Their Hearts With Lies 382
—
CHAPTER XXV. Fifteenth Degree., or Knights of the
East or Sword 383
Origin and Object of the Degree. Note 163 383
Titles. First Apartment 384
Opening Ceremonies, Knights of the East or Sword 386
Names of Officers, Decorations, Etc. Note 164 386
—
CHAPTER XXVI. Initiation, Knights of the East or
*
Sword 388
Commemorates “the Construction of the Second Temple.”
Note 165 388
Zerubbabel and His Mission. Note 166 \ 389
“Armed 7,000 Masons and Placed Them in the Van.”

Note 167 390

Nebuchadnezzar and His Conquest of Judea. Note 168. 391
Restoration of the Jews by King Cyrus. Note 169. . . . 391
Prayer, Knights of the East or Sword 390
King Cyrus “the Hero of the East.” Note 170 392
Zerubbabel’s Masonic Career Legendary. Note 171 .... 393
Zerubbabel’s Difficulties in Rebuilding the Temple.
Note 172 394
Obligation, Knight of the East or Sword 402
Sign, Kniglits of the East or Sword . . 403
Token, Knights of the East or Sword 404
Address, by Grand Orator 406
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Jewish Captives “Bound by Triangular Chains.”
Note 173 407
Cyrus “Mentioned by the Prophet Isaiah.” Note 174.. 408
Zerubbabel’s Battle With the Assyrians. Note 175.... 408
Closing Ceremonies, Knights of the East ok Sword 412
Historical Analysis, Knights of the East or Sword 413
A Jewish. Degree 443
Believe a Lie That They All Might Be Damned 414
—
CHAPTER XXVII. Sixteenth Degree, or Princes of Jeru-
salem 415
This Degree a Continuation of the Previous One.
Note 176.. 415
Princes of Jerusalem “Styled Chiefs of Masonry,”
Note 177 417
Opening Ceremonies, Princes of Jerusalem 418
Officers’ Titles, Jewel and Lodge Room Decorations.
Note 178 418
—
CHAPTER XXVIII. Initiation, Princes of Jerusalem.... 420
Inventor of This Degree. Its Legend From Josephus.
Note 179 420
The Samaritans, the Adversaries of the Jews. Note 180. 421
Decree of King Cyrus 424
Triumphal Chorus 426
King Cyrus and the Prophets Ilaggai and Zechariah.
Note 181 427
Obligation, Princes of Jerusalem 429
Sign, Princes of Jerusalem. 430
Answer to Sign and Token. Prices of Jerusalem 431
Lecture, Princes of Jerusalem 433
Closing Ceremonies, Princes of Jerusalem 436
Historical Analysis, Princes of Jerusalem 437
Christ Eliminated From the Degree 437
False Worship of the Shakers 438
“Changing the Glory of the Incorruptible God” 439
A Devilish Magnetism Prevents Their Escape 440
—
CHAPTER XXIX. Seventeenth Degree, or Knights of the
East and West 441
“Dates Back to the Time of the Crusades.” Note 182. 441 .

Opening Ceremonies, Knights of the East and West 444

—
CHAPTER XXX. Initiation, Knights of the East and
18 CONTENTS.

Page.
West 445
Preparation of Candidate, Knights of the East and
West 445
In Center of Apron “a Lamb on a Book With Seven
Seals.” Note 183 445
Scripture Recitation by All Puissant 447
Obligation, Knights of the East and West 448
“The Seal Denotes That Which Is Secret.” Note 184.. 450
Sign, Knights of the East and West 452
Answer to Sign. Knights of the East and West 452 .

First and Second Tokens, Knights of the East and

West 452
Sign on Entering Council, Knights of the East and
West 453
Lecture, Knights of the East and West 454
“Still Retains the Apocalyptic Character of the De-
gree.” Note 185 454
Closing* Ceremonies, Knights of the East and West 458
Historical Analysis, Knights of the East and West 450
To Burlesque and Degrade Christ 459
“To Destroy Profane and Unworthy Brethren” 460
“Evil Be Thou My Good” 461
“Every Lodge Synagogue of Satan”
Is a 462
CHAPTER XXXI. — Eighteenth
Degree, or Sovereign
Prince of Rose Croix ... 463
“Sometimes Called Knight of the Eagle and Pelican.”
Note 186. 463
The Degree Probably Invented by Ramsay. Note 187.. 463
Lodge Must Meet on Maunday Thursday and Easter
Sunday. Note 188 404
Apron, “On the Movable Part a Skull and Cross-bones.”
Note 189 405
Symbols of Degree: Cross, Rose, Eagle and Pelican.
Note 190 466
Opening Ceremonies, Sovereign Prince of Rose Croix .... 467
“Its Historical Lessons Are Intensely Christian.”
Note 191 467
—
CHAPTER XXXII. Initiation, Sovereign Prince of Rose
Croix 469
Candidate Must Profess High. Esteem for the Members.”
Note 192 469
 CONTENTS. 19

Page.
•‘Degree Is Made Cosmopolite in Its Character.”
Note 193 472
Obligation, Sovereign Prince of Rose Croix 473
Sign of the Good Shepherd, Sovereign Prince of Rose
Croix 474
*
Initiatory Anthem 477
Jewel of Degree and Inscription Thereon. Note 194... 477
Charge to Candidate, Sovereign Prince of Rose Croix. 478 .

Sign of Reconciliation and Answer 479

Sign of Help, Sovereign Prince of Rose Croix 479
Answer to Sign of Help and Token 480
Reason Word Sovereign Is Used in Title. Note 195. 481 . . .

Philosophical Analysis, Sovereign Prince of Rose Croix. 482

Pretended Scotch Origin of Degree False 482
To Steal the Popularity of Robert Bruce 483
Rose Cross Hell, a Masonic Caricature 484
Impudent and Detestable Mimicry 485
 —

INTRODUCTION
If all the volcanoes in our globe were uncapped, there
would be no more earthquakes; and millions of men
and money would be saved.
- volume to uncap the moral vol-
It is the object of this
canoes slumbering under every American institution.
The Secret Lodge undermines the College, by conceal-
ing its rowdyism and sheltering its rebellions the :
—
—
Court House, by its rival oaths: the Legislature, by
corrupting and intimidating its members; and the
Church, by its rival, mock sacraments all of which will
;

appear, proved in this volume.

A
condensed account of this Scottish Rite, which is
now, say all their writers, “The most popular and most
widely diffused,” ( Mackey Encyc p. 697), may be thus
given :

Stone-masons had initiated (i. e., hazed) their ap-

men and master-masons. At York,
prentices, journe} r

England, these three initiations were woven into a

“Rite” (A. D. 926), which overran England, and is
now the basis of all Masonic “Rites,” giving them their

names and spirit.

In 1649, Charles I. was beheaded and his queen and

son Charles II. were exiles in France, where there was
then no centralized lodge power. But Charles II. secret-

and the Masons; and by the

ly joined both the Papists
aid of French Masons, who were Papists, and English
 ” — , *

FORMATION OF THE FIRST GRAND LODGE. 21

Masons, who were Protestants, he regained his father's

throne; was pensioned by the French king, who was
then called “The Eldest Son Romish Church;” of the
reigned disgracefully twenty-five years, and died, gaz-
ing on a silver cross held before his eyes by a Romish
priest named Huddleston ,
in 1685.
Three years afterward, (1688) England was revolu-
tionized. James, the brother of Charles, fled from his
throne and people, and took headquarters at the Jesuits'
College of Clermont in Paris. This college thencefor-
,

ward became a factory of higher Masonic degrees, to

govern English Lodges and restore James and Popery
to the throne, as Charles II. had been restored before.
Meantime Masonry was changed. In 1717 at the Ap- ;

pletree tavern, London, as is well known, four old

lodges formed the first Grand Lodge, dropping Craft-
masonry, 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 des-
potic constitution of government,and salvation by cere-
monies; but omitting the Savior and the Holy Ghost.
This horrible compound, now falsely called “Masonry,”
was in operation while the sons of the fugitive, James
II., were exile pretenders to the English throne; living

by Masonry, and plotting with Jesuits in France.

There now appears on the scene the chief manufactur-
er of Masonry as it now exists, viz.: as
“ The Ancient
and Accepted Scottish Rite of 33 degrees.
This was no other than the Chevalier Ramsay of
whom Mackey, the leading Lexicographer, Jurist, and
Historian of the lodge, says :

“Xo one played a more important part in the history

of Freemasonry in the 18th century, than the Chevalier
 ,

22 THE CHEVALIER RAMSAY'S CAREER.

Ramsay/’ * * * “He was indeed the most learned

man, who, up to that time, had taken any interest in the
order.”
Ramsay was young Scotch Presbyterian ; of
a brilliant
course, familiar with the Bible, which he garbled, trav-
estied, and corrupted to manufacture Masonic degrees.
He was the son of a baker; educated in Edinburgh Uni-
versity. He afterward became a companion of kings,
priests and pretenders; amassed great wealth, and apos-
tatized from Protestantism to Rome. He was twenty
years old when James II. threw the mace into the
Thames, and fled to Paris. He went to Holland, and
under a popular enthusiast, Pierre Poiret, plunged into
the tenets of the mystical theology then widely prevail-
ing. In 1710 he months in the family of the
lived six
mystical papist, Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray, with
whom his apostacy to Romanism became complete. He
had before been, in the words of Rebold “The instru-
ment of the Jesuits;” framing Masonic degrees, and
plotting the restoration of the Stuarts. He became tu-
tor to the two sons of the first Pretender, Charles Ed-
ward, and Henry. His heart seems to have cleaved to
bonnie Scotland. He called his first invented degrees
'
Scotch . ( Ecossais .)
He offered fortunes to his rela-
tives, but they spurned 'him and his money, gained by
apostacy; by the sale of sham dignities, and from the
pay of Catholic kings, priests, princes, and pretenders.
The success of Charles II. in recovering his father’s
throne; — and the powerful backing of
his long reign,
the French king, the Pope, and his Jesuits, exalted
their hopes to the highest. Adventurers flocked to
them, and for a time Masonry was the rage in France,
and Ramsay was its Head-center. He told the French
 LIES NO DISPARAGEMENT TO MASONIC MORALITY. 23

noblesse, who despised a Masonry derived from stone-

—
masons mechanics, that his new degrees were brought
from Palestine in the time of the Crusades, by returned
princes, priests, knights and nobles. And in 1740, as
its grand orator, he pronounced a discourse before the

Grand Lodge of France; manufacturing history as he

went on; and the falsehood was greedily swallowed;
And the marvel is, if anything Masonic can be marvel-
ous, that while this mass of fundamental lying is ad-
mitted and recorded by Mackey, Macoy Folger and the
,

other Masonic authors, they seem to deem falsehoods

no disparagement to pure Masonic “morality” • and
“truth !” One has only to glance over their pages to see
all the facts just as here given.

When France had been sown with the new degrees,

it became necessary to codify and condense. Ramsay
digested a code of six degrees, called the “Ramsay Rite,”
which he attempted to on the English, but
foist
without success. The gunpowder plot in 1605, was
believed, by the British masses, to have resulted from
the Bomisli doctrine that Protestants have no rights
which Papists are morally bound to respect, beyond
what policy dictates. And for three centuries Komish
priests did not consecrate a burial ground on the soil of
England. The Stuarts sunk to rise no more; and Eng-
land would none of “Stuart Masonry.” But The flood
from the mouth of the dragon flowed on. (Rev. 12:15.)
The Chevalier De Bonneville, in 1754, formed a Chap-
5
ter of Clermont in the Jesuits College of that name,
with a Rite of Perfection of twenty-five degrees. But
Masonry is whose waters cannot rest,
a “troubled sea
but cast up mire and dirt.” After an agitated existence
of four years, this Clermont Chapter was merged in a
24 THE SCOTTISH RITE BROUGHT TO AMERICA BY A JEW.

“Council of Emperors of the East and West,” which

out-bragged all before it. The members called them-
selves “Sovereign Prince Masons,” “Substitutes General
of the Royal Art,” and “Grand Superintendents of the
Grand and SuvctcKjn Lodye of St. John of Jerusalem
Three years after this, in 17(51. this august bubble, or
" Council of Emperors,'' which itself burst a few rears
afterward, gave Steven Morin, a dew, who cared nothing
for his religion, and so was willing to adopt the
Ramsay “ Rite of perfection,'’ which Masonically exalts
Christ in some of the degrees; if only, like his ancestor,
Judas, he might sell him for silver; — this mock “Coun-
cil of Emperors” gave to this Jew, power to establish
this Ramsay Rite of Perfection “in every part of the
world.” This Jew came to Charleston, South Carolina,
y .

via. San Domingo, and started what is now this Ancient

and Accepted Scottish Rite A the “leading Rite of the

world !” A detailed account of Morin’s work in Charles-
ton, S. C., is given in the analysis of the fourth de-
gree, (which see.)

After appointing a Deputy InspectorGeneral for

North America, completing his American work, and ap-
pointing some other Inspectors for the West Indies,
Morin disappears from history. No one knows when
he died, or where he was buried. Of the first sixteen
“Deputy Inspectors General” appointed by Morin, thir-
teen were Jews. .(See Folger’s History, p. 38.) From
the advent of Morin in 1762, there is a gap of some
years in which Masonic history is silent or confused.
The struggle for American independence was then be-
ginning, and the long war which established it, took
place in that period; and all Masonic writers agree that
the twenty-five degrees brought over by Morin were re-
 ’THIS JEW BRANDED AN AUDACIOUS JUGGLER. 25

arranged; eight other degrees added; and, in 1801, The

Ancient and Accepted Scottish Bite was formed, as it
now stands; consisting of 33 degrees; and the first “Su-
preme Council was opened in Charleston, S. C., by
John Mitchell and Frederick Dalcho in 1801 ;” which
system now leads all others. Next year, 1802, this Eite
travelled back to Europe. And, though an American
invention, and though its founder, Morin, had only re-
ceived power to confer the 25 degrees, which were the
old Ramsay, Jesuit Bite of Perfection ; and though he
,”
was branded as an “audacious juggler and himself
had been recalled, and his patent taken away and given
to “Bro. Martin” in 1766, by the power that gave it;
Folger, p. 38, Documents still Morin went on consti-
,

tuting Chapters and Councils all the same. In 1783,

seventeen years after his recall, and his patent had been
annulled, he erected in Charleston “The Grand Lodge
of Perfection.” And Bagon says
“The Prince Masons in Charleston, who were at first
all Jews, not satisfied with the Eite of Perfection, con-
added eight degrees more,
sisting of 25 degrees, in 1801,
making in all 33 degrees; and constituted themselves
“The Supreme Scottish Council of America and the
French Possessions.” John Mitchell and Frederick
. Dalcho were the only members of the first Supreme
Council in Charleston who were not Jews. These facts
are given by Folger, pp. l t-2: attested also by Bagon,
f

Thory and Clavel; see Mackey’s Encvclopoedia, Art.

Morin.
to be done?
But what was “The Council of Emper-
ors which commissioned Morin, was extinct, and his
Patent annulled by The Grand Lodge of France, and
he had never had even any Masonic authority to invent
26 FREEMASONRY THE CHILD OF JESUITISM.

degrees and create a Council. This is what they did.

They forged or found some constitutions, which they
said were given by Frederick the Great, of Prussia,
dated in 1786, the year of Frederick’s death at 74 years
of age; and he had long been incapable of business and !

on these spurious constitutions, which Kloss in his his-

tory pronounces “The grand lie of the Order/' these
infidel Jews, with Mitchell and Dalcho, who were not
Jews, founded “The. Ancient and Accepted Scottish Bite
which now owns the temples and rules Freemasonry in
America and Europe. (See Kloss, p. 1^09, quoted by
Folger, p. 60, Documents.)
Thus we have given from Masonic authorities, a full-
length moral portrait of the present leading system of
Masonry in the United States and Europe. And the
Freemasonry of today is a child of Jesuitism, born in
France, when France was so saturated with Lodgism that
even the true-hearted Lafayette was drawn into it. His
apron is now shown as a relic in the house of Washing-
ton at Mt. Vernon. And Lamartine tells us in the Rev-
olution of 1789-92, that the Freemason lodges were
“The Catacombs of a New Worship
/’
—
The Girondists,
vol. I, p. 188. We shall now give a Historic Sketch of
this reigning rite, and see what that “new .worship”
was.
 CHAPTER I

Historical Sketch of the Ancient and Accepted

Scottish Eite.
— —
Attempts Universal Dominion Importance of the Scottish Rite Born in
—
the City of Nullification and Rebellion The Traitor and Mason Aaron
— —
Burr Masonic Conspiracy to Disrupt the Union Genei'al Jackson’s
— —
Freemaspnry Patriotism Vs. Masonic Obligations Destroying The Su-
—
preme Council’s Records Abominations and Demon Worship.

This Eite is now in the ascendant throughout the Ma-

sonic world. It consists of thirty-three degrees, count-
ing the three old York Eite Degrees Entered Appren-
:

tice; Fellow Craft, and Master Mason ; which three de-

grees are the basis of all the Masonic Eites.
This 33d degree rite is one of the latest among many
attempts to construct a chain of degrees to bind together,
tax, and govern the lodges of the world. The Covent
Garden Grand Lodge, formed at the Appletree Tavern,
London, in 1717, was such an attempt. Four decayed
lodges of working Masons, accustomed to initiate their
apprentices, journeymen, and masters in a night’s drink-
ing carousal, met at that tavern in February, and on the
24th of June, following, formed the first Grand Lodge,
and assumed (usurped) power to charter, tax, and gov-
ern the Masons of the world, by declaring “irregular” all
lodges not chartered by themselves. And, as they could
withdraw such charters as were given by themselves, and
so destroy or cast out of Masonry all lodges so chartered,
their despotism was complete, over all those who were
 ;

28 IMPORTANCE OF THE SCOTTISH RITE.

chartered by them.

This usurpation and imposition was successful. In

twenty-one years Freemasonry had spread into France,
Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, the United States, Sax-
ony, Belgium, Holland, Spain, Fortugal, Turkey, Asia,
Africa and New
Holland; and a few years later it had
spread throughout Christendom.
The success of this swindle encouraged others. As a
small specimen of such enterprises a few years since,
two adventurers invented, and were selling, a new side
degree to Masons in Peoria, Illinois, when one of them
stole the money and ran The other applied
off. a to
lawyer, saying mournfully.
— “If the fellow hadn't been
a fool, we were making money so fast, that in a short
time his half would have been more than all he has
stolen/’

By such swindling adventurers, “degrees*' increased

so rapidly that Behold says there were several thousand
at one time practiced in France. As soon as the increase
of degrees and dues have tempted ambition and greed,
attempts have been made to grasp universal lodge do-
minion. This was attempted by Weishaupt in 1777; bv
Frederick II., or others in his name, in Berlin in 1786
by the Grand Orient; and, indeed, by every considerable
Masonic bod}-, attempts have been made to seize “the
f’
kingdoms of the world and the glory of them which
were proffered by Satan to Christ, as the inducements to
devil worship.
Such an attempt to seize universal dominion, is this
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Bile of 33 degrees, of
which E. Junius Edwards, Commander in chief of the
Grand Consistory of Minnesota, says': Nov. 12, 1885:—
“All the Supreme Councils of the world have finally
 BORN IN CITY OF NULLIFICATION AND REBELLION. 29

adopted this schedule.” Hence the importance of this

volume.
—
Macoy’s Encyclopedia says of this rite: “The An-
cient and Accepted Scottish Eite was, for the most part,
elaborated from the system invented by Ramsay.”
In the Historical Analysis of the fourth and fifth de-
grees, pages 59-G8, and 89-92 of this volume, will be
found quotations from Mackey, Macoy, Rebold, -Folger,
and Morris, whose authority as Masonic writers is un-
questioned, in ample proof of the fact that this Scottish
Eite had its and breasts of an apos-
origin in the brains
tate Presbyterian, renegade tyrants, Jews who retained
nothing of Judaism but its hatred of Christ, associated
with 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 Nulli-
fication, Secession, and Rebellion; in Charleston, South*
Carolina, in 1801, where thirteen Jews and three Prot-
estants: Mitchell, Dalcho and Provost, who had receiv-
ed it from France, falsely pretended- to found it on con-
stitutions given by Frederick the Great. If Satan had
picked the time, the inventors, and home of this Eite
he would have doubtless chosen the same. French
principles prevailed; Jefferson was first inaugurated,
having defeated John Adams in 1801, the year when
the Charleston Council was born. Aaron Burr who ,

came near defeating Jefferson , was plotting to divide

the infant Union, raising troops, in the Southwest, and
both Barnard and Gassett say, he used the Royal Arch
Cypher to cover his treason, for which Jefferson after-
wards tried him. Morin’s Jews, with Mitchell and Dal-
cho, that same year (1801,) took Ramsay’s and his Jes-
uits" Eite of Perfection; added eight degrees; made it
30 THE TRAITOR AND MASON AARON BURR.

“The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite/’ and sent it

back to France, where the survivors of The Reign of

Terror received it, and today it rules European Ma-
sonry.
“As early as 1796, while John Jay was Governor,
Colonel Burr had various conversations with him on the
subject of these (Mexican) provinces. Col. Burr said
he could revolutionize and take possession of South
America.”
“Burr was actively engaged during the years 1805-6
in traversing the western country.”
“Previous to the cession of Louisiana Baron Bastrop
contracted with the Spanish Government for land near
Natchitoches, exceeding thirty miles square.”
* 2
The Spanish Government granted to Bastrop one
million two hundred thousand acres. Col. Lynch paid
Bastrop about one hundred thousand dollars for six-
tenths of it; and Burr paid Lynch fifty thousand dol-
lars for half of his (Lynch’s) purchase.”
“Gen. Wilkinson detailed to Burr the facilities which
would probably be afforded by the inhabitants in effect-
ing a revolution.”
Burr writes to his daughter, Aug. 1805, “I have now
150 miles of wilderness to encounter.”
“Col. Burr was arrested as a traitor on the Tom Big-
bee River, Mississippi Territory.”
The above excerpts are taken from “Memoirs of
Aaron Burr by his friend, M. L. Davis promiscuously
pag£s to 383, vol. II, and they prove;
That Burr’s object in raising troops with Blenner-
1.

hassett was the disruption of the Union, and a slave em-

pire south and west of the Mississippi, io include Mexico
and Central America, then belonging io Spain. For
 —

MASONIC CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY THE UNION. 31

this he was tried for his life, but acquitted for want of
<overt treasonable acts. Before his trial, we read in the
Memoirs, page 383: “a letter was delivered by Swart-
wout to General Wilkinson, written in cypher.” Bar-
nard and 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 proof
that Burr’s conspiracy was a Masonic conspiracy.
But the crowning proof is this”:

By universal Masonic law, but one supreme body can

be in one nation. But the Charleston Supreme Council
made the United States the sole exception. In 1813,
twelve years from its origin, Supreme Coun-
it created a
cil,Northern Jurisdiction, located at New York, limited
to the States north of the Ohio and east of the Missis-
sippi; the very division contemplated by Burr, and
afterward attempted by the Jeff. Davis and Alexander
ID Stevens’ Confederacy, by repealing the Missouri
Compromise, and, in Stephens’ words, attempting an
“Empire whose corner stone is slavery.” But for Jef-
ferson's patriotism and Jackson’s courage and decision,
the attempt would have been made years before b)
. Calhoun's Nullification. Indeed,
the hopes and pre-
dictions of Monarchists, Papists and Anarchists of Eu-
rope, from the first, were that the United States would
split on the Ohio and Mississippi; shut off New England
and her principles between the Atlantic, St. Lawrence,
Mississippi and Ohio, and leave the whole vast South
and West; its soil, climate and mines, to slavery, the
lodge, the priest and the mob.
Now
considering that the Charleston Supreme Coun-
cilMasonically divided our Union in 1813, by these
ery lines .-—Considering that Aaron Burr, using the Ma»
 — ;

32 GENERAL JACKSON'S FREEMASONRY.

sonic cypher, was attempting precisely' the same rending

of the Union at the same time; —considering that after-
wards our Union was rent by the lodge-room conspir-
acies of the South; —
considering that our Congress
upheld slavery, till Lincoln took the helm, and Seward,
Sumner, Wilson, Stevfcns, Stanton and Chase, all
of whom were Antimasons, controlled Congress;
and considering that our war was a failure, till Grant
took the sword, who left his dying testimony against
the Lodge;— and, above all, considering that the Eccle-
siastical despotand master of Jesuits at Rome was the
only European power which reached his arm across the
Atlantic to recognize the Rebellion and rend the Union
—and laying all these considerations together, that mind
must be weak, ignorant or worse, which does not see, in
that Charleston Supreme Council of 1801, and its An-
cient and Accepted Scottish Rite, a devil's government
with a devil's gospel and in the subterranean lodges
;

sprang from it, in. the strong words of Lamartine, the

“Catacombs of a new worship," which worship was that
of a naked woman, a Goddess of Reason in the Champ de
—
Mars; a religion which Frenchmen shudder to remem-
ber; which filled France with terror, and bathed it in
blood.

But was not Gen. Jackson a Mason? And were not

all his cabinet honorary members of Federal Lodge in
the City of Washington? Ars. This is all true. But
Jackson firmly believed in Christ, to whom he humbly
professed conversion before he died; and he was a firm
believer in the Union. And though ignorant in many
respects, he was and faithful to the Govern-
fearless
ment, and regretted that he had not hung John C. Cal-
houn for attempting its dissolution. While Livingston «
 PATRIOTISM VS. MASONIC OBLIGATIONS, 33

his Secretary of State, was a champion of the lodge and

Poinsett , by introducing a new Rite into Mexico,
caused a series of bloody revolutions in that unhappy
country.
Of the Masons in the United States, it has been esti-
mated that only one in five habitually attend lodge
meetings, and the lodges are mainly supported by the
four-fifths who are non-attendants, who pay *dues to
avoid lodge-vengeance. As a rule, the one-fifth who at-
tend the meetings share the income among themselves,
while the absentees pay it. •

There are, however, exceptions. A physician had

charge of our Post Hospital near Little Rod *, Arkansas.
An orderly had arrested a rebel who had murdered his
Union neighbor, robbing him of $2,000. The physician*
was a high Mason, and one day the Rebel robber and
murderer called on the doctor for a private interview,
on the square, when the following dialogue took place:
Rebel. “Doctor, I am complicated in this murder case,
and am arrested by the orderly. Can you help me?”
Doctor. “Well, did you kill him?"
Rebel. “Yes."
Doctor. “Well, did you get the two thousand dol-
lars ?"
Rebel. “Yes.”
Doctor. “Well, what do you expect of me?”
Rebel. “That you will aid in extricating me accord-
ing to our obligations as Masons.
Doctor. “You infamous puppy, you expect
you. If
me to make such a use of my Masonry, for once, you
have mistaken your man. I will endeavor to be up to
Little Rock at your hearing, and have a word to say.”
The orderly took the Rebel up to Little Rock and
34 DESTROYING THE SUPREME COUNCIL'S RECORDS.

Masonic Union officers cleared him !

The Rebel was a true Mason. The Surgeon was a

patriot. Like instances to this are at hand, whieli would
fill a moderate volume. There were Masons and Roman
Catholics who were good men and patriots; as there
were, in the New Testament, pagan centurions who re-
ceived Christ. But neither the lodge or the confessional
is Christian or American.
Wehave seen from its history, given by its own au-
thors, that this “Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite/'
is not “ancient,*’ but modern; not “accepted,” but in-

vented; not “Scottish,” but French; and so one contin-

uous falsehood. But its most revolting features are yet
to be drawn.
Destroying records is confessing crime. Its writers
complain that the early English lodge records were de-
stroyed; doubtless lest their secret proceedings should
be brought into the courts. But the Charleston Supreme
Council destroyed its proceedings, for more than half a
century. From 1801 to 1860 no records exist.

In his address before his Council in 1878, Albert Pike

said “I am often asked why we do not publish our old
:

transactions? to which I am compelled to reply,

that ice have none to publish. We
have no records of
the transactions at Charleston from 1801 to 1860. What
* * *
minutes we had were destroyed during the
war.”
The above is taken from the speech of Edwards, com-
mander in chief of the Minnesota Grand Consistory,
Nov. 12, 1885. •

Those records covered the period of Nullification and

the rise of the Rebellion, and were doubtless ghastly
with treason, with attempts to burn down northern cities,
 ABOMINATIONS AND DEMON WORSHIP. 35

and poison inhabitants ; for such things were attempted.

But the records of the Northern Council were pre-
served, and its Historian, Folger, says “It is to be re-
:

gretted that from its ver} commencement its progress

r

in this country has been marked with bitter contentions

and constant quarrels.” Folger, p. 15. These quarrels
have most of them arisen between the old York Bite,
of three degrees, and the French Jesuit degrees, which
have finally conquered and swallowed the less vicious
Blue Lodge, which was first opened in this country in
Boston in 1833.
In New England the whole secret lodge was looked
on with loathing and abhorrence. The grandfather of
Dr. Bichard Storrs, of Braintree, Mass., and Dr. Willis-
ton of East Haven, had a saying, “a Freemason is
hand
in-hand with the devil.” Dr. Hopkins, of Newport, B. I.
in Dr. E. A. Parks’ Memoir of Emmons, says, “the lodge
belongs to the Kingdom of Satan.” Later, the whole
Andover Faculty, Woods, Stuart and Emerson, de-
nounced it in unmeasured terms. The ground idea of
Congregationalism, since Bradshaw rejects as “unlaw-
,

ful'' all rites not enjoined ‘by the word

of God, which
includes lodges, which are “inventions of men ;”
and a
full half million of Christians in other
denominations
regard secret lodges as Synagogues of Satan
to be dis-
fellowshipped by the children of God. A careful
reading of the analysis of the degrees of this
Bite will
convince all candid minds, that they are the “abomina-
tions” and demon-worship of the Scriptures which
pre-
vent the coming of Christ.
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CHAPTER II

LODGE OF PERFECTION.’
Composed of eleven degrees termed the Ineffa-
ble Degrees and comprising the fourth to
FOURTEENTH DEGREES AS FOLLOWS:

4th Degree, Secret Master.

a
5th Perfect Master.
<(
6th Intimate Secretary.
u
7th Provost and Judge.
((
8th Intendant of the Building*.
u
9th Elected Knights of the Nine.
Note 1. ‘In 1754. the Chevalier de Bonneville established
of the high degrees at Paris, in the College of Jesuits of Clermont, hence
called the Chapter of Clermont. The system of Masonry he there prac-
ticed received the namt of the Rite of Perfection, or Rite of Heredom.
The College of Clermont was. says Rebold. (Hist, de 3 G. L., 46,) the
asylum of the adherents of the house of Stuart, and hence the Rite is
to some extent tinctured with Stuart Masonry. It consisted of twenty-
flve degrees, as follows: 1. Apprentice; 2. Fellow Craft; 3. Master- 4.
Secret Master; 5. Perfect Master; 6. Intimate Secretary; 7. Intendaut of
the Building; 8. Provost and Judge; 9. Elect of Nine; 10. Elect of Fif-
teen; 11. Illustrious Elect. Chief "of the twelve tribes; 12. Grand Master
Architect; 13. Royal Arch; 14. Grand. Elect. Ancient. Perfect Master;
15 Knight of the Sword; 16 Prince of Jerusalem; 17. Knight of the East
and West; 18. Rose Croix Knight; 19. Grand Pontiff; 20. Grand Pa-
triarch; 21. Grand Master of the Key of Masonry; 22. Prince of Libanus-
23. Sovereign Prince Adept Chief of the Grand Consistory; 24. Illustrious
Knight. Commander of the Black and White Eagle; 25. Most Illustrious
Sovereign Prince of Masonry. Grand Knight, Sublime Commander of the
Royal Secret. It will be seen that the degrees of this Rite are the
same as those of the Council of Emperors of the East and West, which
was established four years later, and to which the Chapter of Clermont
gave way. Of course, they are therefore the same, so far as they go,
as those of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, which succeeded
the Council of Emperors.
The distinguishing principle of this Rite is. that Freemasonry was
derived from Templarism, and that consequently every Freemason was i

Knight Templar. It was there that the Baron Von ilund was initiated,
and from it. through him. proceeded the Rite of Strict Observance; al-
though he discarded the degrees and retained only the Templar theory.”
—Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Perfection, Rite of.
 : —

38 THE TEMPLE.

10th
“
Illustrious Elect of the Fifteen.
“
11 th Sublime Knights Elect of the Twelve.
“
12th Grand Master Architect.
13th “ Knights of the Ninth Arch or Royal
Arch of Solomon.
“
14th Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime
Mason.

THE TEMPLE/
Every Lodge of the Scotch Rite is divided into two
portions by means of a Ballustrade, or railing, running
North and South. This railing has a gate. The floor-
ing of the East end of the Lodge inside of the railing
and gate is elevated one or two feet above that of the
West.
The walls are adorned by a representation- of twelve
(12) columns.
At the door of the lodge is a brazen laver. There
are elevated seats and desks for each of the following
Officers

East. West.
Master. |
1st Assistant.
Orator |
2nd Assistant.
Secretary, Expert.
Treasurer |
Master of Ceremonies
Note 2.
— “The
Freemasons have, at all events, seized with avidity
the idea representing in their symbolic language the interior and
of
spiritual man by
a material temple. They have the doctrine of the great
Apostle of the Gentiles, who has said, ‘Know ye are the temple of God.
and that the spirit of God dwelletb in you.’ The great body of the
Mtosonic Craft, looking only to this first Temple erected by the wisdom
of King Solomon, make it the symbol of life; and as the great object
of Masonry is the search after truth, they are directed to build up this
temple as a fitting receptacle for truth when found, a place where it
may dwell, just as the ancient Jews built up their great Temple as a
dwelling-place for Him who is the author of all truth.’ Mackey’s En-
cyclopedia of Freemasonry, Article Temple, Symbolism of the.

/
 THE TEMPLE. 39

Which corresponds with the Sun Moon, Earth and

,

five visible planets, viz

Master Sun.
Orator Earth.
Secretary Venus.
Master of Ceremonies Moon.
Expert Mars.
2nd Assistant Jupiter.
1st Assistant Saturn.
In the East or North side under a curtained canopy
the Ark.
In front of the Ark on the North Side, the Twelve
loaves, Altar of Perfume and Vase of Ointment.
In the South Side, opposite the Ark, the seven-
branched candlestick.
 CHAPTER III

Fourth or Secret Master's* Degree.

This grade originated with King Solomon, about the
time the Temple was completed, or shortly after. He
selected seven of the most worthy and expert brethren
from the Craft, and appointed them Guards of the
Sanctum Sanctorum, and the sacred furniture of the
Holy Place. They were called Secret Masters, and in due
time were advanced to higher grades, and others se-
lected to fill their places.

The ritual is replete with valuable and interesting

details relative to the Mystic meaning of the sacred
furniture and ornaments of the Sanctum Sanctorum.
The ceremonies of initiation are solemn and impressive
and it forms a beautiful introductory to the Ineffable
Series.
4
This lodge must be hung in black and strewed with
—
Note 3. “The fourth degree in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite, and the first of what are called the ‘Ineffable Degrees.’ It refers
to those circumstances which occurred at the Temple when Solomon re-
paired to the building for the purpose of supplying the loss of its illus-
trious builder by the appointment of seven experts, among whom were
to be divided the labors which heretofore had been Intrusted to one
gigantic mind. The lecture elaborately explains the mystic meaning of
the sacred things which were contained in the Sanctum Sanctorum, or
—
Holy of Holies.’’ Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Secret
Master.
Note 4.—-“The Lodge is hung with black curtains strewed with tears,
symbolic of grief. There should be eighty-one lights, distributed by nine
times nine; but this number is often dispensed with, and three times
three substituted. Later rituals reduce them to eight.
—
There are but two presiding officers a Master, styled ‘Puissant.’ and
representing King Solomon, and an Inspector, representing Adoniram, the
son of Abda, who had the inspection of the workmen on Mount Lebanon,
—
and who is said to have been the first Secret Master.’’ Mackey's En»
cyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Secret Master.
 — —

SECRET MASTER'S DEGREE. 41

white tears, Master represents Solomon and is

the
styled “Most Powerful” who comes to the Temple
to replace the loss of Hiram Abiff, by seven experts.
There is only one Warden, who is called Adoniram ; it
was him who had the inspection of the workmanship
at Mount Lebanon ; he was the first Secret Master.

FORM OF THE LODGE.

0
Solomon holds a scepter in his hand, is clothed in
mourning robes lined with ermine and sits in the East
before a Triangular Altar, on which is a Crown of Laur-
els and Olive leaves. Adoniram, the inspector is placed
in the West no aprons are used because the work is sus-
;

pended in consequence of the death of Hiram Abiff.

ORDER AND JEWELS.

Solomon is decorated with a large blue watered ribbon
from the right shoulder to the left hip to which is sus-
pended a gold triangle.
6
Adoniram is clothed in black robe and cap and is
decorated with a broad white ribbon bordered with
black round his neck in a triangular form having an
Ivory Key hanging thereto with the letter (Z) cut on
it.

All the brethren should wear the same with white

7
aprons and gloves, the strings of the aprons black, the
Note 5.—-“Solomon is seated in the east, clothed in mourning robes
lined with ermine, holding a sceptre in his hand, and decorated
blue sash from the right shoulder to the left hip, from which
with a
is suspend-
ed a triangle of gold. Before him is placed a triangular altar,
on which
is deposited a wreath of laurel and olive leaves.’’ Mackey’s Encyclo-
pedia of Freemasonry, Article Secret Master.
„Ne8
ot®
)Ut ^
Adoniram. called ‘Venerable Inspector,’ is seated in the
°ut any implement of office, in commemoration of the fact
thatJ'’J
Il ,
the works were suspended at the time of the institution of this
de-
gree. He is decorated with a traingular white cellar, bordered with
tlack, flora which is suspended an ivor^ key, with the letter
thereon, which constitute the collar, and jewel of the
Z engraved
degree These
decorations are worn by all the brethren. ’’—Mackey’s
Encyclopaedia
J * of
Freemasonry, Article Secret Master.
The apron whIte wl th black and with black
strwS? 7hre
h ,i
l )lue
fl wiill
-

th an open eye thereon embroidered in gold.

rani
The }
modern <P
ritual,
’

prescribes that two branches of olive and laurel

ciossrag each other shall be on the middle of
the apron.’’ Mackey’s
J
Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Secret Master.
 — '
1

m
42 SECRET MASTER^ DEGREE.

flaps blue, with an eye painted thereon in gold. The

white signifies the innocence of the masters, and the
black mourning for their chief. The lodge should be
illuminated by eighty-one candles, distributed as per
plate.
Battery —Symbolic A —Three times 27
000 000
. . .
.* ge.
— years—Hours
•

81 Work — From dawn until

of
close of day Moral— The duty of Secrecy and
Silence.
 —

OPENING CEREMONIES
Solomon — Brother Adoniram, 8
are yon a Secret Mas-
ter ?
Adoniram —Most
Powerful, I have passed from the
Square to the Compass, I have seen the tomb of our
Respectable Master Hiram Abiff, and have in company
with my brethren shed tears thereat.
—
Solomon What’s the clock my brother?
—
Adoniram The dawn of day has driven away dark-
ness, and the light begins to shine in this lodge.
—
Solomon If the light has driven away darkness, and
we are all Secret Masters, it is time to begin w ork; r

give notice that I am going to open this lodge of Secret

Masters.
—
Adoniram Brethren, you please take notice
will
that the Most Powerful is about to open this lodge of
Secret Masters.
—
Solomon (Seven raps: 000-000-0; all
rise.)
Adoniram — (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 right
hand on the lips.
Solomon— Illustrious Brethren, this
lodge is open and devoted to God.
Solomon — (One rap.) Brethren will
please be seated.
Note 8.“In Scotch Masonry, Adoniram Is Introduced In the degrees
of Secret Master. Provost and Judge, Intendant of the Building and
others, as one of the most prominent personages In the Temple.’’—
Morri*’ Monitor of Freemasonry, Article Adoniram.
 CHAPTER IV
Fourth or Secret Master's Degree.
INITIATION.

PREPARATION OP CANDIDATE.
•

The candidate is prepared as a Mas-

ter Mason with an apron tied over his
eyes, and a square on his forehead.
Master of Ceremonies then leads him
to the door of the lodge and knocks
seven times: 000-000-0.
Adoniram — Thrice Powerful, I hear
the Master’s knock at the door of our
Sanctuary.

Preparation of
Solomon —Brother Adoniram, attend
Candidate. to this call and see who makes it.

Adoniram — (Opens the door,) Who knocks at the door

of our Sanctuary?

'Master of Ceremonies — One who knows where the

Acacia grows and would help us gather its fruit.

Adoniram —
(To Solomon) Most Powerful, one who
knows where the Acacia grows and would help us gather
its fruit.

Solomon—Let him be admitted.

Adoniram — (To Master Ceremonies)
of Let him be
admitted.
 —

SECRET MASTER'S DEGREE. 45

Master Ceremonies with candidate enters, and

of
conducts him seven times round the lodge, and then to
the Altar.

Solomon —While the Lord reigneth, let the people

tremble, he sitteth between the cherubims ;
let the
earth be moved; Praise ye the Lord — praise, 0 ye ser-
vants of the Lord, praise ye the name of the Lord.

Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth

forevermore: From the rising of the Sun unto the
going down of the same, the Lord's name is to be
praised: The Lord is high above all nations, and his
glory above the Heavens — Praise ye the Lord, praise ye
the name of the Lord ;
praise him, 0 ye servants of the
Lord, ye that stand in the house of the Lord in the —
Courts of the house of our God, praise the Lord for the
Lord is —
good sing praises unto his name for it is
pleasant For the Lord had chosen Jacob unto him-
:

self, and Israel for his peculiar treasure: Let them

praise the name of the Lord —for his name alone is

excellent; his glory is above the Earth and Heaven

Thy name, 0 Lord endureth forever, and thy memorial
throughout all generations: Bless the Lord — 0, my
soul and all that is within me bless his holy name.
Solomon — (Seven raps; 000-000-0— All rise.) Brother
Adoniram I see this Master who seeks the sanctuary
bears the square upon his forehead, and thereby gives
assurance that reason rules his mind ; but he is yet
blind though he has learned to labor; shall he behold
the resplendant name of God?
Adoniram — Thrice Powerful, if he is willing to pro-
nounce the oath, which binds us all we consent that
he should be permitted to see the mvstio name.
40 SECRET MASTER'S DEGREE.

Solomon — My Brother, are you willing to comply with

this requisition ?

('em diddle — am. 1

Solomon — You will then kneel and contract your

obligation.

OBLIGATION SECRET MASTER'S DEGREE.

I solemnly promise that I will not reveal the mysteries

of the Secret Masters, and wonders
will not unveil the
of their Sanctuary to the profane, I further promise to
seek to know myself, and to that end will exert my
mind and search my heart to discover my duty to my-
self, to mankind and to God; Amen.

—
Solomon Together brethren. (All clap seven times
and the candidate is brought to light.)
—
Solomon (Points to the mystic light.) My brother
behold the resplendent luminary which now dawns upon
our rite. Heretofore the blazing star shone upon us,
but its rays were scattered or dispersed; now we have
—
gathered them into a focus They are now the light of
the ‘"All Seeing Eye,” the omnipresence of Jehovah,
whose mystic name it behooves us to know. That name
can be learned only by him who “knows himself,” and
hence the circle which encloses the triangle of duty to
self, to others and to God.

—
Adoniram (Knocks) Thrice Powerful, a messenger
brings tidings of the remains of our departed Master
Hiram Abiff.
—
Solomon What tidings?
—
Adoniram Agreeable to your order his heart has
been embalmed and put with his ashes into an urn of
the purest gold and the custodians of the precious treas-
ure now await your orders.
 — !

INITIATION. *
47

—
Solomon (Seven raps, 000-000-0, all rise) Brethren
let us go upon an holy pilgrimage follow me, in mourn-;

ful procession to convey the precious remains of our de-

ceased Master into the Holy of Holies,
—
Solomon Brothers Expert and Master of Ceremonies
you will now invest the brethren with their aprons, and
form a procession in the North, facing the East, with
candidate and Adoniram at the head.
v
music "dirge.
Procession marches round the room and then to Ante-
room and forms a half circle round the urn which is
;

guarded by two Secret Masters.

—
Solomon Alas Alas !

All— Alas Alas Alas ! ! !

Solomon — Oh my brethren, well may we mourn the

death of' so great and so good a man for by the deed
which cut him from us, we have lost the word ; the true
9
name of God, and the truth itself: In this “Urn’’ (takes
the urn) has been treasured up the heart of him who
loved truth above all things Let us convey it into the
:

Sanctuary as a perpetual token of our sorrow and of our

desire to recover what we have lost, (gives the urn to
candidate) Brother, on you who have come to aid us on
this memorable occasion we confer the honor of bearing
those ashes to their sepulchre.
A procession is now formed, headed
by Master of
Ceremonies and Expert, and closed by Solomon and
Adoniram, with candidate between them bearing the
urn, while marching round the lodge room and through
the ante-rooms.
—
Note 9. “Cross borrowed, it may be supposed, his Idea from an
older symbol in the high degrees, where, in the description of the tomb
of Hiram Abiff, it is said that the heart was enclosed in a golden urn.
to the side of which a triangular stone was affixed, inscribed with the
letters J. M. B. within a wreath of acacia, and placed on the top of an
obelisk.’’ Mackey’s Encylclopsedia of Freemasonry, Article Urn.
48 SECRET MASTER S DEGREE.

Solomon — (Eecites) “0 Lord, our Lord how excellent

is thy name in all the Earth Who hast set thy glory
!

above the Heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and

sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine
enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the
avenger. When I consider the heavens, the work of
thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast
ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of him, and
the Son of man that thou visitest him? For thou hast
made him than the angels and hast crowned
a little lower
him with glory and honor, thou madest him to have
dominion over the works of thy hands: Thou, hast put
all things in subjection under his feet all sheep and oxen ;

yea, and the beasts of the field, the fowl of the air, and
the fish of the sea., 0 Lord, Our Lord, how excellent is

thy name in all the Earth !*'

Whoso draweth nigh to the
contemplation of the ineffable mysteries, let him put off
the shoes of his worldly conversation and corrupt affec-
tions, for the place whereon he standeth is holy ground.
May we ever remember to keep a watchful eye upon the
feet of our affections; before we approach the house of
the Lord, let us seriously consider whether we have
taken straight steps in the paths of his commandments,
and whether our feet are set in due order, and cleansed
according to the purifications of the Sanctuary: Let
us wash as it were in the laver of repentance, wash and
make you away the evil of yoift* doings:
clean, put
acknowledge your iniquities, and return unto the Lord,
10
he will have mercy upon you, and to our Elohim he
will abundantly pardon.

JTotB 10.— “O'nbtf A name applied in Hebrew to any deity, but sometimes
‘

alto to tile true God According to Lanci, it means the most beneficent. It
4s not, however, much used in Masonry "—Mackey's Encyclopaedia qf Free i
I iumnry f Article EloH/n.
 INITIATION. 49

Let us incite each other to practice virtue and shun

vice ;
while our feet are prepared for walking in the ways
of his commandments, our hands should be prepared in
like manner for working in his service. Saith the father
of our Ancient Most Puissant Grand Master, “I will
wash my hands in innocency, (washes his hands) and
so will I compass thine Altar."
May he who beareth the keys of David open a door
of entrance to this our brother. You have hitherto seen
only a thick veil, which hides from your view the Sanc-
tum- Sanctorum of God's Holy Temple. Your fidelity,
zealand constancy have won for you the favor you are
now about to receive of viewing some of our treasures
and gaining admission into the secret or holy place.
At the end of this, the head of the procession stops
at the entrance of the Sanctum Sanctorum, they open
and face inward, and Solomon, Candidate and Adoniram
march between the columns to the door of the balus-
trade and 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 the
key of Intellect, have you (candidate) the Key?
—
Solomon We have it, and he carries the heart of
truth, the Heart of Hiram, our regetted venerable Mas-
ter.

Master of Cere monies — By these tokens you may en-

ter.

There is a table in front of the Throne on which are

placed,
1st. The Ark of Alliance .
— ( Adaptation .)
2nd. A Pot of Incense, on a tripod,— (Beauty.)
3rd. The Twelve Loaves —
(Society.)
.

1/th. The Seven Branched Candlestick ( K.)

.
—
 ,

50 SECRET MASTER S DECREE.

Solomon- Here brother in (bo midst of the Emblems

of our Desire j<>r Society, of the Light, of Knowledge
oJ the Sense of Bcuuh/, and of the Adaptation of Mon
fo God , let us deposit the .sacred heart of our deceased
venerable Master, to remind us forever, that though the
assassins have destroyed Ids body; yet the natural low,
which is word of God,. is written upon the heart
also the

of every man who cometh into Hie world.

The candidate places the Urn.
—
Solomon Let us pray.

PRAYER.
Oh, God we pray thee, thou Grand Architect of the
Universe to cast thy all seeing eye upon this Sanctuary,
which symbolizes the Conscience of Alan , and help us to
use the Key
of Intelligence within the Balustrade of
Benson, so that we may know ourselves, link ourselves
unto thee, and become fit for the immortality thou has
promised.
Adoniram Am en. —
Solomon And now — my we separate,
brethren, before
before I crown this Urn, with the Laurel and the Olive
branch in token of the Glory and the Peace which is
crowned unto him who 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, a
new obligation and task unites us, and it becomes my
pleasant duty to confer upon you, as a reward for the
service you have just performed the title of Secret Mas-
ter and member of this Secret Chamber 0. L. No.
—
Solomon (Installs him by investing him with the
Ribbon, Key and Apron , places on his head a Crown or
 ;

INITIATION. 51

Wreath of Laurels' and Olive leaves.) My clear broth-

'
1
1

er, 1 receive you a Secret Master, and give you rank

among the Levites this laurel which 1 have invested
you with, alludes to the victory you are to gain over
your passions, the olive is a symbol of that peace and
union which should reign among us it rests with you to ;

desire the favor, that God may one day enable you to
arrive at the secret place, and there to contemplate the
13
pillar beauty. suspended by a white and
The Ivory Key
black ribbon is a symbol of your fidelity , innocence and
discretion, the apron and gloves are emblematical of the
candor of all the Secret Masters, among whom you are
now introduced in quality of Secret Master. I give you
rank among the Levites, to be a faithful guardian of the
Sanctum Sanctorum and have placed you among the
,

number seven to supply the place of our dear Master

Hiram Abiff; and have also appointed you one of the
conductors of the work, which is to be raised to the
divinity. The Eye on your apron is there to remind you
to be ever watchful over the workmen.

—
Note 11. “A decoration used in some of the higher degrees of the
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. The laurel is an emblem of vic-
tory; and the corona triumphalis of the Romans, which was given to
generals who had gained a triumph by their conquests, was made of
laurel leaves. The laurel crown in Masonry is given to him who has
—
made a conquest over his passions.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Free-
masonry. Article Laurel Crown. «
—
Note 12. “In a secondary sense, the olive riant is a symbol of peace
and victory; but in its primary sense, like all the other sacred plants
of antiquity, it was a symbol of resurrection and immortality. Hence
in the Ancient Mysteries it was the analogue of the Acacia of Free-
—
masonry.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Olive.

Note — ‘‘The
13. key, however, is still preserved as a symbol of se-
crecy inthe Royal Arch degree; and it is also presented to us in the
same sense in the ivory key of the Secret Master, or fourth degree of
the Scottish Rite. In many of the German Lodges an ivory key is made
a part of the Masonic clothing of each brother, to remind him that ~he
should lock up or conceal the secrets of Freemasonry in his heart.”—
Mackey’s Encyclopaedia cf Freemasonry, Article Key..
52 SECRET MASTER S DEGREE.

Solomon then gives 1 1

<
* following
TOKENS.
First give
the Master’s Grip,
and then the hand to each
slip
other's elbow, and balance seven
times; at the same time bring the
foot and knee in contact.
Pass Word Zi-Za.
14
—
(resplen-
dent.)
Sacred Word — Adonai. 15

Token

SIGN OF SILENCE.

Sign — Is that of silence, which is made

by placing the first two fingers of the
right hand on the lips, which is answered
by the first two fingers of the left.

Sign of Silence.
Note 14. — “This is said, in one of the Ineffable de-
grees of the Scottish Rite, to be the name of the bal-
ustrade before the Sanctum Sanctorum. There is no such
word in Hebrew, but it may be a corruption of
the Talmudic
ziza,which Buxtorf {Lex. Talm defines as ^‘a bcarrn, a little beam, a
)
-mall ratter. —Mackey's Encydfijmdia of Freemasonry, Article Zizon.
Notk Hebrew
ir>.— “In being the plural of excellence for Adon, and
The Jews, who reverently avoided the pronunciatiQn or
signify im; the Lord.
the sacred* name Jehovah, were accustomed, whenever that name oc-
curred, to substitute for it the word Adonai in reading. As to the use of
the plural form instead of the singular, the Rabbins say. ‘Every word
Indicative of dominion, though singular ip meaning, is made plural in
form.’ This is called the ‘pluralis excellentiae. ” The Talmudists also
say, (Buxtroff,) Lex. Talm., that the telragrammaton Is called Shem
hamphorash, the name that is explained, because it is explained, uttered
and set forth by the word Adonai. (See Jehovah and Shem Hamphor-
ash.) Adonai is used as a significant word in several of the high de-
grees of Masonry, and may almost always be considered as allusive
to or symbolic of the True Word.” —
Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Free-
masonry, Article Adonai.
 INITIATION. 53

Solomon — Go, my brother, pass the Brethren and lis-

ten to our Grand Orator.

- HISTORICAL DISCOURSES BY GRAND ORATOR.

My Brother, you have had the honor of being received
10
and acknowledged a Secret Master by passing fron^the
Square to the Compass: You were made under the
Laurel and Olive tree, and received in the Sanctum
Sanctorum, by Solomon with Adoniram the inspector of
the work. On entering the Sanctum Sanctorum, you be-
17
held a brilliant Delta enclosing certain Hebraic charac-
18
ters,from which emanated nine beams of the Shekinah ,

bearing each an initial of a divine name as derived from

an attribute and the- whole surrounded by a great circle.
The meaning of those Hebriac characters in the Delta
19
describe the ineffable name of the Grand Architect of
the Universe, which was forbidden to be spoken by a
law of Moses, in consequence of which the true pronun-
ciation was lost to all but the Grand, Elect, Perfect and
Sublime Masons; a knowledge of which I hope you will
one day acquire by virtue of your attachment to our
—
Note 16. “In numbering the 33 degrees of the Scotch Rite, that of
Secret Master is Set as the 4tb, because none but a Master Mason, made
in the York Rite is entitled to it. In the United States the Supreme
Councils of the Northern and Southern Jurisdictions, respectively, have
thus far waived the right to confer the Symbolical or Blue Lodge de-
—
grees.” Morris’ Dictionary of Freemasonry, Article Scotch Masonry.

•'Note 17 —
“A triangle. The name of a piece of furniture in a Comman
dery of Knights Templars, which, being of a triangular form, derives
name from the Greek letter A, delta. It is also the title given, in the French
and Scottish Rites, to the luminous triangle whicn encloses/ the Lneffixbl-
—
name.” Mucliey's Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry Article Delta.
,

Note 18. — “The

Shekinah was the symbol of the divine glory; but the
true glory of divinity is Truth, and Divine Truth is therefore the Sheki-
nah of Masonry. This is symbolized by light, which is no longer used
by us as a ‘substitute’ for the Shekinah. or the divine glory, but as
its — —
symbol the physical expression of its essence.” Mackey’s Ency-
clopa;dia of Freemasonry, Article Shekinah.

Note 19. — “The

ineffable degrees, so-called are the eleven conferred
in a Lodge of Perfection, known as the second series of degrees in the
—
Ancient and Accepted rite.” Macoy’s Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of
Freemasonry, Article Ineffable.
 54 SECRET MASTER S DEGREE.

order, and your zeal in discharging the duties of vour

obligation.
The names you saw in the nine beams
initials of the
of the Shekinah, are those which God gave himself when
he spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, intimating to him
at the same time that his future issue should one day
know his real name. I will now endeavor to give them
to you, with fheir explanations.
Adonai signifying (Supreme Lord.)
Jehovah, (mrr) Elohirn (Supreme Judge.)
A/s, (Powerful) Shaded?" (Omnipotent.)
Yzebrath, (Lord of Hosts,) Ozi, (Mightiness.)
Gibour, (Strength) Ahad, (only one.)
These, my brother, compose 888 letters and 72 names
which are like the ineffable name to be found in the
mysteries of the Cabala, and the angels alphabet. 41
I presume my brother that you are unacquainted with
the mysteries, but they will be fully explained to you
'

—
HOTETSO. “One of file names of God. In Exodus vl. 13, the word transla*
tea God Almighty is. In th&6rigin&L Shaddai. it is therefore the name
by which he was known to the Israelites before he communicated to
Moses the Tetragrammaton. The w‘ord is a pluralis majestatis, and sig-
nifies all-powerful, omnipotent. ’’-—Mackey’s Encyclopedia of Freemasonry,
Article Shaddai.

Note 21. — “In the old rituals of the fourth or Secret Master’s de-
gree of the Scottish and some other Rites, we find pas-
this
sage: ‘The Seventy-two names, like the name of the Divin-
are
ity, to be taken to the Kabbalistic Tree and the Angels’
Alphabet.” The Kabbalistic Tree is a name given by the Kabbalists
to the arrangement of the ten Sephiroth, (which see.) The Angels’
Alphabet is called by the Hebrews OOVlDH 3rb, cTufoib'hamdachim.or tne
writing of the angels GaffareUsyS- (Curios, Inouti .. ch, xiiL 2,) that tbe
stars, according to the opinion of the Hebrew writers, are ranged in
the heavens in the form of letters, and that it is possible to read there
whatsoever of importance is to happen throughout the universe. And
the great English Hermetic philosopher, Robert Flud, says, in his
Apology for the Brethren of the Rosy Cross, that there are characters in
the heavens formed from the disposition of the stars, just as geometric
lines and ordinary letters are formed from points; and he adds, that
those to whom God has granted the hidden knowledge of reading these
characters will also know not only whatever is to happen, but all the
secrets of philosophy. The letters thus arranged in' the form of stars
are called the Angels’ Alphabet. They have the power and articulation
hut not the form of the Hebrew letters, and the Kabbalists say that in
them Moses wrote the tables of the law\ The astrologers, and after them
the alchemists, made much use of this alphabet; and its Introduction
Into any of the high degree rituals is an evidence of the influence ex-
erted on these degrees by the Hermetic philosophy.” Mackey’s Encyclo-
paedia of Freemasonry, Article Alphabet, Angels’.
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INITIATION. 55
32
when you attain the degree of Perfection and having ,

now done with the Delta and its awful characters, I will
endeavor to give you an explanation of the meaning of
3
the Great Circle ’
which surrounds it.

It represents masonically as all circles do, the immen-

sity of the power of God, which hath neither beginning
nor end.
You also perceived in the Sanctum Sanctorum a
luminous circle enclosing a brilliant star of five points
with the letter G in the center The meaning of which
:

is thus described: Glory , Grandeur and Gomel from

which we understand, by Glory God; by Grandeur, the,

man who may be great by perfection, and by Gomel, a

Hebrew word which signifies, thanks to God, for his
supreme pow er; it is the first word which Adam spoke
r

on discovering the adorable Eve. The five beams of

the brilliant Star, represent the five orders of Architec-
ture,which adorn the Temple, also *the senses of nature,
without which no man can be perfect.
You also beheld in the Sanctum Sanctorum the Ark
of Alliance, the Golden Candlestick with seven bran-
ches, having a lamp in each ;
also a table. The Ark of
Alliance was placed in the middle of the Sanctum Sanc-
torum under the brilliant star and the shadow of the
wings of the Cherubim, which represents the alliance
which God made with his people. This Ark of Alliance
Note —
22. “The first degree conferred in the Lodge of Perfection,
Scotch Masonry, and the fourth upon the catalogue of that system.
There is a Master and a Warden. The former, who is styled Most Pow-
erful, represents Solomon coming to the temple to elect seven skillful
workmen to succeed Hiram Abiff; the latter, entitled Grand Inspector,
represents Adoniram. The hangings are black, strewed with tears. The
—
lodge has 81 lights.” Morris’ Masonic Dictionary, Article Secret Master.
Note 23.— “In the obsolete lectures of the old English system, it was
said that ‘the circle has ever been considered symbolical of theT>eity;
for as a circle appears to have neither beginning nor end, it rnhy be
justly considered a type of God, without either beginning of days or end-
—
ing of years.’ ” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Circle.
56 SECRET MASTER'S DEGREE.

was of form of a parallelogram two cubits and a

the
half in length, one and one-half cubits in breadth, and
the same in height, made of shittim wood covered with-
in and without with gold, decorated with a golden
crown, and borne by two Cherubim of gold.
The cover of the Ark had a name which was called
Propitiatory or place that served to appease God's anger.
Said Propitiatory contained the testimony which God
—
gave to Moses The tablets of the Law. Said tablets
were of white marble and contained the Decalogue writ-
ten in Hebrew characters.

The commandments taught, and were disposed of on

the tablets as follows
The first four pointed out the obligations of man to
his God, and were engraved on the The re-
first tablet.

maining six pointed out the obligations of man to man,

and were engraved on the second tablet. The command-
ments on the different tablets were distinguished in this
wise
Those of the first collectively taken, formed the
Divine Law; those of the second the Moral Law; the
tables were used to place thereon the twelve loaves of
unleavened bread, which must be always in the presence
of the Divinity agreeable to Iris command to Moses.
These loaves of unleavened bread were made of the pur-
est of flour, and were placed -six on the right hand and
six on the left, forming two heaps, above which was
placed a bright ewer filled with incense, as a memento
made to God. The name of the
to us of the obligations
Sanctum Sanctorum in Hebrew is Dabir, and it was
there the Divinity resided, and where lie delivered his
commandments to Moses.
Moses by the help and command of God, constructed
 —

INITIATION. 57

the Ark, and for that purpose he chose to assist him

Bezaleel, of the tribe of Judah, son of Uri and Miriam,
sister toMoses and Aholiab, son of Ahisamach of the
Tribe of Dan, the most learned of people.
The Israelites testified so much ardour for the works
and offered with so much zeal to carry on the same, that
Moses proclaimed by sound of trumpet that he wanted
no more. They worked after the model which God had
given unto Moses, and also instructed him in the number
and form of the sacred vessels which were to be made
and placed in the tabernacle to serve in the sacrifices.
24
The seven branched Candlestick alludes to the seven
planets. The Eye over the door of your Lodge, repre-
sents the Eye of God, to whose name our works are
dedicated, and from whose inspection our actions can
never be concealed. The galleries of the Temple were
ascended by a staircase in the form of a screw. There
was only one door in the Sanctum Sanctorum, on the
east side called Zi Za, which was covered with Gold,
Purple, Hyacinthe and Azure, which represented the
four Elements.
My brother, your age as a Secret Master is 81 years,
your pass-word is Zi Za, and it affords me much satisfac-

tion to find you have paid such strict attention to the

ceremonies of this degree, and I hope also, my brother,
you will treasure up in your mind the rich fruits of our
Sublime Mysteries, and I also flatter myself from your
merit and perseverance that you will soon be capacitated
to deserve the summit of our knowledge in receiving
the Degree of Perfection, wherein you will be presented
with the splendid reward of all your labors.
—
Note 24. “The symbolic seven is to be found diffused in a hundred
ways over the whole Masonic system.” Mackey’s Encylopadia of Free*
masonry, Article Seven.
 —

CLOSING CEREMONIES «

Secret Master's Degree.

—
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 remain
25
silent.
Solomon— Since there remains no more to do than to
practice virtue and shun vice, let us again enter into
silence, that the will of God may be done and accom-
plished. It is time to rest, Brother Inspector, give
notice by the mysterious numbers that the lodge is going
to he closed.
Adoniram — (Strikes seven times, 000 000 0 with his
hands.)
All— (Strike seven times, 000 000 0 with their hands.)
Solomon — (Strikes seven times, 000 000 0 with his
hands after which he gives the sign of silence, which the
brethren answer and the lodge is closed.)
—
Note 25. “The duty of a Secret Master is to keep a careful watch
over the conduct of the Craft in general; to practice virtue, shun vice,
and remain in silence.” Macoy’s Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Free*
masoitiy. Art. Secret Master.
 ;

HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
Fourth or Secret Master's Degree.
How —
Masonry got its title “The Royal Art’’ Lodgery and Poperey over-
—
throw Cromwell’s Commonwealth Similarity of Masonic Jugglery and
—
Priestcraft The Higher Degrees Invented by French Jesuits and Their

——
Instruments Secrecy and Subjection the Chief Elements cf Lodgery
—
and Popery Freemasonry a Religious Pestilence Guerrilla Gen. Pike.
——
Most Puissant Sovereign Grand Commander Who but a Jesuit could
Invent such a Degree as the Secret Master’s? “One Stupendous De-
monaical Possession.’’

The Stuart Dynasty had fallen. The stream of Eng-

lish popular liberty, from incipient jury trial under
Alfred; through Magna Charta under John; and the
overthrow of Priests and Monasteries by Henry VIII;
had flowed steadily onward, but it had met an ice-gorge
in the house of Stuart ;
the meanest of monarchs and of
men. But the dam was broken and the stream rushed
on. Charles I, had been beheaded for treason to his
people, (1649.) His son Charles II, was driven an exile
into France; but being a Secret Papist, he joined the
Freemasons and regained his throne by the secret union
of French Papists and English Masons. This gave to
Masonry the title of “The Royal Art (Brume's Eng-
land 77, 606 and Rebold, p. 5Jf.) His brother James
II, an open Papist, reigned three years as a weak despot
then threw the Mace into the Thames and fled from his
throne and people to the French Monarch; “the eldest
Son of the Eomish Church.” The French wags called
him “The Simpleton who lost three Kingdoms for a
mass." This weak Stuart, like his brother Charles, was
“accepted'’ as a Mason; took up his head-quarters at the
 ;

GO SIMILARITY OF MASONIC JUGGLERY AND PRIESTCRAFT.

-

Jesuit's College of Clermont; and, for a while, plotted

to regain his throne, but died thirteen years after his
abdication (1688), at the Palace of St. Germain in 1701.
His Son, the Young Pretender Charles Edward, fol-
lowed his father and grandfather into the lodge; be-
came Grand Master of the Chapter of Herodem
( Mackey Encyc. Art. Stuart Masonry) and, by the sale

of Charters to French and English and Irish Masons,

with aid from the French Monarch, raised means to in-
vade England by way of Scotland. But the Protestant
throne of William and Mary stood firm, and still stands,
in spite of Popery and the lodge. But by restoring the
second Charles and overthrowing Cromwell's Common-
wealth, the twin evils, Popery and Lodgery, put back
public morals and popular liberty in England a full
century. Both are unmitigated despotisms Both set —
—
up a false standard of morals; and both set aside
Christ. Masonry promises to save men by its jugglery,
and Popery sends men for salvation, not to Christ, but
to a priest.
But, how can Pope Clement
this be; since, in 1738,
XII issued his bull against the Freemasons and its au-
thority continues in force; has been endorsed by Popes
since, and enforced by Councils and Priests?

Answers — The question is not how it can be, but is

it true that the' higher degrees of Masonry are of Popish

origin? This must be settled by proof.
The world knows that James II, a declared Papist,
fled to France in 1688, where he died thirteen years
afterward.
“Leaning France and during
says, after his flight to
his residence at the Jesuit College of Clermont, his ad-
herents, among whom were the Jesuits, fabricated certain
 THE HIGHER DEGREES INVENTED BY FRENCH JESUITS. 61

degrees with the design of carrying out their political

views.” taken from Mackey’s Encyclopedia,
This is

Article Stuart Masonry, and there is no higher Masonic

authority.
Another standard Masonic author, ( Macoy , Cyc. Art .

Scotch Rite) says: “The degrees of this Rite are, for

the most part, fabricated from the system invented by
Ramsay .” This Ramsay a brilliant young Scotchman,
apostatized to Popery. He was twenty years old when
James II. fled to France. Ramsay followed him and
became tutor to his sons. He became also an “instrument
of the Jesuits ( Rehold Gen. Hist. p. 161,) in adding
upper degrees to simple York Masonry, and so to draw
English Masons into a conspiracy to overturn the throne
of William and Mary and bring in despotism and the
!

Stuarts. Having amassed a large fortune by his Scotch

thrift, royal patronage, and the sale of Masonic rites
and dignities, he offered to enrich his relatives in Scot-
land, doubtless hoping to draw them into his Stuart Ma-
!
sonry, along with the Jesuits, but they scorned him, and
rejected his proffered wealth. He then tried to introduce
I his Masonry into England but was repulsed; went back
I to France, and died at Pointoise in 1743. (See his life
I in Mackey's Cyclopedia.)
Thus proved that the first higher degrees of Ma-
it is

sonry were invented by French Jesuits and their “In-

[

I struments.” And thus is explained “how it can be”

that Popery can, at once, prohibit and permit the Lodge.
j

As, with Jesuits, "the end sanctifies the means;” Ma-

sonry is right when seeking to enthrone Popery; and
wrong when its oaths of secrecy interfere with the Con-
fessional, and its dugs diminish Peter’s Pence. But” the
point is proved, if history can prove anything, "that the
02 LODGE AND POPISH SECRECY AND SUBJECTION.

higher degrees of Masonry ;” so-called, are of Popish ori-

gin, invented by Jesuits to destroy Protestantism and
popular liberty in Europe. And thus is fulfilled, the
symbolic prophecy of Rev. 13th Chapter. The first

beast being Pome pagan, and the second Rome Papal.

And Lodge System is a shadowy “image” of
the Secret
the iron despotism of Rome, made by “them that dwell
on the earth” promiscuously; not by churchmen, or any
one 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 barba-
rians are their brethren, and that their lodge religion
is the natural religion of mankind, thus annihilating the

Christian religion and ignoring Christian civilization.

The names given by the French to their higher orders
are Popish. “Chapter,” “Templar,” “Knight” “Coun-
cil,” are all Popish names, first invented by Priests;
while “the Image” outdoes the beasts themselves (
Pagan
and Papal Rome) in the grandiloquence of its titles, and
the garishness of its regalia.

But the identity of these religions of Antichrist is

not merely outward but inward and moral; the chief

elements being secrecy and despotism. September 27th,
1540, Pope Paul III, established “The Society of Jesus,
called Jesuits.” God has said, Isa, IS, 16, “I have not
spoken in secret from the beginning,” and Christ re-

peated, “In secret have I said nothing.” Jno. 18, 20. t

The secrecy of the Jesuits (

Secreta monita) was im-
penetrable,and Lefevre when told he would die if he
attempted to travel, as he was ordered to do, answered,
“It is not necessary that I should live; but it is

necessary I should obey.” He went — and died. These

two pillars in the temple of Anti-christ, viz., Secrecy
\
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EACH TRYING TO CHARTER, TAX AND GOVERN OTHERS. 63

and Subjection, appear in every “stronghold” of the

devil on earth; from the Vatican to the Purroh in an
African bush. “We require,” said Powderly, “Secrecy
.**
and obedience Wherever these are, however flitting
and wavering, there is an “Image of the Beast.”
But Ramsay boldly copied the lineaments of the
Bea»t. We read: “He
endeavored to obviate the ob-
jections of the French nobility to the mechanical origin
(Stone Masons) of the institution (Masonry) by assert-
ing that it arose in the Holy Land during the Crusades-.”
(Macoy Art. Ramsay.) That this origin of Masonry
was known to be false made no difference. Degrees,
Chapters and Eites sprung up by thousands and spread
was likely to fail by its
like pestilence, until the swindle
cheapness, and the religious imposture by its insipidity
— dispensing with Christ. Then began the struggle to
condense, stratify and monopolize. Ramsay made a Eite
of six degrees. Each adventurer strove to overtop, char-
ter, tax, and govern all others. In 1758, this struggle
“
produced at Paris Council of Emperors of the East
a
and West.** Its adepts styled themselves “Sovereign
Prince Masons'’
—“Substitutes General of the Eoyal
Art” —“Grand Superintendents and Officers of the
Grand and Sovereign Lodge of St. John of Jerusalem.”
Its Eite consisted of twenty-five degrees. ( Macoy . p.
1SS.) Four years previous, De Bonneville had instituted
a “Rite of Perfection in the Jesuit College, containing
these same twenty-five degrees; but this Eite of Perfec-
tion was merged inThe Council of Emperors of the
East and West.” * (Mackey Encvc.) Vo reason for the
merging is given.
Four years after its origin, in 1761, this “Council of
Emperors” empowered a Jew named Stephen Morin
 :

64 INVENTED BY JESUITS AND SOLD BY JEWS.

who was coming to America, to act as “Inspector Gen-

eral” of all the higher lodges of Masonry in the New
World. His commission ran “We do recognize
:

our dearest brother, Stephen Morin, as our Grand Mas-

ter Inspector to establish Perfect and Sublime Masonry
in every part of the world/’ ( Folger’s History of the
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite , p. 31, Documents.)
This Jew came, via San Domingo, to Charleston, S. C.,
and finding that it paid established a lodge of “Inspec-
tors General.” Of the first sixteen Inspectors whom he
appointed, thirteen were Jews, as was Morin himself.
The three who were not Jews, were Col. John Mitchell,
Col. Provost and Dr. Frederick. Dalclio ( Folgefs

His. p. 38.) x\nd Folger adds: ( Same page) “If his-

tory speaks correctly, Morin and his co-adjutors found
manufacturing Masonic degrees and the sale of Masonic
dignities, a very profitable and lucrative undertaking.
They pursued it diligently, making all the money
they could from the traffic.” (This is from the latest
“History of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite by
Robert B . Folger, Past Master 33°, ex-Secretary Gen-
eral, etc., New York, 1881.”)
As no honest Jew goes above the Master Mason’s de-
gree on account of his religion, these thirteen Jews
were mere lodge gamblers. And with Mitchell, Provost
and Dalcho, they took Morin’s twenty-five degrees, which
constituted the Rite of Perfection, (all Morin was em-
powered to confer,) added eight more, revised and re-
arranged the rest, and produced the subject of this vol-
ume, that is, “The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
and we read
“On the 31st day of May, 1801, the Supreme Council
of the thirty-third degree for the United States of
 FREEMASONRY A RELIGIOUS PESTILENCE. 65

America, was opened with the high honors of Masonry

by Brother John Mitchell and Frederick Dalcho, Sover-
eign Grand Inspectors General/’ This was done in the
City of Charleston, S. C., and was, and is, the first Su-
preme Council of Grand Inspectors General in the
world.
But what Was to be done? “The Council of Emper-
ors” which gave Morin his authority was extinct, and
The Grand Orient had received its debris. They forged,
or feigned, a constitution dating 1786, given by Freder-
ick II, of Prussia. (Mach. Encyc.) They made terms
with the Grand Orient, which was now the leading Lodge
in Europe, which adopted their Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite of thirty-three degrees. And this American
invention is becoming the leading Kite of the world.
It is thus spoken of by Standard Masonic writers.
McClenachan says: “In 1868 this exalted Kite is in
the full tide of prosperity and healthful progress. Its
sublime teachings find a ready response in every Ma-
sonic heart,” (His., p. 21.)
And Mackey (Encyc. Art. Scottish Rite) says: “Al-
though one of the youngest Masonic Kites, having been
established not earlier than 1801, it is, at this day, the
most popular and most extensively diffused.” Other
authorities might be given, and there are no conflicting
authorities, as to the popularity and prevalence of this
Kite.
Whoever carefully reads this sketch will find cause
for astonishment and dread. This French Masonry,
falsely called Scotch, is a religious pestilence spread and
spreading over the most enlightened nations on the
globe. It takes its name from clubs of Stone Masons
who initiated their Apprentices, Journeymen and Master
GG GUERRILLA GEX. PIKE, MOST PUISSANT SOV. GR. COM
Masons. Four of these clubs, at a London Tavern in
ITT 7, dropped Stone Masonry, “accepted” all who would
pay; started a religion to lit men for heaven without
Christ, and thenceforth it took its stand with the false
religions of the world; based on lying legends, secrecy,
mystery and show. Here the Jesuits took it up, as seen
above, to destroy the free agency of men in religion by
sworn obedience to unknown superiors. The Jesuits had
existed since 1540 by the same principles of secrecy and
abject submission and so blended readily with the Lon-
don Lodge. But England was Protestant and had read
the Bible. The London, York Rite, three degree Lodge
of English Masons, could not be used to restore the
Papists, Charles II, James II, and his sons, and destroy
stubborn English liberty. The Jesuits took up these
exiles; added upper degrees to govern English Masons;
succeeded in restoring Charles II, but failed to restore j

J ames and his sons. But the degrees they invented and
used for the most infamous of purposes, were hardened
into a “Rite of Perfection,” which the Jew, Morin w ith r

twelve other Jews, sold for money as their fathers sold

Christ. But Mitchell , Dcilclio and Provost , who were
not Jews, altered and spliced their “Rite of Perfection
into The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Thirty-
three degrees. They then sent this monstrous production
of fraud, falsehood, treachery, treason and blasphemy
back to Europe. The Grand Orient, which has since
expunged from its Ritual, “God and the Immortality of
man,” adopted this monster Rite and spread it over
Europe while, in
;
this country, its Supreme Grand Com-
mander is the infidel traitor, the Guerrilla General
Albert Pike, whose initiated Indians massacred LT nion
troops at Pea Ridge.
But those who imagine that the crushing of popular
liberty in Europe and America is the chief end and ob-
ject of Masonry, wholly mistake its nature and drift
Like that unclean religion whose temple was in Eplu
esus; whose goddess, it was said, “all Asia and the

•
i
 WHO BUT A JESUIT COULD INVENT SUCH A DEGREE? 6?

world worshippeth ;” the lodge is a conspiracy against

'God; made by him who waged war in Heaven. Over-
turning governments ; crushing out liberty ; these are
but its by-play. In the words of its chief authority,
Mackey, its intent is to establish on this earth the “Re-
ligion in which all mankind agree/’ To put the pure
worship of Almighty God through Christ, on a moral
level with the worships of horses in Japan; of mon-
keys in Hindoostan; and of snakes, devils and gorillas
in Africa.
Let us now analyze this “Secret Masters" degree; the
first of the Jesuit degrees, and fourth of the Scottish
Rite. All the Rites rest on the three old Stone Mason
degrees ; else they would lose the name of Masons.
The legend or lie on which this degree rests, is, that
Solomon, after the death Hiram Abitf, appointed seven
Secret Masters to take the place of the dead one. Their
persons might be known but their functions were secret.
This is truly a Jesuit’s degree. What body of men, un-
less they were Jesuits, would allow seven of their num-
ber to supervise them secretly? How would such men
know what to esteem, right or wrong, till they felt the
bludgeon or the poniard of the “Secret Master Who
but a Jesuit could have invented such a degree?
The Ritual is mostly taken from the Old Testament
which Ramsay had studied in Scotland, and Jews and
Jesuits could assist in forming it. The drapery of the
lodge robed everything in black, spotted with tears;
the Holy of Holies, the candlestick of seven lights, are
used to inspire awe. The whole Ritual is worship; the
Bible is extensively quoted. Responses given “0 Lord,
;

have mercy upon us,” etc., are often repeated. The

scenery is solemn and expensive. The Christless prayer
asks that the candidate “may prepare” to receive the
impress of the Holy Name and ho fitted for immortality.
And the import of the whole solemn mummery is
summed up in the following question and answer;
68 “one stupendous demoniacal possession.”
f”
“ What are you taught as a Secret Master
“ The duty of secrecy and silence
And, having sported awhile with “the holy places
made with hands, which are the figures of the true/’
which the Jewish High Priest alone could enter once a
year, “not without blood,” so that familiarity might not
breed contempt, and having been told that “the natural
law is the word of God, which is written on the heart of
every man that cometh into the world; which denies, in
toto, the doctrine of redemption by Christ, and regener-
ation by the Holy Ghost; the lodge closes with a dirge
and mock funeral, pretending to deposit the eart of a
dead man in the Holy of Holies, having put the candi-
date on his knees, and exacted the perpetually recurring
promise of concealment from him, the farce ends with
seven raps of the gavel.
What is the true meaning and import of this travesty
of methods, long since laid aside, by which God brought
our race, while ignorant as grown up babes, to reve-
rence and obey a pure law and to trust in the sacrifice of
Christ ?

The meaning and intent of this vile counterfeit, con-

sidered as a device of Satan, i§:
1. To indurate and harden the human heart by prac-
ticing religious ceremonies without any religion. Noth-
ing hardens men like this.
2. To put and keep men in the attitude of receptiv-
ity to spirit influence. The whole lodge ceremony is a
prolonged prayer to the devil.
3. To keep the mind busy while the heart grows
hard, as in bead-counting, genuflexions and crossings in
the Romish Church ;
and in the endless ceremonies of
paganism.
4. To keep the masses stupid while the cunning man-
age them. Thus this fourth grade of' the present uni-
versal Masonry, and the twenty-nine degrees to follow,
as Dr. Damming has said of the Papacy, is one stupen-
”
dous demonaical possession
 CHAPTER V
2
Fifth or Perfect Master's Degree.

“This grade was originally established as a grateful

tribute of respect to the memory of a departed worthy
brother/’
Its ritual and lectures furnish many interesting details
of the mode of his interment, and the honors paid to
his memory. The ceremonies are gloomy and funereal,
and well calculated to fill the mind with solemn thoughts
In this grade are held the lodge of sorrow and are
performed the funeral ceremonies of any brother of the
Sublime Degrees. There is a lengthy esoteric history,
belonging to this grade.

DECORATIONS.
* This lodge is adorned in the same manner as in the
preceding degree, with the following additions
First —
The altar on which the urn was placed is
overspread by a canopy of green and gold.
—
Second In the south-west is a monument of white
and black marble, surmounted by an urn traversed by a
sword, and adorned with a sprig of acacia, and flanked
by 16 columns and surrounded by a balustrade. The
monumental inscription is H. \Z. \ J. \
The compass on the Altar is graduated, the monu-
—
Note 26, “(Maitre PeHait.) The fifth degree in the Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rite. The ceremonies of this degree were originally
established as a grateful tribute of respect to a worthy departed broth-
er. The officers of the Lodge are a Master,- who represents Adoniram,
the Inspector of the works at Mount Lebanon, and one Warden.”—
Mackey's Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Perfect Master.
70 PERFECT MASTER S DEGREE.

ment is triangular, and on each side is a rough stone.

There is a table before the East, covered with black
27
.and strewed with tears .

2
The master represents the noble Adoniram, ", Grand
inspector of King Solomon, he is styled Thrice Respect-
able Master ;
he is decorated with the ornaments of Per-
fection and Prince of J erusalem and sits under a canopy,
holding a setting maul
There is only one warden, seated in the West, who
represents Stolkin, and is styled Grand Inspector. He
wears a black robe and cap, together with the order and
jewel of the grade..
29
The Master of Ceremonies represents Zerbal Captain ,

of King Solomon’s Guards. He is decorated with a

green ribbon round his neck in the form of a collar, to
which hangs the jewel.
dress
30
: —
Black robe and cap white gloves and white ;

apron, with green flap. On the apron is painted or em-

Note 27. — “In
the Master’s degree in some of the conti-
nental Rites, and in all the high degrees where the legend
of the degree and the ceremony of reception are intended to
express grief, the hangings of the Lodge are black strewn
with tears. The figures representing tears are in the form
depicted in the annexed cut. The symbolism is borrowed
from the science of heraldry, where these figures are called
u guttes, and are defined to be “drops of anything that is by
nature liquid or liquefied by art.” The heralds have six of these charges,
viz., yellow, or drops of liquid gold; white, or drops of liquid
silver; red,
or drops of blood; blue, or drops of tears; black, or drops of pitch;
and
green, or drops of oil. In funeral hatchments, a black velvet cloth,
sprinkled with these “drops of tears,” is placed in front of the house
of a deceased nobleman and thrown over his bier; but there, is in
Masonry the guttes de larmes, or drops of tears, are not painted blue,
—
but white.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Tears.
Note 28.
— “Adoniram plays an Important role in the Masonic system,
especially in —
the high degrees.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry,
Article Adoniram.

Note 29.—-“Zerbal. (Scotch Masonry.)— A name introduced in Scotch

Masonrv, in the degree of Perfect Master. Elect of Nine, and others.
—
The name is not historical.” Morris’s Masonic Dictionary, Article Zerbax.
—
Note 30. “The apron is white, with a green flap; and in the middle
of tin* apron must be embroidered or painted, within three circles,
n
cubical stone, in the center of which the letters J is Inscribed, according
to the old rituals; but the Samaritan yod and he, according to the ritual
of the Southern Jurisdiction. ’’—Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry.
Article Perfect Master.
 — —

PERFECT MASTER'S DEGREE, 71

broiderecl three concentric circles, within which is a

cube stone, with the letter “Z” upon it,

—
order: a watered green”
Is of color at the 'end of
which suspended the
is

jewel —Which
82
: compass, open is a at the segment
of a graduated circle, at an angle of 60 degrees.
All the brethren are decorated in the same manner as
Zerbal.
battery: — Four equi-timed knocks; 0000.
age: — One year at opening and seven at closing,
together eight years.
hours of work:
83
— Open at four and close at even-
ing.

moral
84
—
That we should learn to pay due
: respect
to the memory of a deceased worthy brother.

—
Note 31. “The symbolic color of the degree is green, to remind the
Perfect Master that, being dead in vice, he must hope to revive in vir-
—
tue.’’ Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Perfect Master.
—
Note 32. “His jewel is a compass extended sixty degrees, to teach
him that he should act within measure, and ever pay due regard to
justice and equity.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article
Perfect Master.
— —
Note 33. “Age. 1x7. Hours of work open at four; close at close of
—
day.” Morris’ Masonic Dictionary, Article Perfect Master.
Note' 34. — “The lesson is that we should pay due respect to the
memory of a deceased worthy brother.” Morris’ Masonic Dictionary, Ar-
ticle Perfect Master.
 — ) —

OPENING CEREMONIES
Perfect Master's Degree.

Adoniram — (Four raps 0000.) Brother Inspector, is

the lodge tyled and are we all Perfect Masters ?
Stolkin —
Thrice Eespectable Master, we are all Per-
fect Masters and the lodge is tyled.
Adoniram — Brother Inspector, give notice that 35
I am
going to open this lodge of Perfect Masters.
Stolkin —
Brethren, you will please take notice that
our Thrice Eespectable Master is going to open this
U)dge of Perfect Masters.
Adoniram — (Strikes 0000.)
Stolkin — (Strikes 0000.)
Secretary— (Strikes 0000.)
Treasurer— Strikes 0000.
(

All the brethren rise and make the sign of admira-

tion together.
Adoniram —Brother Inspector, pray what's the clock?
Stolkin— Thrice Eespectable Master, it is four.
Adoniram — Since it is time
four, the work-
it is to set

Note 35. “The 5th degree of the Ancient and Accepted rite. The
legend of this degree is founded upon the circumstances of King Solo-
mon’s efforts in establishing appropriate obsequies as a grateful tribute
of respect to the memory of a worthy departed brother. The Master
is styled Most Venerable, and represents Adoniram. The hangings are
green; in each corner of the room is a white column; the altar is cov-
ered with a black cloth, strewed with tears. The apron is white lamb-
skin. lined and bordered with green; in the center of which is painted,
within three circles, a square stone, on which the letter J is inscribed;
the flap of the apron is green, symbolically to remind the neophyte that,
being dead in vice, he must hope to revive in virtue. The jewel is a
compass open to sixty degrees, the points on the arc of a circle.”
Macoy’s Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Freemaaonry, Article Perfect
Master.
 OPENING CEREMONIES. 73

men to labor; give notice that this lodge of Perfect

59
Masters is open.
Stolkiu — Brethren, you will please take notice that
the lodge of Perfect Masters is open.
Adonirain ~( Strikes one and the lodge is seated.)

Note -36 —"(Scotch Masonry,)— The second degree conferred in the

Ledge of Perfection, Scotch Masonry, and the fifth upon the catalogue
of that system. There is a master, who is styled Right Worshipful and
Respectable, and one warden, styled Grand Inspector.
.
The former
represents Adoniram, the latter, Stolkin. The degree commemorates a
departed worthy brother. The hangings are green. There are two pyra-
mids at north and south. The jewel is a gold compass extended to sixty
degrees. The apron is white, with the movable part green. Upom the
former is delineated, within three circles, a cubic stone, exhibiting the
letter J over a sprig of acacia.” —Morris’ Masonic Dictionary, Article
Perfect Master.
 CHAPTER VI
Fifth ok Perfect Master’s Degree.
INITIATION*

PREPARATION OF CANDIDATE.
Zerbjal Proceeds to the Ante-chamber,
and having prepared the candidate as a
Secret Master, leads him by the green cord
which he puts around his neck, to the door
of the lodge, and there knocks four.
Stolkin —
Thrice Kespectable Master,
there is an alarm at the door.
—
Adoniram Brother Inside Guardian,
inquire who knocks.
Inside Guardian —
(Knocks four, and
opens the door.) Who knocks?
—
Zerbal One who has helped to build a
monument to Hiram and who desires to;
Preparation of know the circle and its quadrature.
Candidate.

Inside Guardian —
Thrice Respectable Master, it is
one who has helped to build a monument to Hiram and
who desires to know the circle and its quadrature.
Adoniram —Let him be led in.
Inside Guardian —Let him be led in.
Zerbal then leads the Candidate by the green cord
into the lodge, and up to the Altar.
—
Zerbal Thrice Respectable Master, T now lead into
your presence by the green cord of hope, one who has
helped to build a monument to Hiram.
 —

INITIATION* 75

Adoniram —What Monument, Brother Zerbal ?

Zerbal — Thrice Respectable Master, the plan which

agreeable to the decree of Solomon the Wise, you had
the glory of designing, having been confided to me, I
chose our most skillful and Worthy Masters, and set
them at work upon the most precious materials, and we
have erected the beautiful obelisk to the memory of him
whose death was so untimely and cruel.
—
Adoniram With what tools did you work?
—
Zerbal With the Graduated Compass, which en-
abled us to measure and limit our labors with exact
precision so that all might be justly adapted.
—
Adoniram Bv what science did you use this instru-
ment?
—
Zerbal By the science of the -Circle and Quadrature.
—
Adoniram What Circle?
Zerbal— A sane mind.
Adoniram — What the Quadrature?
is

Zerbal— A sane body.

Adoniram — Does the Candidate possess these two
qualities fitly joined and balanced ?

Zerbal— He does.
—
Adoniram Then lead him with us the mausoleum to
you have that
erected, may behold your work.
I
Adoniram — (Strikes Rise brethren and
four, all rise.)

accompany me. [A procession is then formed with

Adoniram and Stolkin 37 at the head, Zerbal and Candi-
date next, and then the Brethren. When they arrivtTat
the Mausoleum, they form a half circle, raise their
hands in admiration and exclaim, “Jehovah.”]
—
Note 37. “In the elu degrees this is the name of one of those ap-
pointed to search for the criminals commemorated in the legend of the
third degree. It is impossible to trace its derivation to any Hebrew
root. It may be an anagram of a name, perhaps that of one of the
friends of the house of Stuart.’’ Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freema-
sonry, Article Stolkin.
 —

76 PERFECT MASTER'S DEGREE.

—
Adoniram Brother Zerbal, what feeling induced the
building of this Mausoleum ?
—
Zerbal Respect for the dead.
—
Adoniram Why respect for the dead?
—
Zerbal Because the dead body was the dwelling and
sanctuary of the soul, because the Grand Architect of
the Universe made man in his own image, and because
our mortal members are the tit instruments of an im-
mortal mind.
—
Adoniram Brother Zerbal, explain the design and
emblems of this monument to the candidate.
—
Zerbal The circle or balustrade which surrounds this
obelisk signifies that man has personal rights, which
every other is bound to respect: The Sixteen columns
four 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 ex-
plain :

>
First Strength f First Agility
m %« 4) g
©
£ g
o Second Resistance
^ TJ J
Second Velocity
U** *
Third Courage u G Third Precision
O O
FouHli Energy O Fourth Adroitnesi
0)
QQ
f*

First Cleanliness © 2 First Grace

.© S3
o 1 Second Neatness *G u-i
Second Beauty
Third Decency O % Third Health
w
Fourth Sobriety Fourth Richness
The three sides are Science, Beauty and Fraternity.
The three rough stones are Ignorance, Falsehood and
Egotism. They were rejected and condemned by the
builders.
8
The Sprig
of Acacia,* is the vivifying life which per-
vades all nature, and the Urn implies the intellectual
—
Note 38. “The acacia, in the mythic system of Freemasonry, is
pre-eminentlv the symbol of the immortality of the soul that important —
doctrine which it is the great design of the Institution to teach.”
Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Acaoia.
 INITIATION'. *
77

treasures, or moral conscience, or immortal soul, the

body of man contains.
The Sword proclaims the unrelenting enmitywe have
sworn to the assassins : Ignorance, Falsehood and
Egotism, and H. *. Z. *. J. *. records, first, the name of our
Masonic Master, second, the name of our Secret Master
and third, the name of our Eternal Master in Heaven,
and the three united compose the perfect alliance, which
makes the perfect man.
—
Adoniram Brother Verbal, I congratulate you and
your companion; all is perfect and complete. To ex-
press my gratitude and to reward you both I will now
recognize this brother to be a Perfect Master upon his
taking the oath which obligates every Perfect Master
in the world. Is he willing?
Zerlal —He is.

Adoniram —Bight Worthy Brother, you will then

teach this brother to travel.
Zerbal then conducts him four times around the lodge
and every time he passes the East he gives one of the
signs, beginning with the Entered Apprentice, each one
in rotation, (See page 77.) During his traveling the
following 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. While
the Sun or the Moon or the Stars be not darkened, nor
the clouds return after the rain In the day when the
:

keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men

shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because
they are few, and those that look out of the windows be
darkened, and the doors shall be shut in the streets when
the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at
the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music
shall be brought low; also when they shall be afraid of
that which is high and fears shall be in the way, and
78 PERFECT MASTER S DEGREE.

the almond tree shall flourish and the grass-hopper shall

he a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to
his long home and the mourners go about the streets: or
ever the silver cord be loosed; or the golden bowl be
broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the
wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return
to the earth as it was : and the Spirit shall return unto
God who gave it.”
On
the last round candidate is conducted to the tomb,
and while he and Zerbal are viewing it, the following is
sung by the brethren :

SONG.
Come, ye sighing Sons of sorrow.
View with me your brother’s tomb;
Learn from it your fate; to-morrow
Death, perhaps, may seal your
doom.
Sad and solemn flow our numbers,
While disconsolate we mourn
The loss of him who sweetly slum-
bers.
Mouldering ’neath the silent urn.

May we all, his hopes possessing.

Triumphant leave the lodge below;
Crowned with every earthly blessing
Far removed from pain and woe.
Once, w hen full of life, he never
r

Proved unfaithful to our laws.

May we, like him. be zealous ever,
To promote the glorious cause.

To the Exalted power Almighty.

Softly breathe an ardent prayer:
On his sacred mound tread lightly
While we wipe the falling tear.

Adoniram —Brother Zerbal, you the will now conduct

candidate to the altar where he will kneel and take the
obligation.

OBLIGATION PERFECT MASTER’S DEGREE.

I do promise and swear in the presence of the
Grand Architect of the Universe and this respectable
CI3[ lodge] never to communicate the secrets of this de-
 INITIATION. 79

gree to any below the same, unless properly authorized

by my superiors.
That I will defend my rights and respect the rights
of others.
That I will regenerate and improve my
strive to
physical organization so may become the fit instru-
it

ment of a pure soul and elevated mind and be adorned

by all the vigor, grace, health and beauty it can possi-
bly attain.
I further promise to respect the dead, and finally on
earth and in my body to build a suitable monument unto
Truth and Jehovah.
So may God keep me in righteousness and equity.
Amen.
Adoniram — Tis well my brother. (He then takes the
end of the cord and draws it from his neck.) I divest
you of the last ligature which betokens servitude and
greet you witli the sign of Recognition of a Perfect
Master on condition you will faithfully observe every
thing prescribed by our laws.

SIGN OF RECOGNITION.

Advance each the toes of the

rigid foot until they meet,
bring the right knees together,
place one hand on the ether’s
heart, then bring the hard to-
wards the right side and form
a square.

Sign of Recognition.
80 PERFECT MASTER S DEGREE.

SIGN OF ADMIRATION.

Raise the hands and eyes to

heaven, then let the arms fall

across the abdomen and look

downwards.

Sign <j£ Admiration.

TOKEN.

Place one the left hand on the

other’s right shoulder, seize each

others right hand, the thumb

separate.

First Token*
 INITIATION. 81

SECOND TOKEN.
Interlace tlie

forefingers of
the right hands
pressing against
thumbs upright,
Second Token. each other form-
ing a triangle.

THIRD TOKEN.
Clinch each other as in Master’s
grip, carry left hand between each
others shoulders and press four
times hard with the fingers in the

hack and give the Master’s Word

[mah-hah-bone.]

— Four equi-timed
battery: strokes, (0000.)
march:—Make a square by walking four steps and
bring the feet together at each step.
password -Acacia.
—
sacred word: Jehovah .

the jewel —Is a graduated compass

:
set at sixty de-
and with it I now invest you.
grees,
—
Adoniram (To lodge) Brethren be seated.
—
Adoniram (To candidate) My brother you will now
be conducted by Brother Zerbal to a seat in the [lodge]
and listen with attention to our lecture in this degree.
82 PERFECT MASTER S DEGREE.

LECTURE PERFECT MASTER’S DEGREE.

Adoniram —Brother Stolkin ,
39
are you a Perfect Mas-
ter ?

—
Stolkin I have seen the circles and the square placed
on the two columns across.
—
Adoniram Where were they situated?
Stolkin —
On the place where the body of our Respect-
able Master Hiram Abiff was deposited.
—
Adoniram' What do these columns represent?
Stolkin —
The columns of Jachin and Boaz which l
have passed to obtain the degree of Perfect Master.
—
Adoniram In what part of the Temple were the
pillars erected?
Stolkin — -In the porch.
Adoniram —Have those words any meaning?
Stolkin —
Thrice Respectful Master, they have; the
first isCemented, the second is Strength. Besides the
beauty which they added to the building, they conveyed
to the minds of those who entered a knowledge of the
divine attributes of that Being to whom the Temple was
dedicated. The Entered Apprentices were called after
the name of the first column, at which place they met
and received their wages. The Fellow Crafts bore the
name of the second column for the same reason.
—
Adoniram What, was Solomon’s intention in creat-
ing this degree?
Stolkin —To excite the brethren to an active inquiry
after the bloody ruffians who had assassinated our dear
Master Hiram Abiff, the names of whom they were then
ignorant of, but suspected they were among the workmen,
Solomon ordered a strict and general search to be made
—
Note 39. “Stolldn. (Scotch Masonry.) —A name introduced in Scotch
Masonry, in the degrees of Perfect Master. Elect of Niue, Master Elect
of Fifteen, and others. It is not historical.'’ —
Morris’ Masonic Diction-
ary, Article Stolkin.
 LECTURE. 83

among them and when he found

;
that three of the num-
ber were missing whom they supposed to be guilty, he
desired Adoniram to raise a superb monument or tomb
at the westend of the Temple and place on the top there-
of an urn enclosing the heart of Hiram Abiff well em-
balmed, of which none had any knowledge but the Per-
fect Masters. Agreeable to those orders the heart of
our dear and much lamented Chief was enclosed in an
urn, and placed on the top of the obelisk until vengeance
should be accomplished. Through the urn was a naked
sword, an emblem of the anxious desire of all the breth-
ren to assist in discovering the assassins and obtaining
vengeance. The body was buried in a separate apartment
from the Temple where Solomen kept his chapter.
—
Adoniram What have you learned from the degrees
you have already passed through?
StolJcin —
To rule my actions, and purify my heart in
order to merit the degree of Perfection.
Adoniram —What signifies the square stone in the
middle of the circles?
StolJcin —It teaches us that our edifice should have
is, that our con-
for its foundation a perfect stone, that
duct should be raised on a permanent and imperishable
basis that it may stand the time and test of seasons.
—
Adoniram What is the meaning of these circles?
StolJcin —
They are emblematical of the Divinity, who
hath neither beginning nor end.
Adoniram —What is the meaning of the letter “J”
which in the center of the square stone ?
is
StolJcin —
It is the initial of the ineffable name of the
Grand Architect of the Universe and of the sacred word
of the Perfect Masters.
A doniram-r—Pronounce it.

StolJcin —Jehovah.
84 PERFECT MASTER'S DEGREE.

Adoniram — How were you received a Perfect Master?

Stolkin — Witli the point of a spear to my heart and a
halter round my neck.
—
Adoniram What occasion the point to your heart?
Stolkin —
To cause me to recollect' that I have given
my word to have it torn from out of my breast if I in-
fringe on my obligation or reveal the secrets of Masonry.
—
Adoniram Why the halter round your neck?
Stolkin —
To teach me that my humble situation should
increase as I proceed in Masonry and virtue.
—
Adoniram How many signs have you?
—
Stolkin One by five.
Adoniram'—Why one by five?
Stolkin — In remembrance of the five points in my
reception.
Adoniram—What do they signify?
—The four towns which made in travelling
Stolkin I
and admiration.
fifth of
Adoniram —What the meaning of the tomb you
is

passed when you entered [lodge]this ?

Stolkin— ?
Tis the representation of the burial place
of Hiram Abiff.
—
Adoniram What signifies the rope that comes from
the coffin and extends as far as the Temple?
—
Stolkin The rope of green which the brethren made
use of to raise the body of Hiram Abiff to place it in
the coffin.
—What were you taught at entering?
Adoniram
—
Stolkin To my from Apprentice, Fellow
alter steps
Craft and Master, the two columns.
to cross
Adoniram —Why so?
Stolkin— To my call to that has been
recollections it

by passing the first degrees that de-

1 have attained the
gree
ID
of Perfect
V
Master.
 LECTURE. 85

Adoniram —Is there any mystery hidden, under this

signification ?
Stolkin — Yes,
Thrice Respectable Master, it teaches
us that we cannot arrive at the Sanctum Sanctorum but
by purity of manners, righteousness of heart, and the
secrets of the first degrees of which they are the school.
Adoniram —Why did you enter at the side of the
Sanctuary ?

Stolkin —To teach me abandon the common road.

to
Adoniram — What the is of your lodge?
color
Stolkin— Green.
Adoniram —Why green?
Stolkin — To remind me that by being dead in vice, I
must hope and by that to attain the
to rise to virtue,
last degree, in order to make some progress in the Sub-
lime Science, a knowledge which I hope one day to
possess.
—
Adoniram Who can communicate it to you?
Stolkin —
God alone, whose knowledge is beyond hu-
man comprehension.
Adoniram —What is the meaning of the two pyramids
on your left?
Stolkin—Egypt, where the sciences first
took their
rise.

Adoniram — What your Jewel?

signifies
Stolkin — That Perfect Master should act within
a
measure and always be and
attentive to justice equity.
Adoniram — What’s your pass-word?
Stolkin — Acacia.
Adoniram —What the meaning of that word?
is

Stolkin —
It is fhe name of the plant that was placed
on the grave of Hiram Abiff, and was common about
Jerusalem. It is the mimosa nilotica of Linnaeus, and
belongs to the 23d class and first order called Polygamia.
 :

8G PERFECT MASTER'S DEGREE.

Adoniram — Thank you. Brother Stolkin.

Adoniram — Brother Orator, you will now favor us
with the Historical Discourse of this degree.

HISTORICAL DISCOURSE BY ORATOR.

Bespectable and Perfect newly initiated
Brother,
Solomon having been informed that the body of Hiram
Abifif had been found, was happy in having the poor

consolation of beholding his remains. He gave orders

and strict charge to his Grand Inspector, the noble
Adoniram, to prepare for the funeral obsequies with
pomp and magnificence, and ordered all the brethren
to attend with white aprons and gloves ; he strictly for-
bade that the bloody stains should be washed away until
he had wreaked his vengeance on the perpetrators of that
horrid deed.
The noble Adoniram soon furnished a plan of a
stately monument which was executed and perfectly
finished in nine days, made of black and white marble.
The heart of Hiram Abiff was enclosed in an urn and
exposed for nine days on the third step ascending to the
Sanctum Sanctorum, previous to the Temple being fin-

ished.
It was intended that it should be placed on a beautiful
obelisk built at the side of the Temple a little to the
north of the west door, in order to mark out the place
where the murderers had first deposited him in a pit be-
fore they removed him to the place where Brother Stol-
kin found him under the sprig of Acacia.
The heart of the excellent Hiram Ahiff was embalmed
and exposed to public view in the urn, with the sword
run through the urn. And there the brethren used to
come to express their grief on the occasion by kneeling
 HISTORICAL. 87

on the first step ascending towards the Sanctum Sanc-

torum. At the expiration of nine days the obelisk being
finished, the urn with its contents was deposited on the
top of the pedestal.
There was on which was en-
also a triangular stone
graven in Hebrew characters I. *.M, \B. \ The “I” is
the initial of the Ancient Master's Word, the M. B. :.

the initials of the new word; [Mah-hah-Bone] also a

sprig of Acacia figured on the top. Solomon after this,
had all the triangular medals taken from the Masters
when the Ancient Word was changed to the one we now
give in the third degree.
The Respectable Hiram AbifFs body was interred in
the middle of a great chamber separate from or under
the Temple, with all the honors due to so great a man.
It was in this chamber that Solomon used to hold his
chapters and confer with Hiram, King of Tyre, on the
Mystic Art.
Three days after the ceremony was over, Solomon
surrounded by all his court went to the Temple and
after having the w orkmen placed in the same position
r

as they were on the day of the funeral, he offered up a

prayer to the Almighty, and after having finished he
examined the tomb, canopy and repeated triangle, also
the letters which were engraven thereon, also the pyra-
—
mids when finding every thing properly executed, he
gave the sign of admiration, which was repeated by
all the brethren.
This, my Brother, ends the Historical Discourse of
this degree.
 CLOSING CEREMONIES
Perfect Master's Degree.

A doniram —Brother Stolkin, pray what's the clock?

— Thrice Respectable Master,
Stolkin it is evening.
Adoniram— Since evening and the
it is work is fin-

ished, it is time to refresh ourselves; give notice that 1

am going to close this ZZ [lodge.]
—
Stolkin Respectable and Perfect Brethren, you will
ple&se take notice that our Thrice Respectable Master
is going to close this LH [lodge.]

A doniram — (Four raps; 0000.)

Secretary — (Four raps; 0000.)
Treasurer— (Four raps; 0000.)
Adoniram'— (Making the sign of admiration.) Con-
sumatum Est.
All—Answer in the same manner with sign of admi-
ration and admire the tomb.
Adoniram — This Z2 [lodge] is closed.
 HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
Fifth or Perfect Master's Degree.
—
Date «f the Origin of Freemasonry Further Proof of Its Popish Connec-
—
tions
— —
Degrees Fabricated for Political Purposes The Funeral or
Lodge-of-SorroW Degree The Gibberish of Freemasonry Admitted by
—
Standard Authors Stealing and Mangling the Writings of Others-
••What a Banter on the Human Race is Freemasonry.”

To understand this degree we must see where we are.

England, the civil bulwark of Protestantism in Eu-
rope, had executed Charles I. Four years before,
(1645), his son, and heir apparent, Charles II, had
fled with his mother to France; secretly joined the
Papists and Freemasons ; and by. Popery and Masonry,
regained his throne; and Hume, the regular apolo-
gist of the Stuarts, says: “His character was, in the
main, dangerous to his people and dishonorable to him-
self." (Hume II, 607.) He died in 1685. All Ma-
sonic histories attribute his restoration in 1660, to Ma-
sonry, to which he gave the title of “The Royal Art,"
because that “it was mainly by its instrumentality that
he was raised to the throne and monarchy restored to
England." (Behold, p. 55.) And Mackey, (Ency. Art.
Stuart Masonry,) as do other writers, abundantly con-
firm that Mason-lodges and the Jesuites were united in
procuring his restoration. This was fifty-seven years
before the London Grand Lodge* had centralized the
lodges at the Appletree Tavern, 1717. But the public
mind had begun to react against the mad whirl of loy-
*Note — ‘‘Historical
investigation, however, has clearly demonstrated
that thepresent system of degrees is of comparatively modern origin,
being totally unknown to the craft at the time of the revival in 1717.
Originally there was but one degree of initiation, the names of Appren-
tice, Fellow and Master being merely the designation of classes of work-
men, and not of degrees or grades of initiation.” Steinbrenaar’i Origin
and Early History of Masonry, page 138.
90 DEGREES FABRICATED FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES.

alty, universal corruption and Popery under Charles.

James IT, the runaway king, had followed his mother
and brother to Paris. He made his headquarters at
“The Jesuite College of Clermont.” And, says Mackey,
“The Jesuits played a very important part in these con-
ferences. Kegarding the reinstatement of the Stuarts,
and the extension of the power of the Homan church as
identical, they sought at that time to make the society
of Freemasons subservient to their ends.” And again:
“During his (James's) residence at the Jesuit College
of Clermont, where he remained for some time, his ad-
herents, among whom were the Jesuits, fabricated cer-
tain degrees, with the design of carrying out their po-
litical views.” {Made. Ency. Stuart Masonry.) The
Papist, Ramsay, whose genius and learning put him at
their head, was the prime inventor of these degrees. ( See
Folger , Mackey and others.) And by scanning the sit-
uation we can understand these upper degrees.
The first degree, as we have seen, gave each old ledge
' ”
seven secret Masters who, in the relative popular ig-
norance of that time, could lead the lodges, as with rings
in their noses, by invisible hands. Next came this Sec-
ond upper degree woven into the whole Kite as The
Fifth. It was invented to bury a distinguished Mason,
and was adopted as the funeral, or Lodge-of-Sorrow
degree for the whole. {See note 26, p. 69 of this vol-
ume.) This provides the burial of a Perfect Master ,

however vile or corrupt he may have been. The drapery

of the lodge is funereal; the black hangings being gouted
with painted tear-drops, commonly the only tears shed
in such funerals, except thos£ produced by grog; as the
lodge has often no relation to or interest in the dead
mason but to use his corpse as an excuse for an adver-
;

tising parade, and to hide the meanness of its nature bv

the sanctity which attaches to death.
The master of ceremonies is called Zerbal, a word,
says Morris, which “is not historical." (
See note 29.)
 THE GIBBERISH OF FREEMASONRY ADMITTED. 91

It 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 etc., which
form what is called Gibberish, from the verb jabber.
Stolkin is another such term which figures in this de-
gree; ( Note 37) which Mackey says, “it is impossible to
trace to any Hebrew root” (or any other human lan-
guage, he might have added) Morris, too, says the word
.

is not historical ( Note 39.) And yet, amid these low

tricks of imposture, quotations are made for the sub-
lime portions of the Bible, used as funerals ;
thus literally
“Stealing the livery of the court of Heaven
To serve the devil in.’’ Shakespeare.

This Fifth or Funeral Degree of the Scotch Eite, like

the Eoyal Arch and many others, has been added to
and modified since it was brought over by the Jew,
Morin, to South Carolina, and woven by Mitchell and
Dalcho into the web of the 33° Eite.
Some eighty } ears ago, more or less, there was an ob-
T

scure Vermont poet who published a little volume of

poems which he styled “The Mill of the Muses.” The
author’s Mill ground the English language badly for
the most part; but, as often happens to the unlearned
genius, one of the poems had exquisite touches of nature.
Its first stanza ran thus
Hail! Ye sighing sons of sorrow.
« View with me the autumnal gloom.
Learn from thence your fate to-morrow;
Dead, perhaps, laid in the tomb.

This song, which became widely popular, sung in

rural districts, at evening gatherings, and in booths, at
Militia Musters has been plagiarized to help out this
Masonic funeral degree. When
the lodge has marched
to the Mausoleum they sing a song, opening with the
first verse of that old Vermont poem, thus mangled:
02 “what a banter on the human race.”

SONG.
Come, ye sighing sons of sorrow.
View with me your brother’s tomb.
Learn from it your fate to-morrow;
Death, perhaps, may seal your doom.

Some other lines contain borrowings from the same

poem, worse mangled, to meet the wants of the lodge.
Then follows the ever recurring oath, promised and
sworn, in presence of the “Grand Architect of the Uni-
verse,” “never to communicate the secrets of this de-
gree ;” with the singular addition **1 further promise to
:

respect the dead, and to build in my body, a suitable

monument to Truth and Jehovah;” wdiich sacred name
is bandied about from mouth to mouth as “the sacred
word of the Perfect Master's degree.” Then after the
customary batch of senseless signs, wdiich no man re-
members, or could remember, wdio does not make Ma-
sonry his trade; the orator sums up by a silly, w eak andT

—
shabby fiction bearing. That Solomon heard that Hi-
ram’s body v as found, gave orders for a funeral “of
r

pomp and magnificence,” “ordered all the brethren to

built; the heart of Hiram preserved in an urn, placed
on the top of an obelisk; and Solomon,” three days after
visits the place, “makes the sign of Admiration, which is
repeated by all the brethren.”
By this degree the words of John Wesley are forcibly
brought to mind “What a banter on the human race is
:

Freemasonry
If the regalia and rites of the false religions of the
earth were not known to be gew^gaw^s and hum buggery,
sensible men could hardly be persuaded that this funeral
farce of the Fifth Degree could be literally enacted.
The elements of its pow er over mind are:
r

1. It pleases Satan thus to degrade men made in the

image of God, to avenge himself on the God he hates.
2. It degrades the Bible by fastening on it, in the
minds of Masons, foolish falsehoods and fiction.
3. It profanes the nature of death amhfunerals, mak-
ing men wonder like heathen instead of worshipping
like Christians.
 CHAPTER VII
4*
Sixth or Intimate Secretary's Degree.
This grade is purely historical and is founded on an
event which took place shortly after the completion of
the Temple. It is not necessarily connected with either
of the grades that precede it. The ceremony of intro-
duction is lively and exciting. The lecture contains hut
little symbolic instruction it is merely a recapitulation
;

of the initiation, and a history of the events upon which

the grade is founded, and together with the eleven grades
which follow, it is associated with the twelve signs of
the Zodiac:

ZODIAC AND SIGNS.

Note 40. —
"Intimate Secretary. (Secretaire intime.) The sixth degree
In theAncient and Accepted Scottish Rite. Ils emblematic color is black,
strewed with tears; and its collar and the lining of the apron are
red.”
Mackey's Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Intimate Secretary.
94 INTIMATE SECRETARY S DEGREE.

VIRGO OR THE VIRGIN.

decorations : —
The HH [lodge] represents the audi-
ence chamber of King Solomon’s palace, and is hung
with black, strewed with tears, and is illuminated by
twenty-seven lights in three clusters of nine each, placed
in the same manner as the three lights in a symbolic LI
[lodge:] East, West and South.
titles
41
—
There are two presidents in this lodge, one
:

represents Solomon, King of Israel, and the other Hi-

ram, King of Tyre; there are two other officers viz: A
Captain of the Guards and a Lieutenant.
In the initiation, the first two
only are present,
officers
seated in the East; before them a triangular table, on it
a scroll and two cross swords. The other brethren repre-
sent King Solomon’s guards, and remain in the first
apartment.
clothing: —
Solomon and Hiram are clothed in long
blue robes with royal mantles of the same color, bor-
dered with ermine, with crowns on their heads and scep-
ters in their hands. The brethren wear black robes and
caps, also a collar of fiery red, from which is suspended
the jewel.
—
jewel: Which is a triple triangle with an eye, ear
and mouth engraved thereon, viz: tbe eye on the top
triangle, the ear on the left and the mouth on the right
triangle.
—
Note 41. “Ils officers arc only tlucc: Solomon. King of Israel; Ilyran).
King of Tyre; and a Captain of the Guards."— Mackoy's Encyclopaedia of
freemasonry, Article Intimat©' Secretary.
 INTIMATE SECRETARY S DEGREE, 95
42
apron =— White, lined and bordered with red, with a
:

scroll and golden triangle painted on it, and the letters

A. *. P. *. P. \ in the corners of the triangle.
—White, bordered with
gloves: red.
battery — Twenty-seven :
by three times nine strokes,
00000000 three times. 0,
moral: — That we should be careful never
4 ’
offend to
a brother by prying into his secrets; and the criminality
44
of eaves-dropping.
—
Note 42. “The apron is white, lined, and edged with red* upon it, a
scroll and delta; in the corner of the delta the letters A. P. P. The jewel
is a delta with the same initials.*’ —
Morris’s Masonic Dictionary, Art. Inti-
mate Secretary.
—
dote 43. “Its history records an instance of unlawful curiosity, the
punishment of which was only averted by the previous fidelity of the
c-tfender.” —
Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry. Article Intimate Sec-
retary.
Note 44.— “The lessons are, that eavesdropping is unmasonic and that
conciliation removes anger..’* — Morris’s Masonic Dictionary, Article Intimate
Secretary.
 —

OPENING CEREMONIES
45
Intimate Secretary’s Degree.

Solomon — (Knocks 000000)

Captain of the Guards, 1
am about to open a lodge or audience of Masters. Do
your duty accordingly.
—
Captain of Guards Brethren will assemble and form
into line in the north.
Captain of Guards— Puissant Sovereign, the sentinels
await your orders.
Solomon — Brother Hiram, what the object of our is

assembly ?

Hiram — It is to instruct ourselves.

Solomon — What motives have we for this?
Hiram — The preparation our immortality
of souls for
and God and man.
love of
Solomon — How we ourselves?
shall, instruct
Hiram — Through
40
and the
curiosity the exercise of
physical and mental powers.
Solomon — When do we work? this
Ifiram — From seven twelve to at eve.
Solomon — What the hour? is

Hiram — Seven past meridian.

o’clock
Solomon— being seven It past meridian, the
o'clock in
Note 45. — “IntimateSecretary. [Scotch Masonry.] —
The third degree
conferred in the Lodge of Perfection, Scotch Masonry, and the sixth upon
the catalogue of that system; it is also known as Master by Curiosity.”
Morris’s Masonic Dictionary, Article Intimate Secretary.
Note 46. — “The
ceremony and legend are Intended to preserve the re-
membrance of an instance of unlawful curiosity, the due punishment of the
offender being averted only in consideration of his previous fidelity. The
degree also teaches that Masons should cultivate the virtues of Silence.
Justice. Humanity and Secrecy; and that in the execution, of justice they
—
should not be unmindful of mercy.” Macoy’s Encyclopaedia and Dictionary
of Freemasonry, Article Intimate Secretary.
 —

OPENING CEREMONIES. 97

name of God, and under the jurisdiction of the Supreme

* 7
Grand Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors General
of the thirty-third degree, in and for the Sovereign and
Independent State of New York, and of the Northern
Masonic Jurisdiction of the Western Hemisphere in the
valley and by virtue of the authority on me
conferred; I hereby declare this lodge of Intimate Sec-
retary open for study. Together brethren.
(All give the signs, and battery.)
—
Solomon Now brothers, Sentinels assume your posi-
tions in the purlieus of the chamber of audience, take
lodge, see that none approach without permission, and
give warning of all strangers and visitors.
Captain of Guards Attention— Sentinels, salute;
right face; forward march. (All retire to the ante-
room.)
—
Note 47. “Scotch Rite, more familiarly known as the Ancient and Ac-
cepted Scottish rite. The degrees of this rite are, for the most part,
elaborated from the system invented by Ramsay, who claimed that he
found them in Scotland, where they had been planted by Knights of the
Temple and of Malta on their return from Palestine. It is needless to say
that these pretensions have no foundation in truth. The Councils and
Lodges of this rite are governed by Supreme Councils of Grand Inspectors
General, of which there are two in the United States, one at Charleston,
S. C.. and the other at Boston, Mass.” Macoy’a Encyclopaedia and Dic-
tionary of Freemasonry, Article Scotch Rite.
 !

CHAPTER VIII
Sixth or Intimate Secretary's Degree.
INITIATION.
The candidate must be in the ante-chamber dressed as
a Perfect Master, and when the Sentinels retire from the
lodge, the Captain of the Guards orders one of the breth-
ren to divest him of said dress. In the interim Solomon
and Hiram appear to be conversing before the triangular
table; the candidate is made to approach the door, to
open it slyly and put himself in a listening attitude,
when the guards make a little noise at the door, which
being heard by King Hiram he looks about and seeing
a man listening, he lifts his hands to Heaven and cries
in a rage:
— Oh Heavens spy
Hiram the door
! a is at
Solomon — Impossible, the guards are at their post.
Hiram — (Without making any runs the reply, to
door, the candidate and drags him
seizes Here he in) is.

Solomon — Alas
48
my friend Joabert What
! It is : shall
we do with him?
Hiram — (Drawing sword or dagger) His
his indiscre-
tion We must
forfeits his life. him. kill
Solomon — (Runs King Hiram and puts
to hand his
on his sword.) Stop my
brother! stay your anger! I
know the man and his offense may not be so great as it
at first appears. Allow me to question him in presence
of all the brethren.
Note —
48. ‘‘Joabert. The oompauion of Solomon and Hiram. The name
appears in several of the high degrees in connection with the above men-
tioned illustrious Masons.” — Macoy's Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Free*
masonry. Article Joabert.
 :

INITIATION. 99

Hiram — Do and may he be found

so, innocent and
true.
Solomon— (Six knocks; 000000.)
The brethren £U [lodge] by the Cap-
are led into the
tain of the Guards and
having saluted the
seated, after
king by drawing the right hand from the left shoulder
to the right hip.
Solomon — Joabert, what induced you 49
at the to listen
door of
inviolate chamber of this audience secret ?

Candidate — Seeing person (pointing

this Hiram) to
who stranger to me, and suspecting the vigilance of
is a
the guards, I feared for your life, and held myself in
readiness to succor you.
—
Solomon Is it. not mere idle curiosity
50
which
brought you here?
Can didate N o. —
—
Solomon What do you think of curiosity?
Candidate — (Answers as he thinks proper.)
Solomon continues his questions, and when he is satis-
fied says

Note 49.
— "Joabert.
This, according to the legends of the high degrees
was the name
of the chief favorite of Solomon, who incurred the displeas-
ure of of Tyre on a certain occasion, but was subsequently par-
Hiram
doned, and. on account of the great attachment he had shown to the person
of his master, was appointed the Secretary of Solomon and Hiram in their
most intimate relations. He was afterwards still further promoted by
Solomon, and appointed with Tito and Adoniram a Provost and Judge. He
distinguished himself in his successful efforts to bring certain traitors to
condign punishment, and although by his rashness he at first excited the
anger of the king, he was subsequently forgiven, and eventually received
the highest reward that Solomon could bestow by being made an Elect,
Perfect and Sublime Mason. The name is evidently not Hebrew, or must
at least have undergone much corruption, for in its present form it cannot
—
be traced to a Hebrew root.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry,
Article Joabert.
—
Note 50. "Curiosity. It is a very general opinion among Masons that
a candidate should not be actuated by curiosity in seeking admission into
the Order. But, in fact, there is no regulation nor landmark on the sub-
ject. An idle curiosity is, it is true, the characteristic of a weak mind.
But to be influenced by a laudable curiosity to penetrate the mysteries of
an Institution venerable for its antiquity and its universality is to be con-
trolled by a motive which is not reprehensible. There are. indeed, in
legends of the high degrees some instances where curiosity is condemned;
but the curiosity, in these instances, led to an intrusion into forbidden
places, and is very different from the curiosity or desire for knowledge
which leads a profane to seek fairly and openly an acquaintance with
mysteries which he has already learned to respect.” — Mackey’s Encyclo-
paedia of Freemasonry, Article Curiosity,
100 INTIMATE SECRETARY'S DEGREE.

Solomon — Captain of the Guards, lead this person to

the middle chamber and detain him we have de-
until
termined upon -his fate, and remember, let him come
forth when wanted you ;
will be responsible for him.
Captain of Guards —Attention brethren! (all rise and
form in line when the candidate is placed in the center
of line.)
—
Captain of Guards Salute! (all salute.)
—
Captain of Guards Right face, forward march; (all
retire to the ante-room and remain for some time.)
—
Solomon (Six knocks; 000000.)
The sentinels enter with candidate and form in line
in the West, facing the East.
Solomon —Joabert, 51
approach the East. My brother,
the good motive of your curiosity has found favor with
52
us ; for such curiosity furnishes through the senses, the
object of truth and matter of thought, hence instead of
condemnation you merit a recompense.
I had given the King of Tyre a province of my em-
pire in compensation for the assistance he rendered me
in erecting the temple, but the people of that province
were ignorant and poor, and when King Hiram discov-
ered this he hastened to Jerusalem to reproach me, an cl
he entered this sacred chamber in an angry mood. You
observed this and watched us, Hiram seized you, I, Solo-
mon questioned you, and your motives having, been
found good, we have determined to reward your zeal and
— —
Note 51. “Joabert. [Scotch Masonry.] The name of this person is in-
troduced into the degrees of Intimate Secretary, Provost and Judge, and
Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Masons in Scotch Masonry. He was one
of Solomon’s favorite attendants. He was made Secretary of King Solo-
mon and King Iliram. Tlu* tradition with which Joabert is connected is
curious and entertaining. The name is not historical." Morris’s Masonio
Dictionary, Article Joabert.
—
Note 52. “Curiosity. Freemasonry has in all ages excited the curiosity
of mankind; and curiosity is one of the most prevailing passions in tho
human breast. The mind of man is kept in a perpetual thirst after knowl-
edge nor can he bear to be ignorant of what he thinks others know."
Macoy’s Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Freemasonry, Article Curiosity.
 —

INITIATION. 101
service, and appoint you Intimate Secretary to the ar-
ticles of alliancebetween us. Do you think you can in-
violably keep secret what we are going to
communicate
to }T>u, and will you bind yourself by an inviolable
obli-
gation in the most solemn manner of your fidelity ? •

—
Candidate I can.
—
Solomon Then 1 must receive your pledge and prom-
ise. T ou will now kneel at the altar, place both your
hands upon the Bible, square and compass, and contract
your obligation.

OBLIGATION INTIMATE SECRETARY S DEGREE.

I do promise and swear in the presence of the
Great Architect of the Universe and this respectable
ZJ
[lodge] that 1 do solemnly bind myself
by this oath
never to reveal to any person, directly or
indirectly what
is at present to be communicated
to me, especially to
brothers of lower degrees.
That I will attend. all the summonses of '
1
this
[lodge] and confine myself to the laws
and regulation
ox it.
That I will seek to know the miseries
and wrongs of
the people and strive to find the
remedy.
That I will endeavor to disseminate
education and
form the triple alliance of thought, affection
and sensa-
tion, tor the good of myself and
all men. And should I
betray this duty, may my body be
delivered unto anato-
mists tor dissection and its remnants
remain unburied
Amen.
Solomon — My brother, having contracted your obliga-
tion and as the sense of consciousness
is the intimate
secretary between reason and the
affections, vou are
charged with ascertaining the wants
of the people and
with the execution of measures for
their education, the
establishment of industry in order that
from poverty
ignorance and wrong they may obtain justice, science
and wealth.
Arise my brother, i receive you Intimate Secretary on
102 INTIMATE SECRETARY'S DEGREE.

condition that you will faithfully fulfill your duty, and

be as much attached to this order as the person was
whom you have the honor to succeed in office. The
color of this ribbon with which 1 now decorate you, must
ever bring to your recollection the wounds which that
great man received from the traitors who did so in-
humanly massacre him, and likewise of his blood which
he preferred spilling every drop of than to reveal the
secrets I am going to give you. The jewel which is at-
tached to the ribbon is a triple triangle. On it are en-
graved a listening ear, a watchful eye and a discreet
tongue, which requires all masons throughout the world
to recognize your title to this new dignity.

We my
respectable brother, that your fidelity
expect,
will be proof against all temptations and dangers, and
that this sword with which I gird you will serve to pro-
tect you against any villain who would dare attempt to
surprise you into a confession of our mysteries.
I will now invest you with the signs, grips and words
X* 11 * 1

SIGN.

Raise the right hand, then draw

it from the left shoulder to the right
hip, thus indicating the fall of a scarf.
Cross the arms horizontally, raise i

them, to the height of the breast and

then let them fall towards the hilt of
the sword while raising the eyes to )\

heaven. .

Sign Intimate Secretary.

 —

. INITIATION. 10;

TOKEN.

Join right hands, the firs!

one turns the other's hand and

53
says, Berith the other revers-
ing the hand again says, Neder,
then the first one resuming the
first position, says, Shelemoth.
These three words might be
interpreted Promise of a
:

Complete alliance.

Token Intimate Secretary.

pass word: Joabert (the name of the candidate.)

—
Answer Zerbal P (the name of
4
the Captain of the
Guards.)
s At red word : —\E. \H. \0. \V. \A. \H. *.
J.
battery :
— Twenty-seven strokes, by three times nine,
00000000 0; three times.
Brethren, resume your seats and listen attentively to
the discourse of our Master of Eloquence upon the
necessity of the pursuits of knowledge and the alliance
of the soul, the affections and the senses to create the
masonic virtue of curiosity.

DISCOURSE BY MASTER OF ELOQUENCE.

My
brother, newly initiated:
The degree
of Intimate Secretary into which you have
just been received is purely historical, and is founded

Notf, 53 — Rerith. Hot)., JV*)3 <t covenant. A significant word In several

of the high degrees — Mackey & EvcycldjKiediaof Freemasonry Article Berilh.
Note54.— “Zerbal. The name of King Solomon’s Captain of the Guards
In the degree of Intimate Secretary. No such person is mentioned in
Scripture, and it is therefore an invention of the ritualist who fabricated
—
the degree." Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Zerbal.
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104 TXTIMATE SECRETARY'S DEGREE.

oil an event which took place shortly after the completion

of the Temple. This degree, my brother, is not necessa-
rily connected with either of those that precede or follow
it. It appears from what we can glean from Masonic
tradition, that, previous to the commencement of the
Temple, Hiram, King of Tyre, by a treaty made with
Solomon, King of Israel, had agreed to furnish for the
construction of the Temple, hewn timber, framed and
drawn from the forests of Lebanon By Hiram's people:
also hewn stones squared and numbered in the quarries
of Tyre, read}^ made and fitted for immediate use: he
also furnished him with a large number of his Giblim,
stone cutters and sculptors, and of his setters, layers and
builders ;
also with a large number of cedar and fir trees
to be used in the construction of God’s holy temple at
Jerusalem.
For and Solomon agreed to
in consideration of which,
give him 20,000 measures of wheat and 20 of pure oil,
year by year ; and also barley, wine and honey, and upon
the completion of the temple 30 cities"* in the land of
Galilee; and there was peace between Solomon King of
Israel, and Hiram King of Tyre.
A year elapsed before the provisions of this treaty
were complied with on the part of Solomon and .when ;

Hiram King of Tyre went to visit his newly acquired

territory, he found the lands poor and the people rude
and of bad morals, and that the keeping of it would be
attended with more expense than profit. He therefore
went in person to Solomon to complain of the deceit
when he arrived at Jerusalem he made his entry through
the guards and went hastily to the apartment of King
—
Note 55. The legend of this degree refers to the eitles in Galilee which
were presented by Solomon to Hiram, King of Tyre; and with whose char-
acter the latter was so displeased that he called them the land of Cabul.”
— Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Intimate Secretary.
 INITIATION. 105

Solomon, who happened to be alone bemoaning the loss

of Hiram Abiff.
Hiram King of Tyre, walked in so hastily, and seem-
ingly in so passionate a manner as to give umbrage to,
and rouse the zeal of, one of Solomon’s favorites called
Joabert, whom you this evening have had the honor to
represent.
Joabert being struck with the notion that he came with
some evil design against his sovereign, was prompted
to follow" the King of Tyre, and go to the door and listen.
After the King of Tyre had entered the apartment of
Solomon, and had conversed with him a short time as
regards their treaty, deeming themselves secure from
all eaves droppers, upon looking around Hiram per-
ceived a person at the door listening to their conversa-
tion and exclaimed, “Oh heavens, we are overheard,” and
running to the door seized Joabert by the hand and
dragged him into the presence of Solomon, saying:
“Here he is.” Solomon, who could not doubt of his
favorite’s trespass, asked him, “What shall we do with
him ?” Hiram immediately replied, “We must kill him,”
and drew" his sword for that purpose, on which Solomon
coming down from the throne, said, “Stop, my brother,
stay your anger, I know the man, and his offense may
not be so great as it at first appears ;
allow me to question

him.” Which was immediately assented to by Hiram

King of Tyre.
After King Solomon, in the presence of Hiram, had
questioned Joabert as regards his peeping in at the door,
he ordered his guards to seize him and conduct him
from the apartment and to be answerable for him when
required. After the two kings were left alone, Solomon
thus addressed King Hiram :

Sire, this is the only person among my favorites

106 INTIMATE SECRETARY'S DEGREE.

and lords of mj court who has a real and affectionate

attachment for my person. I know him sufficiently
well to be convinced that the indiscretion he has been
guilty of, is less to be attributed to an imperative
curiosity than to his apprehension of any dangerous
accident befalling me; your looks, your change of
countenance and hasty manner in passing through the
room were what excited his curiosity* and alarm for my
safety. I therefore entreat you to recall the sentence of
death which you have pronounced against him and I
will be answerable for his “zeal and discretion/'
The King of Tyre knowing how agreeable it would
be toSolomon that his favorite Joabert should be par-
doned, readily consented, and the two kings renewed
their treaty, which was to be perpetual with different
clauses and promises on both sides of eternal fidelity.
To which treaty Joahert was Intimate Secretary.-
Thus my brother, you see what was represented in
your reception of Past Master by Curiosity, Intimate
Secretary or English Master.

LECTURE INTIMATE SECRETARY'S DEGREE.

Solomon — Illustrious President, are you an Intimate
Secretary ?

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—Yes; that of losing my life.

Solomon — What was done you were detected ?

after
Hiram— was committed
I to the care of the guards
and expected to have sentence of death pronounced
against me.
Solomon —Were they Intimate Secretaries or Perfect
Masters ?
 .

INITIATION. 107

Hiram —I was then ignorant of

it, but have since

found that my resolution, perseverance and firmness has

procured me the favor of being the first initiated into
this degree.
Solomon —What are the pass-words?
Hiram — Joabert and Zerbal.
Solomon —What do names signify? these %

Hiram —Joabert
v
the name* Solomon’s
is of favorite
who listened at the door, and the other, Captain of the
Guards, and each a commander of the twelve tribes.
Solomon— What is the great word?
Hiram — \E. J. *.H. \0. \V. \A. \H. \ mentioned by
letters.

Solomon —What were you before you were Intimate

Secretary ?

Hiram —-A favorite of Solomon.

Solomon — From what country did you come?
Hiram — From Capule.
Solomon — Your surname?
Hiram — A Capuliste.
Solomon — How many governments did Solomon give
to King Hiram in return for the work done by his peo-

ple for the temple?

Hiram—Thirty.
Solomon — Where were you received?
’
Hiram — In Solomon’s audience; hung with
hall of
black, and illuminated with twenty-seven lights.

Solomon — What the which you

signifies J. \ see in

I liewindow?
Hiram —J ehovah.
Solomon — What does the word signify?
Hiram — the third pronunciation
It is the great of
name of the Architect of the Universe, which in this
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108 INTIMATE SECRETARY S DEGREE.

degree signifies : “Let us return thanks to God ;

the
work is complete.'
—
Solomon What signify the A.*, and the two P’s in
the triangle ?

Hiram — The A means alliance, the first P, promise,

and the second, perfection.
—
Solomon Why is the *Z] [lodge] lighted by twenty-
«

seven lights?
Iliram —To represent the 2,700 candlesticks which
Solomon ordered to be made for the illumination of
God’s temple.
Solomon — (Pointing to a screen or painting of an
elaborate door standing or hung in the north.) What
does the door in the draft represent?
Hiram —The door Solomon’s of palace.
Solomon —What means the triangle that hangs to
your ribbon?
Hiram — The three theological virtues, Faith, Hope
and Charity. You may give it another explanation
say, Solomon, Hiram of Tyre and Hiram Abiff.
 CLOSING CEREMONIES
Intimate Secretary’s Degree.
Solomon —Brother Hiram, what’s the hour?
Hiram — Twelve, past meridian.
Solo?non — therefore time for
It is order that
rest, in

the body may recruit its strength to resume its service

of the soul : Hence I proclaim this college of Intimate

Secretaries closed.
Solomon— (Nine knocks, 00000000 0.)
Hiram — (Nine knocks, 00000000 0; and the Z2
[lodge] is closed.)
 HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
Sixth or Intimate Secretary’s Degree.
Nothingbut/ Falsehood — —
A Fortune from Selling Masonic Degrees “More
is —
Meant than Meets the Eye” Humbug Pretensions to Astronomic
—
Teaching A Government of Wolves Over Sheep.

The name (Joabert) of the hero of this degree is gib-

berish, derived from no language living or dead, (See
Note 49;) and everything concerning the degree is
falsehood. It not a “legend,” for a legend is an old
is

story handed down to be read ; but this was made up by

Ramsay (see Note 47) to humbug and inveigle English
Masons into recalling the Stuarts; to destroy Protest-
ism and popular government. Its scene is laid in Pal-
i stine to give co'lor of truth to the falsehood that it
came to Scotland from the Crusades. This is not a
harmless fiction but a falsehood invented for gain, as
wine, manufactured in a groggery, is labeled “Madeira”
to sell. The soil of France was owned, with meagre
exceptions, by priests and nobles. The latter despised
a Masonry made by London mechanics.
So this and the other French degrees were made to
sell to these nobles. Hence Ramsay “claimed that he
found them in Scotland where they had been planted bv
knights, princes and nobles, returned from Palestine.”
“It is needless to say,” says Macoy, “that these preten-
sions have no foundation in truth.” (See Note 47.)
This cool statement by one of the first Masonic authori-
ties, and Macoy is such, would be fatal to any swindling
but a false religion, which hoodwinks its candidates,
”
while the devil “blinds their minds But fraud and
 A FORTUNE FROM SELLING MASONIC DEGREES. Ill

falsehood do not tarnish Masonic morality and truth.

Ramsay's degrees sold. He amassed a fortune which
enabled 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 most
:

favorable opinions of Ramsay’s character/’ And Cham-

bers (quoted by Mackey) asserts that “he was gen-
erous and .kind to his relatives,” though “on his tempo-
rary return to Great Britain he did not visit them in
Scotland, though he sent them liberal offers of money,
which, however, they refused.” (See the whole article
Ramsay, in Mackey's Encyclopedia.)
But this degree was invented not only for young
French Nobles, but for English Masons, who, with their
predecessors, had sung ale-house ditties in honor of Sol-
omon for seven hundred years. It must therefore keep
<c
in line with the York Rite, or it would not be Masonry
divine Ramsay, therefore, wrote this Solomonic fic-
tion, which he had a right to do, but not to falsify its
origin to make money, nor to pass it for truth, with the
aid of Jesuits, and the multitude of priests who could
scarcely read their breviaries, to swindle the ignorant
masses in France, at that time, “almost totally unedu-
cated.”*
The Lodge room in this degree represents Solomon’s
audience-room. The man with the gibberish name,
Joahert, sees King Hiram going to Solomon with anger
in his countenance, being dissatisfied with certain lands
given him in pay for his help in building the temple.
Jaabert a warm personal friend of Solomon’s, crept
after Hiram to hear what passed, fearing Solomon’s as-
sassination. He is discovered, seized by Hiram and
about to be slain as an eavesdropper; Solomon inter-
poses, saves his friend, being satisfied that he is no spy.
112 "more is meant than meets the eye.*’

and Joabert becomes 'intimate Secretary** to Kings

Solomon and Hiram.
This frivolous fiction is all that this degree adds to
French Masonry. So weak and worthless is it that it
would long since have passed to the tomb of forgotten
trifles, in spite of its nightly pomps, gorgeous draperv
and mock-solemn oaths, unless, from its birth, while
professing abstinence from politics and religion, it had
constantly intermeddled with both. While the stupid
Masonic masses and a few enthusiasts, who have re-
ceived the mark of the Image of the Beast in their fore-
head, have really believed it; the cunning leaders ever-
more have had practical objects in view. So that it has
always been true of it that

“More is meant than meets the eye”

When royalist lodges in England were plotting to re-
store an exiled pretender to the throne, in their refresh-
ments, they would hold their glasses over a tub or vase
and “drink to him over the ivater.” And in France when
this degree was in the Rite of twenty-five degrees, then
prevailing there, Mitchell, in his large volumes (Yol. I,
p. 304), says: "Freemasonry not only became a part and
parcel of the levelling schemes of The Illuminati, but
gradually crept into the Jacobin clubs, and thus wielded
an influence in bringing about the great Revolution.”
True, Mackey says, (Art. Jacobins), while "Abbe Bar-
uel and Prof. Robison endeavor to prove that there
was a coalition of the revolutionary conspirators with
* *
the Freemasons who formed the Jacobin Clubs.*’
"It is evident that the Freemasons held themselves aloof
from the political contests of that period.” But the
weight of authorities, as well as reason and common
sense are against him. Lamartine in his history of the
Girondists, attributes the most revolting crimes and
 :

HUMBUG PRETENSIONS TO ASTRONOMIC TEACHING. 113

cruelties to the secret lodges of Paris; which he com-

pares to knots of poisonous reptiles hid under the green
slime of stagnant pools, seen only when their slimy cov-
ering is blown off by the breezes of popular commo-
7
tions/
But, in itself and its professed objects, the mindless
frivolity of this and other like degrees, is only excelled
by their quack pretensions to morality and science.
What is there in this tissue of pompous emptiness to
warrant Solomon’s dialogue with Hiram in the opening
exercises. Thus
Solomon —Brother Hiram, what is the object of our
Assembly ?
Iliram — instruct
It is to ourselves.
Solomon —What motives have we for this?
Hiram — The preparation our of souls for immortality
and the love of God and man.
And then we are told (see the Bitual) that “this, with
the eleven degrees following,” “are associated with the
twelve signs of the Zodiac;” a picture of which is given
to save the degree from utter contempt, by this quack
pretension to astronomic science.
“Associated with the Zodiac!” And how? The Zo-
diac is a belt of constellations through which the sun
travels in its journey through the year. And these
.groups of stars have received the fanciful names of ani-
mals, of which not one observer of the heavens in a
million ever sees or thinks 'he sees an image or likeness
of. And in his zeal and desire to make a, perfect Rite,
and monopolize its profit, some quack pretender to
science, when France was crawling with newly invented
degrees, strung together a Rite of twelve degrees, and,
from the almanac, printed a sign of the Zodiac upon
each to make a perfect circle, and so tax and govern the
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114 A GOVERNMENT OF WOLVES OVER SHEEP.

rest. But why should this Sixth degree he marked with

the sign of the Virgin instead of Aries the Ram? And
the next following with that of Libra, or the balance,
instead of Taurus, the Bull ? We know no reason and
none is given to the initiate. none
Doubtless there is

but the whim of the inventor, whose sole object is. im-
posture and cheat. * “Cursed be lie that maketh the
blind to wander out of the way ;
and all the people shall
say, Amen.” — Dcul. 27, 18.
Thirty years after the invention of this degree in the
Jesuit College Rite of Perfection, Thos. Jefferson was
our minister to France (1784). These Rites had then
overrun France, and Jefferson said “A government of
:

priests and nobles for a people, is like a government of

wolves over sheep/’
The meanness of the thief who misdirects and leads a
blihd man out of his road into the woods to filch money
from his pockets, is a poor crime beside that of the im-
postor who misdirects wanderers into eternity who have
lost their road. And such were the manufacturers of
(this degree. Such, too, are the manufacturers of
ail false religions.They cause their fellow travelers to
“wander out of the way of understanding and remain in
the congregation of the dead.” The only mitigation
which can be plead for such false teachers, is, that they
come to believe their own teachings. But that no more
excuses them than suicide justifies murder.
 ,

CHAPTER IX
Seventh Degree^r Provost and Judge .
56

Phis grade was originally instituted by

King Solo-
mon to aid m
preserving peace and order 57 among the
workmen engaged in the erection of the temple, it being
the especial duty of a Provost and
Judge to settle diffi-
culties and disputes that might arise
among tbe work-
men.

LIBRA OR BALANCE.
decorations :' 8
The ED (lodge) of Provost and
Judgemust be hung with red and illuminated
by five
gT ™! kghts; one m each corner
and one in the centre.
I he Master is m
the East, under a blue canopy, sur-
rounded by gold stars; and is styled
Thrice Illustrious;
conferred iii theMLodge^ of^e/fe^-tfon '’Scotch f° Urth de ^ ree
the catalogue of that system. There 6 Se V Uth upon
is a maSer stv’lopTh?-
d h Tn
who represents Tito. Prince of the llarodim thp Fifir rJ lustrious ’

Inspector of the 300 Architects

and a
Warden and
Adoniram.” Morris’s Masonic Dictionary,' 10
Article ProyS and Juto?"* ®
S SP tIeir r, e of Oic Ancient
Accepted rite. ItTd fege nAj f i a Tjw. ( , 1"' is'
. \ and
of Impartiality and Justice d UP P riliei Ples
After the death of tha
man of the temple, King Solomon fnr 2nl,
the n G and
/
°!l
Master Work-

c y cl °P a edia and Dictionary of

Freemasonry, Article Provost and Judge.

*rsr him f pre ;

a K nld key.
lesson
h
is justice to all men a™ 4 vie‘ h i®
tW° and aevpn ^”— Morris’s Masonic DictioM^/
The
1S

Jud ge. Article'provMt ‘and

lit) PROVOST AND JUDGE.

he represents Tito Zadoc, Prince of the Ilarodim, the

eldest of thp PerfectMasters and Intimate Secretaries,
Grand Warden and Inspector of the 300 Architects,
first

whose office was to draw plans for the workmen of the

temple.
There are two wardens, who represent Adoniram and
J
Abda," his father. They are seated in the West and
styled Illustrious Brothers; the*rest of the brethren are
placed to the right and left, except the introducing
brother, who sits behind the wardens in the West.
clothing :'
0
—
All the brethren in black robes and
caps, apron is white, trimmed with white, with a pocket
in the centre, with a red and white rosette below fhe
pocket; on the flap a key painted or embroidered in
gold. The pocket is intended to keep the keys of the
chest containing the plans. Collar red, from which is
suspended 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 jus-
tice to all men.
hours of work :
— Eight, two and seven o’clock.

Note 59. — ‘‘Abda.

A word used in some of the high degrees. He was
the father of Adoniram. (See 1 Kings iv. 6.) Leuniug is wrong in saying
that he is represented by one of the officers in the degree of Master in
Israel. He has confounded Abda with his son.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia
of Freemasonry, Article Abda.
—
Note 60. ‘‘The apartment represents the middle chamber of King Solo-
mon’s Temple; the hangings are red, with a sky-blue canopy in the feast.
The room is lighted with five lights, one in each corner, and one in the
middle. The presiding officer is styled Venerable Chief Provost and Judge.
The apron is white, edged with red; in the middle is a pocket with a red
and white rosette. On the flap 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 gold.” Macoy’s Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Free-
masonry, Article Provost and Judge.
 OPENING CEREMONIES
61
Provost and Judge .

— (Strikes
Tito 0000 Brother Wardens, are
five; 0.)
we duly guarded ?

Wardens — Thrice we are; and can begin

Illustrious,
work. ^
Tito —Where your master placed?
is

Wardens — Everywhere.
Tito —Why so?
Wardens— Because God omnipresent, and
is his jus-
tice is universal.
Tito — What the hour?
is

Wardens — Dawn day, mid-day, eve and night.

of
Tito — (Knocks 0000 0.)
Wardens— (Knock 0000 0; all rise.)
Tito — This Provost and Judge
college of open; is
(all give the sign and battery [knocks] after which all
are seated.)

Note 61. — “Provost and Judge. (Prevot et Juge.) The seventh degree
of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. The history of the degree
relates that it was founded by Solomon, King of Israel, for the purpose
(
0 f strengthening his means of preserving order among the vast number of
craftsmen engaged in tha construction of the Temple. Tito, Prince Haro-
dim, Adoniram and Abda, his father, were first created Provosts and
Judges, who were afterwards directed by Solomon to initiate his favorite
and intimate secretary, Joabert. and to give him the keys of all the build-
ing. In the old rituals the Master of a Lodge of Provosts and Judges rep-
resents Tito, Prince Harodim, the first Grand Warden and Inspector of the
—
three hundred architects.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry. Arti-
cle Provost and Judge.
 CHAPTER X
Seventh Degree or Provost and Judge,
initiation.
Tito—-Brother Master of Ceremonies, you*will now
retireand prepare the candidate for initiation.

PREPARATION OF CANDIDATE.
Master of Ceremonies retires after saluting, and pre-
pares the candidate as an Intimate Secretary, and
knocks four and one.
—
Adoniram Thrice Illustrious, our tribunal is dis-
turbed.
—
Tito It may be a call for justice; brother Adoniram,
you will send our brother Expert to see who knocks as a
Provost and Judge.
—
Adoniram Brother Expert, you will see who knocks
as a Provost and Judge.
Expert —
(Goes to the door,, knocks four and one,
opens the door and says:) Who knocks as a Provost
and Judge?
Master of Ceremonies —One who has duly fulfilled his
duty as Intimate Secretary, and is now worthy of the
office of Provost and Judge.
—
Expert (Shutting the door,) Brother Adoniram, it is
one who has duly fulfilled his duty as Intimate Secre-
tary and is now worthy of the office of Provost and
Judge.
—
A doniram Thrice Illustrious, it is one who has duly
performed his duty as Intimate Secretary, and is now
worthy of the office of Provost and Judge.
 INITIATION. 119

Tito —
Brother Adoniram, has he been well examined
as regards his qualifications and been found worthy?
—
Adoniram Brother Expert, has he been well exam-
ined as regards his qualifications and been found
worthy ?
—
Expert Brother Master of Ceremonies, has he been
well examined as regards his qualifications and been
found worthy ?
Master of Ceremonies— He has, Brother Expert.
—
Expert Thrice Illustrious, he has.
Tito — Then him be admitted.
let
Expert. — (Opening the door) Brother Master of Cere-
monies, let him be admitted.
Master of Ceremonies then leads him into the^
[lodge] and places him between the warden* and altar.
Tito —
Brother Master of Ceremonies, whom do you
conduct ?
—
Master of Ceremonies One who has duly fulfilled
his duty as Intimate Secretary, and is worthy of the
office of Provost and Judge: His name is Joabert.
Tito —
Brother Master of Ceremonies, is he well versed
in the signs, tokens and words of the previous work, and
is he well qualified to receive this ?

—
Master of Ceremonies He is, Thrice Illustrious.
Tito —Let him give proof of his knowledge.
Master of Ceremonies causes the candidate to re-
hearse the signs, tokens and words of the previous de-
grees.
Tito — Brother Intimate Secretary Joabert, I am well
pleased with the proofs of study and art you have ex-
hibited, and will now proceed to ascertain if you are a
fit person to be a Provost and Judge among your fel-
'

lows and over your brethren. Brother Joabert, what is

justice ?

(Candidate answers as he thinks proper.)

Tito — My brother, we define Justice thus: “Justice
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120 PROVOST AND JUDGE.

is the equation of right and duty, between man and

man, or between the individual and society."* What is
*
equation? What are rights? What are duties? What
is law ?
These are questions upon which you should reliect, to
ascertain wherein right and duty may be absolute and
relative, and wherein law may be natural or conven-
•

tional.
Brother Joabert, a most important question now
arises
We have a very clear idea of justice. We may know
what it is, we may showorigin and necessity; but
its
tell me how is justice to be attained, realized, dispensed
and established?
How are we to ascertain that which would be justice
between man and man, or between society and one of
its members, in case of contestation?
(Candidate answers as he thinks proper.)
—
Tito Brother Master of Cermonies, teach brother
Joabert to travel..
Master of Ceremonies then conducts the candidate
seven times round the HZ! [lodge.] On the first round
he gives the Thrice Illustrious the sign, token and word
of an Entered Apprentice on the second, the sign, to-
;

ken and word of a Fellow Craft, and so on until the sev-

enth round, after which he stops in front of the altar
facing the East.
Tito —
(To candidate.) My gives me infi-
brother, it

nite satisfaction to have this opportunity of rewarding

#

your zeal for masonry, and your attachment for the

master of masters, and this I do by appointing you Pro-
vost and Judge over all the workmen of this HZ] [lodge,]
for as we are fulty convinced of your discretion, we do
not hesitate to confide in you, and to communicate our
most important secrets to you, which will encourage
you to do your duty in this degree as you have done in
the preceding ones which you had the* honor of being
admitted into. Brother Joabert, by accepting the degree
 INITIATION. 121

of Provost and Judge you pledge yourself to do impar-

tial justice to every man.
To aid you in performing it the Expert will entrust
you with a golden key. It opens the tomb which sym-
bolizes the sanctuary of truth, the sanctuary of con-
science, where the heart of Hiram Abiff has been depos-
ited: it opens all the buildings and gives you access
everywhere. But brother J oabert, before we present you
with this key, or before we entrust you with the means
of doing justice, we demand of you the solemn pledge
of every Provost and Judge; are you willing to bind
yourself as we have done?
Candidate I am. —
Tito —
(Five knocks; 0000 0; all rise.) Brethren bear
ye witness to the obligation this Intimate Secretary is
about to assume, with his hand upon the balance.

OBLIGATION PROVOST AND JUDGE.

X do solemnly promise in presence of this
,

assembly, and of my own conscience, that I will keep the

secrets of Provost and Judge; and that I will truly,
justly and impartially dispense justice to my brethren
and to all the world, according to rule and the best of
my abilities and lastly bind myself under the penalties
;

of all my former obligations, to pay a just and due obe-

dience to the regulations and orders of the council of
Princes of Jerusalem; so may God keep me in truth,
equity, and justice: Amen.
Tito —Brother Expert, you will now give brother Joa-
bert the key and conduct him to the monument.
Expert then conducts him to the monument, kneels
and says:
Expert Civi. —
—
Tito Kv (Expert then rises.)
122 PROVOST AND JUDGE.

—
Expert My brother, these two words, Civi and Ky,
are our pass words, the one means ask or knock and it
will be opened; the other means arise or seek and it
will be found.
The lesson taught is simply this: that justice is only'
possible through truth ;
to be just we must know the
truth. We
should therefore learn to handle the key
of truth, and by investigation obtain evidence.
—
Tito Brother Expert, you will now conduct our new-
ly made brother to the east, (Does so.)
Tito —
Brother Joabert, I now greet you with the
grip and sign of a Provost and Judge.

GRIP.
Lock the two little
fingers of
the right
hands with the forefin-
Grip of Provost and Judge. ger, one of the other.

and give seven light blows with the thumb of the right
hand on the palm of the same.

SIGN.
Place the two first fingers of the right
hand on the nose.

Provost aud Judge.

«

INITIATION.
*
123

ANSWER.
Place the first hand
finger of the right
on the top of the nose, and the thumb of
the same under the chin, forming a square.

Answer to Sign.
— Tito Civi, Ky.
pass word:
02

sacred word: —Jachinai

,
88
which the plural of the
, is
word Jachin.
grand words —Izrach-Jah J ehovah Hiram Sial-
: , , ,
64
ic in, Geometrass and Architect.
—
Note 62. “Tito. A significant word in the high degrees. The Scottish
Rite rituals give the name of Tito, Prince Harodim, to him who they say
was the first who was appointed by Solomon a Provost and Judge. This
person appears to be altogether mythical; the word is not found in the
Hebrew language, nor has any meaning been given to it. He is repre-
sented as having been a favorite of the King of Israel. He is said to
have presided over the Lodge of Intendants of the Building, and to have
been one of the twelve illustrious knights who were set over the twelve
tribes, that of Naphtali being placed under his care. The whole of this
legend is. of course, connected with the symbolic signification of those
—
degrees.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Tito.
—
Note 63. “A Gallic corruption of Shekinah, to be found only in the
—
French Cahers of the high degrees.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Free-
masonry, Article Jachinai.
—
Note 64. “Geometry. In the modern rituals geometry is said to be
the basis on which the superstructure of Masonry is erected; and in the
old Constitutions of the Mediaeval Freemasons of England the most promi-
nent place of all the sciences is given to geometry, which is made synony-
mous with Masonry. Thus, in the Halliwell MS., which dates not later
than the latter part of the fourteenth century, the Constitutions of
Masonry are called ‘the Constitution of the art of geometry according to
Euclid,’ the words geometry and Masonry being used indifferently through-
out the document; and in the Harleian MS. it is said, ‘thus the craft
Geometry was governed there, and that worthy Master (Euclid) gave it
the name of Geometry, and it is called Masonrie in this land long after.’
In another part of the same MS. it is thus defined, ‘The fifth science is
called Geometry, and it teaches a man to mete and measure of the earth
—
and other things, which science is Masonrie.’ ” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia
•f Freemasonry, Article Geometry.
m PROVOST AND JUDGE.

Tito- -l also invest you with your apron, as an em-

blem of the ardor and zeal of the Masters. The pocket
in the apron is intended to keep the keys of the chest
containing the plans.
—
Tito Brother Expert, conduct our newly elected
brother to the altar and proclaim him duly installed a
Provost and Judge.
Expert — (Conducts him the glory
to the altar.) To
of the Grand Architect of the universe, under the au-
spices of the Supreme Council of the 33d degree of the
Ancient and Accepted Scotch Rite,"'’ in and for the
Sovereign and Independent State of New York, I do
hereby proclaim Brother as a Provost and Judge,
and an active member of our tribunal throughout the
world.
Tito —Together, brethren. (All give the battery by
clapping hands, four and one.)
Tito — Brother Expert, lead our associate to his seat
among us, to listen to our lecture.
%

LECTURE PROVOST AND JUDGE.

Tito —Brother Adoniram, are you Provost and a
Judge?
Adoniram — Thrice distributed
Illustrious, I justice
impartially the workmen.
to all
Tito — How did you get admittance the ZZ into
[lodge] of Provost and Judge?
Adoniram — By striking four strokes and one a fifth
after a pause.
little

Tito —What do these four knocks and separate fifth

signify ?
—
Note 65. “Ancient and Accepted Rite, or Ineffable degrees; first known
in France, in 1758, as tbe Emperors of the East and West, with twenty,
five degrees. Subsequently these degrees were increased to thirty-three,
under the title of Ancient and Accepted Scottish Kite, at the city of
Charleston, where, in the year 1801. a Supreme Council for the southern
portion of the United States was organized. In 1807 another Supreme
Council was established in New York for the northern portion of the
—
United States." Macoy’s Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Freemasonry,
Art. Rite,
 LECTURE. 125

Adoniram — The four are emblems of the four fronts

of the temple, and the fifth the unity of God, whose
temple 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 the
altar.
—What became you then?
Tito of

Adoniram — After giving proofs of my skill to the

Thrice Illustrious, and taking upon myself the solemn
obligation, I was conducted to the tomb, caused to kneel
and pronounce the word Civi, which signifies kneel.
Tito —What answer did the Thrice make
Illustrious
you?
Adoniram — He pronounced the word Ky, which sig-
nifies to rise.
Tito — What did the Thrice do next?
Illustrious
Adoniram — He constituted me Provost and Judge,
depending on the good account he had of my zeal for
the craft.
Tito —What did he give you?
Adoniram — A golden key distinguish the degree
to I
had received, and with this a sign, token, and word, bv
which I may be known as and Judge.
a Provost
—
Tito What is the use of that key?
—
Adoniram To open a small ebony box where all the
plans required for the construction of the temple are
kept.
— What do you mean by this?”
Tito
Adoniram — mean that we are only
I entrusted with
the word and secret to know where the heart of our
Master Hiram Abiff is deposited.
Tito —
What is your word?
Adoniram — Tito.

*
126 PROVOST AND JUDGE.

—What does that

Tito signify ?

Adoniram — the name

It is grand warden.
of the first
6 0
He was Prince Harodim the eldest of the Provost and
Judges, and inspector over 300 architects of the temple.
Tito —
What was Solomon’s intention in creating this
degree ?

—
Adoniram As it was necessarv to establish order and
regularity among such a number of workmen, Solomon
67
created Tito Prince Harodim, as was also Adoniram,
who was created Chief of the Provost and Judges, and
also the King’s great confidant and favorite, Joabert,
who was initiated into the mysteries of this degree, and
to him was given the key to open the ebony box that
contained all the plans of the building; which box
you have seen in the degree of Secret Master. This
box was hung under a rich canopy in the Sanctum Sanc-
torum: Joabert was so struck with admiration at behold-
ing these things that he fell on his knees pronouncing
theword Civi.
Solomon seeing him in this attitude, pronounced the
word Ky, and then put the scales in his hands, by which
his knowledge duly increased.
—
Tito What did you perceive in the Z2 [lodge?]
—
Adoniram A figured curtain with a canopy, under
which was suspended the ebony box containing the plans.

Note 66. — “Harodim,

Prince of. In the old lectures of the Ineffable de-
grees it is said that Tito, the oldest of the Provosts and Judges, was the
Prince of Harodim; that is, chief of the three hundred architects who were
the Harodim, or additional three hundred added to the thirty-three hun-
dred Menatzchim mentioned in Chronicles, and who thus make up the num-
ber of three thousand six hundred recorded in the first Book of Kings, and
who in the old lecture of the degree of Provost and Judge are supposed
to have been the Harodim or Rulers in
masonry. The statement is a
myth but it thus attempts to explain the discrepancy alluded to in the
—
•

article Harodim.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Har-

odim, Prince of.

Note67. “A society termed the Grand Chapter of Harodim was formed

at Ivondon in 1787 under the auspices of William Preston, which has
served as the model of our Schools or Lodges of Instruction. A full ac-
count of it is given in Preston’s Illustrations. The term Harodim signifies
princes and rulers. A side degree of considerable repute in this country
is —
likewise termed Harodim.” Morris's Masonic Dictionary,/ Article
Harodim.
 LECTURE. 127

Tito —have you seen nothing else?

Adoniram —
saw a triangle in the Z!
I
[lodge] on which were these two letters GA,
thus entangled.

—What do they signify?

Tito
Adoniram — That God himself was the Great Archi-
tect of the temple, and had inspired David and Solomon
with the plan of it.

Tito—What have you seen in the ZZ [lodge]

else ?
Adoniram — A pair of scales
which are the emblem of
rectitude, with which we should always execute the du-
ties of this degree, as we are appointed judges to de-
cide all disputes that may occur.
— Where the body
Tito is of our respectable Master
Hiram Abiff deposited?
Adoniram — Under the footstool of the throne in the
chapter room, which is separated from the temple, to
which you go by an arch-way on the north side of 'the
temple.
Tito—Where the heart interred?
is

Adoniram — In a golden urn which shut up is in the

obelisk.
Tito — What mean the “X” and “Jletters v
which
appear on the north your draft?
side of
Adoniram —Xinxe and Jachinai — The
68
: first signi-
fiesthe seat of the soul, and the second is the sacred
word.
Tito —Where were you placed?
Adoniram— In the middle chamber.
Tito — Have you done any remarkable work
since you
became Provost and Judge?
Note 68.— ‘‘Xinxe. A significant word in the high degrees.
iluileur, p. 49) gives it as Xincheu, and says that it
Delaunav
has been translated
as ‘the seat of the soul ’
But in either form it has evidently undergone
such corruption as to be no longer comprehensible.”
paedia of Freemasonry, Article Xinxe.
Mackey’s
y — ncyc 0
Encyclo-
 —

P?8 PROVOST AND JUDGE,

—
Adoniram 1 have ornamented the tomb of onr dear
Master Hiram A biff.
—What did the Thrice
Tito ornament you Illustrious
with, upon being received Provost and Judge?
Adoniram— With a white apron lined with with red,
white and red and a pocket
roses the apron. in
Tito — What the intention
isof the pocket?
Adoniram — The Provost and Judge makes use
eldest
of it, to which he communicates to the
put the plans in,

Masters who draw them out on their trestleboard.

—
Tito What do the white and red roses mean?
—
59
Adoniram The red/ is an emblem of the blood that
was spilled by our respectable Master Hiram Abiff, and
the white signifies the candor and fidelity of the Mas-
ters.

Tito —How old are you?

Adoniram — Four times sixteen.
Tito —What o’clock is' it?
Adoniram — Break of day, eight, two and seven o’clock.
Tito —Why so?
—
Adoniram Because a Perfect Master, Provost and
Judge should be everywhere and at all hours ready to
be at hand, in order to administer justice.
Note 69. “Red is in the higher degrees of Masonry as predominating a
color as blue is in the lower. Its symbolic significations differ, but they
may generally be considered as alluding either to the virtue of fervency
when the symbolism is moral or to the shedding of blood when it is his-
torical. Thus in the degree of Provost and Judge it is historically em-
blematic of the violent death of one of the founders of the Institution:
while in the degree of Perfection it is said to be a moral symbol of zeal
for the glory of God and for our own advancement towards perfection in
Masonry and virtue.”— Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article
Red.
 CLOSING CEREMONIES
Provost and Judge.
/

—Brother Adoniram, what our particular

Tito is

duty ?

Adoniram — The equity judgment. of

Tito — How youAvill fulfill it?
Adoniram — By searching for truth.
Tito — Where ?

Adoniram — Everywhere.
Tito — When ?

Adoniram, — At hours. all

Tito — What the hour?
is

Adoniram — There none is set.

Tito — Why ?

Adoniram — Because a Provost and Judge must be

ready to do justice unto all men at all times and all
places.
Tito — (Raps seven; all rise,) Brother Adoniram will
please notifv the brethren that I am about to close this
[lodge] of Provost and Judges.
—
Adoniram Brethren, you will please take notice that
the Thrice Puissant is about to close this lodge of Pro-
vost and Judges.
Tito —
Together, brethren. (All give the signs from
the Secret Master up.)
Tito —
(Knocks four and one.)
Adoniram — (Knocks four and one.)
—
Abda (Knocks four and one.)
—
Tito T declare this Z2 [lodge] of Provost and
Judges closed.
 HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
Seventh Degree or Provost and Judge.
Going Into the Lodge as a Frog into a Snake’s Mouth— a Silly, Weak
Anachronism— intellectual and Moral Ashes — Moore’s Description of
False Religions.

Masons who have broken escaped the snare of the

lodge tell us: “You have no idea how different those
degrees seem to us, as you now correctly recite them,
from what they did while we were passing through
them blindfold; stripped beyond the verge of decency;
surrounded by we knew not whom; oaths dealt out to
us piecemeal in the night; and we conscious of our
physical inability to resist.” Others, apparently men
of average ability and sense, have said “I never feel
:

more perfect satisfaction and delight than when passing

or taking others through those interesting, solemn and
thrilling degrees.” Outsiders are perplexed by these
conflicting testimonies, and either believe opponents
of the lodge monomaniacs or misinformed. Rev. J.
R. Baird, while an industrious, hard working mechanic,
had paid four hundred and fifty dollars for seventeen
degrees. Addressing our first national meeting in
Pittsburg (1868), after describing the agonized strug-
gles he went through to escape the snare, said you will^
say to me: “If the thing is so horrible why did you
take degree after degree when you knew what they
were?” “Fll tell you” said he; “We go into the lodge
one degree after another, as a charmed frog goes into a
snake’s mouth.”
This is the analysis and explanation of this Seventh
D e oree. In itself, the degree is so loose, low and unin-
 A SILLY, WEAK ANACHRONISM. 131

teliectual, that a man of ordinary sense finds it a task

to read it. The degree preceding this should have fol-
lowed it in the schedule, as Joabert' escape from the
death of a spy, and his promotion as “Intimate Secre-
tary,” followed the completion of the building of the
temple. Yet here we are taken back to the time while
the building was going on and when seven Provost -

Judges were chosen to rule the three hundred men at

work on the temple.
And who is the first Provost and Judge? Why,
“Brother Joabert who did not receive the Sixth De-
gree till after the temple was complete. He is here re-
ceiving the Seventh or Provost Degree, to govern and
judge the men who are at work on the temple before it
is done Glance at the ritual where the Thrice Puissant,
!

Tito, says
“Brethren, bear witness to the obligation this Inti-
mate Secretary is about to take.”
But Joabert w*as not yet an “Intimate Secretary” till

after the temple Yet he here receives the de-

was done.
gree as Intimate Secretary, to which he was not ad-
mitted till after the temple was completed; which de-
gree, we are told in the opening, “King Solomon insti-
tuted to preserve peace among the workmen engaged in
the erection of the temple.” But beside this silly, weak
anachronism, the degree is an attempt to surround with
awe and dignity; by sworn secrecy, the election of a
simple foreman or officer of the peace, when there is
nothing to conceal but the mere fact and mode of the
appointment. If this be so, (and it is), then how are
we to account for the fact that this weak and worthless
degree, with others like it, has come to us from the
Jesuit College of Clermont in 1754. twenty-two years
before American Independence, and is now the Seventh
 —

132 INTELLECTUAL AND MORAL ASHES;

Degree of the leading Rite in the United States and in

Europe ?
A
careful reading of the prophet Isaiah, 44th Chap-
ter, show why no absurdities in a system of false
will
religion can be so absurd as to break the power of that
religion over the minds of its devotees. The burden of
this chapter a remonstrance against idolatry.
is To
show its utter absurdity the prophet supposes a man to ~

plant, tree; warm himself with part of

and rear an ash
it,cook his victuals with another part and worship the
rest as his god. His explanation of this fatuity, how a
man of ordinary sense and understanding could do so,
he gives in the following words :

“They see not nor know. v. 9. They have not

known nor understood, for he hath shut their eyes that
they can not see, and their hearts that they can not un-
destand. v. IS. He feedeth on ashes; a deceived
heart hath turned him aside ;
that he can not deliver his
soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand.” v. 20.

How that the makers of these degrees have manu-

factured a religion, is precisely as true as it is that the
man made a religion who burnt half of his ash tree and
worshiped the other half. Bare inspection proves this;
and if he did not, Masonic authority settles it. Cunning -
ham’s Manual of this Scottish Rite, in the First or Se-
cret Master’s Degree, page 20, says, “Genuine Masonry
is a pure Religion,” Masonry then is “a religion
”
and
being man-made is a false religion ;
and, if so, there is

something in it which disables from its worshippers

knowing the truth, as did that religion whose god was
made from an ash tree. Then the words of Isaiah apply
to them and explain how these ineffable degrees live,
are kept up. That this Provost degree is intellectual and
moral “ashes,” one needs but to read it to know. Ashes
 —

moore's description of false religions. 133

and the lodge and stimulate but do not nourish.

bite
And the Mason who practices it becomes color-blind
where Masonry is concerned. “A deceived heart hath
turned him aside, that he can not deliver his soul, nor
say, is there not a lie in my right hand.'’ Nothing but
the power and grace of God can. deliver a man whose
mind is sunk into that fearful condition.
Moore aptly describes the devices of the false proph-
etsand religious imposters in his “Veiled Prophet of
Khorassan thus:
“They shall have mysteries— aye. precious stuff,
—
For knaves to thrive by mysteries enough;
Dark tangled doctrines, dark as fraud can weave.
Which simple votaries on trust receive
—
While th’ craftier feign belief till they believe."
Moore resided sometime in Paris while Masonry was
at its height in theFrench Capital. And as his u Fire
Worshipers” are a picture of the wrongs of Ireland,
so the Masonic Mysteries of Paris a^e painted to
the life in the mysteries of his Veiled Prophet ; the
debauchery, cruelty and fraud of the leaders, and the
stupid faith of their duped and despised followers, who,
like perjured witnesses, repeat theirconned falsehoods
till they believe them. But their belief no more ex-
cuses them than suicide justifies murder; when a man
kills another and then himself. Men enter secret so-
cieties from motives of curiosity, gain, friendship or
popularity. They come to believe in them by prac-
ticing their rites.
 CHAPTER XI
Eighth Degree or Intendent oe the Building. 7 ’

SCORPIO OR THE SCORPION.

As the former grade was instituted to supply the

loss of the chief builder and the Grand Superintendent
and Administrator of Justice in the temple, so the ob-
ject of this was to provide in the place of the one prin-
cipal architect, five others, to each of whom should be
entrusted the care of constructing everything that re-
lated to one department of architectural labor.
decorations :
71
— In this degree the lodge is hung with
—
Note 70. Intendant of the Building, (Intendant du Batiment.) ‘‘This
degree is sometimes called ‘Master in Israel.’ It is the eighth in the
Ancient* and Accepted Scottish Rite, Its emblematic color is red; and dts
principal officers, aeording to the old rituals, are a Thrice Puissant, repre-
senting Solomon; a Senior Warden, representing the illustrious Tito, one
of the Harodim; and a Junior Warden, representing Adoniram, the son
of Abda. But in the present rituals of the two Supreme Councils of the
United States the three chief officers represent Adoniram. Joabert and
Stolkin, but in the working of the degree the past officer assumes the char-
acter of Solomon. The legend of the degree is, that it was instituted to
—
supply the place of the chief architect of the Temple.” Mackey’s Encyclo-
paedia of Freemasonry, Article Intendant of the Building.
Note 71. — “The hangings are red. There are twenty-seven lights, with
five additional ones in the east, where there is a brilliant triangle, en-
closing a circle having on its circumference the letters J. A. I. H.. and
.

in the center J. J. J. also a blazing five-pointed star, showing in the

;

center the letter J. The apron is white, lined with red and edged with
green. In the center a star with nine beams; below the star a pair of
balanced scales, with acacia upon the fulcrum; on the movable part of
the apron a triangle, with B. A. J. in the angles. The jewel is a gold
triangle, with the letters B. A. J. in the angles, .T. .T. J. in the center,
and on the opposite side the letter G. Age 5x7x15. Hours of work, open
at break of day. close at seven I’. M. The lesson is the sure establishment
of the righteous.” — Morris’s Masonic Dictionary, Article Intendant of the
Building.
 ;;

INTENDANT' OF THE BUILDING. 135

red tapestry, and illuminated by 27 lights, in three

groups, one of five lights before the Junior Warden; one
of seven lights before the Senior Warden; and the third
of fifteen lights before the President.
In the East should be a brilliant transparem^, a lumi-
nous triangle, enclosing a circle having on its circum-
ference the letters J. *.A. \I. \H. *. and in the centre the
letters J. \ J. \ J. \ also a blazing star with five beams
in the centre the letter "J.”
titles: — The Master represents King Solomon, and
is styled Thrice Puissant: The Senior Warden repre-
sents Tito, and is styled Thrice Illustrious Inspector.
The Junior Warden represents Adoniram, and is styled
Conductor. The candidate is called Joabert.
—
clothing: The Thrice Powerful is clothed in royal
robes, with a crown and scepter, the brethren in black
robes and caps.
apron :
— Is
white lined with red, and bordered with
green. In the center of the apron is a star with nine
points, above the star a balance. On the flap is a tri-
angle with the following initials B. \A. '.J. \
:

—
order: A red watered ribbon from the right shoul-
der to the left hip, from which is suspended the jewel
which is a gold triangle. On one side of the triangle
are engraved the letters B. \A. \J.\ translated “Free
Mason; 0! God; thou art eternal.” On the reverse are
engraved the words Judah, Jah, translated; “Praise bo
unto God.”
The jewel is suspended from the order by a green
rosette.
 OPENING CEREMONIES
• Intendant of the Building.

Thrice Puissant —
(Holding a scepter in his hand)
Illustrious Brother Tito, are we tyled?
Tito — We are safe and secure here.
Thrice Puissant — What the hour?
is >

Tito — The break of day.

Thrice Puissant — (Strikes 00000;five, all rise.)

Tito — (With a mallet raps, 00000.)

five

Adoniram — (With mallet

-

a raps, 00000.)
five

Thrice Puissant — As
?
break of day,
it is time tis to
begin our work; my brethren, this lodge is opened. (All
clap five with their hands, and make the sign of sur-
prise and admiration.)
Thrice Puissant — (Strikes one and the lodge is seat-
ed.)
 CHAPTER XII

Eighth Degree or Intendant oe the Building.

Initiation.

(TTie candidate must be barefooted when introduced

in this degree.)
—
Solomon Illustrious Brother Tito, how shall we
repair the immense loss we have sustained in the melan-
choly and treacherous murder of our never to be for-
gotten Master Hiram Abiff? You know he alone was
entrusted with the decoration of the secret chamber
where every thing the dearest and most respectable of
the Israelites was deposited ; there the ark was to be put
and thereby was the presence and protection of the
Almighty insured. Scarcely had this great man set
about this important work when he was snatched from
us by the most horrid and infamous plot. We must
therefore endeavor to repair the loss of our worthy Hi-
ram Abiff. The fine works of the inner chamber are un-
finished, and all is in confusion in the sanctuary. Most
Illustrious Brother Tito, give me your advice what to
do on this occasion.
Tito —Thrice Puissant, I am fully convinced of the
loss we have sustained, and of the difficulty to repair it,

In myopinion the only resource we have left is to ap-

point a chief for each of the five orders of architecture,
and that we should all unite in giving every assistance
in our power toward completing this third secret cham-
ber.
138 INTENDANT OF THE BUILDING.

Solomon — Most Illustrious Brother Tito, your advice

is too good to be neglected, and to show you how much
l am “swayed by it, \ will now appoint you, brother
Adonirarn and Abda to inspect and conduct the work.
You will now send to the middle chamber and see if
there are any of the chiefs of the five orders of architec-
ture there “dead to sin and vice.”
—
Tito Brother Expert, you will repair to the middle
chamber and any of the chiefs of the
see if there are
dead to sin and vice.
five orders of architecture -there
Expert —
(Goes to door and knocks five; 00000.)
—
Master of Ceremonies (Knocks 00000 from within.)
—
Expert (Opens the door) Are there any of the chiefs
of the five orders of architecture here dead to sin and
vice ?

—
Master of Ceremonies (For candidate) There is one
—
here Joabert, dead to sin and vice.
—
Expert Brother Joabert, are you possessel of zeal
enough to apply with scrupulous attention to the work
which the Thrice Puissant will commit to your care?
Master of Ceremonies — (For Joabert.) I look upon it
as the greatest happiness and advantage that I can be
blessed with, to have an opporunity with him in the
great and glorious object which he proposes; that of
erecting a temple to the Almighty, worthy of his glory.
Expert —
(Shuts the door) Thrice Illustrious there is
in the ante-chamber one who says he is dead to sin and
vice and looks upon it as the greatest happiness and ad-
vantage he can be blessed with to have an opportunity
of assisting in the great and glorious object which is
proposed to him that of erecting a temple to the
;

Almighty worthy of his glory.

Solomon —Let him be admitted.
Expert — (Knocks 00000.)
 INITIATION. 139

Master of Ceremonies —
(Knocks 00000 from within.)
Expert —
(Opens the door,) Let him be admitted.
He then leads him five times around the [lodge]
and then by five steps of exactitude to the altar.
Solomon — (To candidate,) I will restore thy Judges
as at first, and thy councilors as at the beginning. The
light of the righteous shall be established, for the Lord
giveth wisdom; out of his mouth cometh understand-
ing and knowledge. Then shalt thou understand righ-
teousness,judgment and equity, yea every good path.
Brother Expert, you will now present the. candidate
with a sprig of acacia cause him to lie down and cover
;

him with a red veil. (Order is obeyed.)

—
Solomon My brother, you now personate again, Joa-
bert, one of the most skillful artisans employed in the
construction of
the temple. Hi-
ram Abiff had
not at the time
Joabert Personating Hiram Abifi Dead to Sin afid . , ,
vice. he was murdered.
finished the fine works of the inner chamber and Holy
of Holies.
The beautiful symmetry he had designed was to be
realized and the utensils that were to be made, were to
avoid all disarray and confusion in use.
Joabert was selected to take Hiram’s office as he‘ pos-
sessed science and skill of the highest order. He was
the ablest in the use of numbers and measurement of
work, but the letters upon the designs prepared by Hiram
belonged to the lost word, and it was necessary to know
that word to understand the designs. My brother, do
you know that word ?
Candidate — I do. not.
 140 INTENDANT OF THE BUILDING.

—
Solomon Alas my brother, the loss of that word is
!

the cause of the greatest disorder and is productive of

serious errors and it is with the hope that bv the science
;

of numbers you will be able to recover fihe lost key to

the designs that we have sent for you.
Hence it is, that in your present posture you are made
to take the place of the deceased master
;
hence it is that
we consider you as “dead to sin and vice/’ and hope to
see you “alive to virtue and truth.”
Brother Expert, you will now cause the candidate to
rise and place him in a fitting posture to contract his
obligation.
Expert raises the candidate, uncovers him and causes
him to kneel on a square flat stone opposite the triangu-
lar table, behind which brother Tito stands, and in that
posture he contracts his obligation.

OBLIGATION INTENDANT OF THE BUILDING.

I promise and swear in the presence of the Great

Architect of the Universe, and of the Thrice Illustrious
Brethren here present, ever to keep inviolably secret
the mysteries which shall be revealed to me.
And to observe all such rules as shall be prescribed to
me by the Grand Council of Princes of Jerusalem, un-
der the penalties of all my
former obligations, besides
that of having my body cut in two and my bowels torn
.out. 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 seats
him on a stool in the middle of the lodge facing the
Thrice Puissant.
Th rice Puissant — My dear brother, Solomon being
willing and- desirous of carrying out to the highest de-

t
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INITIATION. 141

gree of perfection possible the work commenced by

Hiram Abiff, thought proper for effecting this business
to employ the five chiefs of the five orders of architec-
ture, assisted by three Princes: Tito, Abda, and Adon-
iram his son. He was well convinced of their zeal and
abilities, and hoped soon to see their work completed in
a masterly manner. We flatter ourselves my brother that
you will contribute with all your might to this great
end. Your having once represented a dead man must
now be to you as an emblem, that in order to succeed in
this great work and execute it with the same spirit as
our respectable Master Hiram Abiff would have done,
you must also be possessed with the same spirit and
resolution as he was; which is to prefer death rather
than divulge the mysteries of the order. We sincerely
hope you will follow this praiseworthy example.
In this degree your duty study the principles of
is to
order, to find what are the lawsof order as applied by
man to himself, to moral conduct, to mental operations,
to acquisition of knowledge and as a consequence to
learn the doctrines and uses of prudence and the differ-
ence between prudence and fear. In the previous degrees
you acquired the seven points of exactitude, viz
First— As an Apprentice you learned the use of the
mallet of strength.
Second— As a Fellow Craft you handled the chisel
and other implements of wisdom.
Third — As a Master you used the trowel of beauty.
Fourth — As a Secret Master you carried the urn of
self-examination.
Fifth — As a Perfect Master you adjusted the key-
stone which joins a sound mind and a sound body.
Sixth — As an Intimate Secretary you opened the
scroll ofobjective knowledge or education.
Seventh — As a Provost and Judge you setup the
scales of justice and equity.
142 INTENDANT OF THE BUILDING.

Behold now upon fhe altar those scales of justice are

placed upon a new trestleboard representing the multi-
plication table invented by Pythagoras, and this is to
.remind you that arithmetic is the first of sciences and
that the Intendant of Buildings received the first scien-
tificdegree of Freemasonry and must know that num-
bers disclose the order and harmony of nature.
I will now raise you, not as you were raised before,
but as Hiram was raised by Stolkin, under the sprig of
acacia.
Hp then takes the candidate’s right elbow in his left
hand and with the right hand the Master’s grip, and by
three different pulls lift him up from the stool and
throws off the red veil.
—
Thrice Puissant Illustrious Brother Tito, you will
now invest our new brother with the signs, grips and
words of this degree.

SIGNS.

Place the thumbs on the temples, the

hands open so as to form a square, step
backwards two paces, step forward two
paces, then place the hands over the eyes
and say, Beu-KorimP

Sign of Surprise,
Intendant of Bnildiag.
Note — “Benkhurim. Corruptly spelled benchorim in n ost of the oio
72.
rituals. A significant word) in the high degrees, probably signifying on®
that is freeborn.” — Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article
Benkhurim.
 INITIATION, 143

Interlace the fingers of both hands,

turn the palms upwards, let the hands
fall on the waist, look upwards and
say, AJcar.

Place the right hand on the heart, the

left on the hip, balance thrice with the
3
knees, one says Jai, the other says Jah .'

Sign of Grief.

—
Not® 73. “Maimonides calls it the ‘two-letter name,’ and derives it
from the Tetragrammaton, of which he says it is an abbreviation. Others
have denied this and assert that Jah is a name independent of Jehovah,
but expressing the same idea of the Divine Essence. It is uniformly trans-
lated in the authorized version of the Bible by the word Lord, being thus
considered as synonymous with Jehovah, except in Psalm lxviii, 4, where
the original word is preserved: ‘Extol him that rideth upon the heavens
by his name JAH,’ upon which the Targum comment is: ‘Extol him who
sitteth on the throne of glory in the ninth heaven; YAH is his name.’ ”
Mackey’* Encyclopaedia, of Freemasonry, Article Jah.
 — P

144 . INTENDANT OF THE BUILDING.

TOKEN.

Strike one with the right

hand over the other's heart,

pass the right hand under the

left arm, then seize the right

shoulder with the left hand,

one says Jachinai , the othe#
Judah

—Five equi-timed
battery: strokes; 00000.
march — Five equal
: steps. The Intendant of the
Building ascends “the seven steps of. exactitude and
*’
“know s the five points of fidelity.
r

—
age: Three times nine years.
hours of work: From daylight till seven in the
evening.
—
moral: That we should apply ourselves with zeal
and energy to whatever work may be allotted us in the
temple, remembering that the Lord Creator seeth.
—
words: Are those given with the token.
You will now be conducted to our Thrice Illustrious
who you with the apron, sash and jewel.
will invest
—
Thrice Puissant My brother, I now present you with
.Note 74. — “Judah.
The whole of Palestine was sometimes called the
land of Judah, because Judah was a distinguished tribe in obtaining posses-
sion of the country* The. tribe of Judah bore a lion in its standard, and
hence the Masonic allusion to the Lion of the tribe of Judah. See also
Genesis xlix. 9, ‘Judah is u lion’s whelp.’ ’’—.Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of
Freemasonry, Article Judah.
 INITIATION. 145

the apron and sash and the jewel of this degree, which
is a golden triangle. The letters on said jewel are in-
dicative of the pass word of this degree, the other sym-
bols are already familiar to you.
Thrice Illustrious-- Brother Expert you will conduct
our new brother to the altar and proclaim him an Inten-
dant of the Buildings and require all brethren do re-
spect and obey him as such.
Experts- { Conducts him to the and says:) To
altar,

the glory of the Grand Architect of the Universe , under

the auspices of the Supreme Council of the SSd degree
of the Ancient and Accepted Scotch Rite in and for the ,

Sovereign and Independent State of New York I do

hereby proclaim Brother ——
as an Intendant of the
Buildings and I do hereby require all brethren to re-

spect and obey him as such.)

— Together brethren, (All
Thrice Illustrious give the
battery by clapping hands equal times.)five

Thrice — Brother Expert you.

Illustrious will now
conduct our brother to his seat among us.
Expert conducts him to the East and seats him.
75
LECTURE INTENDANT OF TILE BUILDING .

Solomon —Brother Tito, are you an Intendant of the

Building or Master in Israel ?
— T
Tito -I liav e taken the five steps of exactitude, I
have penetrated into the inner part of the temple, I
have seen the Hebrew characters, the three mysterious
J’s without knowing what they meant.
Note 75.
— “Intendant the Building?* sometimes called Master in
of
Israel. The eighth degree the Ancient and Accepted rite. The body is
in
called a Lodge,* and its decorations are crimson; the room is lighted with
27 lights, arranged in three groups of 9 each, and each group forming a
triple triangle; on the altar are 5 other lights. The Master is styled
Thrice Potent, and represents King Solomon. This degree was instituted
to supply the loss of the chief architect of the temple.” Macoy’s Encyclo-
paedia and Dictionary of Freemasonry^ Article Intendant of the Building.
MG 1NTENDANT OF THE BUILDING.

Solomon — How were you received?

Tito — By acknowledging my ignorance.
Solomon —Why were you raised that degree? in
Tito — In order the darkness
to dispel which in I was
immersed, and to get such light as would regulate mv
heart and enlighten my understanding.
—
Solomon Into what place were you introduced?
Tito —
Into a place full of want and charms, where
virtue and sovereign wisdom reside.
—
Solomon What is the duty of Intendant of the
Buildings
® ?
Tito — •

Their duty is to keep the brethren steady in

the practice of virtue, by setting them good examples
and to correct their works. -

—
Solomon Why is it required in this degree, before
you are admitted, to show that you are acquainted with
the three first degrees in masonry?
Tito —
To show that it is only gradually we can arrive
at perfection.
Solomon —What do you learn from those three de-
grees ?

Tito — The teaches me moral, the second

first political,
and the third heroic virtue.
Solomon — Why have you been obliged take to steps
backwards and forwards your in degrees?
different
Tito — To show that the progress toward virtue slow is

and gradual, and that by humility we must curb that

pride which is so natural to us, before we can presume
to liope for perfection, and also that we must judge so
impartially of our actions, and so effectually govern our
passions, as not to leave anything exceptionable in our
conduct.
Solomon — Can you explain the mysteries of our lodge?
Tito — I shall endeavor in the best manner I can.
 LECTURE. 147

Solomon —What do the three mysterious letters in

your jewel signify ?
—
Tito Judah, Jah, signifying praise be unto God,
the third “J,” in the middle of the triangle of the blaz-
ing star is the initial of the sacred and present name-
less word.
Solomon —What does the circle on the inside of the
third triangle signify?
Tito — The immensity of God who had neither begin-
ning nor ending.
Solomon —What do the three on the inside of
letters
the mean?
circle
Tito — Oh thou eternal alone
! the possessest attributes
of the divinity.
Solomon — What are the chief the divin-
attributes of
ity?
Tito — Beauty (6 Wisdome (7) Boundless
letters)
Mercy (14) Omniscience (11) Eternity (8) Perfection
(10) Justice (7) Compassion (10) Creation (8). These
attributes form the number of eighty-one (81.)
—
Solomon Explain the square of nine to me which
you see in the triple triangle.
Tito —
There are in the first nine, 3 attributes, there
are in the second nine, 3 attributes, there are in the
third nine, 3 attributes. And if these are in three col-
umns and 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 consecra-
ted a temple to the Lord.
Solomon —Why do you place a Brazen Sea in the
temple ?
Tito —To let us know that the temple of God is holy
and that we must not enter it before we have been puri-
fied from all uncleanliness.
148 INTENDANT OF THE BUILDING.

Solomon — What does the left side of the temple sig-

nify?
Tito — Masonry under the law of types and
all cere-
monies.
Solomon — What does the right side of the temple
signify ?

Tito — True masonry under the law Grace and of

Truth.
Solomon — Why do you place John the Baptist
St.
on the right side?
Tito — Because he was the fore-runner of the temple
which the Lord had chosen to reside in.
—
Solomon What is the meaning of the tomb which is
under the threshold of the door of the Sanctuary in the
degree of Provost and Judge?
—
Tito It was to us an emblem that we may be puri-
fied by death before we can enter the mansion of bliss.
—
Solomon What does the candlestick with 7 branches
signify ?

Tito—The presence of the Holy Spirit in the hearts

of those that observe faithfully the laws.

Solomon —Why were you barefooted at the time of
your reception?
Tito —
Because Moses was barefooted when he entered
the holy land.
Solomon —WJiat did you hear before you entered the
HH [lodge] ?

Tito — Five great knocks.

Solomon — What do they denote?
Tito — The points of
five Felicity.

Solomon— What happened consequence of them

in

and what was done to you?

Tito — The Expert immediately appeared, who sup-
ported and carried me around the temple times. five

Solomon — What was his intention doing?in so

 ;

LECTURE. 149

— That- might have an opportunity admiring

Tito I ‘of
its beauties.
Solomon —What ideas occurred you on occa- to this
sion ?

Tito — Surprise, wonder and took possession of

grief
my mind that time.
at
Solomon — Why were you thus affected?
Tito — was thusI the sight of what
affected at saw I
in the blazing star. .
Solomon — Pray, what could that be?
Tito — The name the Grand, Architect of
ineffable of
the Universe.
Solomon —Why had that only rays?star five

Tito — was It show that in the construction

to the of
temple, the five orders of architecture were made use of
secondly, to represent the five points of Felicity; third-
ly, the five senses, without which no man is perfect
fourthly, the five lights of masons and fifthly, the five
zones inhabited by masons.
Solomon —Which are the five points of Felicity?
Tito —To walk and intercede, to pray, love and assist
your brethren, so as to be united with them in heart
and mind.
Solomon —Why were you wonder? seized with
Tito —
was on seeing the beauty and ornaments
It of
the temple, whereof I saw but a part.
—
Solomon Why did you not see the whole?
Tito —
A thick veil concealed a part from me, but I
hope the strong desire I have to improve, and my zeal
for the Royal Art, will disperse the cloud in time which
now obstructs my sight of them.
—
Solomon Why were you seized with grief?
Tito —
As all the wonders which I saw brought to my
remembrance the melancholy end of our respectable and
dear Master Hiram Abiff.
350 INTEND ANT OF THE BUILDING.

—
Solomon Did you find nature giving way when you
indulged your grief?
Tito — I must have sunk under the weight of my af-
flictions if I had not been seasonably relieved by those
about me, whom I afterwards found to be my brothers.
Solomon — How did you discern them to be your
brothers ?

Tito — By their invoking the Ineffable name, having

previously pronounced Jachinai, which I saw in the
middle of the blazing star.
—
Solomon Did you promise to keep these matters se-
cret, and under what penalty?
Tito —
I did promise the strictest secrecy, and that
under the penalty of having my body severed in two
and my bowels torn out.
—
Solomon How were you made to walk?
Tito — By the points of exactitude.
five
Solomon —What do you mean by this?
Tito — mean the
I solemn which
five steps I took in
advancing 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 dead
man at your reception, and why then covered with a
fiery red cloth ?

Tito — In order denote us that good masons

to to
ought be dead
to the world and
to its vices.

Solomon— What do the imply that were put

scales
intoyour hands?
Tito — an emblem of
It is and given mejustice; to de-
note that .1 must do and con-
justice by the brethren,
ciliate all difference that may occur among them, and
by said .scales, I must also weigh my own actions and
regulate my conduct, in order to justify the good opin-
ion conceived of me, by being appointed Master in
Israel and Intendant of the Buildings.
 LECTURE. 151

—
SolcKmon Have you seen your Illustrious Thrice
Puissant Master this day ?
Tito — have seen him.
I
Solomon — Where was he placed and how clad?
Tito — He was placed in the East under rich canopy a
bespangled with brilliant stars, and clad in azure and
.

gold.
Solomon —
Why was he thus clad?
Tito —
Because when the Almighty appeared to Moses
on Mount Sinai, and delivered him the tablets of the
law, he seemed to be in a cloud of azure and gold.
—
Solomon Have you any remains of darkness about
you ?

Tito — The morning enlightened me, and the

star
mysterious one guided me.
Solomon — Where were you thus conducted?
Tito — cannot
I you. tell

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 do

they mean?
Tito — I remarked them the arrangement of
in lights,
and have already explained the two numbers, the
first
last represents the fifteen masters, w‘ho found the body
of Hiram Abiff under the sprig of acacia, which party
was headed by Mah-hah-bone.
—
Solomon Why did you wear green on your apron
and ribbon?
Tito — To teach me that virtue and in masonry zeal
are the only roads lead me sublime knowledge.
to to
Solomon —What does your jewel represent?
Tito — The essence of Divinity.
triple
 1

CLOSING CEREMONIES
INTENDANT OF THIS BUILDJNG.

Solomon — Brother Tito what's the hour?

Tito —-Thrice Illustrious, the shades of evening an«
nounce a time for repose.
Solomon — Since man must rest, let us close our la-
bors trusting in the Grand Architect who never sleeps;
but before we retire, brother Tito declare to us the
meaning we give in this degree to the triangle, circle,
square and blazing star.
Tito —
The triangle expresses the triple attributes of
the divine essence, the triple nature of man, the triple
composition of the material world. The circle defines
the unity of God-head and the unity of man. The square
implies the quadrature of a sane mind with a sound
body, 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.)
A — Kn ock 00000.)
1 (

Solomon — declare I this college of Intendant of the

Buildings closed.
 HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
Eighth Degree or Intendant of the Building.
Masonry the Image of the Beast — Absolute Secrecy and Absolute Despotism
—Caricature of Christ’s Resurrection — Rulers of the Darkness of this
World.

“Intendant” means superintendent. The word is of

French dialect, where these rites were coined by Ram-
say and the Jesuits , which are the sum and substance
of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Bite, now the
ruling rite of the Masonic world.
This Eighth Degree opens with an endorsement by
repetition of the ridiculous anachronism, that, in the
sixth degree Joabert was made Intimate Secretary
“after the completion of the temple and then was rais-
7
ed a step higher, to “Provost and Judge/ in the sev-
enth degree, while the. work of the Temple was going
on, involving the Irishman’s “hoist a peg lower.”
As Kev. 13, 14, is believed to teach that Popery sug-
”
gested Masonry “The Image of the Beast and yet
Popery and Masonry, in this country, are professed an-
tagonisms; it is of extreme importance that we know
assuredly whether these Scotch Bite degrees were actu-
ally the work of the Jesuits, the most active and con-
spicuous order in the Bomish Church.
Now the testimony of Rebold, confirmed by other
Masonic authorities, is: “Another system was estab-
lished at Lyons by a partizan of the Stuarts, and after-
wards worked by the Jesuits.” (Rebold p. 21 4 .) Again
“suspicion engendered investigation, and investigation
elicited the fact that these ‘unknown superiors’ were no
other than leading Jesuits and partizans of the Stuart
interest.” (
Rebold p. 22.) Pages might be filled with
,
154 ABSOLUTE SECRECY AND ABSOLUTE DESPOTISM.
4

similar quotations, asserting over and over again, that

Ramsay and the Jesuits manufactured the first of these
“ineffable” degrees; that they formed the basis of “The
Rite of Perfection formed bv
of twenty-five degrees
De Bonneville in the Clermont Jesuit College. They
were four years later adopted by “The Council of Em-
perors,” 1758, patented by them to Morin in 1761, sent
by him to Charleston, S. C., and by Morin and others
enlarged, by the addition of eight degrees, into the
present Scotch Bite of 33°, which is really the Masonry
of our temples today. Even Mackey, who hates the
and records the above
Jesuits, wincingly acknowledges
facts. (
Encyc Art. Stuart Masonry.)
.

Thus by clear, abundant Masonic authority, it is

proved that the substratum and basis of American
Masonry was the work of Papists, and that of Jesuit
Papists, a society so destructive to civil order that
in the year 1773, a Papal Bull was issued dissolving
the whole Jesuit order at the demand of France,
Spain, Portugal, Parma, Naples and Austria; an order
whose two main pillars are the same as those of the
lodge system Absolute secrecy and absolute des-
viz :

potism and control; not only over Protestantism but

over every government and every institution. This led
the above Popish governments to demand its dissolution

in 1773. And this knowledge of its origin confirms the

words of W. H. Seward that Masonry “seeks the de-
struction of every government which it can not control.”
This also explains the degrees we are considering,
this Eighth degree included. If the story of it were
translated from its night drama and put in a newspaper
it would not be read on account of its insipidity and

destitution of merit. Priests do not rely on the intelli-

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CARICATURE OF CHRISTAS RESURRECTION. 155

gence of the people, but on their superstition, and on

the supernatural power which inhabits superstition.
And what but the most dense superstition could or can
induce a crowd to regard and address the chairman of
itsnight-meeting the club as “Thrice Puissant To put
on “white aprons lined with red and bordered with
green ;” to lead in a candidate bare-footed ; all this and
more 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 a
murdered Hiram, as a counterfeit for a crucified Christ
to raise him from the dead as a ridiculous caricature of
Christ’s resurrection, “by the strong grip of Judah's
on Christ’s word, that He
lion," as a travesty had power
to raise himself from the dead. “I have power to lay
it down and I have power to take it again.” Three
classes of minds would be interested in such a travesty
infidels, priests and devils. And these three are in-
terested in all religious imposture. Their dupes can
scarcely be said to be interested; they are “bewitched”
rather, as with the sorceries of Simon Magus. Gaz-
ing on, and listening to a Romish masf in an unknown
tongue; unknown often to the priest who reads it, the
people look solemn it is true, but it is the stolid solem-
nity of cattle in a slaughter yard. But the Mason is be-

low the Papist in this; that, at the close of the solemn

fanfaronade, he is sworn to conceal it.

We have seen from Masonic authors, that Jesuitism

is the mother of' Masonry; and that Masonry is as like

Jesuitism as the Image is like the Beast. And we know

where this Jesuitism came from. It was born at night,
in a cave near the little town of Enresa in Spain. The
ignorant Cavalier who fancied or feigned that God met
156 “rulers of the darkness of this world.”

and communed with him in that cavern, whose mouth

was hid with brambles, may have come to believe it.
But if the saloon keepers and their allies in this coun-
try, the vast majority of whom are Romanists, are the
fruits ofPopery and we may “know systems” as well as
;

men “by their fruits then the lodges which license the
saloons by their political control, and the priests who
pardon their keepers belong to “the rulers of the dark-
ness of this world;” and both must perish before the
world can be redeemed.

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 CHAPTER XIII
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Ninth Degree or Master Elect oe Nine

SAGITARIUS OR THE ARCHER.

This an important and interesting grade. In it is

is
detailed the mode in which certain craftsmen who have
just before the completion of the temple, been engaged
in an execrable deed of villany, received their punish-
ment. This assembly is called a chapter.
decorations : —
The chapter represents an apartment
in Solomon's palace, the hangings are red with white
—
Note 76. “Elected Knights of Nine. Called by the French ‘Master
Elect of Nine.’ The body is termed a Chapter. The presiding officer
represents King Solomon, and is styled ‘Thrice Illustrious.’ The room
represents the audience chamber of King Solomon; it is illuminated by nine
lights of yellow wax. The apron is of white lambskin, spotted with red
and lined and bordered with black. On the flap is painted or embroidered
an arm holding a dagger; and in the middle of the apron an arm holding
a bloody head by the hair, 'lhe sash is a broad black watered ribbon,
worn from the right shoulder to the left hip. At the lower end of this
are the nine red rosettes, four on each side and one at the bottom; and
from the end of the sash hangs the jewel, which is a dagger, its hilt of
gold and its blade of silver. The object of this degree is to exhibit
the mode in which a certain workman, who, in order prematurely and
improperly to obtain the knowledge of a superior degree, engaged in an
execrable deed of villainy, received his punishment. It exemplifies the
truth of the maxim that the punishment of crime, though sometimes
slow, is ever sure, and it admonishes us, by the historical circumstances
on which it is founded, of the binding nature of our Masonic obligation.
The symbolic colors in the regalia are white, red and black, the white
being emblematic of the purity of the Knights, the red of the atrocious
crime committed and the black of grief for its results. In the French
rite this is the fourth degree; it requires three chambers, and in some
respects has similitude to the eleventh degree of the Ancient and Ac-
cepted rite, being also preparatory to the degree of Sublime Knight Elect."
— Macoy’s Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Freemasonry, Article Elected
Knights of Nine.
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158 MASTER ELECT OF NINE.

intermixed with flames; in the north are nine lights

eight close together, and one by itself.

titles :
— The Master represents Solomon, and is

styled Most Sovereign. There is only one Warden, seated

in the West, who represents Stolkin, and is called In-
spector, with seven brethren round him. All the rest of
the brethren are in. the South.
—
clothing: The Most Sovereign in royal robes, the
Inspector and brethren all in black robes and caps, or
flapped hats.

apron : — White, spotted with

blood lined and bordered with black;
On the flap a bloody arm holding a
dagger; on the apron a bloody arm
holding a bloody head by the hair.

Apron, Master Elect of Nine.

order: A
broad black ribbon crossing from the left
shoulder to the right* hip, towards The lower extremity
of which are nine red roses, four on each side, and from
the ninth is suspended the jewel.

jewel :
—Which is a poniard, with a golden hilt, and
more properly a balance with a scroll
a silver blade, or
and dagger on one plate and the decapitated head of
ignorance on the other.
draft : —
The draft of this chapter is an oblong square
at the upper part of which, to the right, is drawn the
city of Jerusalem. On
the other side is represented a
cave not far from the sea, and near Joppa, surrounded
with rocks in which you discover a man lying with his
head on a rock, and a poniard at his feet. You also see
in the cave a burning lamp suspended from the ceiling;
 INITIATION. 159

also running water and a cup to drink from. On the

top of the mountain above the cave is a figure of a set-
ting sun. In the middle of the draft appears a bush as if
on fire, and burning by the reflection of a rainbow
which seems to stand fixed in order to point out the
asylum the murderer had taken refuge in to elude the
vigilance of his pursuers. You also see in the draft a
winding road, which leads from J erusalem to J oppa on ;

this road, near the cave, you see a dog close to the dog a
;

man following him, behind them at some distance are

eight other men without order.
ante-room decorations : — In the ante-room must be
an artificial cave, and a large stone for the candidate to
sit on, a small table before the mouth of the cave ;
on it

a poinard and a lighted lamp, below the lamp in large

letters the word “Revenge” 'There must also be a spring
of water and a cup to drink from, also on the floor and
at the mouth of the cave an effigy of a man as if asleep.
His head must be loosed from his body.
In the chapter the Most Sovereign sits under a canopy
in a chair of state covered with black ;
before him a tri-
angular table covered with black and fiery colored cloth.
On said table is a bible, scepter and poniard.
Solomon uses a and the Inspector uses a
scepter,
mallet which he holds constantly in his hands as a token
of revenge.
 OPENING CEREMONIES
Master Elect of Nine.

—
Most Sovereign Brother Inspector, what is the hour Y
—
Inspector Most Sovereign, the dog star rises in the
East, followed by the archer, and they are in pursuit of
the serpent of Ignorance.
—
Most Sovereign Brother Stolkin, are you an Elected
Knight ?
Stolkin— A lamp lighted me, a cave received me, and
a spring refreshed 'me.
—
Most Sovereign (Knocks eisrht quick, anc] one slow;
00000000 0.)
Stolkin— (Knocks eight quick and one slow; 00000000
0 with his poniard.
(All the brethren knock eight quick, and one slow,
00000000 0; with their hands. )

—
Most Sovereign This chapter is opened.
At a reception the brethren sit with the right leg over
the left, the right elbow on the right knee, the head
resting in the palm of the right hand.
 CHAPTER XIV
Ninth Degree or Master Elect of Nine. 7’

INITIATION.

Candidate —
(Knocks eight and one, 00000000 0.)
—
SUlkin Most Sovereign, there is an alarm at the
door.
Most Sovereign — Brother Adoniram, see who knocks
at the door of our Chapter interrupt our
to deliberations.
Captain of Guard— (Goes the door,
to knocks eight
and one, 00000000 0; then opens door.) Who knocks at
the door of our Chapter to interrupt our deliberations?
—
Master of Ceremonies A stranger who demands to
speak to the King privately.
—
Captain of Guard Most Sovereign, it is a stranger
who wishes to speak to you privately.
—
Most Sovereign Let him be admitted.
Captain of Guard opens the door and admits the
stranger, who goes at once to the King and consults with
him privately for a few moments, and then takes a seat.
—
Most Sovereign Brethren, I have this moment learned
from this stranger that he has discovered an individual
Note 77. Elect of Nine. (Elu des Neuf.) The ninth degree of
Ancient and Accepted Rite. In the old rituals there were two officers the
who
represented Solomon and Stolkin. But in the revised ritual of the Southern
Jurisdiction the principal officers are a Master and two Inspectors
meetings are called Chapters.
The
The degree details the mode in which
’

certain traitors, who, just before the completion of the Temple

has
engaged in an execrable deed of villany, received their punishment been The
symbolic colors are red. white and black; the white emblematic of the
purity of the knights, the red of the crime which was committed and
the
black of grief. This is the first of the elu degrees and the one on which
the whole elu system has been founded. ’’—Mackey’s Encyclopaedia
of
Freemasonry, Article Elect of Nine.
162 MASTER ELECT OF NINE.

concealed in a cave near the coast of Joppa, answering

the description of one of the murderers of our lamented
Master Hiram A biff. He has also oft'ered to conduct
those 1 may select to the place of his concealment.
All rise and request to be partakers in the vengeance i

due the villain.

—
Most Sovereign Stop, my brethren, I hereby decree
that only nine shall undertake the journey, and to avoid
giving offense, I hereby order all your names to be
placed in an urn and the first nine that are drawn shall
be the brethren to accompany the stranger.
Their names are put in the urn, they proceed to baV-
eighth one is elected.
lot till the
Master of Ceremonies —
(Knocks eight and one,
00000000 0; when the brethren resume their former po-
sitions.)
StolJcin — Most Sovereign, there is an alarm at the
door.
Most Sovereign —Brother Adoniram, see who knocks
ftt the door of our Chapter to interrupt our delibera-
tions.
—
j

Captain of Guard (Goes to the door, knocks eight

and one, 00000000 0; opens it and says :) Who knocks at
the door of our Chapter to interrupt our deliberations?
—
Master of Ceremonies It is brother Joabert, who
comes to ask the favor of receiving the degree of Mas-
ter Elect of Nine.
—
Captain of Guard Most Sovereign, it is Joabert who
comes to ask the favor of receivirig the degree of Mas-
ter Elect of Nine.
—
Most Sovereign Lot him be admitted.
Captain of Guard opens the door the Master of Cere-
;

monies and candidate enter and advance to the altar.

—
Most Sovereign Faithful Joabert, what is your wish?
—
Master of Ceremonies (For candidate,) I come to
 INITIATION. 163

ask the favor of being admitted into the degree of Mas-

ter Elect of Xine.
—
Most Sovereign What motive induces you to think
you 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 made
me aspire to beg this favor.
—
Most Sovereign Learn, Brother Joabert, that you are
to impute your present admission into this degree and
Chapter, less to a desire we may have of conferring
this degree on you, than to an inclination we have of
making a trial of your conduct and courage, and your
compliance with the obligations you have contracted in
the different degrees you have received.
You may recollect that when you were made a mason
after the light was shown you, you saw all the brethren
were armed, and you know that it was in your power to

claim their assistance in case you were exposed to any

danger. You were also aware that those arms were in-
tended for your destruction, to be plunged into your
breast, to vindicate masonry, should you be so wicked
as to violate your solemn obligations and divulge the
secrets of masonry or of masons. Still, notwithstanding,
these most sacred and solemn obligations and the severe
penalties we submitted ourselves to incur in swerving
from them, there have been people so vile as to violate
those sacred ties and expose themselves to all the tor-
tures which they had denounced against themselves.
Know my brother, that at this present hour we have
in our power one of the perpetrators and murderers of
our respectable master Hiram Abiff, who groans under
the enormity of his guilt, and expects every moment to
undergo the rigorous tortures which his crime richly
merits, to serve as an example to deter others.
164 MASTER ELECT OE NINE.

This, brother Joabert, I have just learned from a

stranger who is willing to conduct any I may appoint to
78
the place where this miscreant (or Abiram )
is hidden.
My dear brother, this illustrious Chapter being fully
convinced of your zeal, is much disposed to confer high-
er degrees upon you, and as I have decreed that only
nine shall go with the stranger to the hiding place of
the miscreant, and as eight of them have been selected,
an opportunity now offers of your being one of that
number, to bring this criminal to condign punishment ,

if possible, adequate to the enormity of his crime. Do

you find yourself disposed to vindicate the Koyal Art,

and sacrifice this traitor in honor of masonry; and do
}mu feel disposed to be one of that number ?
Candidate — I do.

Most Sovereign — I must now inform you, brother

•J oabert, that this man perhaps, is one of your acquaint-
ances, perhaps a friend; nay, he may be one of your
most intimate ones, but in such a case as this, every
sentiment must give way to that of revenge, which, with
you, is to stifle every other consideration. Be assured of
no bad consequences attending your perpetrating the re-
venge. Besides this is the only opportunity that offers
of making us sensible of your zeal by which you will be
admitted into this degree. Again I will ask you do you
feel disposed to be one of that number?

Candidate — I do.

—
Most Sovereign Faithful Joabert, I shall now select
you as the ninth and last of the number. Pursue the
Note 78. — “Abiram.
One of the traitorous craftsmen, whose act of
perfidy forms so important a part of the third degree, receives iu some
of the high degrees the name of Abiram Akirop. These words certainly
have a Hebrew look; but the significant words of Masonry have, in the
lapse of time and in their transmission through ignorant teachers, become
so corrupted in form that it is almost impossible to trace them to any
intelligent Root. ’’—Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Abiram.
 INITIATION. 165

murderer of our regretted Master Hiram A biff, seek

him, seize him and bring him here to suffer the penalty
of his horrid crime.
Most Sovereign — Vengeance .
79

A — Vengeance.
ll

Most Sovereign — Brother Adoniram, you will now

blindfold brother Joabert and let him be conducted by
our stranger to the place where the criminal is.
(Candidate is then blindfolded and conducted to the
cave.
—
Captain of Guard Brother Joabert, you will now
suffer yourself to be seated, (seats him on a stone oppo-
site the cave.)
Captain of Guard — Be not afraid brother Joabert, I

will now leave you for a while.

Master of Ceremonies then shakes a parcel of chains
and groans as if under affliction and dread of punish-
ment.
Captain of Guard then places Joabert’s left hand
on the table and his head leaning on it, and his right
hand on his thigh and says:
—
Captain of Guard My dear brother Joabert, I must
leave you here alone, but you must promise me on the
word of a man, that you will remain in this posture that
I now leave you, however alarmed you may be by any
noise you may hear. Attend brother Joabert to what
—
Note 79. “Vengeance. A word used in the high degrees. Barruel.
Robison and the other detractors of Freemasonry have sought to Sud in
this word a proof of the vindictive character of the Institution. ‘In the
degree of Kadosb,’ says Barruel (Memoires, ii. 310) ‘the assassin of
Adoniram becomes the king, who must be slain to avenge the Grand
Master Molay and the Order of Masons, who are the successors of the
Templars.’ ’’
No calumny was ever fabricated with so little pretension to truth for
its foundation. The reference is altogether historical; it is the record of
the punishment which followed a crime, not an incentive to revenge.
The word nekam is used in Masonry in precisely the same sense in
which it is employed by the prophet Jeremiah (1, 15) when he speaks of
nikemat Jehovah, “the vengeance of the Ix>rd”— the punishment which
—
God will inflict on evil-doers.” Mackey’s Encyclopedia of Freemasonry,.
Art. Vengeance.
166 MASTER ELECT OF 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 soon

as I leave you, when you hear any one knock as a mason,
take off the bandage from your eyes and closely examine
every object around you. When you hear a second knock-
ing in a masonic manner, drink of the cup near your left
hand. And at the third knocking, do as you shall be
prescribed by a voice which will direct you.
Though you alone brother J oabert, believe me
I leave
that the eyes of the whole HU [lodge] are upon you,
therefore I beg that you will not fail, punctually to
comply with these instructions. Farewell brother Joa-
bert, I now leave you.
Captain of the Guard then leaves him and shuts the
door briskly, waits for a minute or two and then knocks
the 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 three and last re-
turns the Chapter.)
to
Master Ceremonies — Take that poniard and
of strike
the villain first on the head and then on the heart. Cut
off his head and take it in your left hand, the poniard in
your right and follow me.
— (Obeys the
Candidate order.)
Master of Ceremonies — (Conducts him the door to of«
the Chapter, knocks eight and one, 00000000 0.)
Captain of Guard — Most Sovereign, there an alarm is

at the door.
Most Sovereign — Yon who knocks the door
will see at

of our 'Chapter to interrupt our deliberations.

 —

INITIATION. 167
Captain of Cfuard —
(Knocks eight and one, 00000000
0; and opens the door) Who knocks at the door of our
Chapter to interrupt our deliberations?
—
Master of Ceremonies Brother Joabert who has dis-
80
covered the place where the traitor Akirop has been
concealed, and has revenged the death of our respectable
Master Hiram Abiff, and comes to lay the villain's head
at the feet of King Solomon.
Captain of Guard —
(Shuts the door.) Most Sovereign
it is Joabert who has discovered the place where the
traitor Akirop has been concealed and has revenged the
death of our respectable Master Hiram Abiff, and comes
to 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: Let
him be admitted.
Master of Ceremonies and candidate enter and pro-
ceed directly to the foot of the throne, candidate at the
same time striking the head with his dagger, and crying
revenge.
—
Most Soverign (Looking with indignation says:)
Oh wretch, what have you been doing? My orders to you
were, that the traitor Should be brought to me, not that
you should nut him to death. Your disobedience of mv
orders shall cost you your life. Stolkin, put him to death.
Brethren all kneel on one knee, and at the same time
brother Stolkin lays hold of candidate’s head and with
his sword stands in the attitude of killing him.
—
Captain of Guard Thrice Most Sovereign, pardon
him pardon him It must have been an excess of zeal,
! !

and love for the memory of our respectable Master Hi-

—
Note 80. “Akirop. The name given. In the ritual of the Ancient and
Accepted Rite, to one of the ruffians celebrated in the legend of the third
degree. The word is said in the ritual to signify an assassan. Mackey’s
Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Akirop.
168 MASTER ELECT OF NINE.

ram Abiff, certainly that prompted him to disobey his

orders. Pardon him.
All — Thrice Most Sovereign, pardon him.
—
Most Sovereign Brethren 1 yield to your entreaties,
and pardon him in consideration of his zeal for doing
his duty. For it was necessary and right, for the author-
ity of public justice must prevail and all who resist it
must be subdued.
Brother Joabert, for the zeal you have manifested in
bringing to punishment one of the murderers of our la-
mented Master Hiram Abiff, I shall now confer upon
r

you the degree of Master Elect of Nine. Come and con-

tract vour obligation.

OBLIGATION MASTER ELECT OF NINE.

I do solemnly promise in the presence of the
Great Architect of the Universe, and of the respectable
brethren here present, and who compose this Illustrious
Chapter of Elected Masters, never to reveal the secrets
of this degree, with w'hich I have been or shall be made
acquainted, to any person whatever, but to a brother
known to be of thisdegree and in this I bind myself
by all my former obligations.
I likewise promise to revenge masonry in general, and

particularly the most horrid murder that ever was com-

mitted.
I alsopromise to protect and support the order and
my brethren with all my might, credit and power, and
also the Grand Council of Princes of Jerusalem. And if
I fail inany part of this my present obligation and en-
gagement, I submit to perish by the vindictive weapon,
which shall be given me as an honorable mark of this
order, and as a reward of my zeal, fervor and constancy.
So help me God, Amen.
 — —

INITIATION. 169

Most Sovereign —Eise my brother and receive your

reward. 1 do hereby constitute you an Elect of Nine
and invest you with the jewel of this degree, which is a
balance with a scroll and dagger on one plate, and the
decapitated head of ignorance on the other. (He then
invests him with the apron and kisses him four times on
each cheek and once on the forehead.)

SIGN.

First one raises the pon-

iard and makes the motion of
striking the other on the fore-
head ;
the other places his hand
on his forehead as if to exam-
ine the supposed wound.
Second raises the arm,
strikes at the other’s breast as

if with a poniard, and says,

82
Sign, Muster Elect of Nine.. Nekam.

— —
Note 81. “Elect of Nine. [Scotch Masonry.] The sixth degree con-
ferred in the Lodge of Perfection, Scotch Rite, and the ninth upon the
catalogue of that system. There is a Master with the title of Most
Potent, representing Solomon, with one Warden styled Grand Inspector,
representing Stolkyn, a Treasurer, Secretary, Master of Ceremonies and
Captain of the Guard, the latter representing Zerbal. The hangings are
red and white. There are nine lights. The apron is white, lined with
black and flecked with blood, having a bloody arm holding by the hair a
bloody head; on the movable part a bloody arm with a poinard. The
jewel is a poinard^ The age is 8x10. The lesson is prudence in judg-
ment.’’ Morris’s Masonic Dictionary, Article Elect of Nine,

—
Note 82. “According to the Masoretie pointing, Nakam. A Hebrew
word signifying Vengeance, and a significant word in the high degrees.’’
Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Nekam.
 —— ;

170 MASTER ELECT OE NINE.

ANSWER.

Place your right hand on your heart and

say Nek ah.

Answer.
TOKEN.

Clinch the fingers of

your right hand, and
at the same time ele-
vate your thumb. The
second seizes your
thumb with the right
Toke* hand, at the same time
elevating his thumb ;
signifying the nine elected, eight
close together and one by itself.

pass word: Begoal-Kol.

sacred word :Nek am answer NeJcah .

—
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 suffer
ourselves to be led away by an excess of 'zeal, even in a
good cause, to execute on an individual the vengeance
due for the violation of divine or human laws.
 INITIATION. 171

Most Sovereign — Brother Stolkin, you will now con-

duct our new brother to his seat, to listen attentively to
the discourse by our Grand Orator.

DISCOURSE BY GRAND ORATOR.

Thrice Respectable Brother Elected, the unanimity
and earnestness with which this respectable assembly
requested your pardon, disposed our heart to grant it,
especially as your crime was owing to an over zeal. In
this you have imitated J oabert, King Solomon’s favorite
as I am now going to inform you.
You, my brother, without doubt recollect the melan-
choly catastrophe of our respectable Master Hiram Abiff,
whose death is the constant subject of our grief and
tears ; and in this we take an example from the wisest of
kings, who bemoaned the irreparable loss he has sus-
tained by his death. You will know that Solomon, on
hearing that he was missing, immediately put a stop to
building and swore that no person should be paid his
wages until this great man was found dead or alive.
You will also recollect that brethren went out in search
of him, and that Stolkin at length found him assassin-
ated and buried under a sprig of acacia. Stolkin’s good
luck on this melancholy occasion endeared him to the
King, and procured him. his most intimate confidence.
Solomon after having the funeral obsequies of that great
man celebrated with as much splendor and magnificence
as possible, determined to take public satisfaction of the
perpetrators of that horrid crime and sacrifice them to
the manes of his deceased friend. He issued a procla-
mation promising a considerable reward to any person
who should detect the place where the villains lay con-
cealed, who committed this horrid murder, declaring at
the same time that he would even forgive the assassin
172 MASTER ELECT OF NINE.

himself, providing lie would make his appearance in his

presence and acknowledge his guilt. But he must give
up his accomplices so as to bring them to condign pun-
ishment and thus expiate the greatest of crimes.
This proclamation was out for a considerable time
without his receiving any intelligence concerning the
matter, when one day Solomon was sitting in his hall
giving audience to more than ninety (90) masters or
other officers of the order, Zerbal the Captain of the
Guards, came in and informed him that a strange per-
son desired to be admitted to the King in private, as he
had a matter of the utmost consequence and importance
to communicate to him.
The brethren were alarmed at the readiness with
which the King consented to this private audience, for
fear of any danger to his sacred person.
Said audience proved of short duration and the king’s
speedy return removed their fears. He informed them
that this unknown person was acquainted with the re-
treat of a murderer of Hiram Abiff, and that he had
offered to conduct thither, such people as would choose
to accompany him, to inform themselves of the truth of
what he had asserted. The brethren all to a man stood
up and offered their services to the King on this occa-
sion. The King was highly pleased with their zeal, but
declared that among such a number of virtuous brethren,
the casting of lots should determine who should have the
honor of being employed in this important matter, to
bring this odious victim, on whom he intended to wreak
his vengeance. Consequently the names of all the Inten-
dants of the Building who w'ere present, were put into
a box, and he declared that those nine whose names
should be first drawn from the box should be the breth-
ren appointed to follow the unknown man, and bring
 INITIATION, 173

the traitor alive and make him an example to the latest

posterity. The lots were drawn, and joy gladdened the
faces of those whose names came out first. They re-
ceived directions from the King to follow the unknown
man who would conduct them to the cave which was the
traitor’s residence since his crime. They obeyed the
order and departed, but one of the nine named Joabert,
(whom you this day represented) animated with uncom-
mon ardour, and thinking his brethren walked too slow,
got ahead of them and was the first to come to the cave
or assassin's asylum, which was at the foot of a bush that
seemed to burn; and a star which had conducted them,
appeared to be fixed over the cave. Joabert, inflamed
with rage, entered it, and by help of a lamp (whicli hung
in the cave) saw the villain fast asleep lying on his back,
with a dagger at his feet. J oabert seized the dagger and
struck him with all his might, first on his head and then
on his heart, on which the villain sprang up with fury,
but immediately dropped down dead at his feet, pro-
nouncing only the word Nekam.
Joabert cut off his head, then quenched his thirst at
the spring in the cave and was joined by his brethren,
whom he was just going to meet. They on seeing the
head of the traitor cut off, represented to Joabert that
he had commited a fault by his over zeal, and that by
thus putting an end to the villain’s life he had rescued
him from the tortures which Solomon had prepared for
him.
They assured him that Solomon would not pass un-
noticed this piece of disobedience of orders, but would
certainly punish him for it. They also stated that they
would intercede, however, with the king to procure his
pardon. After having quenched their thirst, Joabert
took the head and all walked back to Jerusalem. When
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174 MASTER ELECT OF NINE.

they arrived, Solomon on seeing them was going to give

orders for the intended torture, when he espied Aby-
ram’s head in Joabert’s hands, at the sight of which he
could not restrain his wrath. He at once ordered Stolkin
to put Joabert to death, which order he would have ex-
ecuted if all the brethren had not thrown themselves on
their kneesand begged him off, as the brethren of this
Chapter have done for you, my brother.
You see what a deal of instruction may be drawn
from the circumstances attending this history
First —By the death that this traitor suffered, that
crimes never go unpunished. Sooner or later they meet
with their deserts.
Secondly —You may learn from the danger which the
impetuous J oabert was in, how unsafe it is to exceed our
orders, and that it becomes a necessary duty literally to
comply with the orders of our superiors.
—
Thirdly By the pardon procured for this zealous
brother, you may also learn how easily the heart of a
good king is influenced to be merciful.
You also see how useful it is to have friends who in-
warmly for us on critical occasions.
terest themselves
—
Most Sovereign (Knocks eight and one; 00000000 0
all rise.)

Most Sovereign— Let applaud our newly made

us
brother by the mysterious numbers. (All clap with their
hands eight and one.)

LECTURE MASTER ELECT OF NINE.

Most Sovereign —Brother Stolkin, are you a Master
Elected ?

Stolkin — The
ballot has alone determined that matter
and I have been made acquainted with the cave.
Most Sovereign —What have you seen in the cave?
 LECTURE. 175

Stolkin —A light, a poniard and a fountain, with the

traitor Akirop or Abyram.
—
Most Sovereign Of what use were these to you?
Stolkin —
The light to dispel the darkness of the place,
the dagger to revenge the death of our respectable Mas-
ter Hiram Abiff, and the spring to quench my thirst.
—
Most Sovereiqn Where were you made a Master
Elect?
—In the of audience Solomon’s
Stolkin hall in palace.
Most Sovereign — How many Masters Elected were
made that time?
at
Stolkin — Nine, of whom was I one.
Most Sovereign — From what order and number of
people were they chosen?
— From upwards
Stolkin mostly Intendants
of ninety,
of theBuilding and some masters.
Most Sovereign — What motive prompted you to be-
come a Master Elected ?

Stolkin — The revenging the death

desire of Hiram of
Abiff,by destroying murderers. his
Most Sovereign— Where did you assassin?find the
—In the bottom of a
Stolkin situated at the foot
cave,
of a burning bush near Joppa, not far from the sea.
Most Sovereign —Who showed you the wav there ?

Stolkin — An unknown person.

Most Sovereign —Wjhat roads did you pass through?
Stolkin — Through dark and almost inaccessible roads.
Most Sovereign — What did you do when you came to
the cave?
Stolkin — hold of the dagger which
I laid found I
there and with it struck the villain so violently on the
head, then on the heart, that he expired immediately?
—
Most Sovereign Did he say anything before he died?
Stolkin —
Give me first letter of the first syllable,
176 MASTER ELECT OF NINE.

and I will give you the first letter oi' the second syllabic.
—
Most Sovereign The first is N. Now give me the
other.
Stolkin — K.
—
Most Sovereign VV hat do these two letters A and K
mean ?
Stolkin— Nekam, which signifies revenge.
—
Most Sovereign How was your election consumma-
ted ?

Stolkin — By revenge, disobedience, clemency and

eight and one.
Most Sovereign — Explain this.
Stolkin —By
revenge I destroyed the traitor, by dis-
obedience I exceeded the orders given me by the king,
and by clemency, through the intercession of my breth-
ren, I obtained the king's pardon; and lastly, by eight
and one, as we were only nine chosen for this business.
—
Most Sovereign What did you do after having killed
the traitor ?

Stolkin — head and quenched my thirst at

I cut off his
the spring, and being fatigued laid myself down to sleep
until my eight brethren entered the cave crying revenge.
—
Most Sovereign How did Solomon behave and re-
ceive you when you presented him the traitor's head?
Stolkin —
With indignation, as he had proposed to
himself much gratification in punishing that villain,

and he even doomed me to death, but on account of my

zeal, forgave me.
—
Most Sovereign What did the dark room represent
into which you w ere conducted before your reception?
T

Stolkin —
It is the representation of the cave where 1

found the traitor.

—
Most Sovereign How came you to be left there
blindfolded ?
 LECTURE. 177

Stolkin —
To call to my mind tlie traitor’s sleep, and
how often we may think ourselves secure after commit-
ting a crime, when we are in the most danger.
Most Sovereign — flow did the Elected walk?
Stolkin —
Darkness obliged, them to put their hands
before their eyes and heads, to prevent being hurt or
knocking themselves against anything. As the roads
were bad and uneven they were obliged often to cross
their legs over one another.
—
Most Sovereign What does the dog represent that
you see in the Chapter on the road near the cave?
Stolkin —
The unknown person or the good citizen who
conducted the Elected.
Most Sovereign— What does the naked bloody arm
with the poniard mean?
Stolkin —
The grief still subsisting for Hiram A biff
though one of the murderers was punished, and it was
done by a mason ; and as yet some unpunished.
—
Most Sovereign What emblems do you use to express
the number of nine elected ?
Stolkin —
The first, by the nine red roses at the bottom
of the black order; second, by the nine lights in the
Chapter; third, by the nine strokes of the scepter and
mallet and fourth, by the nine kisses, four on each cheek
and one on the forehead. These are the emblems of the
nine elected. The red is the emblem of the precious
blood that was spilt in the temple and ordered to remain
there until revenge was fully completed.
Most Sovereign — How do you wear that large black
ribbon ?

Stolkin —
From the left shoulder to the right hip with
the poniard hanging at the bottom of said order.
Most Sovereign — Of what your apron?
color is

—
Stolkin White skin, lined and bordered with black
 .

178 MASTER ELECT OF NINE.

and spotted with red ;

on the flap a bloodyarm holding
a dagger, on the apron a bloody arm holding a bloody
head by the hair.
Most Sovereign —With what is the Chapter of the
Elect 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 the white
the order of purity of the Elected.
Most Sovereign — Why have you no more than one
Warden?
Stolkin —Because the Chapters were always held in
Solomon’s palace, where no one was permitted but his
-

favorite who was privy to what passed.

—
Most Sovereign What more is to be done?
Stolkin —Nothing, as everything is achieved, and Hi-
ram A biff avenged.
Most Sovereign — Give me the pass-word?
Stolkin — Begoal-Kol.
Most Sovereign — What the great word?
is

S lolkin —N ek m a

Most Sovereign — there no other pass-word

Is ?

Stolkin— Yes, there are two more by which we know

one another, Joabert and Stolkin.
Most Sovereign — At what time did the Elected set

out for the cave?

Stolkin — Just at dark.
Most Sovereign — When did they return?
Stolkin — At day break.
Most Sovereign — How old are you?
Stolkin — Eight and one, perfect.
 CLOSING CEREMONIES
Master Elect of Nine.

Most Sovereign — (Knocks eight and one.)

— (Knocks eight and one; All
StolJcin rise.)

Most Sovereign — (Makes the sign by putting his hand

on his forehead, and says;) My brethren let us renew
our obligations.
All make the sign with their poniards together, first
at the head and then at the heart.

Most Sovereign — (Knocks eight and one.)

— (Knocks eight and
Stolhin one.)

Most Sovereign — Brethren, ignorance yields to our

repeated vows. Let us advance in our labors.
I declare this college closed.
’

t
 HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
Ninth Degree or Master Elect of Nine.
Rage —
for a Multitude of Degrees A Drill of Assassination and Revenge
—Turns —
Lynch Law into a Religion John Quincy Adams on Masonie
Penalties —
Swears to “Revenge Masonry in General”
— — Masonic Murders
Proved in Court “They were Not at all Ashamed.”

We are still in the purlieus of Solomon’s Temple.

The motives which made these degrees were: The
rage of the French for a multitude of degrees; their
willingness to pay for them, and the need of the Stuart
.

pretenders for money^ Ramsay went to Paris in 1710,

seven years Masonry was transformed from a
before
mechanic’s club to a rite of worship in the London
tavern. Ramsay took it at flood tide and it led him to
fortune. He invented the Royal Arch degree, and two
systems were drawn from and made out of it by Dunk-
erly and Dermott. Born of humble parentage Ramsay
was knighted by the Prince de Turenne. He in con-
junction with Jesuits developed a rite of six degrees,
called after himself. And, says Mackey, “that his high
degrees were afterwards expanded to an unreasonable
extent, was not his fault.” And he adds that the Royal
Arch “was adopted from Ramsay by the The Council of
Emperors of the East and the West and subsequently
passed over to the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite,
where it still remains the thirteenth degree.” Mackey
Art. Ramsay. And while the thirst for secret degrees
produced them, as a good market produces its supply, it
 ,

182 A DRILL OF ASSASSINATION AND REVENGE.

was necessary that they should revolve around Solo-

mon’s Temple to give unity to the system by adding
degrees at the top of the York Rite.

But this Ninth Degree surpasses and excels the three

preceding it, which are apologized for as “containing

little symbolic instruction, being “mere recapitulation,”

etc.

This Ninth is the degree of “Revenge,” and the Rit-

ual is a drill of assassination. Joabert is sent to arrest
Abiram who, without proof produced, is said to be one
of the murderers of Hiram Abiff and finding him asleep
in a cave, he cuts off his head and brings it to Solomon

by the hair. He is reproved for his haste, but rewarded

by being raised to the Ninth Degree, and given an
apron, white with blots of blood on it, lined and bor-
dered with black, while on the flap is a bloody arm
holding a dagger ; and on the apron itself, a bloody arm
holding a bloody head by the hair; and the cry of
“ Vengeance ! Vengeance !” is repeated over and again
by 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 fearful

corruption of the church, no ingenuity of
“Earth and hell confederate”

could have formed and let loose among the people a de-
vice better adapted to form fiends to work the guillo-

tine in the horrors of the revolution which followed,

than this Ninth Degree of the Ancient and Accepted

 TURNS LYNCH LAW INTO A RELIGION. 183

Scottish Kite. Lynch law is fearful, but this Ninth

Degree turns lynch law into religion. It elevates and
adorns lynchers. If Booth, who murdered Lincoln, had
been seized, lynched, his head cut off and brought into
the Supreme Court at Washington by the hair, and the
bringer had been made Provost Marshal of Washing-
ton; told to wear this blood-begrimed Masonic apron
with a poniard for a jewel, oi a pair of scales with a

scroll and a dagger on one plate and a decapitated head

on the other, and the word “Revenge'’ in large letters over
the heads of the judges blameless and beloved as Lin-
coln was, and horrified as men were at his murder ;
if the
drama of this degree had been enacted in public upon
lynching his murderer, it would have tended to throw the
world’s sympathy on the assassin, and sunk the United
States in the esteem of mankind to a level with the
thugs of India, or the cannibals of African lodges; who
pledge fealty to their order by eating human flesh.

Yet Macoy and Mackey (Notes 76 and 77) dwell, with

their accustomed relish, on the ornaments and teachings

of this degree; and the latter (Note 79) says: Ba/rruel

and Robison “have sought to find in the word (ven-
geance) a proof of the vindictive character of the Insti-
tution.” And he adds: “No calumny was ever fabri-
cated with so little pretension to truth for its founda-
tion.”

If history, and especially American history, presents

any character capable of forming and uttering a correct

and dispassionate estimate of Masonry and its degrees,
184 JOHN QUINCY ADAMS ON MASONIC PENALTIES.

that character is John Quincy Adams. And his well

known statement of this matter has been endorsed and
approved by thousands on thousands, including the
43,000 Masons who seceded in 1828 — 32; which is this:

That “a humane butcher would not mutilate the body

of a hog, as Masons swear consent to be mutilated if

they fail to keep Masonic secrets.” No wise observing

man can place such Masons as Mackey, Macoy and
others, aside of Adams, Robison and Barruel without
seeing that something has happened to the minds of
Masons which makes them blind to common, plain re-

ligious truth.

A careful reading of this Ninth Degree, and others,

will satisfy 999 men in every 1,000 that the whole Ma-
sonic system and especially this Ninth Degree, is cal-

culated to harden men and make them vindictive and

callous to deeds of blood.
The Master of Ceremonies orders the candidate (who
obeys) to kill and cut off a man’s head and follow him-
self to the presiding officer of the lodge-meeting, with the
poniard 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 them
loathe assassination and revenge?
The real purpose and object of this assassination drill

is not to give zest to an evening’s entertainment. The

practical purpose and intent is expressed in the oath in
which the candidate is made to swear
”
“I likewise promise to revenge Masonry in general
 ,

SWEARS TO "‘REVENGE MASONRY IN GENERAL.” 185

Ariel it is well known, or may easily be known by a

little conversation with Masons, that there is no hatred
more vindictive than that with which Masons regard a

seceder, who, for conscience sake, secedes and exposes

the secrets of their order. And yet the gentlemanly
and scholarly Mackey (Note 79) says of Robison and
Barruel, who find in this Ninth Degree, proof that Ma-
sonry is “No calumny was ever
a vindictive Institution :

fabricated with so little pretension to truth.” And yet

Robison 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 France
with embezzled public funds, all the degrees of a “Per-

fect Scotch Mason;” Barfait Macon Ecosais . Though

under no obligation of secrecy concerning these “ineffa-

ble” Ramsay and Jesuit degrees, he refrained from pub-

lishing their rituals so that outsiders could enter lodges

by them, but published tire well known book for which

Washington thanked Rev. Frederick Snyder who sent

it to him. This Robison and the celebrated Abbe Bar-
ruel are accused by Mackey of “calumny,” because they

say Masonry is proved “vindictive” by this Ninth De-

gree, which swears initiates to ‘'Revenge Masonry in
general” and that with a poniard in one hand and a

bloody human head in the other, to show how his oath

bound him to “revenge” the lodge.

But if Masonry is one consolidated mass of sworn
crime,why are not more actual crimes committed by
Masons! The answer is: For the same reason that
18b MASONIC MURDERS PROVED IN COURT.
»
Popery does not burn heretics when she will lose more
than gain by it. Masonic crimes are plenty enough in

Africa, as Messrs Hinman and Cole are witnesses, both

of whom have been there; and the latter, Mr. Cole was t

born there, and has been in the African lodges. Other

missionaries confirm their statements. But though
idolatry is practiced in Christian as well as in heathen
countries, the crimes of idolatry in Christian lands must
be covered. If ay; lodges sometimes go through the
farce of expelling men whose crimes have made them
outlaws ;
while in Africa where murder is not unpopular
it is well known that human flesh is eaten as proof of

fealty to the secret orders.

But we have murders enough proved in open courts

on the lodge, as of Pritchard, Miller, Morgan and
others, to show that Masonry is murderous in practice,

as its oaths prove it to be in theory; and is any one so

weak as to suppose the mass of Masonic murders are

not secreted as the mass of its proceedings -are?
The thing, however, to be chiefly noted in this de-

gree is, that it is a lynch law execution of a supposed

murderer of Hiram by killing him in his sleep and cut-

ting off his head ;

when this very murder in the third or

Master’s degree has been executed by order of Solomon

in a totally different way. (See Bernard's Light on
Masonry, Third Degree.)

How, if this were all professed fools-play, legend,

fiction or what not, the case were different and might

be endured. But this open historic contradiction and
 “they were not at all ashamed.’* 187

falsehood is solemnly sanctioned by men, not children,

and that by oaths and prayers to God, and “they ivere

not at all ashamed neither could they Hush ” Jeremiah

6, 15 .
 — —

CHAPTER XV
Tenth Degree or Master Elect of Fifteen,**

CAPRICORNUS OR THE GOAT.

This grade very properly follows that of Master Elec*

of Nine, as it gives the continuation and conclusion o 1

the history of events commenced there: the arrest aiC

punishment of the two other criminals for the atrocioui
crime they had committed, as related elsewhere.

decorations: The Chapter represents the audience

chamber of King Solomon, and is hung in black spread
with red and white tears in the East is a skeleton repre^
;

Note 83.
— “Master
Elect of Fifteen. [Scotch Masonry.] -The seventh —
degree conferred i» the Lodge of Perfection, Scotch Masonry, and the
tenth upon the catalogue of that system. There are three officers, a Most
Potent Master, representing Solomon; A Grand Inspector, representing
Stolkin, and a Junior Warden, styled Introductor; other officers as in the
preceding grade. The assembly is entitled a Chapter. The hangings are
red and white. The apron is white, lined with black, with a representation
of the Temple, having towers upon it; on the movable part, three spikes.
The jewel is a poinard. Hours of work, 5 a. in. to 0 p. m. The lesson
is the certaiuty of divine justice.” Morris’s Masonie Dictionary, Article
Master Elect of Fifteen,
 MASTER ELECT OF FIFTEEN. 189

84
senting Jubelum (Akirop;) in the West, one represent-
ing Jubela, (Guibs;) in the South, one representing
Jubelo (Gravelot) of whose blood the flies have sucked.
Each of these skeletons is armed with that tool with
which they perpetrated the murder of Hiram Abiff. The
Chapter is lighted by fifteen lights, five in the East be-
fore the President, and five before each Warden.
titles: —This meeting is styled a Chapter. The
President Most Illustrious Master. The Senior
is styled
Warden, Inspector, and the Junior Warden, Introductor.
At a reception [initiation] only fifteen elect are al-
lowed to be present in the Chapter, the others remain
outside.

clothing: —Apron white, lined and bordered with

black. On the center is painted a square built city,
representing Jerusalem, three gates of which are seen
in the distance. Above the gates are three heads im-
paled on spikes.
order :
— Is a black ribbon from the left shoulder to
the right hip. Where it crosses the breast, three heads
impaled on spikes are painted thereon.
jewel: A balance, with a scroll, square and com-
pass, and dagger on one plate, and three decapitated
heads on the other.
—
Note 84. “And so wp may through these mingled English and French
corruptions trace the genealogy of the word Jubelum; thus, Ghiblim, Gib-
lim, Gibalim. Chibbelum, Jiblime, Jibelum, Jabelum. and, finally, Jubelum.
It meant simply a Fellow Craft, and was appropriately given as a common
name to a particular Fellow Craft, who was distinguished for his treach-
ery. In other words, he was designated, not by a special and. distinctive
name but by the title of his condition and rank at the Temple. He was
the Fellow Craft, who was at the head of a conspiracy. As for the names
of the other two Ruffians, they were readily constructed out of that of
the greatest one by a simple change of the termination of the word from
um to* a in one, and from um to o in the other, thus preserving, by a
similarity of names, the idea of their relationship, for the old rituals
said that they were brothers who had come together out of Tyre. This
derivation seems to me to be easy, natural and comprehensible. The
chauge from Giblim, or rather from Gibalim to Jubelum, is one that is “far
less extraordinary than that which one-half of the Masonic words have
undergone in their transformation from their original to their present
—
form.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Ruffians.
 OPENING CEREMONIES
Master Elect of Fifteen.

Most Illustrious —
Master (Knocks five, 00000; and
the five candles in the East are lighted.)
—
Inspector [Adoniram] (Knocks five, 00000; and the
five candles in the West are lighted.)

Introductor— [Stolkin] (Knocks 00000, and the

five,
fivecandles in the South are lighted.)
Master— Brother Inspector, what’s the clock?
Inspector— Most Illustrious
Master, it is five o’clock
and the dawn of and truth appears
justice the East. in
Master— and the dawn
If it is five o’clock of justice
and truth appears in the East, it is time to begin work.
Give notice that this Chapter of Master Elect of Fifteen
is about to open.

Inspector — Brethren, you will please take notice that

thisChapter of Elect of Fifteen is about to open.
—
Master (Knocks fifteen, 00000 00000 00000.)
Inspector— (Knocks 00000 00000 00000.)
fifteen,
Introductor— (Knocks 00000 00000 00000.)
fifteen,
Master— declare this Chapter of Master Elect of
I
Fifteen open.
Master— (Knocks one and the [lodge] seated.)
[I] is
 ——

CHAPTER XVI
Tenth Degree or Master Elect of Fifteen."
INITIATION.

The Master of Ceremonies retires to the ante-room,

prepares the candidate, conducts him to the door of the
Chapter and knocks five, 00000.
Introductor — [Stolkin] (Knocks five, 00000;) Illus-
trious Master, there is an alarm at the door.
—
Master Brother Expert, see who knocks at the door
of our Chapter to interrupt our deliberations.
—
Expert (Goes to the door, knocks five, 00000; and
opens it a little.) Who knocks at the door of our Chap-
ter to interrupt our deliberations? Who’s there?
Inspector —
[Adoniram] It is an Elect of Nine; bro-
88
ther Joabert, who wants to know the other two ruffians
of our respectable Master Hiram Abiff and to arrive at
the degree of Master Elect of Fifteen.
Expert — (Shuts the door and says:) Most Illustrious
Master it is brother Joabert, who wants to know the
other two ruffians of our respectable Master Hiram Abiff,
—
Note 85. “Elect of Fifteen. (Elu des Quinze.) The tenth degree in
the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. The place of meeting is called a
Chapter; the emblematic color is black, strewed with tears; and the
principal officers are a Thrice Illustrious Master and two Inspectors. The
history of this degree develops the continuation and conclusion of the
punishment inflicted on three traitors who, just before the conclusion
of the Temple, had committed a crime of the most atrocious character.
The) degree is now more commonly called Illustrious Elu of the Fifteen.
The same degree is found in the Chapter of Emperors of the East and
West, and in the Rite of Mizraim.’’ Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Free-
masonry, Article Elect of Fifteen.
—
Note 86. “Ruffians. The traitors of the third degree are called
Assassins in continental Masonry and in the high degrees. The English
and American Masons have adopted in their ritual the more homely ap-
pellation of Ruffians. The fabricators of the high degrees adopted a
variety of names for these Assassins.’’ Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Free-
masonry, Article Ruffians.
 — ;

192 MASTER ELECT OF FIFTEEN.

and to arrive at the degree of Master Elect of Fifteen.
—
Muster Let brother Joabert be admitted. (Adoniram
and candidate enter, and make fifteen steps in a triangu-
lar manner, and advance to the altar.)
—
Master Faithful Joabert, what do you wish?
Inspector —
(For candidate,) I wish to know the other
two ruffians of our respectable Master Hiram Abiff, and
to arrive at the degree of Master Elect of Fifteen.
—
Master -Brother Joabert, the zeal, fervor and con-
stancy you have shown in the preceding degrees, and
more especially in the degree of Master Elect of Nine,
had 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
87
since which time I have caused Bengabee one of my
Intendants in the country of Cheth, to cause diligent in-
quiry to be made if any person had taken shelter in those
parts who might be supposed to have fled from Jerusa-
lem, and I have just received information that several
persons answering the description of the other two ruf-
fians have arrived there, and believing themselves se-
88
cure, have began to work in the quarries of Bendaca . I
88
have also written to King Maacha of Cheth to have
Note 87. — “Bengalee. [Scotch Masonry.] — A name introduced In Scotch
Masonry in the degree of Master Elect of Fifteen. He was intendant of
Solomon in the country of Cheth. The name, however, is not historical,
nor is there any “Country of Cheth’’ on record.” —
Morris’s Masonic Dic-
tionary* Article Bengabee.
—
Note 88. “Bendekar. A significant word in the high degree. One of
the Princes of Intendants of Solomon, in whose quarry some of the traitors
spoken of in the third degree were found. He is mentioned in the cata-
logue of Solomon’s princes, given in 1 Kings iv. 9. The Hebrew word is
3 the son of him who divides or pierces. In some old rituals we
endaca a corruption.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry,
Article Bendekar.
Note 89.— “Maacha. In the tenth degree of the Scottish Rite we are
informed that certain traitors fled to “Maacha, King of Cheth,” by whom
they were delivered up to King Solomon on his sending for them. In 1
Kings ii. 39 we find it recorded that two of the servants of Shimei fled
from Jerusalem to “Achish, son of Maacha, King of Gath.” There can
be little doubt tfiat the carelessness of the early copyists of the ritual
led to the double error of putting Cheth for Gath and of supposing that
Maacha was its king instead of its king’s father. The manuscripts of the
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, too often copied by unlearned per-
sons, show many such corruptions of Hebrew names, which modern re-
searches must eventually correct. Delaunay, in his Thuileur, mnkes him
King of Tyre, and calls him Mahakah.”—Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of free*
masonry, Article Maacha,
 INITIATION. 193

them apprehended, and have requested him to cause

them to be delivered to those whom T shall send there
to secure them and bring them to Jerusalem, to receive
the punishment due for their crimes.
I have selected fourteen of our most worthy brethren,
and zealous masters, and have also selected you as the
fifteenth to proceed to the country of Chetli, and secure
the other two murderers and bring them to Jerusalem
to receive the punishment adequate to their crimes. Do
you consent to make the number of fifteen for that pur-
jaose ?

Candidate —-I do, most, cheerfully.

—
Master Having cheerfully accepted of the appoint-
ment, you will now together with the rest of the breth-
ren whom have selected, proceed to the country of
I
Cheth, and gain admission into the presence of King
Maacha, and deliver to him this letter with a request to
apprehend if possible the other two murderers of Hiram
A biff and deliver them into your charge, to be secured
and brought back to Jerusalem to receive the punish-
ment due for their crimes. You will now depart and
execute my orders.
—
Master Illustrious Grand Captain of the Guards,
you will now assemble your guards and escort the breth-
7

ren to the country of Cheth.

Captain of the Guards forms them into line and all
retire except the two Kings and Expert.
The Senior Warden now dresses in royal robes and
takes the character of Maacha, King of Cheth, and takes
the East.
Embassy — (Knocks five, 00000.)
Expert — (Knocks five, 00000; and opens the do®r)
Who's thwi ?
194 MASTER ELECT OF FIFTEEN.

Master of Ceremonies — An
Embassy from Solomon,
King of Israel to King Maacha of Cheth.
—
Expert Most Powerful King Maacha, it is an Em-
bassy from Solomon King of Israel, who desires an
audience with your majesty.
King Maacha —Let them be admitted.
Expert — (Goes the door, knocks
to five, 00000; and
opens Let them be admitted.
it.)

Master of Ceremonies with candidate and attendants

enter, approach the throne and kneel on one knee.
—
Master of Ceremonies Most Powerful King Maacha,
Solomon our King, hearing that a number of his subjects
had fled from Jerusalem and taken shelter in this coun-
try and are at this present time working in the quarries
of Bendaca, has sent this embassy into vour royal pres-
ence to ask permission to search in the quarries for the
other two murderers of our lamented Master Hiram
Abiff ; to secure them and carry them back to Jerusalem
to receive the punishment due for their crimes. (Hands
the letter to King Maacha, who opens it and pretends to
read it.)

—
King Maacha Illustrious Grand Captain of the
Guards, you will assemble a sufficient number of your
guards and conduct these brethren from Jerusalem to
the quarries of Bendaca, cause strict search to be made ,

therein, and if the murderers are found, let them be

bound in chains and delivered to the embassy, to be sent
back to Jerusalem, as I should be most happy in having
my country cleared of such monsters.
Captain of Guard—Attention guards. (All rise and
form into line in the North.)
Captain of Guard— Right face, forward march. (All
retirebut Expert and the two Kings.)
Master of Ceremonies and candidate with Captain of
the Guard and members find two of the brethren in the
 INITIATION. 195

ante-room, with sleeves rolled up and working with

hammer and chisel on some stone, who take the charac-
ter of the other two ruffians. They are seized by Master
of Ceremonies and Candidate and bound in chains, and
are conducted to the door of the lodge.
—
Master of Ceremonies (Knocks five, 00000.)
Introductor —
(Knocks five, 00000;) Most Illustrious
Master, there is an alarm at the door.
—
Master Brother Expert, see who knocks at the door
of our Chapter to interrupt our deliberations.
—
Expert (Goes to the door, knocks five, 00000 ;‘and
opens it.) Who knocks at the door of our Chapter to
interrupt our deliberations?
—
Master of Ceremonies It is brother Joabert from the
country of Cheth, having in charge the other two mur-
derers of Hiram Abiff.
Expert —Most Powerful, brother Joabert having
it is

in charge the other two murderers Hiramof Abiff.

Master— Let them be admitted.
Expert — (Opens the door.) Let them be admitted.
Master of Ceremonies and candidate with two ruf-
fians enter and proceed to the altar.
Master — Brother Master of Ceremonies, what tidings
do you bring?
—
Master of Ceremonies Most Powerful King, the two
remaining murderers of Hiram Abiff have been found
in the quarries of Bendaca, have been seized, bound
and brought back to Jerusalem, and we now have them
before you for your righteous judgment.
—
Master Illustrious Grand Captain of the Guards, let
them be imprisoned in the Tower of Achizer, and to-
morrow morning let punishment be inflicted upon them
adequate to their crimes, and their heads exposed at the
gates of flic palace with that of Akirop. Away with
them! away with them, -I say!
196 MASTER ELECT OF FIFTEEN.

(Murderers are conducted out of the lodge.)

—
Master To whom do we owe this signal service?
—
Master. of Ceremonies To Brother Joabert, who after
five days’ search discovered them cutting stone in the
quarries of Bendaca.
—
Master And now brother Joabert, for the fervency
and zeal you have shown for our order, in bringing to
condign punishment the murderers of our respectable
Master Hiram Abiff, you will now approach the altar
and contract your obligation, and be elevated to this
sublime degree in order that you should become equal
with your brethren. (Joabert kneels at the altar.)

OBLIGATION MASTER ELECT OF FIFTEEN.

I™ do promise and swear upon the Holy Bible,

never to reveal where I have received this degree, nor
even say who assisted at my reception, and I further-
more promise never to receive any in this degree with-
out a full power from my superiors.
Nor to assist at any reception unless in a regular
manner and Chapter of this degree.
To keep exactly in my heart all the secrets that shall
be revealed to me. And in failure of this my obligation,
I consent to have my body opened perpendicularly, and
to be exposed for eight hours in the open air, that the
venomous flies may eat of my entrails; my head to be
cut off and put on the highest pinnacle of the world, and
I will always be ready to inflict the same punishment on
those who shall disclose this degree and break this obli-
gation. So may God help and maintain me. Amen.
—
Master Bise Brother Joabert, I greet you, and with
pleasure put you in posession of the secrets of the de-
gree.
 INITIATION. 197

SIGN.

Place the point of the poniard under

the chin, and draw it downward to the

waist, as if in the act of ripping open

the abdomen.

Sign. Master Elect

o£ Fifteen.

ANSWER.

Give the sign of an Entered Apprentice

with the finger s clinched and the thumb
extended,

Answer
 MASTER ELECT OF FIFTEEN.

Token.

pass word: —Elignam or Eliam.

sacred word: Zerbal answer Benjah.

battery
'
:
— Is fifteen strokes by five. 00000 00000
00000 .

hours of work: — From five in the morning until

six at eve.

moral: That the unerring eye of justice will dis-

cover the guilty; and they suffer the punishment their
crimes deserve.
Master — (Resuming his seat.) And now my brethren
join me in applauding the elevation of Joabert to the
degree of Elect of Fifteen. (All rise and together give
the battery, 00000 00000 00000.)
Master —Brother Adoniram, you will now conduct
brother Joabert to his seat, to listen attentively to the
discourse 'by ©ur Grand Orator.
 — ——

INITIATION. 199

DISCOURSE BY GRAND ORATOR.

Brother Joabert, in the legends of masonry, the great-
est enemy of Hiram or Truth is called Akirop, or Ju-
belum. He had two companions to whom various names
have been given. You, brother Joabert, have pursued
and 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 were
90
Ahiriman or the evil principle attended by darkness
and chaos.
In the mysteries of the Egyptians, they were Typhon 91
92
the enemy and assassin of Osiris assisted by Serapis
and Amenthis. Among the Greeks they were Titan,
Python and Chimera.
Many myths of the overthrow of the enemies of man
and nature Were invented. Now it is Jupiter, seconded
by Apollo and Pan. Now it is Ormuzd , 93 aided by the
Note 90.— “Ahriman, The principle of evil in the system of Zoroaster
and as such opposed to Ormuzd. the principle of good. He emanated.’
—
pure, from the primitive light, and was the second born Ormuzd beim'
the first; but Ahriman, yielding to pride, ambition and hatred of the first
born, or principle of good, was condemned by the Eternal to dwell for
12.000 years In that part of space where no ray of light reaches, at the
end of which time the contest between Light and Darkness, or Good and
Evil, will terminate. —
See Zoroaster.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Free-
masonry, Article Ahriman.
Note 91.— “Typhon. The brother and slayer of Osiris, in the Egyptian
mythology. As Osiris was a type or symbol of the sun, Typhon was the
symbol of winter, when the vigor, heat and. as it- were, life of the sun
are destroyed, and of darkness as opposed to light.” Mackey’s Encyclo-
paedia of Freemasonry. Article Typhon.
—
Note 92. “During the last age it was a fashion among 'the material
philosophers to explain all ancient mythology, and the mysteries in this
manner, in order to show that they had no religious sense. This was
carried so far that even Christ was declared to be nothing but a symbol
of the sun and the twelve apostles were the twelve signs of the zodiac'
We cannot admit that the Osirian myth is to be explained solely from the
astronomical point of view. It had a higher meaning, and shadowed
forth the great mystery of the world, the conflicts of good and evil, of vice
and virtue, and announces that even through persecution and death, jus-
tice and truth, and virtue, shall advance to a perfect victory; and that
the night of death shall yield to an immortal day.” Macoy’s Encyclo-
paedia and Dictionary of Freemasonry. Article Osiris.

Note 93.— “Ormuzd was the principle of good and the symbol of light,
and Ahriman the* principle of evil and the .symbol of darkness, in >b« old
Persian religion.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Ar^Ac' Or-
muzd and Ahriman.
 200 MASTER ELECT OF FIFTEEN.
Amsliospands and Szods. They all agree in fixing the
period of the victory in the zodical sign of Caprieornus,
when the sun begins his ascension and when nature re-
sumes her work of annual reproduction. Jn the degree
of Elect of Nine of which you have passed, you have
learned that Jubelilm (Akirop) one of the ruffians, was
killed in a cave. That skeleton in the East is a repre-
sentation of him, with a setting maul with which he was
armed when he knocked down Hiram AbifT. His head
Solomon had embalmed in order to be exposed until the
other two were found out.
94
Six months after Akirop was killed, Bengabee one
Solomon’s Intendants, made inquiry in the country of
Cheth, tributary to Solomon, when he learned that
Jubela, (Guibs) and Jubelo, (Gravelot) the two other
95
asassins had retired there, thinking themselves safe.
—
Note 94. “Bengalee. Found in some old rituals of the high degrees
for Bendekar, as the name of an Intendant of Solomon. It is Bengaber
in the catalogue of Solomon’s officers. 1 Kings iv. 13, the son of Geber,
—
or the son of the strong man.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry,
Article Bengabee.
—
Note 95. ‘‘Those who trace Speculative Masonry to the ancient solar
worship, of whom Ragon may be considered as the exponent, find in this
legend a symbol of the conspiracy of the three winter mouths to destroy
the life-giving heat of the sun. Those who, like the disciples of the Rite
of Strict Observance, trace Masonry to a Templar origin, explain fhe
legend as referring to the conspiracy of the three renegade knights who
falsely accused the Order, and thus aided King Philip and Pope Clement
to abolish Templarism and to slay its Grand Master. Hutchinson and
Oliver, who labored to give a Christian interpretation to( all the symbols
of Masonry, referred the legend to the crucifixion of the Messiah, the
type of which is, of course, the slaying of Abel by his brother Cain.
Others, of whom the Chevalier Ramsay was the leader, sought to give it
a political significance; and. making Charles the First the type of the
Builder, symbolized Cromwell and his adherents as the conspirators. The
Masonic scholars whose aim has been to identify the modern system of
Freemasonry with the Ancient Mysteries, and especially with the Egyptian,
which they supposed to be the germ of all the others, interpret the con-
spirators as the symbol of the Evil Principle, or Typhon, slaying the Good
Principle, or Osiris; or, when they refer to the Zoroastie Mysteries of
Persia, as Ahriman contending against Orinuzd. And lastly, in the
Philosophic degrees, the myth is interpreted as signifying the war of
Falsehood, Ignorance and Superstition against Truth. Of the supposed
names of the three Assassins there is hardly any end of variations, for
they materially differ in all the principal Rites. Thus we have the three
JJ.T, in the York and American Rites. In the Adonhiramite system we
•'have Romvel, Gravelot and Abiram. In the Scottish Rite we find tin*
names given in the old rituals as .Tubelum Akirop, sometimes Abiram.
.Tubolo Romvel and Jubela Gravelot. Schterke and Oterfut are In some
of the German rituals, while other Scottish rituals have Abiram. Romvel
and Hobhen. In ail these names there is manifest corruption, and the
patience of many Masonic scholars has. been well-nigh exhausted in seek-
ing for some plausible and satisfactory derivation.”— Mackey’s Encyclo-
paedia of Freemasonry, Article Assassins of the Third Degree.
 INITIATION. 201

Solomon having learned this, wrote immediately to

King Maacha of Cheth, desiring him to give up these
two villains to the people he should send, in order to re-
ceive at Jerusalem the punishment due for their crimes.
In consequence of which, Solomon elected fifteen of
the most worthy brethren and zealous masters, in which
number were included the nine that went to the cave of
Akirop. They began their march on the J 5th day of
the month Tamoaz, which answers to the month of June,
and arrived on the 28th of the same month in the coun-
try of Cheth, and delivered Solomon's letter to King
Maacha, who trembled at the news and immediately or-
dered a strict search to be made for the two ruffians, and
if found to be delivered to the Israelites, and said he
would be happy in having his country cleared of such
monsters.
For five days there was a strict search made, when
Zerbal and Elignam were the first to discover them in
the quarries of Bendaca. They chained them, together
and loaded them with irons, on which were engraved the
crimes they had been guilty of, to have their approach-
ing fate before their eyes.
They arrived at Jerusalem on the 15th of the follow-
ing month, and when conducted to Solomon, he charged
them, with the most striking reproaches of their black
crimes, and ordered them to be put in the Tower of
Achizar, until the day they were to be executed by the
most excruciating torments and death proportionable if
possible to their crimes.. On the day of execution they
were tied to two stakes by the neck, middle and feet,
their arms behind them.
The executioner then opened them from the breast to
the arse-pubis, and cross wise, and they were left in this
condition eight hours, in which time the flies and other
insects sucked their blood..
20 2 MASTER ELECT OF FIFTEEN.

Their groans and complaints were so lamentable, that

they even moved the executioner, who cut off their heads
and threw their bodies over the walls of Jerusalem to
serve as food for the crows and wild beasts of the forest.
Thus, my brother, we close the history of Master Elect
of Fifteen.

LECTURE MASTER ELECT OF FIFTEEN.

Most Illustrious Master —Brother Inspector, are you
a Grand Master Elected?
—
Inspector My zeal and my work have procured me
this degree.
Most Illustrious Master —Where have you been re-
ceived ?

Inspector—By Solomon himself in audience cham- his

ber.
Most Illustrious Master— When did he you, receive
and on what occasion ?

Inspector—When he sent me with my companions to

findthe two other ruffians.
Most Illustrious Master—Were you inquiring after
them yourself?
Inspector— Yes, Most Sovereign, and
Illustrious if I
had not been named by Solomon I should at my own
expense have gone to show my zeal in revenging the
death of Hiram Abiff.
Most Illustrious Master —
You felt then a great joy
when you saw those villains executed?
Inspector— The three heads wear on nyy ribbon are
I
a proof of it.
Most Master— What signify these three
Illustrious
heads ?
Inspector— They are the heads the three of assassins
of Hiram Abiff.
Most Illustrious Master— What do you mean by three
heads? Did you not tell me you went in search of two
villains?.
 LECTURE. 203

—
Inspector Because one of the Villains had already
suffered before the other two were taken.
—
Most Illustrious Master What were the names of the
two you brought to Jerusalem?
Inspector —
One was called Jubela (Guib) and the
other Jubelo (Gravelot.)
—
Most Illustrious Master How were they discovered ?
—
Inspector By the diligence of Bengabee, Solomon’s
Intendant in the country of Cheth.
—
Most Illustrious Master What method did Solomon
take to get them ?
—
Inspector He wrote to Maacha, King of Cheth, de-
siring him to make a strict inquiry for them.
Most Illustrious Master —Who carried and delivered
Solomon’s letter to Maacha ?
Inspector —Zerbal, captain of Solomon’s Guards.
Most Illustrious Master —Did Maacha hesitate to
grant Solo'mon’s request?
—
Inspector No on the contrary he gave us guides
;

and a guard.
—
Most Illustrious Master Where were they found?
•
—
Inspector In a quarry called Bendaca’s quarry.
Most Illustrious Master—Who was Bendaca
this ?
Inspector— One of Solomon’s Intendants, who had
married of
one- daughters.
his
Most Illustrious Master— How came these two ruf-
fians discovered?
Inspector—By means of a shepherd* who showed us
their retreat.
Most Illustrious Master— Who perceived them first?
Inspector—Zerbal and Elignam, days’
after five
search.
Most Illustrious Master— How were their chains
made ?

Inspector— In form of a rule and square, on which

was engraved the crimes they had committed, in order
to have their approaching fate before their eyes.
—
Most Illustrious Master When did you return to
204 MASTER ELECT OF FIFTEEN.

Jerusalem ?
—
Inspector The fifteenth of the month Ah, which an-
swers to our month of July.
—
Most Illustrious Master How long were you on the
voyage ?
Inspector — One month exactly.
Most Illustrious Master —
How many masters were
elected by Solomon to go on this expedition?
—
Inspector Fifteen, of which number I was one.
Most Illustrious Master —Was there nobody else with
you?
Inspector —Yes, King Solomon sent troops to escort
us. *

Most Illustrious Master —

What did you do with the
ruffians after you arrived at Jerusalem?
Inspector—We carried them into the presence
directly
of Solomon.
Most Illustrious Master— What orders did Solomon
give about them?
Inspector— After he had reproached them for
bitterly
the enormity of their crimes, he ordered Achizar, Grand
Master of the household, to confine them in the tower
that bore his name, and that they should be executed
the next day at ten o’clock in the morning.
—
Most Illutrious Master With what kind of death
were they punished?
Inspector—Tl^ey were tied naked by their necks and
heels to two posts, their bodies cut open from their
breasts to the arse-pubis and cross wise.
—
Most Illustrious Master Did they continue any time
in that condition?
—
Inspector They were thus exposed for eight hours
in the hot sun, that the venomous flies and insects should
suck their blood which made them suffer even more
;

than death itself. They made such lamentations and

cries that they even moved the executioner.
—
Most Illustrious Master What did he do with them
afterwards ?
 LECTURE. 205

—
Inspector He was so moved with their cries, that he
cut off their heads and flung their bodies ever the walls
of Jerusalem, as food for the ravens and beasts.
Most Illustrious Master —What was done with their
heads ?

—
Inspector They were fixed on poles by order of Solo-
mon and exposed to public view, with that of Akirop,
in order to give an example as well to the people as to
the workmen of the temple.
Most Illustrious Master —What was the name of the
first villain?

Inspector—According to the nine elected, they called

him Abyram, but the word is only an emblem, as it sig-
nifies villain or assassin. His right name is Jubelum
(Akirop) and he was the eldest of the three brothers.
—
Most Illustrious Master On which gates were these
heads exposed?
—
Inspector On the South, East and West gates; that
of Akirop on the East gate, that of Jubelo (Gravelot) on
80
the West, and that of Jubela (Guibbs ) on the South
-
gate.

—
Note 96. “Guibbs. The names given to the Assassins of the third
degree by some of the inventors of the high degrees are of so singular
a form as to have almost irresistibly led to the conclusion that these
names were bestowed by the adherents of the house of Stuarts upon
some of their enemies as marks of infamy. Such, for instance, is Romvel,
the name of one of the Assassins in certain Scottish degrees, which is
probably a corruption of Cromwell. Jubelum Guibbs, another name of one
of these traitors, has much puzzled the Masonic etymologists. I think
that I have found its origin in the name of the Rev. Adam Gib, who
was an antiburgher clergyman of Edinburgh. When that city was taken
possession of by the young Pretender, Charles Edward, in 1745, the
clergy generally fled. But Gib removed only three miles from the city,
where, collecting his loyal congregation, he hurled anathemas for five
successive Sundays against the Pretender, and boldly prayed for the
downfall of the rebellion. He subsequently joined the loyal army, and at
Falkirk took a rebel prisoner. So active was Gib in his opposition to
the cause of the house of Stuart, and so obnoxious had he become that
several attempts were made by the rebels to take his life. On Charles
Edward’s return to France he erected in 1747 his ‘Primordial Chapter’ at
Arras; and in the composition of the high degrees there practiced it is
very probable that he bestowed the name of his old enemy Gib on the
most atrocious of the Assassins who figured in the legend of third degree.
The letter u was doubtless inserted to prevent the French in pronounc-
ing the name from falling into the soft sound of the G and calling the
word Jib. The additional b and s were the natural and customary results
of a French attempt to spell a foreign proper name.” Mackey’s Encyolo*
paedia of Freemasonry. Article Guibbs,
 206 MASTER ELECT OF FIFTEEN.

Most Illustrious Master — For what reason were their

heads exposed on the gates of Jerusalem?
—
Inspector Because they had each of them used their
•violence at these gates of the temple on Hiram Abiff.
For when Jubela (Guibs) had struck him at the South
gate with a twent} -four (24) inch guage, Jubelo (Grave-
7

lot) struck him with a square at the West gate, and

Jubelum (Akirop) gave him the finishing blow with a
setting maul at the East gate, which killed him.
—
Most Illustrious Master What is the word of the
Grand Master Elect?
—Zerbal and Benjah.
Inspector
Most Master— What
Illustrious the pass?
is

Inspector— Elignam.
Most Master—What are the signs
Illustrious ?

Inspector— Here they You comprehend me?

are.
(he them.)
gives
Most Master— What are the tokens?
Illustrious
Inspector— Here they (heare. them.) Answer
gives
me. (Master answers.)
Most Master—What’s the clock?
Illustrious
Inspector— the evening.
It is six in
Most Master— Why
Illustrious in the evening?
six
Inspector— Because wasit that hour when the
at last
two assassins expired, by which the death of Hiram is

avenged.
 CLOSING CEREMONIES
Master Elect of Fifteex.

Most Illustrious Master — Brother Stolkin, what’s the

hour ?
Stolkin —Victory is ours and Hiram is revenged.
Most Illustrious —
Master Since victory is ours, and
Hiram is revenged, we ought to be satisfied and rest
ourselves.
Most Illustrious Master — (Knocks five; 00000.)
— (Knocks
StolJcin 00000.)
five;
Adoniram — (Knocks 00000.)
five;

All— (Knock 00000.)

five;
Most Master—
Illustrious I declare this Chapter of
Master Elect closed.
 HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
Tenth Degree or Master Elect oe Fifteen.

The Force of a False Religion— Killing the Remaining Assassins of Hiram

— Swearing —
to Assassinate Seceders To Replace Popery on the Throne
of 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 rave
Proclaim that heaven took back the saint it gave;
That I've but vanished from the earth awhile
To come again with bright unclouded smile!
So shall they build me altars in their zeal.
Where knaves shall minister and fools shall kneel.’’
— Veiled Prophet of Khorassan,

When Joseph Smith lay shot in Carthage jail, men

supposed Mormonism was done. They miscalculated
the force of a false religion. It was not intellect, rea-
son, worldly prospects,, or popularity that saved it. At
that time it could offer neither. “The Lord looketh
”
on the heart and Satan does the same, when he desires
to bring men to himself.

Considered as addressed to human intelligence, noth-

ing would seem more contemptible than this Tenth De-
gree, and those immediately preceding and following it.
And yet these degrees were culled from a. mass of de-
grees which overspread France in 1754, which were
sent to this country by a Jew who had abandoned Ju-
daism for the lodge-religion in 1761. And, after forty
years’ struggle, during the eventful period of our revolu-
tion, war and independence, which engrossed all minds
for the time and hung doubtful as in a wavering bal-
ance, the lodge then blazed out into this Scotch Kite of
thirty-three degrees, at Charleston, S. C., in 1801 ; after
 KILLING THE REMAINING ASSASSINS OF HIRAM. 209

the fortune of war and the adoption of our present

constitution, twelve years before, had convinced the
world that there was to be a United States.
This Tenth Degree of the Charleston Rite, was the
seventh in the Lodge of Perfection, formed in the Jesuit
College (see Note 83) with intent, as its name indicates,
to lead and govern all the rest. The lodge was called
a “Chapter,” which means, a Dean and his clergy. The
skeleton of Jubeluin one of the fabled murderers of Hi-
ram, hangs on one side of the hall. The drapery, red
and white, the apron lined with black, and the jewel a
poniard. The business, or burden, of the degree is the
killing of the remaining two murderers of Hiram by ,

ripping them open from the chin downward and allow-

1

ing “flies to suck their blood.' The emblematic color,

black, flecked with tears. ( Note 85.) This degree
passed from the Jesuit College into the Rite of The
Emperors of the East and West, and .so was included in
their patent to the Jew Morin. And, though the three
,

assassins of Hiram had Teen killed, by the torture which

each invoked on himself, in the third or Masters degree,
which was adopted into this rite as a part of it, they
are here killed over again, with new, diversified tortures;
doubtless because the Rite of Perfection invented in
Trance and called “Scotch" by Hamsay, was intended
to be an independent system, separate from English
Masonry, to please the young French nobles who de-
spised the English mechanics. But it became necessary
to unite the two, to overtop and bring English lodges to
support the Stuarts, and that the inventors might avail
themselves of English Masonry, which had already
spread itself over Europe, as a market for new degrees.
The names of these imaginary assassins, invented at
 —

210 SWEARING TO ASSASSINATE SECEDERS.

the Appletree tavern in 1717, are Latin, Jubela , Jubelo

and Jubelum. But as there was no Latin language till
centuries alter Solomon, any scholar can see the ridicu-
lous pretense of Solomon's connection with
. Masonry cen-
turies after he was dead. Ramsay invented for the as-
sassins a new set of names, ( Mackey Ency. Art. Assas-
sins) viz: Alcirop, Guibs and Gravelot, to hide from
French aristocrats the ignorance of the English inventors
of the lodge. The story of sending to “Maacha, King of
Cheth” to find the last two murderers, is metamorphosed
a
from Shimei going to Achish, son of Maachah, King of
5
Gath/ I Kings, 2, 39, pursuing steadily the plan of
stealing from the Bible freely, everything but the one
Mediator and salvation through Him ; thus deceiving !

multitudes into the belief that Masonry is very like the

Bible and equally good. But in the midst of this fraud-
ulent verbosity, the oath of this Tenth Degree has this
damning clause: After swearing consent to have his
5
“body opened and exposed eight hours to flies/ he is
made to swear: “I will always be ready to inflict the

same punishment on those who shall disclose this de-

gree This sworn assassination, by torture, increases in
intensity as the degrees increase. And yet Masonic
writers with a cool impudence, gained from worshiping
V;he “father of lies,” affirm that “Masonry knows no
!*'
punishment but expulsion from the lodge ! !

The venerable and beloved Dr. Aydelotte President ,

of Woodward College, Cincinnati, when asked by a city

pastor, who had taken twenty-one degrees: “What is
the matter with Masonry V’ replied: “Matter with Ma-
sonry! It is lie all over:’ The holy man had long be-
fore renounced the three degrees he had taken. ( See
the oath in the Ritual.) We read from Milton:
TO REPLACE POPERY ON THE THRONE OF ENGLAND, £11

Wolves shall succeed for teachers, grievous wolves,

Who all the sacred mysteries of heaven,
Totheir own vile advantages shall turn
Of lucre and ambition.

If ever the words of Paul, expanded by Milton, had a

fulfillment, was when Ramsay and the Jesuits in-
it

vented these degrees for money and the hopes of promo-

tion by replacing Popery on the throne of England
crushing Protestantism in Europe, and free government
throughout the world.
 CHAPTER XVII
Eleventh Degree or Sublime Knights Elected .
91

AQUARIUS OR THE WATER BEARER.

This grade was originally instituted by Solomon as a
reward lor the zeal and constancy of the true and faith-
ful craftsmen who were engaged in the construction of
the temple. In this degree it is the duty of the Sub-
lime Knights Elected to prepare a proper code of stat-
utes for the Elected Knights of Kine and Fifteen. The
lecture explains the duties of the Sublime Knights, and
the mystic 0, which was composed of F. :.M. :.\V. :.G.
—
decorations: This ZZ [lodge] is held in a place rep-
resenting an ante-chamber in King Solomon's palace.
Note 97.— “Sublime Knight Elect. Sometimes called Twelve Elustrious
Knights. The eleventh degree of the Ancient and Accepted Rite. This
degree completes the series of Elect degrees, viz: Elect of Nine. Elect of
Fifteen and Sublime Knight Elect. The legend of this degree specifies
that after vengeance had been taken on the traitors, Solomon, to reward
those who had remained faithful to their trust, as well as to make room
for the exaltation of others to the degree of Elect of Fifteen, appointed
twelve of these latter chosen by their companions, to constitute a new
degree, on which he bestowed the title of Sublime Elect, and endowed
them with a certain command to provide supplies for the king and h s ;

household; to see that the taxes were fairly assessed; to superintend the
collection of the revenue, and to protect the people against rapacity and
extortion of the tax-gatherers. In this degree is shadowed forth the
great principle— free constitutions, without which liberty would often be
—
but a name the trial by jury of twelve men, whose unanimous verdict
is necessary to convict of crime. The assembly is called a Chapter. It is
lighted *with twelve lights, by threes, in the East. West. North and
South, each three forming an equilateral triangle. The presiding officer
represents King Solomon, and is styled Thrice Illustrious Sovereign; the-
two Wardens are styled Inspectors; the Chapter consists of twelve mem-
bers only. The apron is white, lined, edged and fringed with black, and
the flap is black. In the middle of the apron is painted or embroidered,
a flaming heart. The sash is a black ribbon, worn from right to left,
and on which, over the breast, is painted or embroidered a flaming heart;
and over that the words Vincere aut Mori. The jewel is a sword, worn
suspended to the sash.’’— Macoy’s Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Free-
masonry, Article Sublime Knight Elee>..
 SUBLIME KNIGHTS ELECTED. 213

It is hung with black tapestry strewed with flaming

hearts, and is illuminated by twenty-four lights.
titles: —The ZZ [lodge] is called a Chapter. At an
initiation only twelve brethren are permitted to be pres-
ent. The Master represents Solomon and is styled
Thrice Puissant. Instead of Wardens, there is a Grand
Inspector and a Master of Ceremonies.
clothing: —The brethren are clothed as in the pre-
ceding grade.
apron :
— White,
and bordered with black. In
lined '

the centre of the apron is a pocket on which is painted

or embroidered a poniard surrounded by nine flames.
order :
—A broad black ribbon from the left shoulder
to the right hip, on which are embroidered three in-
flamed hearts, or this motto Vincere aut Mori. At the
:

bottom of the ribbon hangs a gold poniard with a silver

blade.

jewel :
— The same as the preceding degree, with the
addition of three hearts inflamed, on the balance; one in
the center and one at each end.
 OPENING CEREMONIES
Sublime Knights Elected.
Thrice Puissant —Brother Inspector, what is your
duty to this Chapter?
Inspector —To that we are
see all secure.

Thrice Puissant— Are you Sublime Knight Elected

a ?

Inspector— Thrice Puissant, my name convincewill

you.
Thrice Puissant —What time the Chapter open
is ?

Inspector— Twelve midnight, the hour

o’clock at of
the of reason and
reconciliation feeling.
Thrice Puissant— (Knocks seven 0000000.) declare
, I
this Chapter of Sublime Knights Elected open. (One
rap; all are seated.)
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CHAPTER XVIII
9 *
Eleventh Degree or Sublime Knights Elected.
INITIATION.

Master of Ceremonies — (Knocks seven at the door.)

Inspector— Thrice Puissant, there an alarm theis at
door.
Thrice Puissant — Brother Expert who knocks at
see
the door our Chapter.
of
Expert — (Goes the door, knocks seven and opens
to
it.) Who knocks at the door our Chapter?
of
Master of Ceremonies— Brother Joabert, a Master
Elect of Fifteen, who has passed through all the preced-
ing degrees, and beseeches you to confer on him the de-
gree of Sublime Knight Elected.
—
Expert Thrice Puissant, it is Brother Joabert, a
Master Elect of Fifteen, who has passed through all the
preceding degrees, and beseeches you to confer on him
the degree of Sublime Knight Elected.
—
Thrice Puissant Has his conduct been without re-
proach and are the Illustrious Knights satisfied with it ?
Expert —
(To Master of Ceremonies.) Has his con-
Note 98. ‘Sublime Knight Elected. (Sublime Chevalier elu.). Called
1

also Sublime Knight Elected of the Twelve. The eleventh degree of the
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. Its legend is that it was instituted by
King Solomon after punishment had been inflicted on certain traitors at
the Temple, both as a recompense for the zeal and constancy of the Illus-
trious Elect Fifteen, who had discovered them, and also to enable him
to elevate other deserving brethren from the lower degrees to that which
had been vacated by their promotion. Twelve of these fifteen he elected
Sublime Knights and made the selection by ballot that he might give
none olTense, putting the names of the whole in an urn. The first twelve
that were drawn he formed into a Chapter, and gave them command over
the twelve tribes, bestowing on them a name which in Hebrew signifies
—
a true man.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Sublime
Knight Elected.
216 SUBLIME KNIGHTS ELECTED.

duct been without reproach and are the Illustrious

Knights satisfied with his conduct?
—
Master of Ceremonies All here present are satisfied
with his conduct.
—
Expert Thrice Puissant, all here present are satis-
fied with his conduct.
Thrice Puissant — Then Jet Jiim be introduced in a
proper manner.
Expert— Let Brother Joabert be introduced in a
proper manner.
Master ot Ceremonies puts' a naked sword in his right
hand with the blade across his body, a compass in his
left hand with the points to his heart. Thus arranged
he conducts him into the Chapter and seats him in the
West in front of the Inspector.
—
Thrice Puissant Brother Master of Ceremonies, why
have you led Joabert into our presence?
—
Master of Ceremonies To beseech the Thrice Puis-
sant to confer this Sublime degree upon him, for by his
valor, veracity and vigilance he has won the hearts of
his brethren, and they have chosen him to represent
them in this assembly of Sublime Elected Knights and
to join you in studying the laws the Grand Architect has
written upon the hearts of all men, so that legislation
may be a unit and a blessing instead of being a curse.
—
Thrice Puissant The right of the masonic people to
representation, is consecrated from time immemorial;
and on this occasion it is with joy learn the choice of
I.

your fellows has fallen on Joabert. It is the just reward

of your merit, brother Joabert, and we greet you in this
assembly where you now may see the scales of justice
adorned by the symbols of the affections, to express
that justice should be tempered with mercy, that the
law must be conceived in a spirit of love, and that the
happiness of the people does not exclusively depend
upon rigid expressions of wrong, but also upon a gener-
ous display of sentiment.
 INITIATION. 217

—
Thrice Puissant Brother Expert, you will now
teach brother Joabert to travel.
Expert divests him of his sword and compasses which
he hands to the Master of Ceremonies, makes the candi-
date cross his hands on his breast, and conducts him
first 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 frcfm
thence to the East, in front of the Thrice Puissant, where
he kneels also.
—
Thrice Puissant Brother Joabert, you have been
caused to kneel at the four points of the compass in
allusion to the four gates of the temple, and the respect
we should have to enter a place consecrated. You will
now contract the solemn obligation of a Sublime Knight
Elected.

OBLIGATION SUBLIME KNIGHT ELECTED.

T promise and swear on the same obligations 1
have already taken and contracted to keep secret the de-
gree of the Sublime Knights Elected, with which I am
going to be entrusted, as well in regard to masons under
this degree as to the profane. I furthermore promise to
adore my God, to be faithful to my country, to be char-
itable to my neighbors and brothers, submitting myself
in ease of any infraction of this my obligation, to have
my body severed in two, my memory lost and looked
upon as infamous and foresworn. So God and his Holy
Evangelists be my help. Amen.
Thrice Puissant —
(Puts his sword three times on the
candidate’s head.) Brother Joabert, 1 greet you as a
Sublime Knight Elected, and pledge you in a cup of
wine as generous as that poured out by Ganymede to
the Olympian gods, for it denotes our sincere feelings
towards you as a member of this Council, towards those
you represent, as well as towards all mankind.
(Wine is then poured out in three glasses, then the
218 SUBLIME KNTGTTTS ELECTED.

Thrice Puissant, Export and Candidate touch glasses.)

—
Thrice Puissant Brother Joabert, we pledge you in
the wine cup and welcome you as a member of this
Chapter of Sublime Knights Elected. (All three
drink.)
—
Thrice Puissant Arise Brother Joabert and receive
the recompense due you. (He theyi decorates him with
the sash and apron and gives him the sign, grip and
word.)

SIGN.

Cross the arms on the breast, the fin-

gers clinched, and thumbs elevated.

Sign, Sublime
,KnighLlSlected.
TOKENS.

First — Present to each other

the thumb of the right hand, the

fingers clinched. One seizes the

thumb of the other and reverses

thrice his wrist. One says Berith,
the other one says Neder, the first

then says' Shelemoth.

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INITIATION. 219

Second — Take one

the right hand of the
other, and with the
thumb strike thrice on
the first joint of the
Second Token. middle finger.

battery — Twelve equi-timed

: 000000000000.
strokes,

hours of labor: — From low twelve until daylight.

pass word: —Stolhin; (running of Water.)
sacred word: Adonai.
moral: That the true and faithful brother will
sooner or later receive his just reward.
—
Thrice Puissant Brother Expert, you will now con-
duct, brother Joabert to his seat in the Chapter while
our Grand Master of Eloquence delivers the discourse.

DISCOURSE BY .GRAND MASTER OF ELOQUENCE.

My dear brother, let your heart be entirely devoted

to enjoy the ecstaey of innocent joy, with springs of full
satisfaction to feel all the emotion that it will inspire
you with; thousand times this happy day which
bless a
will open to you the perfection you desire. In short,
congratulate yourself with having reached the degree of
Sublime Knight Elected which we have just given you.
Do not think that it is one of the imaginary and proud
titles which have neither origin or ground for it.

Open the sacred books, search in the holy history and

you will find the Epoch of your state. There you will
see the excellence and privileges of it. •

I should without doubt pass t'jhe limits of an ordinary

Jdiscoiirse if I was to take up time to let you know the
whole extent of it.

I will leave the natural curiosity to those who ought

to be willing to know perfectly the state which they
220 SUBLIME KNIGHTS ELECTED.

have embraced, with care to ma^ke the necessary inquiry

for the knowledge you ought to possess. will be
1

satisfied to expose the duties and obligations of it.

The promise you have just now made and contracted

in the quality of Sublime Elected Knight, is the great-
est and most solemn of them all. I will not speak to
you of the prudence with which you have so often laid
the law of, on yourself, you know that virtue too well,
and with the practice of it it must be so familiar to you
that it would be' needless to exhort you to it ; and for
that reason we fear no violation from your side.
I shall only renew to you the importance of the prom-
ises you just now have made and which are the chief
matters of your obligation. There is no one in this de-
gree who has not submitted like you, and in short, if all
men have indispensibly fulfilled those duties you just
now imposed on yourself, with what zeal, what eager-
ness and what ardour, should not a Sublime Elected
Knight acquit himself.
We first promise to love and adore God. This is the
natural law which is engraved in us. I say more, whicli
came into the world before us, and who is he that could
transgress this duty and not render the lawful tribute
to him which is owing from us to the vilest creature he
has formed, sustaining us only by the means of his power
which he may destroy or annihilate without our being
able to accuse him of rigour and injustice.
This is, my Illustrious Knight, the first of your duty,
that Reason teaches, Truth shows and Justice establishes
to us.
You have also promised to be faithful to your country.
Is there any among us who does not feel it perfectly
and not fully convinced of the necessity of this part
is

of our obligation of loyalty, as we conform ourselves to

 INITIATION. 221

the customs which have been established for all those

who as well as you, attained to a degree as eminent as
this in which you are now clothed, and to whom is trust-
eed the glory of justice which you have in your hand.
We must now, my brother, explain to you the names
and letters which were shown you when you were initi-
ated in our sublime degree and mysteries.
It is not one of the common names which has neither
sense, reason nor signification. It is a name which is as
those in use in eastern nations, showing the virtue of
those who are found worthy of having it.
Yours in the quality of Sublime Knight Elected is
09
Emeth a Hebrew word signifying “a true man on all
occasions." Can there be any better or more glorious
name, and w ould it not be a shame and disgrace to any
r

of us who should expose himself to do anything and be

capable of degenerating from it ?
Now let us come to the allegorical explanation of the
figures you have seen in the draft they will serve to :

instruct you in the sense and science of your state, and

teach you to unfold little by little, the moral sense. They
contain the precepts you ought to follow, the principles
on which you ought to act, and the duties you have to
fulfill.

The Elected as you know, were those Solomon chose

to watch the work which was done in the temple after
the death of Hiram Abiff. The temple was at last fin-
ished and completed to its last perfection. God appeared
satisfied with this building which was consecrated to
him. It is that cloud in which they have been willing to
Note 99. — "One of the words in the high degrees. It signifies integrity,
fidelity, and constancy in keeping a promise, and especially
firmness,
Truth as opposed In the Scottish Kite the Sublime Knights
to falsehood.
Elect of Twelve of the eleventh degree are called "Princes Emeth,” which
means simply men of exalted character who are devoted to truth. ”-~-
Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Emeth.
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222 SUBLIME KNIGHTS ELECTED.

trace the image of God in this draft by the triangle

which you see in the cloud; therefore it is very easy to
make from these two figures a just and true application.
Our hearts are the living temple, where are erected
altars which ought to receive the sacrifices which we
make to the Lord. It should always be a temple worthy
of him. We can never know too much how to employ
our time for its construction, neither can we apply our-
selves too much to carry offerings which may be agree-
able to him.
To render ourselves worthy of his favors, we ought to
compare tothat miraculous cloud which spread itself
over the ark, by which God showed the favorable
alliance he had made with his people, which is the chief
object of the draft now before you. In that box which
hangs at the top of the draft, were deposited the hearts
of the victims who were offered to the Lord and which
were accepted sacrifices.
If the gift you make of your heart is pure, it will be-
come a true figure of it, and he will not reject the offer-
ing of it if all that lies in it is worthy to be offered to
him.
You also see the was there Solomon ordered
urn; it
100
the heart of Hiram Abiff to be deposited, as an
authentic mark of esteem and tenderness he had for him,
which is without doubt a very urgent lesson, which in-
vites us to re-inflame our endeavors in conducting our
actions of life, that we may be able to leave behind a
memory worthy to be consecrated with respect, esteem
and veneration. _ •

—
Note 100. “Heart of Hiram Abiff. There Is a legend in some of the
high degrees and in continental Masonry that the heart of Hiram Abiff
was deposited in an urn and placed upon a monument near the holy of
holies, and in some of the tracing latards it is represented as a symbol.
The myth, for such it is, was probably derived from the very common
custom in the Middle Ages of persons causing their l*odies to be dismem-
bered after death for the pur{*>se of having parts of them buried in a
church or some place which had been dear to them in life." Mackey's
Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Heart of Hiram Abiff.
 INITIATION.

The pair of scales you perceive to be

an attribute of justice. It is here exposed
to your sight to make you remember that
it is with that you ought to weigh your

proceeding and projects if you are in-

ficalee deserve the glorious name of
and Sword, clined to
Emeth. The sword with which you are armed, and
given you by the Thrice Puissant has been remitted you
less for a mark of honor and discretion, than to be em-
ployed to serve, than to be used in order to fulfill the
solemn obligation you have contracted.
The hey which you also see in the draft
is a symbol to teach you to keep religious-
ly in your heart the secrets with which you
are intrusted, -as it is a sacred trust that these illustrious
brethren have reposed in you.
The zealous charity you ought to have for your breth-
ren, is figured to you by the emblem of an inflamed
heart a true symbol of it. As it is the prin-
cipal object, and most indispensable duty
of a mason to devote himself to prac-
tice virtue, what care ought not an
Elected Sublime Mason to have, never
to depart from this principle. He who is in the
superior degrees ought always to act effectually to ren-
der himself worthy of that distinction. Charity is of all
virtues, the principal one which satisfies humanity.
Instead of the inflamed heart, which was worn (at the
time of the written law) as a distinctive mark of the
Sublime Elected, we wear a cross the form of which
is traced to you. It is the happy epoch of the law of
grace we live in. Since upon the cross was spilled the
precious blood of the Sovereign Eedeemer to whom we
are all indebted, we are all obliged to wear it, not as
a mark which may please our vanity or our affections.
004
/v/v t: SUBLIME KNIGHTS ELECTED.

but as one of the attributes of our condition and a strik-

ing object, capable continually to recall us to that divine
author of nature, that Sovereign Master of our days who
has been willing to render himself a victim for the
iniquities of our fathers, and to withdraw them from
the everlasting torments they had but too much de-
served.
You see also the two palm trees, very high and lofty
which seem to spread their branches over the tomb of
Iliram Abiff. They are the emblem of the everlasting
palm, at which we all of us aim, and which are traced
for us to be deserving of it.

These, my Illustrious Brother are the chief objects of

our draft, which you ought to keep up to, and study the
same and be always the subject of your reflections. We
flatter ourselves (having so fair a road before you that
you will follow ft and never enter any other dangerous
path to scatter you from the many great duties you are
to fulfill. You will find the exertion so much the more
easy for it. In short, keeping firm to your obligations
and faithful to your promises, we shall find in you a
brother zealous and officially charitable, worthy of bear-
ing the respectable name of Sublime Elected Knight,
which you have now received.

LECTURE.
Tlcrice Puissant — Are you Sublime Knight Elected ?
a

Inspector — Illustrious Thrice Puissant, my name will

inform you.
Thrice Puissant —What your name? is

Inspector — Emeth.
Thrice Puissant — What means that name?
Inspector — A true man in all things.
thrice Puissant — How were you arrayed when
'
intro-
duced in this Chapter?
 LECTURE. 22 5

Inspector — had a sword in my right hand, the blade

I

across my body and a compass in the lel’r the points of

which rested on my breast.
—
Thrice Puissant Why the sword across your body ?
—
Inspector To remind me that my body should be
severed in two if I was vile enough to reveal the myster-
ies of "this degree.

Thrice Puissant— And why the points of the compass

on your breast ?
Inspector —To show that my actions were encompassed!
as I was found worthy to receive the degree of Sublime
Elected Knight.
Thrice Puissant — How were you reported in the Chap-
ter?
Inspector — By seven knocks.
Thrice Puissant —What signify these seven knocks?
Inspector— The seven years that were employed’in the
construction of the temple and ornaments. its

Thrice Puissant— What your sacred word

is quality in

of Sublime Knight Elected ?

Inspector— Adonai, which God. is

Thrice Puissant — And the pass-word?

Inspector— Stolkin.
Thrice Puissant —What the sign of the Sublime
is

Knights
° Elected? •

Inspector — To cross the arms on the breast, the fingers

clinched, and thumbs elevated.

Thrice Puissant —What is the sacred sign?

Inspector —The' promise I made, always to wear the

cross in remembrance of my faults, since they are de-

faced thereby.
Thrice Puissant —What is the token of acknowledge
 •

226 SUBLIME KNIGHTS ELECTED.

ment?
—
Inspector To take the right hand of a brother and
with the thumb strike three times on the first joint of
the middle finger.
—
Thrice Puissant What signifies this token?
—
Inspector Love to God, Fidelity to my country and
Charity towards my neighbors.
Thrice Puissant —What did you see on entering the
Chapter ?
Inspector—Twenty-four (24) lights.
Thrice Puissant—What do they signify?
Inspector— The twelve
101
Masters Elected, and the
twelve tribes of Israel.
Thrice Puissant —What are the names the twelve of
Masters Elected?
Inspector—Joabert, Stolkin, Terry, Morphy,
10
Alycu- '

ber, Dorson, Kerim, Berthemen, Tito, Zerbal, Beniah,

and Gaber. The first nine are those who went with the
stranger in search of Akirop, the last three make up the
number of twelve (12) Masters Elected.
Thrice Puissant —What employ did Solomon give
them ?

Inspector — To superintend all the masters, and there-

Note 101. — “The names of the Twelve Illustrious Knights selected to
preside over the twelve tribes, as they have been transmitted to us in the
ritual of this degree, have undoubtedly assumed a very corrupted form.
The restoration of their correct orthography, and with it their true
signification, is worthy the attention of the Masonic student.” —
Mackey’
Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Sublime Knight Elected,
—
Note 102. “Morphey. The name of one of the twelve Inspectors in the
eleventh degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. This name,
like the others in the same catalogue, bids defiance to any Hebraic
derivation. They are all either French corruptions, worse even than
Jakinai for Shekinah, or they have some allusion to names or events eon
nected with the political intrigues of the exiled house of Stuart, which
had, it is known, a connection with some of the higher degrees sprung
up at Arras and other places where Masonry was pntronized by the
Pretender. This word Morphey may. for instance, be a corruption for
Murray. James Murray, the second son of Lord Stormont, escaped to the
court of the Stuarts iii 1715. lie was a devoted adherent of the exiled
family and became the governor of the young prince and the chief min-
ister of his father, who conferred upon him the empty title of Earl of
Dunbar. lie died at Avignon in 1770. Rut almost every etymology of this
Kind must be entirely conjectural. '— Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Free-
,

masonry, Article Morphey.

 LECTURE. 227

fore named them Inspectors, that they might be able to

give him an account of what was daily done in the con-
struction of the temple.
—
Thrice Puissant In what manner were these Inspec-
tors employed to survey the conduct of the workmen?
—
Inspector Joabert had inspection of the tribe of
Judah.
Stolkin had inspection of the tribe of Benjamin.
Terry had inspection of the tribe of Simeon.
Morphy had inspection of the tribe of Ephram.
Alycuber had inspection of the tribe of Manasseh.
D arson had inspection of the tribe of Zebulon.
Kerim had inspection of the tribe of Dan.
Berthemen had inspection of the tribe of Asher.
Tito had inspection of the tribe of Naphtali.
Zerbal had inspection of the tribe of Reuben.
B eniah had inspection of the tribe of Issachar.
Gaber had inspection of the tribe of Gad.
These twelve masters rendered daily an account as
Inspectors to Solomon of the work done by all the
respective tribes and they received the amount of pay-
ment. to be distributed to all the workmen of every
tribe.
Thrice Puissant —What signifies the tomb at the West
door of the temple ?

Inspector — It is tomb where the body of the

the
respectable Hiram Abiff
is deposited. Solomon had it
placed at the entrance of the temple to show the Israel-
ites how much he was affected at the loss of that great
man and;
did it in honor of him whom he regarded and
esteemed as himself.
—
Thrice Puissant What signifies the I. \H. \S. *.

which you see in the draft?

Inspector —The T. \ is the initial of “Java"* the first

pronunciation of the Ancient Masters Word ;

the H. \
228 SUBLTME KNIGHT’S ELECTED.

that of Hiram our respectable Master; and the S. that :.

of Stolkin who discovered the body of Hiram Abiff.

Thrice Puissant —
Give me a description of the urn
which is on the top.
—
Inspector In the urn is the heart of our dear Mas-
ter Hiram Abiff embalmed.
Thrice Puissant —
What means the letters X. and
C. on the urn ?
—
Inspector Xinxe, a Hebrew word signifying the seat
of the soul.
Thrice Puissant —And what means the key?
Inspector —The
symbol that we only have the secret
and depository of the mason's secret, and ought to rule
our conduct so, to show by example that we are worthy
of the trust and charge reposed in us.
Thrice Puissant — And the -balance?
Inspector— Calls the remembrance
to the obligations
laid on us, to be just to our brothers and neighbors,
since we are those in whom King Solomon has put all
his confidence by giving us power to exercise justice and
terminate disputes which may arise among masons
from the apprentice to the degree of Sublime Knights
Elected, which is above them all.

Thrice Puissant —And the sword?

—
Inspector To make use of it as we ought to those
who do not walk in the paths of virtue, and are so vile
as to reveal the secrets they are entrusted with.
—
Thrice Puissant How long did you take to complete
the temple ? .

—
Inspector Seven years to complete the whole; six for
its construction and one* for the ornaments and its
dedication.
Thrice Puissant — How long was the building?
Inspector— Twenty cubits.
Thrice, Puissant — How many precious things have
you in the Chapter of Sublime Knights Elected?
 LECTURE. 229

Inspector Five. —
—
Thrice Puissant What do you call them ?
—
Inspector The ark of alliance, the golden box, the
103
two palm trees, the candlestick with seven branches
and the veil which is drawn up.
Thrice Puissant —
What signifies the Ark
of Alliance.
Inspector —1 1 w as
Ark of Alliance. t!le ° f Solomon's
temple consecrated to God and contained the two tables
of the law which God gave to Moses on the holy moun-
tain when he contracted an alliance with the people of
Israel.
Thrice Puissant — The
candlestick with seven
branches ?

Inspector —Represents the

seven planets and the seven
gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Thrice Puissant
104
— An d
what the veil of the tem-
ple ?

Candlestick with seven branches. Inspector-—'The figure cf

Note 108. — “Golden Candlestick, The golden candlestick which was
made by Moses for the service of the tabernacle and was afterwards de-
posited in the holy place of the temple to throw light upon the altar of
incense and the table of Showbread was made wholly of pure gold, and
had seven branches; that is, three on each side and one in the center.
These branches were at equal distances, and each one was adorned with
flowers like lilies, gold knobs after the form of an apple, and similar
ones resembling an almond. Upon the extremities of the branches were
seven golden lamps, which were fed with pure olive oil. and lighted
every evening by the priests on duty. Its seven, branches are explained
in the Ineffable degrees as symbolizing the seven planets. It is also used
as a decoration in Chapters of the Itoyal Arch, but apparently without
any positive symbolic signification. ” —
Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Free-
masonry, Article Golden Candlestick.
—
Note 104. “The Syrpbolism of the Veils, however viewed, whether
collectively or separately, represent the laborious, but at last successful,
—
search for divine truth.’’ Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Artielo
V*ils, Bymbolism of the.
230 SUBLIME KNIGHTS ELECTED.

the Babylonian Tapestry which Solomon placed in the

temple to separate the holy places from the most holy
and sacred place.
Thrice Puissant —And what the golden box ?

—
Inspector In that box were deposited the hearts of
those victims whose sacrifice had been agreeable to God.
We also ought to deposit our hearts if our actions are
as agreeable to him.
Thrice Puissant
•
— The palm trees ?

—
Inspector They represent the cherubim which did
105

cover the Holy Ark with their wings, as also the joy
which Solomon felt to see a superb monument raised to
the glory of the Lord.
Thrice Puissant —And what signifies the triangle with
the A. :.D. :. ?
Inspector — The cloud that spread over the ark when
Solomon consecrated the temple to show to Solomon it.

was agreeable to the Lord. The letters signify Adonai.

—
Thrice Puissant What reward did Solomon bestow
on the twelve Knights Elected after the consecration of
the temple?
Inspector — He them his beloved, instituted
styled
them Sublime Knights Elected, decorated them with a
broad ribbon with three (3) inflamed hearts and a sword
of justice to it; saying to them, you have been the con-
ductors of the works of the temple which I have
consecrated to the Lord ; be now the supporters of it
against infidels.
Thrice Puissant —What denote the three (3) inflamed
.hearts?
—
Note 105. “Cherubim. The two cherubim that overtopped the mercy*
seat or covering of the ark, in the holy of holies, were placed there by
Moses in obedience to the orders of Ood: ‘And thou sbalt make two
cherubim of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends
of the mercy-seat. And the cherubim shall stretch forth their wings on
high, covering the mercy-seat with their wings, and their faces shall
look ont> to another; towards the mercy-seat shall the faces of the
cherubim he.’ ’’ —
(Exod. xxv. 17, 1!).) Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Free-
masonry, Article Cherubim.
 LECTURE. 231

—That our hearts ought he charitable

Inspector to to
our brothers and neighbors.
Thrice Puissant — Explain me the you to five letters
have on your cross.
Inspector— The the of
C. \ is kneel) initial Civi, (to
K. :. Ky, (to rise) E. that of Emeth, S. \ that of
that of *.

Solomon and A. in the centre, that of Adonai.

:.

Thrice Puissant —What signify the four kneelings

you made before you came to the throne ?
Inspector — The four gates of the temple and the re-
spect we should have to enter a place consecrated to
God.
Thrice Puissant —What signifies the word Civi, that
the Sublime Elected utter when Illustrious, Puissant
goes to the throne?
— Kneeling before the Great Architect of the
Inspector
universe.
Thrice Puissant — And the word Ky?
Inspector— Rise and receive the reward your and zeal
labor has deserved.
Thrice Puissant— What denote the three (3) knocks
given with the sword on the candidate’s head before it
is delivered to him?
— Strength, Charity and Brotherly Love we
Inspector
ought have for our brothers.
to
Thrice Puissant — Why have the Sublime Knights
Elected naked swords in their hands in the Chapter?
Inspector— To be always ready run the assistance to to
of our brethren in their defence and that of religion
against infidels.
Thrice Puissant —Why is not your Chapter opened
until midnight ?

Inspector — Because some of the Sublime Knights cm-

 232 SUBLIME KNTGHTS ELECTED.

ployed tKe day by fighting the infidels and the others in

deeds of hospitality, and at midnight they must meet
to account for what they have done.
Thrice Puissant —Why is the Chapter closed at break
of day ?

Inspector — To execute during the day what is ordered

to be done by the Chapter.

&
 CLOSING CEREMONIES
Sublime Knights Elected.
Thrice Puissant — Brother Inspector, are you a Sub-
lime Knight Elected ?

Inspector—My name inform you. will

Thrice Puissant —What your name?is

1 nsp —
ectorE meth
Thrice Puissant— What that name?
signifies
Inspector— A true man on all occasions.
Thrice Puissant-— What time do you close the Chap-
ter ?
—At dawn day.
Inspector of
Thrice Puissant —What’s the clock?
Inspector— The dawn of day and
1
""
tolerance, peace
and harmony prevail.
Thrice Puissant— As day appears and tolerance,
peace and harmony prevail, give notice that the Chapter
of Sublime Knights Elected is closed.
Inspector— Sublime Knights Elected, you please wfill

take notice that Chapter

this is closed.

Thrice Puissant — Together, (Sublime Knights all

clap seven, 0000000; and the Chapter is closed.)
—
Note 106. “Toleration. The grand characteristic of Masonry is its
toleration in religion and politics. In respect to the latter its toleration
has no limit. The question of a man’s political opinions is not permitted
to he broached in the I»dge; in reference to the former it requires only
that, to use the language of the old charge. Masons shall be of “that
religion in vhich all men agree, leaving their particular opinions to them-
—
selves.’’ Mackey's Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Toleration,
 HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
- • %

Eleventh Degree or Sublime Knights Elected.

—
‘'The Dreariest of all Dreary Nonsense" Maniacal Countenance of False
—
Worshipers Admits the Strong Man Armed.

If it has been felt necessary by the Masonic authors

of preceding degrees to apologize for some of them as
tame, “giving little or no symbolic information,” one
would think this Eleventh Degree needed such apology
much more. The distinguished Dr. Leonard Bacon , a
little while before he died, read over some of these de-
grees, and in a letter to the writer, said “Masonry
:

.”
seems to me the dreariest of all dreary nonsense And
that 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 the
preceding grade; the three assassins ]}ave been killed
the second time, and it is too soon to invent a new
lynching scene. No murder of a sleeping man in a.
cave; no bloody head held by the hair; not even a
blood-smeared poniard is here to give relish to the game.
Even poor Solomon is grown familiar as a half worn
coat or hat so that his title as lodge master has to be
;

changed from “Most Illustrious” in the tenth degree to

“Thrice Puissant” in this. In short, the degree is mere
repetitious dwelling like the dronings of a weary jug-
gler. What then caused this degree to be selected from
thousands then in France? And what has kept it alive
for 133 years?
The answer is given in Note-’ 97, which tells us that
 MANIACAL COUNTENANCE OF FALSE WORSHIPPERS. 235

the degree was invented “to make room for the elevation
of others to the degree of the Elect of Fifteen .” The
same reason is given in Note 98. Conquerors and swind-
lers must go on. Ramsay and his Jesuits had created a
market for new degrees and they must supply it. Stand-
ing armies are kept up by ambitious soldiers expecting
promotion. The old craft, Masonry, had been swung
from its moorings. The Jesuits had added “Select Mas-
ter, Perfect Master, Intimate Secretary, Provost and

Judge, Intendant of the Building, Elect of Nine, of

Fifteen” and now they raise twelve of the fifteen to make
room for “other deserving brethren of the lower de-
grees.” Note 98.)
(
And as each upper degree is
sworn to secrecy from the next and all below, it mat-
tered little what the grade was made of, so that it was a
grade.
But then there must ever bei besides this, in a false
religion, a putting the mind in a posture to receive in-
fluence from devils. This every degree has, whether
dull or sprightly. The rap which opens the lodge puts
•the members communication (en rapport) with
in
Satan, and they became mesmerized by him; each in
proportion to the inward consent or prayer which they
yield to him. Observing men can
see, in the faces of

nuns, Masons and mediums, an obvious similarity of ex-

pression, or of no-expression which is maniacal or de-
moniac. And the power which produces that no-ex-
pression, is the power which keeps up the lodge.
The Monks of all ages have shown by their gross
errors and unclean lives that they have communed with
and been influenced or possessed by unclean spirits. In
the early centuries there was a class of Monks in Mt.
Athos, called by a Greek name which meant “naveL
 ff
23G ADMITS TITE STRONG MAN armed/'

beholders” They would sit for hours gazing intemly

on the center of their stomachs and claimed that after
gazing thus for a time they became completely illum-
inated; filled with a clear and wonderful light. But
like the whole Monkish tribe, they fell into stupid er-
rors and degrading vices. No matter what the posture
or worship is, if it is not commanded of God, it is used
by the devil; and this Eleventh Degree is such a pos-
ture and worship and so admits the “strong man
armed” to enter the palace of the human heart.
This is enough to explain the power of this stupid de-
gree.
But there is another element still. Its pictures rep-
7
resent “The Ark of the Covenant / which was made by
Moses, and “The Golden Candlestick” of the Old Tab-
ernacle, etc.; thus as Milton paraphrases Paul, already
cited, these
“Grievous wolves
Turn all the sacred mysteries of heaven
To their own vile advantages
Of lucre and ambition.”

And this is done, not by Christian professors, but by

“them that dwell on the earth;” (Rev. IS , lJf) the same
men who make up the lodges. And thousands mistake
the emotions produced by the sight of these once sacred
implements m their midnight orgies for religion.
Thus he supports his cruel throne
By mischief and deceit;
And drags the sons of Adam down
To darkness and the pit.
 CHAPTER XIX
91
Twelfth Degree or Grand Master Architect .
1

The
PISCES OR
M THE FISHES.
eleven degrees of the Ancient and Accepted
first
t

Eite are a complete course of architecture, and a long

and serious study of human nature having been neces-
sary thus to lead man from his primitive state of naked-
ness to the beneficent forms of society, it must he ac-
knowledged that a mason thus experienced in the prac-
tical science of his profession, has a right to an increase
of knowledge; each mason has his peculiar talent and
merit, which deserves a proportionate reward, but a
mason who by dint of labor has succeeded in ascertain-
ing the origin of things and in combining them together
for the good of mankind, is truly a Grand Master Archi-
tect.
—
Note 107. “Grand Master Architect. The twelfth degree of the An-
elent and Accepted Rite. In this the principles of operative Masonry
become prominent; it is a purely scientific degree, in which the rules of
architecture and the connection of the liberal arts with Masonry are
•dwelt upon. Although the lectures on the Fellow-Craft degree illustrate
architecture from the same point of view, the subject is susceptible of
great extension, and under the “Grand Master Architect” numerous de-
tails illustrative of the temple dedicated to the Most High by the wisest
man might be worked out. In the absence of distinct information upon
many points there is some exercise for the imagination in furnishing
a complete description of Solomon’s Temple, which was an astonishing
and magnificent work for the time in which it was built; and it seems
to have been distinguished from all other temples of remote antiquity
by its sumptuousness of detail. The principal officers of this degree are
the Master, denominated Thrice Illustrious, and two Wardens. The body
is styled chapter, and is decorated with white hangings, strewed with
erimson flames; the ornaments are the columns of the five orders of archi-
tecture, and a ease of mathematical instruments.” —Macoy’s Encyclopaedia
and Dictionary of Freemasonry, Article Grand Master Architect.
 238 GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT.

decorations: —This assembly is called a Chapter. It

must be hung with white tapestry strewed with red
flames.
The five orders of architecture should be delineated
in the Chapter, together with a representation of the
North Star in the North, and seven (7) small stars sur-
rounding it in form of the Ursa Major, signifying that
as the North Star is a sure guide to mariners so should
virtue be the guiding star of every Grand Master Archi-
tect.

titles: —The
master seated in the East represents
'King Solomon, and is styled Most Powerful ; before him
:a table with a case of mathematical instruments upon it.

The Senior Warden in the West is called Grand Inspect-

!

or; before him a table with instruments upon it. Junior

Warden in the South, the same.
clothing: —The brethren are clothed as in the pre-
ceding grade, with the order, jewel and apron of a Grand
Master Architect. Solomon wears a white robe.
apron White lined and bordered with black. In the
centre of the apron is a pocket.
order:—Blue ribbon from the right shoulder the to

the bottom hangs hangs the

left hip, at jewel.

jewel: — square medal with equal

Is a Oh one sides.

side of the medal must be engraved four half circles

with seven stars. In the centre is a triangle w ith the let-
T

ters A. interwoven thus.

G. On the re-
verse must be engraved the five orders of
Architecture ; on the top is a level, and below,
a square, compass and a cross; in the centre
are the letters K. :.M. Below the columns are their init-
:.

ials: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite.

 . OPENING CEREMONIES
Grand Master Architect .
1 ’9

Most Powerful — (Strikes 0 00.)

Senior Warden — (Strikes 0 00.)
Junior Warden — (Strikes 0 00.)
Most Powerful —What your duty Brother Inspec-
is

tor?
Senior Warden — Most Powerful the Chapter well is
ty led and the profane cannot penetrate into our myster-
ies.

Most Powerful— Are you a Grand Master Architect?

—
Senior Warden I know what is contained in a per-
fect case mathematical instruments.
of
• Most Powerful— What contained
is in a simple case?
Senior Warden — A compass with five points,
a par-
a scale, a compass of proportion, a protractor,
allel rule,

on which are engraven 180 degrees.

Most Powerful —Where were you received an Archi-
tect ?
Senior Warden — In a yvvhite place figured with
flames.
Note 108.— “Grand Master Architect. (Grand Maitre Architect.) The
twelfth degree in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. This is
strictly a scientific degree, resembling in that respect the degree
of
Fellow Craft. In it the principles of architecture and the connection of

ter and two Wardens.

.

The Chapter is decorated with white and red

—
the liberal arts with Masonry are unfolded. Its officers are there a Mas-

hangings and furnished with the five orders of architecture and a case of
mathematical instruments. The apron is white, lined with blue, and the
jewel is a gold medal, on which are engraved the orders of architecture.
It is suspended hy a stone-colored ribbon.” —
Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of
Freemasonry, Article Grand Master Architect.
340 GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT.

—
Most Powerful What do they mean?
Senior Warden —
The white signifies the purity of the
heart and the flames the zeal of the masters.
—
Most Powerful What do the stars in the North mean?
*

—
Senior Warden That virtue should guide every ma-
son in his actions, as the North Star does the mariner
in his navigation.
—What the hour?
Most Powerful is

— The evening
Senior Warden has risen; star night
and doubt prevail.
Most Powerful — Since us study it is so, let to find
out path.
Most Powerful— (Knocks 0 00.)
Senior Warden — (Knocks 0 00.)
Junior Warden — (Knocks 0 00.)
Most Powerful— (Opens the case of instruments)
this box is opened.

N. B. — On a square altar is placed the balance of the

preceding degree and at each corner of the altar, four
columns, Doric, Tuscan, Ionic and Corinthian,* which
4 * m

with the Composite Column supporting the balance

make the five orders. To each string of the balance is

now attached a star, (total six stars) which with the

nine pointed stars already suspended to the balance, and
which noV represents the North star, makes the seven
stars of the Ursa Minor. ,
 CHAPTER XX
Twelfth Degree or Grand Master Architect.
INITIATION.
The candidate must be decorated as a Sublime Knight
Elected.
Master of Ceremonies — (Knocks 0 00.)
Grand Inspector —Most Powerful, there an alarm
is

at the door.
Most Powerful — Brother Expert, ascertain the cause
of that alarm.
Expert — (Goes to the doorknocks 0 00; and opens
it.) Who knocks at the door of our Chapter to interrupt
our deliberations?
—
Master of Ceremonies Brother Joabert not being sat-
isfied with the knowledge he has already attained, and

the dignities conferred on him, finds he cannot measure

distance beyond the reach of his limbs, nor can he find
his path through darkness, or in unknown places.
—
Expert Most Powerful, it is Brother Joabert who,
not being satisfied with the knowledge he has already
attained and the dignities conferred upon him, finds he
cannot measure distance beyond the reach of his limbs,
nor can he find his path through darkness, or in un-
known places.
Most Powerful —Let him be admitted.
Expert —Let him be admitted.
242 GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT.

Master of Ceremonies enters with the candidate and

stands him between the altar and the West, facing the
East.
Most Powerful — Brother Joabert, what seek you here?
Master of Ceremonies — Most Powerful, Brother Joa-
bert not being satisfied with the knowledge he has al-
ready attained and the dignities conferred upon him
finds lie cannot measure distance beyond the reach of
his limbs, nor can he find his path through darkness or
in unknown places.
—
Most Powerful Brother Joabert, the desire to know
these things is most laudable and should be gratified
and for the purpose of teaching them I have established
this school of Architects for the
instruction of the
craftsmen employed in building the temple, to animate
them with a desire of arriving at Perfection in the Royal
Art. But before you can be admitted as a member of
this school of Architects, you must give me undoubted
proof of your knowledge and skill in the degrees you
have already taken.
—
Most Powerful Brother Joabert, are you a Secret
Master ?
—
Master of Ceremonies Most Powerful, I have the
honor of being received and acknowledged as such.
—
Most Powerful Give the Sign, Token and Word to
the Senior Grand Warden. (He turns and gives them.)
[See page 52.]
—
Most Powerful Brother Joabert, are you a Perfect
Master ?
—
Master of Ceremonies Most Powerful,*! have seen
the circles and the square placed on the two columns'
across.
—
Most Powerful Give the Sign, Token and Word to
the Junior Grand Warden. (He turns and gives them.)
[See pages 70, 80 and 81.]
—
Most Powerful Brother Joabert, are you an Intimate
Secretary ?
 INITIATION
-

.
243

Master of Ceremonies — Most Powerful, T am, (lifting

up his eyes.)
—
Most Powerful Give the Sign, Token and Word to
the Senior Grand Warden. (He turns and gives them.)
[See pages 102 and 103.]
—
Most Powerful Brother Joabert, are you a Provost
and Judge?.
—
Master of Ceremonies Most Powerful, I have dis-
tributed justice impartially to all the workmen.
—
Most Powerful Give the Sign, Token and Word to
the Junior Grand Warden. (He turns and gives them.)
[See pages 122 and 123.]
—
Most Powerful Brother Joabert, are you an Inten-
dant of the Building ?
Master of Ceremonies —Most Powerful, I have taken
the five steps of exactitude, 1have penetrated into the
inner parts of the temple, I have seen the Hebrew
character, the mysterious J’s without knowing what they
meant.
—
Most Powerful Give the Sign, Token and Word to
the Senior Grand Warden. (He turns and gives them.)
[See pages 142, 143 and 144.]
—
Most Powerful Brother Joabert, are you an Elected
Master of Nine?
—
Master of Ceremonies Most Powerful, the ballot
alone has determined that matter and I have been made
acquainted with the cave.
—
Most Powerful Give the Sign, Token and Word to
the Junior Grand Warden. (He turns and give them.)
[See pages 169 and 170.]
—
Most Powerful Brother Joabert, are you an Illus-
trious Elected of Fifteen.
—
Master of Ceremonies Most Powerful, my zeal and
my work have procured me this degree.
244 GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT.

Most Powerful — Give the Sign, Token and Word to

the Senior Grand Warden. (He turns and gives them.)
[See pages 197 and 198.]
Most Powerful —Brother Joabert, you Sublime
are a
Elected Knight?
Master ofCeremonies — Most Powerful, my name will
inform you.
Most Powerful— Give Token and Word
the Signs,. to
the Junior Grand Warden. (He turns and gives them.)
[See pages 218 and 219.]
—
Most Powerful Brother Joabert, it gives me joy un-
speakable to find you thus skilled in our Royal Art, and
as a reward for the faithful and meritorious, I will now
confer upon you the degree of Grand Master Architect;
come and contract your obligation.
Master of Ceremonies then causes him to take three
square steps to the altar, where he kneels and takes the
obligation.

OBLIGATION GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT.

I promise and swear on the obligations I have

already taken and contracted to keep secret the degree
of Grand Master Architect with which I am going to be
entrusted; as well in regard to masons as to the profane.
I further promise to adore my God, to be faithful to
my King and Country, to be charitable to my neighbors
and brothers, submitting myself, in case of any infrac-
tion of this my obligation, to have mv body severed in
two, my memory lost and looked upon as infamous and
foresworn. I further promise and consent that my name
may be written in red letters and hung up in the Chap-
ter as a mark of my infamy.
So God and his Holy Evangelist keep me amen. ;

—
Most Powerful Arise Brother Joabert, you will now
 INITIATION". .245

take three square steps to the Senior Warden who will

invest you with the Sign, Token and Word of a Grand
Master Architect.
He does as ordered when the Senior Warden invests
him as follows

SIGN, GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT.

Slide the right hand into palm of the
left as if holding" a pencil in one hand,
and in the other a tracing board make ;

the motion of tracing a plan on the

palm of the left hand, every now and
then directing the eyes towards the
Grand Master as if drawing by dicta-
tion.

Sign Grand Master.

Architect.

TOKEN, G. M. ARCHITECT.
Join right hand to the other’s
left, interlacing the fingers
hand on the hip
place the left ;

the brother will do the same

with his right hand.

Token.
10 *
pass-word Ttah-banaim
: .

SACRED WORD '—AdotlCli.

Note 109.— “Rabbinical Hebrew, and signifying ‘the chief of the archi-
tects.’ A significant word in the high degrees.’’ —
Mackey’s Encyclopaedia
Of Freemasonry. Article Rabbanaim.
246 GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT.

BATTERY : — Three stroke, by one and two 0 00.

march —Make three step so as to
;

form a square, the

first step slow, the two others somewhat quicker.
HOURS OF WORK— Open on the day when Solomon
commenced the building of the temple. Close on the
day the temple was completed.
—
moral That virtue is as necessary as talent to every
Grand Master Architect. *

—
Senior Warden Brother Joabert, you will now take
three square steps to the altar and face the Most Power-
ful. (He does so.
—
Most Powerful Brother Joabert, Solomon determin-
ed to form a school of Architects for ’the instruction of
those who conducted the work of the temple, to encour-
age and improve such as were worthy, and to promote
from thence those whose zeal and discretion should make
them deserving the highest degree of perfection, induced
him to create the degree of Grand Master Architect.
Solomon, full of justice, and foreseeing the events
which were likely to take place, willing to recompense
the zeal and virtue of the Sublime Knights, that they
might approach nearer the Celestial Throne of the Great
Architect of the Universe, induced him to cast his eyes
on those who were last made Illustrious Knights in or-
der to effect the promise which God made to Enoch,
Noah, Moses and David, that if through ardour they
penetrated into the bowels of the earth, it would not
avail unless divine providence permitted it.

The improvements you «will now make, Brother Joa-

geometry will no doubt procure you
bert, in the study of
the "means of unfolding the most sublime knowledge.
Upon the altar now before you, behold a case of mathe-
matical instruments for that purpose, containing first.
 INITIATION. 247

third,
the parallel ruler, second, the tracing dividers,
piotractor,
the scale of parts, fourth, sector, fifth, the
and behold also the Polar Star. Brother Joabert, by the
all distances
help of these we are enabled to measure
and guide ourselves through darkness and unknown
places.
First— The Parallel Ruler
l P * ^ -0*1 enables us to draw two* lines
equi-distant from each other at
Tii
• every point ;
so that they never
The Parallel Euler.
can meet, which signifies that the agieement of the

works of the Grand Architect is determined by means

that in
of equalizing opposition of forces ; and hence,
powers
human government the division and balancing of
is essential.

—
Second The Tracing Dividers enable us to draw
distinct and perfect circles and to mark the
points they
de-
give us. This signifies that we must have a distinct
sign before we act.

( i i I i i ili» i 1 i > i Li -i. 7Z3

The Scale of Parts.
Third — The Scale of Parts enables us to make all our
designs proportionate, so that all the parts and incidents
will agree together in fulfilling the object we seek to
accomplish- This signifies that truth is self consistent and
every distinct truth agrees with all other truth, hence
so that one deed may not ultimately clash with another.
248 GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT.

—
Fourth Tice Sector enables us to
adapt our proportions to the limits as-
signed. This teaches us to reduce our
designs to the measure of our means
and time.

The Sector.
Fifth — The Protractor enables us to
draw angles from a given point and to
protract and measure lines at all distances.
The Protractor.
This shows the necessity of having a fixed and sure
beginning in order to discover truth, or to act with
confidence.
4
Sixth — The *

North Star demonstrates the universal

harmony and stability of the works of the Grand Archi-
tect of the Universe. In fact the whole planetary system
presents a field worthy the attention of the whole civi-
lized population of the globe, and more particularly the
—
members of the masonic institution which was orig-
inally a school of science.
Each and every planet has by the Grand Architect of
the Universe been assigned to some definite position and
all of them so arranged by divine wisdom to act in con-
cert with each other the combination of which pro-
;

duces to our view an arrangement, the extent of which

the human mind cannot comprehend. Some of them are
designed to shed light to this planet, earth, and among j

those and the greatest of all is the Sun which spreads |

light and lustre to all within its circle.

You, my
worthy brother, having passed through the
intermediate degrees and having been endorsed by
these Grand Master Architects who now surround you,
and among whom you are now admitted a member, it I
 :

INITIATION. $49

becomes duty as the Most Powerful to call your at-

my
tention to that great power of attraction known
as the
not shed as brilliant
North Star, and although it does
rays of light as others, yet it is of equal importance,
and
in fact, without its assistance all mankind
would be like
a blind man groping his way over the trackless ocean or
through the prairies of forests, which stand as tempo-
rary barriers to the walks of man and the waves in the
as
exercise of their irresistible power, advance or recede
nature or God directs, and as the needle is ever true to
the pole by which the mariner can at all times
know
the course he is pursuing. Let it teach you this moral
You are now’ on board the ship of life, tossed about
on the boisterous sea of trouble, bound for eternity. The
breakers of malice and persecution surround your craft,
the quicksands of deceit and hypocrisy are beneath
*

you, close under your lee are the rocks of perdition.

Now my the auspicous moment,
illustrious brother, is

place your trust in the Great Architect of Heaven and

Earth! take justice for your Polar Star, prudence at the
helm, temperance for your guide, let your sails fill with
the gentle breeze of charity and you will in the end
find yourself moored in that peaceful harbor, where
the w’icked cease from troubling and the weary are at
rest. (Shuts the case of instruments.)
Mv brother, apply these to all things, moral, mental,
social, religious and political and then w^e will be proud
of you as a Grand Master Architect, to which dignity
you are now admitted and to which you are now de-
T

voted, which will procure you knowledge sufficient to

take aw ay the veil from before your eyes which yet re-
r

mains there and will enable you to arrive at the perfect

and sublime degree. By practicing the many valuable
lessons you have learned in the preceding grades, and
above all the study of geometry, and by making virtue
your guide through the journey through life, w^e hope
and trust that you will be fitted for the duties of a,
Grand Master Architect, and gain admission into the
^50 GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT.

place where you may rest from your labors, and

secret,
with joy unspeakable, contemplate the pillar of beauty.
My
brother, the history of the degree which you have
just now taken is short. I would merely say to you that
masonic tradition informs us that King Solomon es-
tablished this grade with a view to forming a school of
Architecture for the instruction of the craftsmen em-
ployed in the building of the temple and to animate
them with a desire of arriving at perfection in the
110
Royal Art. He was a prince equally renowned for his
justice, wisdom and foresight; he therefore desired to
reward the faithful and meritorious craftsmen, so that
by perfection in the Art, they might be better prepared
to approach the throne of God.

Heaccordingly, for this purpose cast his eyes upon

the Grand Masters o'f the workmen. The Sublime
Knights Elected as persons properly qualified to assist
him in preparing for the fulfillment of the promise
made to Enoch, to Moses and to David, that in the full-
nes of time, God would dwell in a fixed temple and that
his name should be there.
Thus my brother, ends the degree of Grand Master
Architect.

Note 110 .— If I were to define Freemasonry as an art I should say that

It was an art which taught the construction of a spiritual temple, just
as the art of architecture teaches the construction of a material temple.
And I should illustrate the train of ideas by which, the Freemasons were
led to symbolize the Temple of Solomon as a spiritual temple of man’s
nature, by borrowing the language of St. Peter, who says to his Christian
initiates: ‘Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house.’ Aud
with great emphasis, and as still more illustrative, would I cite the
—
language of the Apostle of the Gentiles that Apostle who, of all others,
most delighted in symbolism and who says: ‘Know ye not that ye are the
temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
And this is the reason why Freemasonry is called an art.
Having thus determined the conditions under which Freemasonry be-
comes an art the next inquiry will be why it has been distinguished
from all other arts in being designated, par excellence, the Royal Art.
And here we must abandon all thought that this title comes in any
way from the connection of Freemasonry with earthly monarchs from —
the patronage or the membership of kings. Freemasonry obtains no addi-
tion to its intrinsic value from a connection with the political heads of
states. Kings, when they enter within its sacred portals, are no longer
kings, but brethren. ’’—Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry. Article
Royal Art.
 CLOSING CEREMONIES
Grand Master Architect.
Most Powerful —Brother Inspector, give me the sign ?

Inspector— (Gives it.)

Most Powerful — (Opens his case instruments and

of
says:) Let us work, (all the brethren present arrange
their instruments on the table three by three.)
—
Most Powerful (Puts his left hand on the compass
of proportion" leaning on his right.) Brother Inspector
do 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 Bab.
—
Most Powerful Go on, Brother Inspector.
—
Inspector Ba.
Most Powerful — Make an end.
Inspector— Naim.
Most Powerful— (Makes a triangle with compass his
and rule and my dear brethren, we
says,) will finish.
All— (Keplace their instruments in their we cases)
finish.
Most Powerful— Brother Inspector, what’s the hour?
Inspector— The two principles are and reconciled,
beauty generated, the morning
is has star risen.
Most Powerful— (Strikes 0 Brother Inspector
00.)
give notice that Chapter
this is closed.
Inspector— (Strikes 0 Brethren you
00.) please will
take notice that Chapter
this is closed.
Junior Warden — (Strikes 0 Brethren you
00.) will
please take notice that this Chapter is closed.
All give the sign and the Chapter is closed.
 HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
Twelfth Degree or Grand Master Architect.
Masonic Tom-foolery and Sham — The Imposition of Pretended Scientific
Instruction —Object in Falsifying History.

Macoy Note 107) declares

( this degree “purely scien-
tific/’ And, though the lodge is still called a Chapter
by the clerical inventors, mathematical instruments
and columns representing the five orders of architecture
are introduced, and the lodge-master, now called “Most
Powerful,” opens a case of instruments upon a table
surrounded by members and says “Let- ug work.” :

And after their going through some ceremonial shams,

says: “We will finish.” And all respond, “We finish;”
and put up their instruments. Now to see that this is
mere tom-foolery and sham, one has only to look on a
Masonic procession and see who compose it.
Judge Daniel II. Whitney, of Belvidere, Boone
County, 111., while Worshipful Master of Lodge No. GO
in that place, wrote to the Grand Master of the Grand
Lodge of Illinois a letter dated July 6, 1861, in which
he says:
“I find myself associated as a Mason with drunkards,
j

blackguards, loafers, gamblers, whore-masters and mur-

derers.”
And being tried for this and other statements, Judge -

Whitney gave in proof facts, from the criminal records

of the county, etc. Now the town of Belvidere and its
 , ,

IMPOSITION OP PRETENDED SCIENTIFIC INSTRUCTION. 253

lodge, would compare favorably with other towns and

lodges in the country, and Judge Whitney testified that
there were upright citizens who were members of that
lodge; yet,put mathematical instruments in the
to
hands of any lodge in the United States, with a view to
learn or practice the science of geometry or architecture
would be simple bald imposture; an imposition which
would justify the belief that the men who practiced it
had other, ulterior and sinister objects, which they were
seeking to conceal by so shallow a pretense.
The only rational object and use of this Twelfth De-
gree is that it gives a drill requiring the candidate to
give the signs of the French degrees from the Fourth
up to the Twelfth ;
to unify and strengthen the impos-
ture, an object kept constantly in view.
It is noticeable that no prayer is inserted in this de-
gree; not even to the “Grand Architect,” Adonai, or
other impudent substitutes for the Bible names of God,
which appear in the prayers of this rite.
It is noticeable also that The Most Powerful calls
”
Masonry, “The Royal Art a title given it by Charles
II, ( sec Rehold p. JJ,) which leads Mackey (Note 110)
to a dishonest attempt to disprove the true historic -

source of that title, because, forsooth, kings who join

the lodge are only “brethren.”
And Mackey himself, in his articles on Ramsay
yet,
Stuart Masonry etc., gives abundant proof that our
Scottish Bite sprung up in France, where and when
“the lodges were composed of Scotch conspirators and
accomplices of the Jesuits.” (Art. Stuart Masonry.) —
That they by Masonry restored Charles and Popery to
the British throne, and that Ramsay altered Masonry
to suit the French nobility, and that the title “Royal
 t

254 OBJECT IN FALSIFYING HISTORY.

”
Art given Masonry by Charles, was adopted and used
in that French system, sent here by Morin and that
our American Masonry is that system. And this
attempt to obliterate the meaning of the title, “Royal
”
Art in this degree, to make the lodge popular in our
Republic, by denying its history and well known source
is a part of its one grand system of fraud and falsifica-
tion.
Mackey's home was Charleston, S. C., the seat of the
Pike Supreme. Council, whose rite was brought there by
Morin from a “Council of Emperors'’ in Paris. And
the attempt to obliterate the Romish and “Royal” origin
of the Scottish Rite can only succeed by abolishing his-
tory. As well attempt to prove that its Supreme Com-
mander, Pike, did not fight against the United States
flag at Pea Ridge; and that “Empire” was not the ob-
ject of the secession rebellion.
 CHAPTER XXI
Thirteenth or Royal Arch 111 Degree

This
T
ARIES OR THE RAM.

an important and interesting grade in the

is

ineffable series for this reason; the more a Freemason

progresses in the study and practice of his Sublime Art
the more he feels a desire to penetrate the secrets of
nature and to approach its Divine Author. Matters
that have only been obscurely hinted at and darkly
shadowed forth in the preceding grades, in this, rapidly
culminate towards the development of the grand mys-
tery of masonry, fully explained in the Sublime Degree
of Perfection.
The dark clouds and mists that have hitherto veiled
the sacred mysteries now begin to be dispelled ;
the
glorious dawn illumines the East with its bright efful-
gence and its rays penetrate into dark and hidden places.
*
—
Note 111. “Royal Arch Masonry. That division of Speculative Masonry
which is engaged in the investigation of the mysteries connected with the
Royal Arch, no matter under what name or in what Rite. Thus the
mysteries of the Knight of the Ninth Arch constitute the Royal Arch
Masonry of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite just as much as those
of the Royal Arch of Zeruhbabel do the Royal Arch of the York and
American Rites.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Royal
Arch Masonry.
256 ROYAL ARCH DECREE.

In tills degree, the candidate travels successively

through the Nine mystic Arches of the First Cause or
Principle, Existence, Cod, Immortality, Fortitude,
Toleration, Power, Mercy and Joy, which is the term of
every successful labor.

This degree is closely connected with that which

follows it, and forms a beautiful, solemn and impressive
introductory to it.

decorations This assembly is styled a College,

and as much as possible ought to be .h olden in a most
secret place, a vault under ground without doors or win-
dows; in the centre of the top of said vault must he a
trap door large enough to admit a man. The vault is
supported by nine arches, on each of which is written
one of the following names Principium. Existens, Po-
:

tens, Eternitas, Infinitum, Solus, Misericors, Sapientia,

Justus.
This college should be hung with red and white hang-
ings and illuminated by nine lights ;
three in the East,
three in the West and three in the South.

titles :
— There must be five officers in the college.
The Master seated in the East under a canopy, repre-
sents Solomon, and is styled Thrice Puissant Grand
Master. He is clothed in a yellow robe, over which he
wears a royal mantle of blue satin a crown is upon his ;

head and a scepter in his hand he also wears the order

;

and 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 the
order and jewel a. crown is upon his head and a sword
:

in his hand.
 INITIATION. 25 7

The third officer represents Jabulum or Zabulon” 2 the

Grand Treasurer, seated in the North, clothed in a blue
robe, and wearing round his neck a white ribbon from
which is suspended a Golden Key; on the ribbon is pain-
ted the initials J. :.V. \I. -.0. \L. \ meaning Inveni Fer-
bum in ore leonis.
Thes fourth officer represents Joabert, seated in the
South, and is styled Grand Secretary; is clothed in blue.
The fifth officer represents Stolkin, seated in the
est, and is st}r led Grand
Inspector. He is clothed in a
blue robe, wearing the order and jewel, with a sword in
his hand. /

Not less than three can be initiated at one time.

All the other brethren are clothed in black robes and
caps, with the apron, order and jewel of the degree.

apron: Purple silk, bordered with white, on it a

triangle.
sash:— A broad purple ribbon, worn from the right
shoulder to the left hip, (in some lodges instead of the
sash a collar of the same color is worn) to which is sus-
pended the jewel.
jewel: A
Golden Triangle, on one side of which is
engraved the Delta of Enoch with rays; on the other
the trap-door of a vault.
Note 112.— “Zabulon. The Greek form of Zebulun, the tenth son of
Jacob. Delaunay (Thuilleur. p. 70) says that some
ritualists suppose that
it is the true form of the word
of which Jabulum is a corruption. This
is incorrect. Jabulum is a corrupt form of Giblim. Zabulon has no con-
nection with the high degrees, except that in the Royal
Arch he represents
one of the stones in the Pectoral. ’’—Mackey’s
Encyclopaedia of Free-
masonry, Article Zabulon.
 OPENING CEREMONIES
1 18
ROYAL ARCH DEGREE.

—
Thrice Puissant Brother Inspector, what place are
we in?
—
Inspector Thrice Puissant, we are in the most sa-
cred place in the earth.
—
Thrice Puissant How came you in this sacred place?
—
Inspector By an effect of providence.
—
Thrice Puissant Explain this to me.

A
—
Inspector I dug in the ancient ruins of Enoch 114 .

I penetrated through nine arches un-

der ground, and in the end I found
the Delta which God had promised
the Holy Patriarchs should be
found in fullness of time.
Delta.
Thrice Puissant —What is the Delta ?
Note 113.— “The history of the degree has been
pute but all agree that it is the birth of the ISth century. much
a subject of dis-
substantiated theory is. that to the learning and talent of
The best
Kamsey, tutor to James the Second, the germ of the degree is Chevalier
due and
that its origin must be set at about the year A. D. 1740.
form of the degree differs greatly in different countries.
The peculiar
We
authority of the masonic traveler. E. D. Cooke, that the English
have the
Roval
Arch system has no other resemblance to the American form than
the
one word which constitutes the mystic key to the whole; that in lottery
.purposes, order of succession, terms, paraphernalia and obligations
the
two are radically different. In all countries it is esteemed ns the com-
plement of the Master Mason's degree. "—Morris's Masonic Dictionary.
Article Royal Arch Mason.
—
Note 114. “Enoch. The degeueracy mankind became so great be-
fore the flood, and their perversions of pure antediluvian Masonry so
grievous, that, according to our traditions. Enoch feared the genuine
secrets would be lost and swallowed in the predicted deluge. To
prevent which he hid the grand secret, engraven on a white oriental
porphyry stone, in the bowels of the earth; and being apprehensive that
the morality and science which had been embodied in Freemasonry with
such care would be absorbed In the general destruction, to preserve the
principles of the science, he built two pillars near the spot where they
were concealed, with an inscription in hieroglyphics, importing that near it
was a prqeious treasure, whirli had been dedicated to God." Macoy’a
Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Freema|ia**v, Article Enoch,
 OPENING CEREMONIES. 259

Inspector —A golden triangle, replenished with a

great light, on which was engraved by Enoch, the great
and mysterious name of the Great Architect of the
Universe.
Thrice Puissant —Who are you.
Inspector— am what
I am, my name
I is .

Thrice Puissant — Do you know the true pronuncia-

tion of the name of the Great Architect of the Universe?
Inspector— sacred name only known by the
It is a
Grand Elect,Perfect and Sublime Masons.
Thrice Puissant — What your quality?
is

Inspector— A Knight of the Eoyal Arch.

Thrice Puissant — How were you received in this de-
gree?
Inspector— Solomon in company Hiram King of
of
Tyre, to recompense my and constancy, created me
zeal
into this degree, with Joabert and Stolkin my compan-
ions.
Thrice Puissant —Have you anything else to desire?

Inspector— Yes, the Sublime Masonry known by the

name of Perfection.
Thrice Puissant —God may perhaps permit one day
that your wishes may he accomplished, and recompense
you according your deserts.
to
Thrice Puissant —
(Strikes five; 00 000. All rise and
form a circle round the Ark.)
Thrice Puissant — Let us pray.

PRAYER.

Great Architect of the Universe, adorable God in all,

be so kind and exact oar desires in this moment when
we beg thy divine goodness. In thyself is the true wis-
dom to which we aspire, and by the strength of thy
260 ROYAL ARCH DEGREE.

favor we may hope wisdom which shall make

for thy
the beauty we dare to consecrate to them That is to :

say, its beauty may purify our hearts in which we de-

sire continually that you may reside. Amen.

Thrice Puissant — (Strikes live; 00 000 with his
hands.)
Hiram King of Tyre — (Strikes five; 00 000 ;
with his
hands.)
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 or
Ark, with the sign of admiration, after a little while
they help each other and rise; and all the brethren
kneel and make sign of admiration.
—
Thrice Puissant (Strikes one; 0. All help and raise
each other.)
Thrice Puissant — Brother Inspector, give notice that
this Royal College is open.
—
Inspector Brethren you will please take notice that
this Royal College is open.
Thrice Puissant — (Strikes one; 0. All retire to their
places.)
 —

CHAPTER XXII

Thirteenth or Eoyal Argh Degree.

INITIATION.

Master of Ceremonies prepares the candidates in the

ante-room as Grand Master Architects.
—
Master of Ceremonies (Knocks five; 00 000.)
—
Inspector Most Thrice Puissant, there is an alarm
at the door.
Thrice Puissant —Brother Expert, ascertain the cause
of that alarm.
—
Expert (Goes to the door, knocks two and three,
then opens the door.) Who knocks at the door of our
college to interrupt our deliberations?
—
Master of Ceremonies These three whose names are
Toub, Bahani, Hamelabel; Light, Labor and Affection,
aspire to recover the true name of God, which has re-
mained buried for ages under the ruins caused by
superstition and despotism.
—
Expert Are they willing to descend into the bowels
of the earth to seek for the treasure?
Master of Ceremonies —They are.
—
Note 115. “Royal Arch of Ramsay. The system of Royal Arch
Masonry invented early in the last century by the Chevalier Ramsay. It
was the first fabrication of the Royal Arch degree in an independent
.

form, and, although rejected by the English Masons, has been adopted
as the basis of the system in many of the continental Rites. The thir-
teenth degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite is probably s
very fair representation of it, at least substantially. It exercised some
Influence also upon Dermott and Dunckerley in their composition of their
Royal Arch systems.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article
Royal Arch of Ramsay.
 I

262 THIRTEENTH OR ROYAL ARCH DEGREE.

Expert —
(Shuts the door.) Thrice Puissant, there are
in the ante-room three brethren who aspire to recover
the true name of God, which has remained buried for
ages under the ruins caused by superstition and despot-
ism.
Thrice Puissant —What are their names?
—
Expert Toub, Bahani and Hamelabel; Light, Labor
and Affection.
Thrice Puissant —
Are they willing to descend into the
bowels of the earth to seek for the treasure?
Expert — They are, Thrice Puissant.
Thrice Puissant—-Let them be admitted.
—
Expert (Opens the door.) Let them be admitted.
—
Master of Ceremonies (Enters with the candidates
and conducts them to the Altar.) Thrice Puissant, 1
have the pleasure of introducing to you three, brethren,
whose names are, Toub, Bahani, Hamelabel ; Light La-
bor and Affection, who aspire to recover the true name of
God, which has remained buried for ages under the
ruins, caused by superstition and despotism.
—
Thrice Puissant How can they hope to find it, bro-
ther Inspector?
Inspector —With thought
affection for their motives,
for their guide and labor as their means, they hope to
remove the ruins and penetrate the depths which conceal
the treasure they covet.
|
Thrice Puissant —Brethren, you are at liberty to per-
form the work you propose, and may the Great Archi-
tect of the Universe crown your efforts with success.
Brother Expert, lead the candidates to the place of
search.
(Expert leads the candidates to the East in front of
the Ark of Alliance.) - 1

\
 INITIATION. 263

Thrice Puissant —
My brethren, Enoch before the
116

flood, desiring to preserve the knowledge of the name of

God for future ages, and h oping that one day the de-
scendants of Noah might be able and worthy of learn-
ing it, built a sacred vault in the bowels of the earth,
closed the entrance with a key-stone and marked the
spot 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 rules
of moral action.
In the vault below, he had placed the Cubic Stone of
Wisdom, by which a knowledge of the name of the
Great Architect of the Universe might be obtained.
Heretofore, my brethren, you have not been able to
open the sac-red vault which is symbolized by the Holy
Ark before you. If your intentions are good, your mind
clear and your hands diligent, God will permit you to
remove the key-stone and penetrate the depths.
—
Thrice Puissant Brother Expert, you will now cause
one of the candidates to remove the lid of the Ark, and
lift the first of the Arches. (Which is done.)
j Expert—Principium .

Thrice Puissant — God is tne principle, the owner of

all things, the great supreme cause and Universal Fa-
ther.
Thrice Puissant — Brother Expert, you will now cause
one of the candidates to lift the second of the Arches.
(Which is done.)

—
Note 116. “Enoch. —
[Scotch Masonry.] The name of this patriarch is
introduced in Scotch Masonry in the degree of Knights of the Ninth or
Royal Arch. He was born A. M. U22, and was translated without seeing
death, A. M. 9S7. He is fabled to have built a subterranean temple upon
the spot afterwards known as Mt. Moriah. This he dedicated to God.
Therein he deposited the secrets of Ineffable Masonry, which remained
undiscovered until the days of Solomon. He also built two great pillars,
respectively of brass and marble, and upon them indicated by hieroglyphics
—
the fact that the sacred treasures lay beneath.’’ Morris’s Masonic Dic-
tionary. Article Enoch.
264 THIRTEENTH OR ROYAL ARCH DEGREE.

Export — Existens.
Thfi.ce Puissant is — God
fo in him wp live and have
1 i
;

mir being.
—
Thrice Puissant Brother Expert, you will now cause
one of the candidates to lift the third of the Arches.
(Which is done.)
Expert —Potens.
Th Puissant —God
rice power, things are subject
is all
to hisunlimited dominion and strength. irresistible
Thrice Puissant — Brother Expert, you now cause will
one of the candidates to lift the fourth of the Arches.
(Which is done.) ^
Expert —TEterna Us.
Thrice Puissant — God is eternal, without beginning
and without end, unto him the past, the present and the
future are one.
—
Thrice Puissant Brother Expert, you will now cause
one of the candidates to lift the fifth of the Arches.
(Which is done.)
Expert — hi fin Hum .

Thrice Puissant — God is infinite, he dwelleth in all,

with all, and beyond all. He is the centre which hath
no circumference. He is the light which shines in every
direction, without measure or limit.
Thrice Puissant — Brother Expert, you will now cause
one of the candidates to lift the sixth of the Arches.
(Which is done.)
Expert — Solus.
Thrice Puissant — God one. Than him there no is is

other.His design and are single and immutable.

will

Thrice Puissant — Brother Expert, you now cause will r

one of the candidates to lift the seventh of the Arches.

(Which is done.)
Expert —M isericors.
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Thrice Puissant —
God is love, his unbounded and
inexhaustable mercy is our trust and our hope, and
giveth joy throughout the Universe.
—
Thrice Puissant Brother Expert, you will now cause
one of the candidates to lift the eighth of the Arches.
(Which is done.)
Expert —Sapien — t ia.

Thrice Puissant God is wisdom, he knoweth all

things, past, present and future, and there is no mystery
unknown to him, for his understanding is the arch of
nature.
Thrice Puissant —
Brother Expert, you will now cause
one of tire candidates to lift the ninth of the Arches.
(Which is done.)
Expert — Justus.
Thrice Puissant — God is justice, his mercy and truth

giveth the weight on one side, and on the other, his

judgments are perfect.
Expert — (Raises his hands in admiration, bends the
knee to the ground and exclaims,) Jehovah.
—
Thrice Puissant My brethren, when of old, the
chosen three had traveled the nine arches, they came to
117
a Dome and beheld upon the Cube Stone the resplen-
dant Delta, on which the true name of the Great Archi-
tect of the Universe was impressed in letters of dazzling
light, they fell on their knees, made the signs of admira-
tion and exclaimed, Jehovah, as you have done. But
they were not able to pronounce the ineffable name.
Nevertheless they hastened to inform Solomon and Hi-
ram King of Tyre of their wonderful discovery, and the
two kings caused the Cube Stone and Delta to be placed
in a sacred vault of -nine Arches similar to the ancient
one. This sacred vault was beneath the temple im-
mediately under the Holy of Holies, where the Ark of
Alliance was preserved.
—
Note 117. “Cubical Stone. This symbol is called by the French
Masons pierre cubique and by the German cubik stein. It is the Perfect
Ashlar of the English and American systems. See Ashlar, Perfect.”-—
Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Cubical Stone.
26(5 THIRTEENTH OR ROYAL ARCH DEGREE.

And to reward the three discoverers of the lost word,

lie appointed them the guardians of the inestimable
treasure. Are you willing to accept the office?
Expert —We are.
Thrice Puissant —
Brethren, the Great Architect of
the Universe hath done you the greatest of favors, it is
him who hath chosen you to discover the most precious
treasure of masons, and you are his elected. I give you
joy of it. Brother Expert you will now conduct the can-
didates to the Altar, there to contract the most solemn
obligation, and I will reward them for their labor.

OBLIGATION, ROYAL ARCH DEGREE.

I do promise before the Great Architect of the

Universe and this Puissant Koval Assembly, never to
reveal the secrets which are to be entrusted to me, es-
pecially what is to be revealed to me of the sacred mys-
teries. I promise to renew my zeal for masonry, and
my friendship for my brethren, and never to separate
myself from this Royal Lodge but by leave from the
Most Powerful Grand Master, and of his Grand Officers.
I promise never to reveal or consent that a mason
shall be received into this degree, but according to our
laws. I further promise to observe at all times, the
Statutes and Regulations which shall be prescribed to
me by this Royal Lodge and to acknowledge at all times
the Council of Princes of Jerusalem and of the Roval %/

Secretary for the Sovereign Chief of the Ro}*al Art, if

furnished with authentic title, and submit myself to
their decrees, to sign my submission to the most authen-
tic act of it.

And if I fail in this, my present engagement, T con-

sent to suffer all the pains of all my former obligations,
my body to be exposed as food to the ferocity of the
wild beasts.
Go God help me in righteousness and equity.
Thrice Puissant —
By virtue of the authoritv and
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power in me vested as Thrice Puissant Grand Master

of this Royal Lodge, I do hereby proclaim you Knights
of the Royal Arch, and faithful go ardians of the Sacred
Treasure. Arise Sir Knights, I greet you.
—
Thrice Puissant Brother Expert, you will now con-
duct the candidates to our brother Inspector in the West,
who will invest them with the secrets of this degree, as
a reward for their labors.
Expert conducts them to the Inspector who gives
them the sign.
SIGN.

A d m ir at ion
raise the hands
to heaven, the
head leaning on
the left shoulder,
fall on the right
knee.
Second — Ado-
ration, fall on
both knees. Second Sign, Royal Arch.

First Sign. Royal Arch.

TOKEN.

Place your hands beneath the other’s

arms, as if to help him to rise, saying
at the same time, P»e of Good Cheer.
The other returns the token, saying
Jabulum.

Token.
2 68 THIRTEENTH OH ROYAL ARCTT DEGREE.

—
battery: Five strokes, by two and three; 00 000.
SACRED WORD Jehovah. :
—
—
hours of labor: From evening until morning.
—
Inspector Brother Expert, you will now conduct the
brethren to the East, to listen to the discourse by the
Grand Orator.

DISCOURSE BY GRAND ORATOR.

My brethren, it is my intention at this time to give

you a clearer account than you have yet been acquainted
with of masonry, of which at present you barely know
the elements. In doing this, it will be necessary to ex-
plain to you some circumstances of very remote antiq-
1 1

uity. Enoch son of J ared, was the sixth son in descent

,

from Adam and lived in the fear and love of his God.
God appeared unto him in a dream and spoke to him by
inspiration and communicated to him as follows: As
thou art desirous of knowing my name, follow me and
I will acquaint and teach thee. After this a mountain
119
seemed to rise to the heavens, and Enoch was carried
there, when God showed him a golden triangular plate,
enlightened brilliantly and his ever blessed name en-
graved thereon in Hebrew characters. He gave strict
orders never to pronounce it.
After that Enoch seemed to be carried under ground
perpendicularly through nine arches, and in the ninth
arch he saw the same brilliant plate with the same
r

—
Note 118. “Enoch. Though the Scriptures furnish but a meagre ac-
count of Enoch, the traditions of Freemasonry closely connect him. by
numerous circumstances, with the early history of the Institution. ”
Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Enoch.
Note 119.— “T he circumstances which ocurred at that time are recorded
in a tradition which forms what has been called the greut Masonic
“Legend of Enoch.’’ and which runs to this effect:
Enoch, being inspired by lie Most High, and in commemoration of a
t

wonderful vision, built a temple under ground and dedicated it to tiod."

— Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Enoch.
 INITIATION. 269

characters and a flaming light around it, which he had

seen before.
Enoch being most high God,
full of tbe spirit of the
built a temple under ground and dedicated it to God,
accompanied with nine arches, one above the other, in
the same form as that he had seen in his dream.
120
Methuselah the son of Enoch, constructed the build-
ing without being acquainted with his father’s motives.
This happened in that part of the world which was
afterwards called the land of Canaan, and since known
121
by the name of the Holy Land. Enoch caused a trian-
gular plate of gold to be made, each side of which was a
cubit long. He enriched it with the most precious stones
and encrusted the plate upon a stone of agate of the
same form. He then engraved upon it the ineffable
characters and placed it on a triangular pedestal of
white and black marble, which he deposited in the
deepest arch. When Enoch’s temple was completed, he
made a door of stone and put a ring of iron therein by
which it might be occasionally raised, and placed it over
the opening of the arch, that the matters enclosed there-
in might be preserved from the universal destruction
—
Note 120. “His son, Methuselah, constructed the building, although
he was not acquainted with his father’s motives for the erection. This
temple consisted of nine brick vaults, situated perpendicularly beneath
each other and communicating by apertures left in the arch of each
—
vault.’’ Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Enoch.
Note 121. — “Enoch
then caused a triangular plate of gold to be made,
each side of which was a cubit long; he enriched it with the most precious
stones and encrusted the plate upon a stone of agate of the same form.
On the plate he engraved, in ineffable characters, the true name of Deity,
and, placing it on a cubical pedestal of white marble, he deposited the
whole within the deepest arch.
When this subterranean building was completed he made a door of
stone, and, attaching to it a ring of iron, by which it might be occasion-
ally raised, he placed it over the opening of the uppermost arch, and so
covered it over that the aperture could not be discovered. Enoch himself
—
was not permitted to enter it but once a year.’’ Mackey’s Encyclopaedia
of Freemasonry, Article E^ioch,
 — — —

£70 THIRTEENTH OR ROYAL ARCH DEGREE.

impending, and no^c hut Enoch " knew of the treasure

1

which the arches/contained. And behold the wickedness

of mankind increased more and became grievous in the
sight oi the Lord, and God threatened to destroy the
whole world.
1 s
Enoch * perceiving that the knowledge of the Arts
was likelv to be lost in the general destruction, and be-
ing desirous of preserving the principles of the sciences
for the posterity of those whom God should be pleased
124
to spare, built two great pillars on the top of the high-
est mountain ; the one of brass, to withstand water, the
other of marble, to withstand fire, and he engraved on
—
Note 122. “A writer in the Freemason’s Quarterly Review says, on
this subject, that “ it seems probable that Enoch introduced the specula-
tive principles into the Masonic creed, and that he originated its exclusive
character,” which theory must be taken, if it is accepted at all, with
very considerable modifications.
The years of his life may also be supposed to contain a mystic meaning,
for they amounted to three hundred and sixty-five, being exactly equal
to a solar revolution. In all the ancient rites this number has occupied a
prominent place, because it was the representative of the annual eourse
of that luminary which, as the great frnctifier of the earth, was the
peculiar object of divine worship.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freema-
sonry, Article Enoch.

Note 123. —
“Enoch himself is but the symbol of initiation, and his
legend intended symbolically to express the doctrine that the true
is
Word or divine truth was preserved in the ancient initiations.” Mackey’s
Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Enoch, Legend of.
—
Note 124. “The legend goes on to inform us that after Enoch had
completed the subterranean temple, fearing that the principles of those
arts and sciences which he had cultivated with so much assiduity would
he lost in that general destruction of which he had received a prophetic
vision, he erected two pillars —
the one of marble, to withstand the influ-
ence of tire, and the other of brass, to resist the action of water. On
the pillar of brass he engraved the history of the creation, the principles
of the arts and sciences, and the doctrines of Speculative Freemasonry
as they were practiced in his times; and on the one of marble he
inscribed characters in hieroglyphics, importing that near the spot where
thejL stood a precious treasure was deposited in a subterranean vault.
Josephus gives an account of those pillars in the first book of his An-
tiquities. He ascribes them to the children of Seth, which is by no
means a contradiction of the Masonic tradition, since Enoch was one of
these children. ‘That their inventions,’ says the historian, ‘might not
be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam’s prediction
that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire and
at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two
pillars— the one of brick, the other of stone; they inscribed their dis-
coveries on them both, that in case the pillar of brick should he destroyed
by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain and exhibit those dis-
coveries to mankind, and also inform them that there was another pillar
of brick erected by them. Now ibis remains iti the land of Sirlad to this
day.’” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Enooh.
 INITIATION. 271

the marble pillar hieroglyphics, signifying that there

was a most precious treasure concealed in the Arches
under ground, which he had dedicated to God.
And he engraved on the pillar of brass, the principles
of the liberal arts, particularly of masonry. Methuselah
was the father of Lamech 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, 1 will
punish the sins of mankind with a general deluge. There-
fore build an ark capable of containing thyself and fam-
ily as also a pair of every living creature upon earth,

and those only shall be saved from the general destruc-

tion which I am about to inflict for the iniquities of the
people.”
125
And God gave unto Noah a plan by which the Ark
was to be constructed. Noah was one hundred years in
building the Ark he was
;
six hundred years old when it
was and his son,
finished, Seth, was ninety-nine. His
father, Lamech, had died a short time before, aged 777
years. There w as not at this time any of the ancient
r

patriarchs living save Methuselah, the grandfather of

Noah, w’lio was about 969 years old, and it is supposed
that he perished in the general ruin.
.The Ark being finished, Noah agreeable to the instruc-
tions he had received from the Most High, went into it
with his family, and took with him such things as he
was commanded. The* flood took place in the year of
—
Note 125. “Noah. Iu all the old Masonic manuscript Constitutions
that are extant, Noah and tho flood play an important part of the ‘Legend
of the Craft.’ Hence, as the Masonic system became developed, tbo
Patriarch was looked upon as what was called a patron of Masonry. And
this connection of Noah with the mythic history of the Order was ren-
dered still closer by the influence of many symbols borrowed from th°
Arkite worship, one of the most predominant of the ancient faiths, go
intimately were incorporated the legends of Noah with the legends of
Masonry that F’reemasons began, at length, to be called, and are still
called ‘Noachidae.’ or the descendants of Noah, a term first applied by
—
Anderson, and very frequently used at the present day," Mackey’s Em.
cyclopaedia, of rreemaaonry, Article Noah,
272 THIRTEENTH OR ROYAL ARCH' DEGREE.

the world 1656, and destroyed most of the superb monu-

ments of antiquity.
The marble pillar of Enoch the general destruc-
fell in

tion, but by divine permission the pillar of brass with-

stood the water, by which means the ancient state of the
liberal arts and particularly Masonry has been handed
down to us.
We learn from Holy Writ the history of succeeding
times till the Israelites became slaves to the Egyptians,
from which bondage they were freed under the conduct
of Moses their leader to go and take the promised land.
We also learn from the annals of those that were found
in the archives of Scotland, that in a certain battle the
Ark of Alliance was lost in a forest and the same was
found again by the roaring of a Id on who ceased to roar
and crouched on the approach of the Israelites. Said lion
had a short time before devoured a great number of the
Egyptians who had attempted to carry away the same.
The lion keeping in his mouth the Key of the Ark, and
on the approach of the High Priest he dropped the Key
and retired at a distance, crouching and tame, not offer-
ing the least violence to the chosen people.
The same Divine history particularly informs us of
the different movements of the Israelites until they be-
came possessed of the land of promise and of the suc-
ceeding events until Divine providence was pleased to
gave the sceptre to David, who though fully determined
to 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 well
beloved of him on Mount Sinai
God and that he spoke to
in a burning bush and communicated to him his Divine
Laws, and many promises renewing an alliance with
 INITIATION. 873

him and then gave him the true pronunciation of his

Holy name by which he would always be invoked.
It was at this time that Moses replied, “Who Art
Thou?” /‘God said r?7?& H'llK is my true name,
I am a strong and zealous God.”
Solomon being the wisest of princes had fully in
remembrance the promises of God to Moses, that some
of his successors fullness of time should discover his
in>

holy name, and his wisdom inspired him to believe that

this could not he accomplished until he had erected to
the living God a temple in which her might deposit the
precious treasure. Accordingly Solomon began to build
in the fourth year of his reign, agreeable to the plan
given him by David, his father, upon the Ark of alliance.
He chose a spot for this purpose, the most beautiful and
healthy in all Jerusalem.
On digging for the foundation of Solomon’s temple,
they found an ancient ruin of a very large edifice and
a quantity of riches, such as Vases, Gold and Silver
.

Urns, Marble Porphyry, Jasper and Agate Columns,

with a number of precious stones which were all carried
to Solomon.
This virtuous King presuming that on that spot be-
fore the deluge perhaps, a temple had been erected and
fearing it had been dedicated to the service of some
false God, and fearing lest the true name of Deity might
be profaned in that place, he would not build there,
after which they were unable to find any more precious
treasure.
The temple of Solomon was built as we are instructed
by masonry and as we know by the melancholy death
of Hiram A biff.
Solomon in building, caused* to be erected under
ground a cavern of nine arches, and which he named the
Secret Vault. In this sacred vault he caused to he de-
posited a triangular pedestial of white and black marble
with the ineffable name of Deitv encrusted thereon, on
a triangular plate the same as was deposited by Enoch.
274 THIRTEENTH OR ROYAL ARCH DEGREE.

Tliis Solomon called by inspiration the pillar of beauty,

for reason of the beautiful arch which it supported, and
the sacred treasure which providence had designed* to be
encrusted thereon.
To arrive at the Sacred Vault, you were obliged to
pass through a long narrow passage of nine arches fol-
lowing one another by a communication under ground
from the palace of Solomon.
To this place Solomon used to go in company of
Hiram King of Tyre and Hiram Abiff privately, to
enter on holy matters.
The loss of Hiram Abiff deprived the two Kings of
this satisfaction as the number of two was insufficient to
enter there ; and as three were absolutely necessary, they
were at a loss who they should choose to supply the place
of Hiram Abiff. Som^ Master Intendants, Sublime
Elected Knights and Grand Master Architects were
informed of the presence of the King of Tyre at Je-
rusalem, and they were not ignorant of the fact that
when Hiram Abiff was alive that Solomon had a partic-
128
ular place under ground called the Secret Vault only
—
Note 126. “Vault, Secret. As a symbol, the Secret Vault does not
present itself in the primary degrees of Masonry. It is found only in
the high degrees, such as the Royal Arch of all the Rites, where it plays
an important part. Dr. Oliver, in his Historical Landmarks, (vol. ii.,
p. 434.) gives, while referring to the building of the second Temple, the
following general detail of the Masonic legend of this vault.
‘The foundations of the Temple were opened, and cleared from the
accumulation of rubbish, that a level might be procured for the com-
mencement of the building. While engaged in excavations for this pur-
pose, three fortunate sojourners are said to have discovered our ancient
stone of foundation, which had been deposited in the secret crypt by
Wisdom, Strength and Beauty, to prevent the communication of ineffable
secrets to profane or unworthy persons. The discovery having been com-
municated to the prince, prophet and priest of the Jews, the stone was
adopted as the chief corner-stone of the re-edified building, and thus
became, in a new and more expressive sense, the type of a more excel-
lent dispensation. An avenue was- also accidentally discovered, sup-
ported by seven pair of pillars, perfect and entire, which, from their
situation, had escaped the fury of the flames that had consumed the Tem-
ple. and the desolation of 'war that had destroyed the city. The secret
vault which had been built by Solomon as a secure depository for cer-
tain secrets that would inevitably have been lost without some such
expedient for their preservation, communicated by a subterranean ave-
nue with the king’s palace; but at the destruction of Jerusalem the
entrance having been closed by the rubbish of failing buikliugs. It bad
been discovered by the appearance of a keystone amongst the founda-
tions of the sanctum sanctorum. A careful inspection was. then mad®,
—
and th« invaluable secrets were placed in safe custody.’" Mackey *
Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Vault, Secret.
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INITIATION . 275

known to the two Kings and the deceased. These

brethren went to the two Kings and entreated them to
introduce them into that secret place. When the two
Kings were renewing their alliance, Solomon answered
them with arms extended and head inclining, in this
way: “You cannot expect it, God will admit you one
day to the knowledge of what you now desire/’
Some days after Solomon sent for three Masters
named Joabert, Stolkin and Guiblim and gave them
orders to search once more in the ancient ruins where
they had already found many treasures, in hopes of find-
ing more.
They .departed to fulfill the King’s orders and after
arriving at the designated spot, Guiblim in working with
a pick-axe, met with a large iron ring. He at once hailed
his companions and they concluded something of ex-
traordinary value must have been deposited there. The
three brethren then labored with great ardour and zeal
with shovel and crow and cleared away the earth that
covered the ring, when they found it was fixed to a per-
fect square stone, which with great labor and pains they
raised and found it covered a most dismal great cell
Guiblim proposed to descend, and for that purpose
they fixed a rope around his body and let him down, with
the understanding that if he wished to be raised, he
should make it manifest by shaking the rope. Guiblim
accordingly descended and found himself in an arched
vault, in the pavement of which he found another open-
ing. He descended into that, and there also he found
another opening through which he went, which brought
him into a third vault and made the like observation of
a fourth opening but was afraid to pursue his search he
;

therefore shook the rope and ascended.

He acquainted his companions with the observations
he had made and proposed they should descend in turns
276 THIRTEENTH OR ROYAL ARCTE DEGREE.

to make further observations," but they positively refused.

Guiblim accordingly descended on the following condi-
tions: that through every arch he would shake the rope
slightly, and if ho wished to ascend he would shake the
rope violently.
When lie arrived in the sixth arch he shook the rope
and was hauled up again. He told Joabert and Stolkin
that he had been in 'six arches and had observed an
opening to descend further, and proposed for one of
them todescend as he had worked hard and was afraid
to venture. This however frightened Joabert and Stol-
kin so much, that they absolutely refused to go down.
This raised the zeal of Guiblim, and with a Jighted flam-
beau he descended on the former conditions. When he
was entering the ninth arch a parcel of the stone and
mortar fell suddenly down from the top and his flambeau
went out when he perceived the rays of the sun penetrat-
ing lively, briskly and directly on a golden triangular
plate adorned richly round with precious stones, the
brightness of which so affected Guiblim, it almost de-
prived of sight. He immediately made the sign of ad-
miration which was the same as Solomon and Hiram
King of Tyre had made when they desired to be admit-
ted in the Sacred Vault and Sublime Degree.
Guiblim fell prostrate on his knees, his right hand
Shaking the
before his eyes, his left behind his back.
rope three times, on which Joabert and Stolkin drew
him up and he recounted to them the amazing things he
had seen in the ninth arch. By this account to them
they proposed to descend together bv a rope ladder made
for that purpose. The three accordingly descended, in
the ninth arch and being amazed as was Guiblim, they
also fell prostrate thereat, and having got the
after
better of their surprise they went and raised Guiblim
 INITIATION. 277

and both exclaimed, Hamaluhick Guiblim, that is to say :

Guiblim is a good man, we must keep and recompense

him. They then examined the gold plate*on which they
perceived some characters which they did not under-
stand. Said plate was encrusted on the top of an agate
stone of the same form. They admired the plate with
respect and conceived that the characters meant the
Sacred name of God, which name was only known to
Solomon, Hiram King of Tyre and Hiram Abiff. Tt
seemed to them that after the death of Hiram Abiff the
two Kings not being a sufficient number could never be-
stow this degree upon those who aspired thereto, but
they hoped to receive it by the circumstances of their
finding the precious treasure. They concluded to raise
the Cube Stone on which this golden plate was fixed and
carry it to Solomon. was at break of day when they
It
arrived. The King of Tyre being with Solomon in his
apartment, who on beholding the precious treasure were
struck with such admiration that they both mutually
made the sign of admiration and fell on their knees.
Solomon first recovering from his surprise and seeing
King Hiram on his knees and not yet recovered,
still

Solomon raised him and said Hamaluhick Guiblim.

The two Kings examined the characters of the gold
plate and found it to be the ineffable name of God, but
could not explain any part thereof to the three elected.
Solomon told them that the Great Architect of the Uni-
verse had bestowed on them the most signal favor, and
had chosen them to discover the most precious and rare
treasure of masonry. You are his Elected and I wish
you joy! In recompense for their zeal, fervor and con-
stancy lie created them Knights of the Royal Arch, as
they were the only ones that discovered the same and
by which discovery the arch was called the Royal Arch.
278 THIRTEENTH OR ROYAL ARCTT DEGREE.

He them an interpretation of the

also promised to give
sacred and mysterious characters which they saw on the
G olden Triangular Plate.
The three elected observe*] to Solomon that the first
word he and the King of Tyre spoke to them was the
same they had mutually pronounced in the Ninth Arch
on seeing the treasure.
They two Kings everything they
also recounted to the
had done and seen, by which they had precisely found
the Sign, Token and Word of this degree, known by the
title of Knights of the Koval Arch. Solomon then ex-
plained to them that the promise of God was accom-
plished of his promise to Noah, Moses and David his
father, that one day the true name of him by which he
was to be invoked should be discovered on a golden
plate, but should be forbidden to write it and have per-
mission only to letter it for their consolation, but never
to pronounce or speak it, and to be very circumspect in
lettering it.

You know the Master’s Word was lost at the construc-

tion of the temple by the tragic scene of Hiram Abiff,
our Grand Master Architect ; and now my dear brethren
we are happy to have at this present moment the true
characters wdiich we intend soon to give you the interpre-
tation and pronunciation of. We have now nothing to
do but to recompense you with justice, to the merit due
your work. You are now stamped by the divine hand
and certainly merit this signal favor.
The two Kings and three Knights took the precious
treasure and carried it to the Sacred Vault by the private
way through nine arches, of which none had any knowl-
edge but themselves. They arrived at the pillar of
Beauty, and thereat, worked together to encrust the
 INITIATION. 279

plate on the pedestal. The two Kings seemed gloriously

rejoiced in work with the trowel on that thing which
God had destined should be done by their hands only.
After they had finished their work, the whole five
prostrated themselves to adore the Great Architect of
the Universe, giving him homage, thanks and praise for
his favorable decree in their favor. The brilliancy of
the plate, the splendor of the rubies and diamonds,
placed one on the other, was sufficiently light for the
place without the aid of artificial light.
After their work was done the two Kings changed the
name from Secret to Sacred Vault, known only by the
Grand and Sublime Masons.
Elect, Perfect
It was now time to recompense the three Masters and
Knights of Royal Arch, Guiblim, Joabert and Stolkin.
The two Kings accordingly gave them the degree of
Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Masons, explaining
the Sacred Word engraved on the golden plate, which
was the true name of the most Sacred Omnipotent, and
told them it was the name by which he would be invoked.
A pronunciation which has suffered much and hath been
greatly corrupted. It is very certain that from the
different varieties of this word, the Moors have taken
their Jubar, and the Latins their Jupiter, as the true
pronunciation was not a little lost of the greatest of
names.
Moses having been taught by the Great Architect
himself, relative to the efficacy of this great name provi-
ded Egypt against Drought, Hunger and Sickness.
in

The new elected brethren, Guiblim, Joabert and

Stolkin, took their obligations before God and the two
Kings, never pronounce that word fully and never to
to

permit any mason to receive this Sublime Degree before

he had given long proof of his zeal and attachment for
 ,

280 THIRTEENTH OR ROYAL ARCH DEGREE.

the craft and also to use the same ceremony to communi-

cate this mysterious history of the Divine Delta, near
the Burning Bush where God made the ancient fathers
promise the same.
The number of the Grand and Sublime Elected was
at first three, then five, and continued so until the temple
was completed and dedicated, when King Solomon as a
reward for their faithful services, admitted to this degree
the twelve Grand Masters, who had faithfully presided
over the twelve tribes, also one other Grand Master
Architect.
Nine Ancient Grand Masters, eminent for their virtue,
were chosen Knights of the Koval Arch, mid shortly
after were admitted to the Sublime Degree of Perfec-
tion.
The nine Knights to he admitted to the Sacred Vault
were which
obliged to tylc the doors of the nine arches
led from Solomon's Palace to said Vault.
The most ancient was placed at the door near the
Sacred Vault, and the others bv degrees to the ninth
door near Solomon’s Palace or apartment, never permit-
ting an entrance to any except the Grand Elect, Perfect
and Sublime Masons, giving the Signs, Tokens and
Words of each Arch.
I will now give you the pass-word for each arch. The
pass for the first arch is Jab, to the second Jco, to the
third Juar the fourth Ilajjali , the fifth Gotlia, the sixth
Adonai the seventh Jachanai, the eighth Tlelencham .

the ninth Jachabulum. Those are the passes for each

arch.
The brother who gave the sacred word on the inside
Note 127.
— “Jim. A corrupted form of the Tetragrammatcn, and a
significant word in the high degrees. ’’—Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Free-
masonry, Article Jua.
 INITIATION. 281

128
was obliged to give the pass-word Shibboleth three
times with an aspiration.
There were besides the above number 3,568 Masters
who had served at the construction of the temple, and
becoming jealous on seeing a preference given to the
above 25 Masters which chagrined them much as they
had frequently seen the King’s apartment shut against
them, consequently they sent deputies to Solomon to
ascertain the cause of that preference.
Solomon after hearing the complaint of the deputy,
replied as follows: Those 25 Masters have deserved
this preference by their zeal in working the hardest and
have always shown invaluable constancy, consequently
I have loved and cherished them. Your time has not yet
come. Go, God will permit you one day to be recom-
pensed as you deserve.
One of the deputies being of a passionate disposition
and dissatisfied with the reply of Solomon, answered
We also have claims for a higher degree. We know how
the word was changed and can travel into foreign coun-
tries and receive master's wages as such. Solomon be-
ing struck with this reply, but at all times full of
wisdom and goodness did not rebuke, but thus addressed
him Those Ancient Masters deserve the degree of*
:

Perfection, as they have been in the ancient ruins and

penetrated into the bowels of the Earth and took from
—
Note 123. “1st, an ear of corn; and 2ndly, a stream of water. As
the Ephraimites were desirous of mossing the river, it is probable that
this second meaning suggested it to the Gileadites as an appropriate
test word on the occasion. The proper sound of the first letter of this
word is sh, a harsh breathing which is exceedingly difficult to be pro-
nounced by persons whose vocal organs have not been accustomed to it.
Such was the case with the Ephraimites, who substituted for the aspira-
tion the hissing sound of s. Their organs of voice were incapable of
the aspiration, and therefore, as the record has it, they ‘could not frame
to pronounce it right.’ The learned Burder remarks (Orient. Oust, ii,
782,) that in Arabia the difference of pronunciation among persons of
various districts is much greater than in most other places, and such
as easily accounts for the circumstance mentioned in the passage of
Judges.
'
—
Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Shibboleth.
282 THIRTEENTH OR ROYAL ARCH DEGREE.

them an immense treasure to embellish God’s temple.

Go and do as they have done. Work to adorn
in peace
the temple of the mighty God, and he will recompense
you as you deserve.
Those masters being proud and vain, and much fright-
ened at the reply of Solomon, returned and made a re-
port of their embassy, and not having been reprimanded,
ambition also mixed with jealousy, agreed to go together
to the ancient ruins. Thev discovered the rin^ to
lift the

trap and with a ladder of ropes entered the arches with

lighted flambeaus.
God desirous of punishing those masters for their vain
and proud ambition and to give a clear proof of his
justice and providence, pronounced their doom for their
insolence, insomuch that when the last of them entered
the arches fell in upon them successively one after the
other, with all their appertenants, in consequence of
11
’
9
which the ancient word which had been corrupted,
,

was entirely lost with them and known only to those we

have spoken of before.
After Solomon had heard what befell those masters,
he sent Guiblim, Joabert and Stolkin to inquire the
circumstances.
They accordingly departed at break of day, and having
*
—
Note 129. “The WORD, therefore, I conceive to be the symbol of
—
Divine Truth; and all its modifications the loss, the substitution, and
—
the recovery are but component parts of the mythical symbol which rep-
resents a search after truth. In a general sense, the Word itself being
then the symbol of Divine Truth, the narrative of its loss and the search
for its recovery becomes a mythical symbol of the decay and loss of the
true religion among the ancient nations, at and after the dispersion on
the plain of Shinar, and of the attempts of the wise men. the philos-
ophers, and priests, to find and retain it in their secret mysteries and
initiations, which have hence been designated as the Spurius Freemasonry
of Antiquity.
“But there is a special or individual, as well as a general interpreta-
tion,and in this special or individual interpretation the Word with its
accompanying myth of a loss, a substitute, and a recovery, becomes a
symbol of the personal progress of a candidate from his first initiation
to the completion of his course, when he receives a full development of
the mvsteries. “ — Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Lost
Word.
 INITIATION. 283

arrived at the designated spot found such strange things

thjey were at a loss to account for the same, but imagined
that the presumptuous masters were enveloped in the
180
ruins which they saw had fallen in.
Upon strict search they found a few pieces of marble
on which were engraved some Hieroglyphics which they
took possession of, carried to Solomon and reported ac-
cordingly. Solomon put those pieces together and sent
for some learned brethren who deciphered those charac-
ters, when he ascertained they were the ruins of the
131
Temple of Enoch which he had built and consecrated
to the true God, which he had built before the flood and
which w as destroyed in the Deluge which swept away
r

every thing but the nine arches under ground where was
deposited the Delta or treasure so often spoken of to
Moses and David by God, together with the brazen pil-
lar from which the history of the Ancient Masters is
taken.
Brethren meditate upon the grandeur of our mysteries,
the ultimate knowledge of which you have not been
made acquainted, but by your zeal, fervor and constancy
we hope one day to see you attain the degree of Perfec-
tion, which is the ultimatum of ancient masonry.
Note 130. — “The
vault was. therefore, in the ancient mysteries, sym-
bolic of the grave; for initiation was symbolic of death; where alone
Divine Truth is to be found. The Masons have adopted the same idea.
They teach that death is but the beginning of life; that if the first or
evanescent temple of our transitory life be on the surface, we must
descend into the secret vault of death before we can find that sacred
deposit of truth which is to adorn our second temple of eternal life. It
is in this sense of an entrance through the grave into eternal life that
we are to view the symbolism of the secret vault. Like every other
myth and allegory of Masonry, the historical relation may be true or it
may be false; it may be founded on fact or be the invention of imagina-
tion; the lesson is still there, and the symbolism teaches it exclusive
of the history.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Vault,
Secret.
—
Note 131. “On the death of Enoch, Methuselah, and Lamech, and the
destruction of the world by the deluge, nil knowledge of this temple, and
of the sacred treasure which it contained, was lost until, in after times, it,
was accidentally discovered by another worthy of Freemasonry, who, like
Enoch, was engaged in the erection of a temple on the same spot.”—
Mackey’* Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Enoch.
284 THIRTEENTH OR ROYAL ARCH DEGREE.

—
Solomon By virtue of the power vested in me, I
1 ' 1
decorate you with the jewel of the order of this Royal
Degree. It is a representation of the Delta found by our
Ancient Masters, which you are to wear from a purple
ribbon round your neck. Its color expresses the love and
friendship we ever ought to have for the order and our
brethren in general. Brother Expert, you will now con-
duct the brethren to seats in the college.
—
Note 132. “It can never be too often repeated that the WORD Is, in
Masonry, the symbol of TRUTH. This truth is the great object of pur-
suit in Masonry —
the scope and tendency of all its investigations the —
promised reward of all Masonic labor. Sought for diligently in every
degree, and constantly approached, but never thoroughly and intimately
embraced, at length, in the Royal Arch, the veils which concealed the
object of search from our view are withdrawn, and the inestimable prize
is revealed.
“This truth, which Masonry makes the great object of its investiga-
tions, isnot the mere truth of science, or the truth of history, but is
the more important truth which is synonymous with the knowledge of the
—
nature of God, that truth which is embraced in the sacred Tetragram-
maton, or omnific name, including in its signification his eternal, present,
past, and future existence, and to which he himself alluded when he
declared to Moses, T appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto
Jacob by the name of God Almighty; but by my name Jehovah was
I not known unto them.’
“The discovery of this truth is. then, the essential symbolism of the
—
Royal Arch degree. Wherever it is practiced. and under some peculiar
—
name the degree is found in every Rite of Masonry, this symbolism is
preserved. However, th exlegend may vary, however the ceremonies of
reception and the preliminary steps of initiation may differ, the consum-
—
mation is always the same the great discovery which represents the
attainment of Truth.”-—Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article
Royal Arch Degree.
 CLOSING CEREMONIES
133
Royal Arch Degree.
Solomon— Brother Inspector, what are you?
Inspector— am that I am have seen the resplen-
I ;
I
dent Delta bearing the Ineffable name, and the Cube
Stone upon which it was placed by Enoch.
—
Solomon Did the Cube Stone bear any inscription?
—
Inspector Yes, J. \V. *.I. \0. \L. % one letter on each
face of the Pedestal; Juveni Yerbum in ore Leonis,
which reads; I have found the word in the mouth of a
Lion and that we will defend the name of the Grand
Architect of the Universe with the courage of Lions.
Solomon-— Have you anything else to desire?
—
Inspector Yes, to read the Ineffable name according
to its true pronunciation.
—
Solomon God will permit one day that your wishes
may be accomplished. What is the clock ?
Note 133. — “Among the many precious things which were carefully
preserved in a sacred vault of King Solomon’s Temple was a portrait of
the monarch, painted by Adcniram, the son of Elkanah, priest of the second
court. This vault remained undiscovered till the time of Herod, although
the secret of its existence and a description of its locality were retained by
the descendants of Elkanah. * * * Time sped on; the Romans invaded
Britain; and. previous to the crucifixion, certain members of the old town
guard of Edinburgh, among whom were several of the Royal Order, pro-
ceeded to Rome to enter into negotiations with the sovereign. From thence
they proceeded to Jerusalem, and were present at the dreadful scene of
the crucifixion. They succeeded in obtaining the portrait, and also the
blue veil of the Temple rent upon the terrible occasion. I may dismiss
these two venerable relics in a few words. Wilson, in bis Memorials of
Edinburgh (2 vols., published by Hugh Patton), in a note to the Masonic
Lodges, writes that this portrait was then in the possession of the breth-
ren of the Lodge St. David. This is an error, and arose from the fact of
the Royal Order then meeting in the Lodge St. David’s room in Hindford’s
Close. The blue veil was converted into a standard for the trades of
Edinburgh, and became celebrated on many a battle-field, notably in the
First Crusade as ‘The Rlue Blanket.' From the presence of certain of
their number in Jerusalem on the occasion in question, the Edinburgh City
Guard were often called Pontius Pilate's Praetorians. Now. these are
facts well known to many Edinburghers still alive.’’ —
Mackey’s Encyclo-
paedia of Freemasonry, Article Royal Order of Scotland.
386 ROYAL ARCH DEGREE.
— evening.
Inspector ‘Tis
Solomon — Since evening,
it is acquaint the brethren
that I am going to close this respectable lodge by the
most perfect and mysterious numbers.
—
Inspector Brethren, you will please take notice that
our Thrice Puissant Grand Master is going to close this
respectable lodge by the most perfect and mysterious
numbers.
—
Solomon (Strikes five; 00 000.)
—
Grand Treasurer (Strikes five; 00 000.)
—
Grand Secretary (Strikes five; 00 000.)
—
Grand Inspector (Strikes five; 00 000.) To order,
brethren.
All form a circle at the altar, kneel and make the sign
of admiration ;
also another sign by placing the right
hand on the back, after which they help one another to
rise, the Kings first and then the other brethren. All
then make an obeisance to the Kings.
—
Solomon This Royal Lodge is closed with all its
honors.
 HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
Thirteenth or Royal Arch Degree.
—
False History and False Religion — Acknowledged Fabrication yet
—
Sublime “Infamous Scheme for Lucre and Ambition” Writ-
ing Latin Before It Existed.

This singular medley of false history and false relig-

ion seems to have originated with Ramsay in France
as part of his “system of Masonry called Scottish
which, says Rebold, p. 82, “had a political object; no less
than to make Masonry subservient to the Stuart party
and an aid to the Catholic church, by restoring the pre-
tender to the throne of England;” which, continues Re-
bold “served as a basis for all the Masonic systems in
France and those exported to different countries on the
globe.”
Mackey, a better authority, also speaks of “Ramsay's
degree, (Royal Arch), from wdrich all the continental
systems originated.” And these writers tell us that
Dermott, who split the London Grand Lodge by seces-
sion, twenty-twr o years after it was formed at the Apple-
tree tavern, and Dunkerly, the bastard son of George
II, both “fabricated” Royal Arch degrees, for the lead-
ing ideas of which they were indebted to Ramsay.
The only interest we have in the origin of this de-
gree, which Dermott called the “r«ot, heart and marrow
of Masonry,” and of which Oliver said “It is inde-
:

scribably more august, sublime and important than any

which preceded it,” is to show that it is a patchwork
production of apostates and adventurers, distinguished
for neither virtue, piety or patriotism. All the Masonic
writers agree that it was “invented,” “fabricated and
 288 ACKNOWLEDGED FABRICATION YET SUBLIME.

think this were enough; a story, '‘legend/* invented

about the discovery of the ineffable name of Clod !

Similar treatment of Washington: a fiction got up and

acted year after year, about his name and character,
professedly false and without foundation, would subject
the inventors, if not to abhorrence, certainly to con-
tempt. But here are men inventing, acting and selling
acknowledged fictions about God, and writers pronounce
it “sublime !"

Scholars know that the Jewish Rabbis, in the decline

of religion, in reading the Scriptures, paused and passed
over the name of Jehovahand then read on.
in silence,
This was while the Hebrew language was written with-
out vowel points, so that when the Masorites came to
supply vowels the pronunciation of the name was for-
gotten and the vowel sounds of another name of God
were affixed to the consonants of the word Jehovah to
supply the place of the sounds which had been lost by
*'e

this Jewish superstition. The trord" never was lost,

but the sounds only. The letters- which these schemers
pretended to have found at the bottom of an under-
ground pit, nine arches deep, on a triangular glittering
gold plate, are taken from our Hebrew Bibles, just as
they stood when the books were written, and as they still

stand. And outside the Hebrew, the Greek Zeus the

,

Latin Dens , the Saxon God, and even the Indian Mam-
iou, in the hands of the Holy Spirit, can convey to the
penitent soul correct ideas of God, though each word
sounds differently from the other. Nothing necessary to
salvation is lost; and if there was, Masonry has not
found it. It has found nothing. The thing lost was a
sound, and Masons do not claim to have discovered on
that golden plate the sound of God's name. The French
Mason still says “Dieu” and the Englishman, “God/*
 V

**
IN FAMOUS SCHEME FOK LUCRE AND AMBITION.” 289

and the believing Pagan centurion is accepted who says

neither. Yet this infamous scheme for “lucre and am-
bition" has convinced thousands that their gold plate,
like those of the Mormon, has revealed truth outside of
and beyond the Bible. And the popularity and power of
the falsehood, in both cases, depend on the multitudes
who believe the lie and pay for it. The foot note 113
says : “'The peculiar form of the degree differs greatly in
different countries." Indeed ! ! So we are not sure we
have any Royal Arch degrees” after all ! For the form
of a degree is the fact of it. One gives us the Arch of
Enoch, another the Arch of Zerub'abel, another of Jo-
siah, inwhose reign “The Book of the Law” was found
in the rubbish of the -Temple, where it was left when
the temple was forsaken for the lodge-worships and
whoredoms of Baal ! But if half a dozen men give as
many totally different and conflicting accounts of one
we know that it
fact, is a lie and not the truth ! Or, as
Mackey himself calls it in foot note 115 “a fabrication
of the Royal Arch Degree," which, though “rejected by
the English Masons," is now the Thirteenth Degree of
”
“The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite which now
leads the Masonic world !
(
Read the Note.) And if

further proof of imposture and imposition were want-

ing, it is at hand.
This degree starts before the flood, (see Note 116,)
when Enoch's Arches were built. Now when the can-
didate “removes the keystone and penetrates the depths,”
he finds on the several arches, as he opens them, the
 ,

290 WRITING LATIN BEFORE TT EXISTED.

Latin words: “1. Principum; 2. Exist? ns; 3. Potens ;

4. Aiternalis ; 5. infinitum; G. Solus; 7. Misericors; 8.

Sapientia; 9. Justus.'’
Now to set Enoch before the flood, to writing Latin
on his arches, buried so low that the deluge could not
reach them, when no Latin language existed for ages on
ages after God had taken the good man to himself, is
as sensible as it would be in a religious play to set
Adam, as engineer on a railroad, to take Eve to make a
speech at a W. C. T. U. meeting.
No! The power of this degree, long as it has be-
fooled its thousands, is the power of Mormonism, of
Alchemy, of Astrology, of Spiritism, Mesmerism and
whatever holds the mind steady for Satan to demoralize
it. power of that spirit whose “coming is with
It is the
lying wonders.” The wonders may be real, but they
land men in the lie, that they may be saved without
Christ.
 —

CHAPTER XXIII
Fourteenth Degree or Grand Elect, Perfect and
134
Sublime Mason .

TAURUS OR THE BULL.

Tn this degree the candidate learns that the end of
135
said work is his admittance into the Sacred Vault and
Note 134. — ‘‘Grand Elect, Peifect and Sublime Masons. The 14th de-
gree -of the Ancient and Accepted rite, sometimes called the ‘Degree of
Perfection.’ In France it is called ‘Grand Scotch Mason of Perfection
of the Sacred Vault of James VI.’ The degree is considered to be the
ultimate rite of Ancient Masonry, as it is the last of the Ineffable de-
grees that refer to the first temple. The Masons who had been employed
in constructing the temple acquired immortal honor. Their association
became more uniformly established and regulated after the completion
of the temple than it had been before. In the admission of new mem-
bers their prudence and caution had produced great I’espeet, as merit
alone was required of every candidate. With these principles firmly
established many of the Grand Elect lett the temple after its dedication,
and, traveling into other countries, disseminated the knowledge they had
acquired, and instructed in the sublime degrees of ancient Craft Masonry
all who applied and were found worthy. The Lodge is styled the Secret
Vault. The hangings are crimson, with white columns at regular
intervals. —
24 lights 9 in the East; 7 in the West; 5 in the South;
and 3 in the North. The apron is white, lined with crimson; in the mid-
dle is a square flat stone, in which is an iron ring. The collar is crim-
son; the jewel, a gold compass, open on a circle of forty-five degrees;
between the legs of the compass is a medal representing the sun on
one side, on the other the flaming star. On the circle is engraved the
figures 3, 5, 7. 9. The compass is surmounted with a pointed crown.
The ring of alliance is of gold. On the inside is engraved: ‘Virtue unites
what death cannot separate;’ with the name and date of initiation of
—
the owner.” Kaccy's Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Freemasonry,
Article Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons.
Note 135.*— “Vault. Vaults are found in every country of the world as
well as in Judea, and were used for secret purposes. Thus Stephens,
—
speaking of some ruins in Yucatan, says ‘The only way of descending
was to tie a rope around my body, and be lowered by the Indians. In
this way I was let down, and almost before my head had passed through
the hole, my feet touched the top of a heap of rubbish, high directly
under the hole, and falling off at the sides. Clambering down it I
found myself in a round chamber, so filled with rubbish that I could
not stand upright. With a candle in my hand, I crawled all round on
my hands and knees. The chamber was in the shape of a dome, and
had been coated with plaster, most of which had fallen, and now encum-
bered the ground, the depth could not be ascertained without clearing
out the interior." Macoy’s Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Freemasonry,
Article Vault,
202 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.

that far onward and above the steps lie has already taken
freemasonry is to develop itselt on a still larger scale.
1

I he Sacred A anlt is the last place of rest in the

mystic field ol the first efforts of Freemasonry and proph-
esies its future triumphs. The candidate looks for the
last time at the mystic furniture of the Solomonian
School, such as the Altar of Sacrifices, typifying materi-
al worship the Altar ol Perfumes, typifying intellectual
;

religion; the Brazen Sea, typifying impenetrable in-

finity; the Loaves of Shew bread, typifying the mystic
communion of mankind the Golden Tray and Trowel,
;

typifying the fusion of all the races of men and the

secret of their alliance, despite the many differences of
customs and laws which divide the sons of the Almighty
Father.
On one side and in the past appears the formidable
God of by-gone generations; his names are inscribed on
the Breast Plate of the High Priests of the Jews. On
the other side and far in the future, the Eternal, Good,
Simple, Benevolent, Merciful, Ecmitable and eyer con-
soling Father of mankind, whose titles are written with
the blood of that Sublime Teacher, who first of all pro-
claimed the existence of a God of Love and Love only.

Note 136. —
“In the early aces, the cave or vault was deemed sacred.
The first worship was in cave temples, which were either natural or
formed by art to resemble the excavations of nature. Of such great
extent was this practice of subterranean worship by the nations of antiq-
uity, that many of the forms of heathen temples, as well as the naves,
aisles, and chancels of churches subsequently built for Christian worship,
are said to owe their origin to the religious use of caves.
From this. arose the fact, that the initiation into the ancient
too.
mysteries was almost always performed in subterranean edifices: and
when the place of initiation, as in some of the Egyptian temples, was
really above ground, it was so constructed as to give to the neophyte
the appearance, in its approaches and its internal structure, of a vault.
As the great doctrine taught in the mysteries was the resurrection from
the dead. —
as to die and to be initiated were synonymous terms, it was —
deemed proper that there ghould be some formal resemblance between a
descent into the grave and a descent into the place of initiation. ‘Happy
is the man.’ says the Creek poet Pindar, ‘who descends beneath the
hollow earth having beheld these mysteries, for ho knows the end as
well as the divine origin of life:' and in a like spirit Sophocles or-
claims, ‘Thrice happy arc they who descend to the shades below after
having beheld these sacred riles, for they alone have life in Hades,
—
while all others suffer there every kind of evil.’’’ Mackey's Encyclopae-
dia of Freemasonry, Article Vault, Secret,
 GRAN D ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON. 293

What an encouragement for a freemason to pursue his

course and reach the last term of his painful and glo-
rious career.
The ceremonies in this degree are sublimely grand
and imposing and are calculated to give us -exalted
views of the Grandeur, Power and Majesty of God.
The lecture and history of this degree are rich to
profusion with valuable and interesting matter relating
to the symbolism and instruction contained in all the
preceding degrees of Symbolic and Ineffable Masonry.
decorations: — The lodge represents a subterranean
vault painted red or hung with red hangings. In the
West is a part of Enoch’s pillar, consisting* of pieces
found among the ancient ruins. In the East is the
Pillar of Beauty, theBurning Bush and a Transparent
Delta, with the Hebrew letters “Joel. :.He. :.Vau. :.He.
inscribed therein.
The lodge is illuminated when at work by twenty-
four (24) lights distributed as follows: nine in the East,
three in the North, seven in the West, before the Senior
Warden and five before the Junior Warden in the South.
furniture : —
Consists of the Holy Bible, Square and
Compass and Triangle, the Altar of Incense, the Altar
of Sacrifice, table of Shew-Bread, Brazen Laver, Ark of
the Covenant, Tables of the Law, Golden Candlestick,
Two Brazen Columns, Golden Urn of oil, Golden Vase
filled with water, Golden Goblet filled with wine, Gold

Bing and Trowel, a Silver hod of ointment and the

Cube Stone. Before each of the officers is a white tri-
angular table.
The assembly is styled a Grand Lodge of Perfection,
and consists of but twenty-seven (27) members. If
more are made they must become honorary members.
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204 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.

titles: — There are ten (10) officers in a Grand ZZ

of Perfection.
—
First Thrice Puissant Grand Master, represents
King Solomon, stationed in the East. He is the first
officer in the Lodge and presides over the work and con-
fers all the degrees of the Ineffable series. His official
Jewel a Crowned Compass with a Blazing Sun in the
centre.
Second — Deputy Grand
represents Hiram
Master
King of Tyre, seated on the right of Solomon in the
East; Jewel a Crowned Compass with a Moon in the
centre.
Third — Senior Grand Warden, represents Adoniram
the son of Abda stationed in the West; Jewel a Golden
Trowel. *
Fourth —Junior Grand Warden represents Moabon 137

stationed the South; Jewel

in Sword. a
Fifth — The Grand Keeper the represents
of Seals,
138
Galaad, stationed on the left of the Thrice Puissant ;

Jewel an Ivory Key.

Sixth —
The Grand Treasurer represents Guiblim,
stationed in the Korth before the table of Shew-bread
Jewel is a Golden Key.
—
Seventh The Grand Secretary represents Joabert,
stationed in the South before the table of Perfumes
Jewel a Gold Pen.
—
Eighth The Grand Orator, represents Abdamon
139 Jj

— —
Note 137. “Moabon. This word is found in some of the high degrees
according to the French ritual, where it is explained as expressing ‘the .

satisfaction we feel in seeing the crime and the criminal punished.’ There
is no such word in Hebrew, and the explanation is a fanciful one. The :

word is undoubtedly a Gallic corruption, first in sound and then in

letters, of the Master’s word.’’’ —Mackey's Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry,
Article Moabon.
—
Note 138. “Galahad. Also spelled Galaad.. Most probably a corruption
of Gilead. Said in the old rituals to have been the keeper of the Seals
in the Scottish degree of Knights of the Ninth Arch or Sacred Vault of
—
James VI.’’ Mackey’s Encyclopaedia, of Freemasonry, Article Galahad.
Note 139.
— “Abdamon.
•
The name of the orator in the 14th degree of
the Rite of Perfection, or the Sacred V.tult of James VI. It means a
servant, from abad, ‘to serve,’ although somewhat corrupted in its trails I
mission into the rituals. Tanning says it is the Hebrew Habdamon, 1
‘a servant:’ but there is no such word in Hebrew. '"—Mackey's Fjicyclo- I
paedia of Freemasonry, Article Abdamon. I
 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON. 295

stationed in the South near the Altar of Sacrifices be-

tween the Junior Warden and Secretary; Jewel a Scroll.
_ JVinth —
The Grand Master of Ceremonies represents
Stolkin, stationed in the North between the Treasurer
and Captain of the Guard; Jewel a Staff. He prepares
and conducts the candidate.
—
Tenth The Grand Captain of the Guards represents
Zerbal, stationed in the North between the Master of
Ceremonies and Senior Warden.
Besides these the Thrice Puissant appoints a Hospit-
able Brother, stationed in the North between the Master
of Ceremonies and Treasurer; Jewel a Winged Bod. He
takes charge of the charity fund and visits sick brethren.
Also a Grand Tyler stationed at the door of the en-
trance; Jewel is a Flaming Sword.
election: — Takes place every year, on the third day
of the month Adar. Besides this day lodges are re-
quired to observe the St. John’s day and to celebrate on
the fifth day of October, annually, the building of the
first temple, also the fifth day of the month Ab, in com-
memoration of the dedication of that temple.
clothing —
All the officers are dressed as in the pre-
:

ceding degree, except they wear the apron, order and

jewel of this degree; the officers wearing their official

jewels.
The worn by the officers is a broad white watered
collar
ribbon, with a white and red rosette at the bottom from
which is suspended the official jewel. All wear swords.
The brethren wear black, loose gowns with hoods behind
at back of neck, white gloves and purple and red turbans.
—
apron: White, lined and bordered with crimson, a
narrow blue ribbon is set across the edge. In the centre
of the apron is painted or embroidered a square flat
 :

‘?9f; nr? A VI) ELECT. PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.

stone, within which is engraved an iron ring fastened

1 hereto.
girdle: — Of a Perfect Mason, is made of various
colored silk, arranged in the following combination .

3-5 7-9.
order:— A crimson with white and red
collar, rosette
at the bottom, from which suspended the
is jewel.
jewel — A gold compass crowned and extended
: to
ninety (90°) degrees. Between the arms of the compass
is a medal, on one side of which is engraved a sun, on

the other a blazing star with the Delta in the centre; on

the quadrant are engraved the figures 3-5 -7 -9.
Each Knight wears a wedding ring, in the interior of
which are engraved on one side the name of the Knight
and the date of his reception and on the other these
words: “Virtue unites what death cannot separate."
On the Table of Perfumes when an initiation, must be
the Hod and Trowel, with oil to anoint and a pan with
burning coals for incense, and on the table of Shew-
bread must be the cup with wine for libation, also a gold
ring to present to the candidate, besides all the jewels
necessarv for the candidate.
 OPENING CEREMONIES
Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason.
Thrice Puissant — Brother Senior Grand Warden, are
we tyled in this Sacred Vault?
—
Senior Grand Warden Thrice Puissant Grand Mas-
ter, we are all tyled, and in security from cowans.
Thrice Puissant — Since we are well tyled and in
security from cowans, my most dear brethren let us pray
to the Great Architect of the Universe that he may
enlighten and inspire us; let us pray with one knee on
the ground. (All form a circle round the Altar and
kneel on the left knee.)

opening prayer.
Almighty and Sovereign Architect of Heaven and
Earth who by thy divine pov er dost ultimately search
r

the most secret recesses of thought, purify our hearts by

the sacred fire of thy love, guide us by thy unerring
hand in the path of virtue and cast out of thy adorable
sanctuary all impiety and perverseness. We beseech
thee that our thoughts may be engaged in the grand
work of our perfection, which wdien attained Will be an
ample reward for our labor. Let peace and charity link
us together in a pleasing union and may this lodge ex-
hibit a faint resemblance of that happiness which the
elect will enjoy in thy kingdom.
Give us a spirit of holy discrimination by which we
may be able to refuse the evil and choose the good, and
also that we may not be led astray by those who un-
worthily assume the character of the Grand Elect. May
298 GRAND ELECT. PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.

a sweet, perfume ascend from the Altar of our hearts

and he acceptable to three, 0 Jehovah, our Adonai.
Finally he pleased to grant that all our proceedings

may tend to our glory, and our advancement in right-

eousness. Bless and prosper our works, 0 Lord. Amen,
(All rise and sing the following ode, at the Altar.)
ODE.
Air — “Indian Philosopher.”
No beam nor Lunar ray
Solar
Illum'dthe dark, the narrow way,
That led me to the door,
I found myself a Knight, and then
The sacred vault I entered in,
By mystic numbers four.

’Twas there, impressed with holy awe,

A gold engraven plate I saw,
With dazzling splendor shine,
To us, the Grand Eleet alone
Its secret characters are known,
Ineffable —Divine.

This precious treasure, long concealed,

Washy three worthy Knights re-
vealed,
Where erst a Temple stood,
Its ancient
ruins they explored
And found the Grand Mysterious Word,
Made known before the flood.
Fulfilled was then the promise made,
And Beauty’s pillar soon displayed
The treasure they had found;
Their ancient zeal and piety.
Their dangerous toil and constancy,
Were with due honor crowned.
Hours like those, we all shall prove,
Who, joined in pure and social love.
Perfection’s work pursue.
May the Sublime Grand Architect
By his unerring laws direct
. The honored, chosen few’.
May all. who friendship’s feast partake,
The good pursue, the bad forsake,
And may each rite and sign,
A happy, lasting influence shed;
The quadrant crowned, the oil the bread.
The golden ring, the wine.
 OPENING CEREMONIES. 299

Long as I live, this ring I’ll wear.

Symbol of an alliance, dear
To every brother’s heart;
And bless the sacred tie that binds
. In virtue’s chain, for virtue joins
What death can never part.

Thrice Puissant— Brother Senior Warden, what con-

ducted you hither?
Senior Warden — Thrice Puissant, the it is love of
masonry, my obligation and a desire to the perfection
of masonry.
—
Thrice Puissant What have you brought here?
Senior Warden —A heart zealous friendship and for
loveof virtue.
Thrice Puissant — What are the proper for qualities
acquiring this?
Senior Warden — The two conduct us immediate-
first
ly to the third, and when these are properly attained
140
they lead us to happiness and perfection .

—
Thrice Puissant What is the true disposition of an
Elect and Perfect Mason?
Senior Warden — To divest his heart of iniquity, vin-
and jealousy; to be always ready to do good
dictiveness
and never employ his tongue in calumniating his bro-
ther.
Thrice Puissant — How are you behave to in this
place ?

Senior Warden — With profound respect.

Thrice Puissant — How comes that and poor,
it rich
prince and subject are here always friends and brothers?
Senior Warden — Because there something that
is in
Delta, (pointing to it) repeated on the pedestal and
firmament which is greater than you.
—
Note 140. “A French system founded by de Bonneville, 1754, which
assumed that the Freemasons were the lineal descendants of the Tem-
plars, and therefore that all Masons were Knights Templar. It had
25 degrees. Stephen Morin and others introduced some modifications
and additions into the rite, and transplanted it in the United States
under the name of the Ancient and Accepted rite.’’ Macoy’s Encyclo- —
paedia and Dictionary of Freemasonry, Art. Perfection, Bite of.
300 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.

Thrice Puissant— Why is the Delta the subject of

your respect ?

Senior \\ arden — Because is contains the sacred name

of the Eternal
God, known, revered and exalted in
Heaven and on earth by the name of the Great Architect
of the Universe.
—What age
Thrice Puissant are you?
Senior Warden — Three times three, the perfect num-
ber 81, when properly repeated bv our mysterious calcu-
lation.
Thrice Puissant —How, my brother, can you demon-
strate this?
Senior Warden — am Perfect
I a Sublime Elect Ma-
son, my travels are finished and it is now time for me to
reap the fruit of my labor.
—What did you contract when you
Thrice Puissant
were made a Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Mason?
—
Senior Warden I contracted an alliance with virtue
and the virtuous.
Thrice Puissant— What mark have you got show to
it?
Senior Warden — This gold symbol ring, a of purity.
Thrice Puissant —What’s the clock?
Senior Warden — High twelve.
Thrice Puissant — What do you understand by high
twelve ?

Senior Warden — Because the Sun zenith darts at its

Is rays perpendicularly into this lodge, intimating the
time to work efficaciously to the end of our perfection,
and to profit by its generosity.
Thrice Puissant —Where
you find materials?
will
Senior Warden —
In the treasury and virtue of the
perfect masons, in regularly composing my actions in
my heart by the square and compass of divine wisdom
 OPEN T NT! CEREMONIES. •301

—
Thrice Puissant Where is the divine wisdom dis-
played ?
—
Senior Warden In the hearts of the worthy, upright
brethren who compose this respectable lodge, of which
you are the supporter.
—
Thrice Puissant And now my respectable brethren,
I am going to enforce your designs to this effect.
Brother Senior Grand Warden, announce that I am
141
going to open this lodge of Grand Elect Perfect and
Sublime Masons by the mysterious numbers, 3-5-7-9.
Senior Warden —
Brethren, you will please take notice
that the Thrice Puissant Grand Master is going to open
this lodge of Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Masons
by the mysterious numbers 3-5-7 and 9.
Junior Warden — (Claps three slow 000, all rise.)
;

Senior Warden — (Claps five slow; 00000.)

Thrice Puissant — (Claps seven slow; 0000000, all are
silent for amoment.)
Thrice Puissant — (Claps three; 000.) To order my
brethren; (all make the sign of obligation.)
—
Note 141. “The Lodge in which the fourteenth degree of the Ancient
and Accepted Scottish Rite is conferred. In England and America this
degree is' called Grand Elect Perfect and Sublime Mason, but the French
designate it Grand Scottish Mason, of the Sacred Vault of James VI.,
or Grand ecossais de la Voute Sacree du Jacques VI. This is one of
— —
the evidences and a very pregnant one of the influence exercised by
the exiled Stuarts and their adherents on the Masonry of that time in
making it an instrument for the restoration of James II., and then of his
son, to the throne of England.
This degree, as concluding all reference to the first Temple, has been
called the ultimate degree of ancient Masonry. It is the last of what
is technically styled the Ineffable degrees, because their instructions
relate to the Ineffable word.
Its place of meeting is called the Sacred Vault. Its principal offi-
cers are a Thrice Puissant Grand Master, two Grand Wardens, a Grand
Treasurer, and Grand Secretary. In the first organization of the Rite
in this country, the Lodges of Perfection were called ‘Sublime Grand
Lodges,’ and, hence, the word “Grand” is still affixed to the title of
the officers.
The following mythical history is connected with and related in this
degree.
When the Temple was finished, the Masons who had been employed
in constructing it acquired immortal honor. Their order became more
uniformly established and regulated than it had been before. Their
caution and reserve in admitting new members produced respect, and
merit alone was required of the candidate. With these principles in-
stilled into their minds, many of the Grand Elect left the Temple after
its dedication, and, dispersing themselves among the neighboring nations,
instructed all who applied and were found worthy in the sublime degrees
ef Ancient Craft Masonry.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry.
Article Perfection, Lodge of.
 302 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASONS.

SIGN OF OBLIGATION.

Place the right hand on the left side of

the abdomen and draw it quickly and

horizontally across the body to the right

side.

Sign of Obligation
S. E. P. and S. Mason.

SIGN OF FIRE.

Raise the right hand, open, to the left

cheek, the palm outward, at the same time

grasping the elbow with the left hand.
Thrice Puissant — (Strikes three; 000,

all then make the sign of admiration.)

Sign of Fire.
 OPENING CEREMONIES. 303

SIGN OF ADMIRATION.

Ha ise both hands open heaven,

to
the head inclined forward, the eyes
directed upwards; afterwards place the
first two fingers of the right hand on
the lips.

Sign of Admiration.

Thrice Puissant — To the glory of the Grand Architect

of the Universe, and under the auspices of the Su-
preme Grand Council of Sovereign Grand Inspectors
General of the 33d degree for the Northern Jurisdic-
542
tion of the Western Hemisphere in the valley of

and by virtue of the authority on me conferred by this

Sublime Grand Lodge of Perfection, I declare its works

thereof now opened.

Senior Warden — Brethren, this Sublime Grand lU of

Perfection is opened.
Thrice Puissant — Together brethren, (all make the
first sign.)

Thrice Puissant —Brethren will now cover and be

seated.
Not©
142. — “In the capitular degrees of the French Rite, this word
is used instead of Orient, to designate the seat of the Chapter. Thus
on such a body a document would be dated from the ‘Valley of Paris,’
instead of —
the ‘Orient of Paris.’” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freema-
sonry, Article Valley.
 CHAPTER XXJY
Fourteenth Degree or Grand Elect, Perfect and
Sublime Mason.
INITIATION.
The candidate must be prepared in the ante-room as
a Knight of the Koval Arch by the Grand Master of
Ceremonies. He then conducts him to the entrance of
the narrow passage and gives him the first pass-word,
and orders him to knock 3, 5, 7, and give the pass-word
Shibboleth three times with an aspiration.
—
N. B. In the ceremonies of initiation the narrow
passage can be represented by passing through three (3)
ante-rooms and giving the alarm at each door or in anv
manner as best suits the situation of the room.
First Guard —Who comes there?
—
Master of Ceremonies A Sublime Knight of the
Royal Arch who desires perfection in being introduced
into the Sacred Vault.
First Guard —
How does lie expect to gain admission?
Master of C ere monies—T>y the pass.
First Guard —
Give me the pass.
—
Candidate Shibboleth, Shibboleth, Shibboleth.
First Guard— Pass.
They then proceed to the second door and knock 3.
5. 7.

—
Second Guard Who comes there?
—
Master of Ceremonies A Sublime Knight of the
Royal Arch who having passed the first guard, desires
perfection in being introduced into the Sacred Vault.
 :

INITIATION. 305

Second Guard — How docs he expect to gain admis-

sion ?

—
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 knock
h 5. 7 and 9. -

Junior Grand Warden —

(Knocks 3. 5, 7 and 9.)
Senior Grand Warden —
(Knocks 3, 5, 7 and 9.)
Tlirice Puissant Grand Master —
(Knocks 3, 5, 7, and
9.) Brother Junior Grand Warden go and see who
knocks at our door as a Grand Elect, Perfect and Sub-
lime Mason.
Junior Grand Warden —
(Goes to the door and knocks
3, 5, 7, 9, opens the door and says:) Who knocks at our
door as a Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason?
Who is there?
—
Master of Ceremonies A Sublime Knight of the
Royal Arch, who desires perfection in being introduced
into the Sacred Vault.
—
Thrice Puissant Grand Master Let him he intro-
duced in a proper manner.
The door is then opened by the Captain of the Guard
who says, let him be admitted. He enters and is con-
ducted round the lodge to the Altar, they at the same
time pointing their naked swords at his breast. As he
enters 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 thy
Tabernacle ?
—
Thrice Puissant He that walketh upright and work-
eth righteousness and speaketh the truth in his heart.
30G GRAND ELECT. PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.

Senior Grand Warden — He that sweareth to his own

hurt and changeth not his oath, who sweareth not bv the
name of God profanely.
—
Master of Ceremonies What man is he that desireth
life and loveth many days that he may see good?

Thrice Puissant —
Keep thy tongue from evil and thy
lips from speaking guile; depart from evil and do good,
seek peace and ensue it.
—
Senior Grand Warden Thus saith the Lord of Host* 1
,

amend your ways and your doings and I will cause you
to dwell in this place forever.
King of Tyre —Who can say I have made my heart
clean, I am
pure from sin, for there is not a just man on
the earth who doeth good and sinneth not no not one. —
—
Thrice Puissant But whoso confesseth his sins and
forsaketh them he shall have mercy, saith the Lord of
Hosts.
Senior Grand Warden —Thus saith the Lord, Heaven
is my Throne and the earth is my footstool. Where is
the house ye have builded unto me ? For all these things
hath my hands made. But to this man will I look, even
to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit and that
trembleth at my word.
King of Tyre — From the rising of the Sun, even unto
the going down of the same, my name shall be great
among the gentiles, and in every place incense (at this
word the coals which are in the pan on the Altar of per-
fumes are lighted and the incense burnt) shall be offered
unto my name, and a pure offering, for my name shall
be great among the heathen, said the Lord of Hosts.
[Master of Ceremonies then orders the candidate to
make the sign of admiration.]
Thrice Puissant —What do you want, my brother?
 INITIATION. 307

Master of Ceremonies —
Thrice Puissant Grand Mas-
ter, he asks the Perfection of Masonry and to be taught
143
the true pronunciation of God’s Ineffable name.
—
Thrice Puissant Brethren, do you consent that this
Knight of the Royal Arch shall be raised to the degree
of Perfection?
(The brethren consent by holding up their right
hands.)
—
Thrice Puissant Before I initiate you my brother,
into the sacred mysteries' of Perfection, you must answer
the questions I am now going to demand of you ; other-
wise you must be sent back.
Thrice Puissant —Are you an Entered Apprentice?
Candidate—Thrice Puissant, my brethren know me
to be such.
Thrice Puissant — Give the Sign, Token and Word to
the JuniorGrand Warden.
Candidate gives them by advancing by the Entered
Apprentice step.
Thrice Puissant — Are you a Fellow Craft ?

Candidate — I have seen the G. \ and know the pass-

word.
Thrice Puissant —
Give the Sign, Token and Word to
th^ Senior Grand Warden.
Candidate gives Fellow Craft step, etc.
—
Thrice Puissant Are you a Master Mason?
—
Candidate I know the Sprig of Acacia, and every
thing it consummates.
—
Thrice Puissant Give the Pass, Sign, Token and
Word to the Junior Grand Warden.
Candidate gives Master’s step, etc. (as soon as he pro-
nounces the real word [Mah-hah-bone] the brethren run
and lunge their swords at him.)
Note 143. “The various degrees and orders of Scotch Masonry are
termed Ineffable because of the many Hebrew names of Deity introduced
into them. The pronunciation of some of these names cannot be made
by mortal lips.” Morris’s Masonic Dictionary, Article Ineffable Ma-
sonry.
308 G RA VI) ELECT, PERFECT AND Srm,n[E MASON.

Thrice Puissant — What have you done? You affright

us my brother on speaking this word so high. We are
always ready to punish the indiscretion of those persons
who pronounce word so high and loud for fear some
this
of the profane might hear you, but as you did not do it
with a bad intention we freely' forgive you.
Thrice Puissant —
Are you a Secret Master?
—
Candidate 1 have passed from the Square to the
Compass, I have seen the tomb of our respectable Mas-
ter Hiram Abiff and have shed tears thereat.
Thrice Puissant —
Give the Sign, Token and Word to
the Senior Grand Warden.
Candidate gives the Secret Master's step, etc.
—
Thrice Puissant Are you a Perfect Master?
Candidate —
have seen the three circles and the three
I
perfect squares placed on the two columns across.
Thrice Puissant —
Give the Sign, Token and Word to
the Senior Grand Warden.
Candidate gives them, and as soon as he pronounces
the word “Jeva” or “Jehovah/' all cry out, what do you
say?
Thrice Puissant —We are always alarmed when we
hear this word given, and are always ready to put any
man to death who darepronounce it, or the least
to
sydlable of the sacred mysterious name.
—
Thrice Puissant Are you an Intimate Secretary?
—
Candidate My curiosity is satisfied which had almost
cost me my life.
—
Thrice Puissant Give the Sign, Token and Word to
the Senior Grand Warden.
Candidate gives them.
—
Thrice Puissant Are you a Provost and Judge?
—
Candidate T render justice to all workmen without
any distinction.
 INITIATION. 309

Thrice Puissant — Give the Sign, Token and Word to

the Senior Grand Warden.

Candidate Gives them.
—
Thrice Puissant Are you an Intendant of the Build-
ing?
Candidate — I have made the five steps of exactitude,

have penetrated into the innermost part of the temple,

have seen the effect of the great fight in the middle of
which I perceived certain Hebraic characters which were
unknown to me.
Thrice Puissant — Give the Sign, Token and Word to
the Senior Grand Warden.
Candidate gives them.
—
Thrice Puissant Are you an Elected Knight?
—
Candidate One cavern received me, one lamp lighted
me and one fountain refreshed me.
—
Thrice Puissa7it Give the Sign, Token and Word to
the Senior Grand Warden.
Candidate gives them.
—
Thrice Puissant Are you a Grand Master Elect?
—
Candidate My zeal and labor have procured me
this degree.
Thrice Puhsarit —Where were you received and by
whom?
Candidate— By Solomon himself in his study.

Thrice Puissant —When were you received and on

what occasion ?

Candidate —When he sent me with my companions

who destroyed our
to search for the two other ruffians
Grand Master Architect Hiram Abiff.
—
Thrice Puissant How came they to be discovered ?
Candidate — By the industry of Benjah or Bengabee,
Solomon’s Intendant in the county of Cheth.
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310 GRAXD ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.

— • *

Thrice Puissant — (Jive the Sign, Token and Word to

the Senior Grand Warden.
Candidate gives them.
Thrice Puissant— Are you a Sublime Knight Elected ?

Candidate — My name inform you.

will
Thrice Puissant — What your name?
is

Candidate — Emerk my true name.

is

Thrice Puissant — Give the Sign, Token and Word to

the Senior Grand Warden.
Candidate gives them.
—
Thrice Puissant Are you a Grand Master Architect?
—
Candidate As I possess all the science of mathema-
tics, I know also all the attributes.
Thrice Puissant — Give the Sign, Token and Word to
the SeniorGrand Warden.
Candidate gives them.
Thrice Puissant What — is the Most Sublime Degree
you have received in Masonry?
—
Candidate The thirteenth, which I received by per-
mission of Divine Providence.
—
Thrice Puissant Explain this to me, my brother.
Candidate — I searched in the
144
unknown ruins and at
length found the Divine Delta which had been prom-
ised the Holy Patriarchs should one day be found.
—
Thrice Puissant What do you understand by the
Divine Delta?
—
Candidate It is a triangular gold plate filled with
rays, on which was engraved by Enoch the sacred name
of Almighty God.

Note 144. “Tho name of the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet. In
form it is a triangle, and was considered by the ancient Egyptians a
symbol of tire, and also of God. In the Scottish and French systems, and
also that of the Knights Templar, the triangle or delta is a symbol of the
—
Unspeakable Name.” Macoy’s Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Fraa-
masonry, Article Delta.
 INITIATION. 311

—
Thrice Puissant I presume, my brother, you are ac-
quainted with that mysterious name?
—
Candidate I am not; my time has not expired; the
Sacred name is only known by the Grand Elect, Perfect
and Sublime Masters. All my hope is in God, that I
shall 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 to
the Senior Grand Warden.
Candidate gives them.
Thrice Puissant-*- What do you now desire, my bro-
ther ?
—
Candidate The Sublime Degree of Grand Elect, Per-
fect and Sublime Mason.
Thrice Puissant —
(Giving the sign of Admiration.)
God will permit you this day to receive what you so
much desire.
—
Senior Grand Warden Brother Grand Master of
Ceremonies, you will now retire with the candidate until
he is wanted. (Master of Ceremonies and candidate re-
tire.)
Thrice Puissant —My dear brethren do you again con-
sent that this Knight of the Royal Arch be passed to
the degree of Perfection? (All hold up their right
hands in token of consent.)
—
Thrice Puissant Let us applaud by 9-7-5 and 3, to-
gether, brethren. (All applaud.)
Thrice Puissant — Brother Captain the Guard
of let
the candidate be admitted.
Captain of Guard— (Goes the door, gives
to Let it.)
the candidate be admitted.
Master of Ceremonies enters with candidate and con-
ducts him around the CH! [lodge] and to the Altar, dur-
ing which the Thrice Puissant recites:
—
Thrice Puissant And Moses called all Israel and said
312 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.

unto them, hear 0 Israel the statutes and judgments

which speak in your ea*s this
I day, that you may learn,
keep and do them.
rile Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.

The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers but
with us, even us who are all of us here alive this day.
The Lord talketh with you face to face in the mount
out of the midst of the fire, ( 1 stood between the Lord
and you at that show you the word of the Lord
time to
for ye were afraid by reason of the fire and went not up
into the mount) saying I am the Lord thy God which
brought thee out of the land of Egypt from the house of
bondage: Thou shall have none other God before me.
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in
vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taket-h
his name in vain, keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it as
the Lord thy God hath commanded thee, six days shalt
thou labor and do all thy- work, but the seventh day is
the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt not do
any work, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy
man servant, nor thy maid servant, nor thine ox, nor
thy ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor the stranger that is
within thy gates, that thy man servant and thy maid
servant may rest as well as thou.
Honor thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy
God hath commanded thee, that thy days may be pro-
longed and that it may go well with thee in the land
which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
Thou shalt not kill, neither shalt thou commit adul-
tery, neither shalt thou steal, neither shalt thou bear
false witness against thy neighbor, neither shalt thou
desire thy neighbor s wife, neither shalt iliou covet thy
neighbor's house, his field, his man servant or his maid
 INITIATION. 313

servant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is thy neigh-

bor’s. These words the Lord spake unto all your assem-
bly in the mount, out of the midst of the fire of the
clouds and of the thick darkness with a great voice, and
he added no more, and he wrote them in two tables of
stone and delivered them to me.
—
Thrice Puissant My brother, do you know in your
conscience since you have been made a mason of having
behaved falsely to any of your brethren or of having
hurt them in their character or family, religion or
country ?
Candidate answers as he thinks proper.
—
Thrice Puissant Have you ever communicated or let
escape from you any of our mysteries to cowans?
Candidate answers.
—
Thrice Puissant What would you have done to the
assassins of our respectable Master Hiram Abiff had you
lived in those days? Would you have revenged his
death ?

—
Candidate I would have done as Joabert did.
Thrice Puissant —
Have you always been mindful of
the obligations you have contracted in the presence of
the Grand Architect of the Universe?
Candidate answers.
Thrice Puissant —
Did you ever find anything in your
obligations which was contrary to and against your re-
ligion, the state or anything else which could hurt your
delicacy ?

Candidate answers.
—
Thrice Puissant Remember, my brother, if you ap-
proach cool and indifferent to our sacred mysteries you
will be the more blamable after receiving the Degree of
Grand and Sublime Mason than you would
Elect, Perfect
.'>14 GRAND INSPECTOR INQUISITOR COMMANDER.

a triangle emitting rays, embroidered in gold in the

centre of which is the number 31 in Arabic figures.
In the inferior bodies, instead of a collar, a Grand
Inspector Inquisitor Commander may wear around his
neck a golden chain from which hangs the cross of the
order. The formed of the inter-
links of the chain are
laced attributes of the eight fundamental degrees of
Masonry, viz: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 14th, 15th, 18th and
30th.
The jewel of the degree is a Teutonic Cross of silver.
The members are all clothed in black and wear
swords. During a reception [initiation] they wear black
masks or veils. “This degree shall be conferred in the
presence of three Sovereign Grand Inspectors General
33°.

Constitutions of 1786, Art. XL

prerogatives: —When a Grand Inspector Inquisitor
Commander, wearing the proper insignia, visits a lodge
of an inferior degree, he announces himself as a Grand
Inspector Inquisitor Commander. He is proved in the
ordinary manner and the report is made in the car of the
Master who causes all the members to be placed around
the altar. He then sends the two Wardens to receive
said Grand Inspector Inquisitor Commander who is con-
ducted by them to the altar. The Master then leaves
his seat and placing the three gavels upon the altar, he
presents them to the visiting Grand Inspector Inquisitor
Commander, who accepts and returns them to the Mas-
ter and to each of the Wardens, after which he is con-
ducted by the Master to the seat of honor.
The Supreme Council, or Grand Consistory, as the
case may be, have alone the right to establish Supreme
Tribunals in their jurisdiction. Each Supreme Tribunal
is a distinct body, as a Chapter of "Rose Croix or a
Council of Kadosh, and it should have the exclusive
privilege of conferring the 31°. But the custom has
 INITIATION. 315

holy zeal, drag by confession your sins and mortify them

by hatred thereof, offer them up in a renewed consecra-
tion as a sacrifice acceptableand well pleasing unto God.
May we all offer up to him on the altar of our hearts
sacrifices of humility and praise, with the fire of fervent
charity. Let us offer a sacrifice of joy in the tabernacle
of the Lord and sacrifice the sacrifice of thanksgiving
wherefore to do good and communicate; let us forget
not, for with such sacrifice is the Lord well pleased.
Let us pray.

INITIATORY PRAYER.

Almighty and Sovereign Grand Architect of the LTni-

verse, thou who ridest in the Heavens by thy name Jah,
let all the earth keep silence before thee ;
there is no God
like unto thee in the heavens above nor in the earth
beneath. Thou who keepest covenant with and showest
mercy unto thy servants who walk before thee with all
their hearts, when we draw nigh thy majesty, may we
ever preserve thy love and the characters of thy ineffa-
ble essence engraven indelibly upon our hearts.

0 purify our hearts we beseech thee by -the fire of

thy love and guide our feet in the way of peace, the per-
fectpath that shineth more and more unto the perfect
day. May we all have an interest in that covenant which
is well ordered in all things and sure; may we dwell to-
gether in unity and be all of one mind, having compas-
sion one toward another and love as brethren.
May all Elect Masons like the Elect of God put on a
charity which is the bond of Perfection ;
may our loins
be girt with the girdle of truth and, finally having been
faithful in all our course, may we be brought to behold
the light Ineffable and be admitted into that sacred
316 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.

place where the Sun no more give light by day;

shall
neither tor brightness shall the Moon give light, but the
Lord our Adonai shall be unto us an everlasting light
and our God our glory. Amen.
Thrice Puissant — My brother, you are now in the
most sacred and secret place in Masonry, the sacred
mysteries of which are now going to be revealed to you
as we repose the utmost confidence in your discretion.
Come, *my brother, add to our satisfaction by swearing
fidelity to us.
—
Master of Ceremonies Leads the candidate eight
quick steps and one slow to the Thrice Puissant, having
the sign of Elected Master on him, when he kneels and
contracts his obligation.

OBLIGATION GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.

I do most solemnly and sincerely swear on the Holy
Bible, and in the presence of the Grand Architect of
the Universe and this respectable lodge of Grand Elect,
Perfect and Sublime Masons, to be faithful and true to
my religion.

I do furthermore swear that I will never take up arms

against my country or ever enter into any conspiracy or
cabal against the same, or come to a knowledge of such
intention from any other without communcating it to
the proper authorities.
I do furthermore swear never to reveal, either directly
or indirectly, to the Grand Master Architect or Knight
of the Boyal Arch, or to any person or persons whatever
to whom it doth not belong, the mysteries of this our
Sacred and High Degree, or any other matter or thing
that shall occur or take [dace in our lodge.
I promise an equal regard for my brethren of this
 INITIATION. 317

Royal Degree without distinction of riches or poverty,

noble or ignoble birth, and to give no other preference
but 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. To support him if he is in
want, if I can do it without injury to my family.
I do furthermore swear that I will, if possible, meet
my lodge at least twice a year, namely, on the 27th of
December and the 24th of June, and as often as my
affairs will conveniently permit; I promise to visit my
brethren in sickness and help and assist them with my
counsel, with my purse and with my arm to give them ;

consolation and assistance, whether in affliction or in

pain, and in the common vicissitudes of life.
furthermore swear that I will never lie with my
I
brother's wife, nor dishonor his sister, daughter nor any
female of his family, knowing them to be such.
I further promise that I will never make, or assist in
making, or by my presence, give sanction to the making
of any person to the degree of Grand Elect, Perfect and
Sublime Mason who is not or has not been a Master or
Nominal Past Master of a regular Symbolic Lodge.
I furthermore swear that I will not acknowledge
belonging to or be a member of any Sublime Lodge
that may be established within the distance of twenty-
five miles of one already legallv and properly estab-
lished.
In failure of this, my obligation, I consent to have my
belly cut open, my bowels torn from thence and given
to the hungry vultures.
So God help and maintain me in truth and equity-
Amen.
318 GRAND ELECT, TERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.

Thrice Puissant — My brother, salute the Bible three

times. (Candidate obeys.)
Thrice Puissant — Rise, my brother, and receive the
same consecration which every successive Champion of
the Secret Vault has received since its discovery.
Thrice Puisscmt — Brother Master of Ceremonies, con-
duct the candidate to the Altar of Perfumes (obeys and
causes him to kneel).
Thrice Puissant — By the power transmitted to me
and which have acquired by my assiduity, labor and
I
integrity I make sacred your heart, lips and eyes with
the Holy oil that anointed the pious Aaron, the penitent
David and the Wise Solomon.
May your heart ever throb with a hope of immortality,
may your lips ever invoke the true name of the Grand
Architect of the Universe, and may your eyes behold
him face to face and not fail when thev awake in the
dazzling glory of his presence. I now stamp you with

the seal of the Grand Architect of the Universe (stamps

him), to the end that you may always live in his adorable
presence and that he may always be in your heart and
mind and that an ardent zeal and constancy may always
be the rule of your actions.
all

Brother Master of Ceremonies, you will conduct the

candidate round the lodge to the table of Shew-bread.
Thrice Puissant —
(Rehearses.) Behold how good and
how pleasant it is* for brethren to dwell together in
unity. It is ointment upon the head
like the precious
which ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard,
that went down to the skirts of his garments. Ointment
and perfume rejoice the heart; so doth the sweetness of
a man’s friend by hearty counsel. Tf lie reprove me if
shall be an excellent oil. If thv brother be waxen old
 INITIATION. 319

and poor and fallen decay thou shalt relieve him.

inter

Give of thy bread to feed the hungry and of thy wine to

cheer the sorrowful, and forget not to pour the oil of
consolation into the wounds which sickness and afflic-
tion may have rent in the bosom of thy fellow traveler.
By kindness and commiseration fail not to pour the
balm 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 dark
cloud and disappears, so the race of men walking amid
the surrounding shades glitter for a moment through the
gloom and vanish from our sight forever.
Thrice Puissant — (Now presents him with first the
bread and then the wine.) Eat with me of this bread
and drink of this wine out of the same cup with me that
we may learn thereby to succor each other in time of
need by a mutual love and participation of what we
possess. (Both eat and drink.)
Thrice Puissant — (Presents to him a gold ring, say-
ing:) “Receive this ring and
let it be remembered hv

you as symbol of the alliance you have now contracted

a
with virtue and the virtuous.” You are never, my dear
brother, to part with it while you live, nor to bequeath
it at your death except to your wife, your eldest son or
your nearest friend.
Candidate I promise.—
(All now partake of bread and wine and make a
libation according to ancient custom, as practiced at the
Sacrifices.)
(Thrice Puissant now returns to the throne.)
—
Hiram, King of Tyre Thrice Puissant Grand Mas-
ter, shall we now communicate the true pronunciation

of the ineffable name to the candidate?

320 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SFBLIME MASON.

Thrice Puissant — Brother

Hiram, to the best of your
ability give the mystic name which the High Priests of
the Israelites knew how to utter. (All form a circle
round the Altar.)
Thrice Puissant — Lo! Nature guards our vestal fire.
Which never, never can expire.
With hearts that never change or falter.
We here surround our common Altar,
Religion builds it, and a beam
From Heaven’s own Throne, no fitful gleam.
Wraps it in flames, while hand in hand.
We round this Blazing Altar stand.
Let us, as Elect Masons true
Virtues eternal league renew;
While celebrating friendship’s feast
May love be our ever welcome guest.
And now in adoration bow
To him to hears and seals each vow.
Olory to God who reigns above
And to our fellow creatures love.

(All kneel and communicate the word “Tod. '.He. \

Vau. ’.He. *.'*
around the Altar; Hiram King of Tyre,
the Thrice Puissant and candidate together. All rise.)

Thrice Puissant — Have a care, this pronunciation is

probably erroneous, and it is vain for man to suppose

that God has a proper name, or if he has one that it

could be uttered by the human voice. The various

words by which he has been addressed in different ages

and countries are all equally holy and true, if he who

speaks them has a pure conception of the Divine Attri-
butes and perfect love toward the Divine Entiety.
His name is unutterable; no lips can speak it, no ear
can hear it, but it resounds in the heart of him who
loves and adores. We greet you, my brother, as a

Knight of the Sacred Vault.

Thrice Puissant — Brother Grand Master of Cere-

monies, you will now communicate to the candidate the

Signs, Token and Words.

 INITIATION. 321

SIGN OF OBLIGATION.

Place the right hand on the left side of

the abdomen and draw it quickly and

horizontally across the body to the right

side.

Sign of Obligation
E. P. and S. Mason,

FIRST TOKEN.

Join the right hands, re-

verse them thrice. The first

brother says, “Beritlr* the

second says, “Neder,” the
first then says/'Shelemoih.”

First Token Grand Elect, Perfect

and Sublime Ma*on.

FORDS.
First Pass Word— Shibboleth.
First Covered Word —Jabulum.
322 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.

SIGN OF FIRE.

Raise the right hand open to the left

cheek the palms outward, at the same time

grasping the elbow with the left hand.

Blgn of Fire.

SECOND TOKEN.

Give the Master’s Grit),

one says, can you. go far-

ther ?

Second Token.

ANSWER.
The other slips his hand along the
other’s forearm up to the elbow.
Each then places his left hand on
the other’s right shoulder and
bal-

ance thrice, the legs crossed

from
Second Token,
the right.
 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON. 323

WORD.
Second Covered Word —Makobim, Interpreted, “That’s
He! He is dead.”
Second Pass Word —El-Hhanan.

SIGN OF ADMIRATION.

Eaise both hands opened to heaven,

the head inclined, the eyes directed up-

wards, afterward place the first two

fingers of the right hand on the lips.

Sign of Admiration,
* *+

THIRD TOKEN.
Seize each other’s right hand, grasp each

other’s right shoulder with the left hand

and then pass left hands behind each
other’s back as if to bring one another
closer.

WORD.
Third Covered Word Adonai. —
—
Third Pass Word -Bea Makeh, Bamearah, interpre-
ted, “Thank God we Have found.”
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321 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT* AND SUBLIME MASON.

sacred word: Jehovah. —

grand word :-^-Jod. '.He. \Van. \He. \ The grand in-
effable and real name of the Almighty Grand Architect
ol'the Universe, and never to be pronounced.
battery —
Twenty-four strokes by three, five, seven
:

and nine; 000 00000 0000000 000000000.

march Eight hurried steps and then one slower,
:

altogether nine.
age — Seven times seven years.
— From high twelve
:

hours of work: till midnight.

Thrice Puissant — My dear brother, I now salute you
as a Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason, and with
great pleasure decorate you with the symbols of the
grade.
collar —
This collar of flame color is emblematic of
:

ardent zeal, affection and charity.

—
crown: The crown on your jewel is a symbol of the
royal origin of the grade.
—
compass: The compass extended to ninety degrees
denotes the extensive knowledge of the Grand Elect.
sun —
In the centre, that our actions should be as
:

open as the full blaze of the noonday sun and our char-
ity as diffusive as its beams.
jewel: — This jewel suspended on your breast should
remind you to be attentive to your duties and admon-
ishes you ever to walk so as to adorn your station.
—
girdle: I also invest you with the girdle of a Grand
Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason.
145
The Girdle was used of old to strengthen the body
and to enable man to continue and persist in his labors.
It is therefore an emblem of activity, promptness and
—
Note 145. “Girdle. Tn ancient symbology the girdle was always con-
sidered as typical of chastity and purity. In the Hrahuianical initiations,
the candidate was presented with the Zennar. or sacred cord, as a part
of the sacred garments; a> d Gibbon says that ‘at the ape of puberty
the faithful Persian was invested yyith a mysterious girdle; fifteen
genuflections were required after he put on the sacred girdle.’ The old
Templars assumed the obligations of poverty, obedience and chastity:
and a girdle was given them, at their initiation, rs a symbol of the
last of the three vows. As a symbol of purity, the girdle is still used
in many cbivalric initiations, and may he properly considered as the
—
analogue of t lie Masonic apron,’’ Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freema-
sonry, Article Girdle,
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INITIATION 325

perseverance.
The Girdle was used to bind on the garments and
prevent them from flying open and discovering our
nakedness and is an emblem of charity, to the observance
of which virtue you have been laid under new obliga-
tions.
The Girdle was also used forornament and beauty:
Let be your endeavor to
it be adorned with and rich in
those 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 mixture
146
of which the primitive colors are formed.
The five consists of these three and a green and purple.
The seven of the five with white and black.
And the nine of these seven and stone and flame
oolors.
The Blue 147 is an emblem of friendship and fidelity.
The Bed 148 of zeal.
149
The Yellow which resembles gold, of wisdom, which
Note146. —
“Colors, Symbolism of. Wemyss In his Clavis Symbolica,
says: ‘Color, which is outwardly seen on the habit of the body, is sym-
bolically used to denote the true state of the person or subject to which
it is applied, according to its nature.’ This definition may appropriately
be borrowed on the present occasion, and applied to the system of Ma-
sonic colors. The color of a vestment or of a decoration is never arbitrarily
adopted in Freemasonry. Every color is selected with a view to its
power in the symbolic alphabet, and it teaches the initiate some instruc-
tive moral lesson, or refers to some important historical fact in the
system.’’’ Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Colors, Sym-
bolism of.
Note 147. “Blue. This is emphatically the color of Masonry. It is the
appropriate tincture of the Ancient Craft degrees. It is to the Mason
a symbol of universal friendship and benevolence, because, as it is the
color of the vault of heaven, which embraces and covers the w holo 7

globe, we are thus reminded that in the breast of every brother these
virtues should be equally as extensive.’’ Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of
Freemasonry, Article Blue.
Note 148. — “Where
red is not used historically, and adopted as a
memento certain tragical circumstances in the history of Masonry,
of
it always, under some modification, a symbol of zeal and fervency.’’
is
— Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Red.
—
Note 149. “Yellow. Of all the the colors, yellow seems to be the
least important and the least general in Masonic symbolism. In other
institutions it would have the same insignificance, were it not that it
has been adopted as the representative of the sun, and of the noble
metal gold. Thus, in colored blazonry, the small dots, by which the
gold in an engraved coat of arms is designated, are replaced by the yel-
low color. La Colombiere, a French heraldic writer, says, (Science Hero*
ique, p. 30,) in remarking on the connection between gold and yellow,
that as yellow, which is derived from the sun. is the most exalted
of colors, so gold is the most noble of metals.’’ Mackey’s Encyclopaedia
of Freemasonry, Article Yellow.
326 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MAS02*.
.

said the wisest of Kings, is better than fine gold.

160
The Green an emblem of hope.
is
1 61
The Purple of dignity and majesty of conduct.
Purple is a Tyrian color and reminds us of the alliance
into which you have now entered.
1,2
The White is an emblem of innocence.

The Black ” 1

of modesty and seriousness of demeanor.

The next color is that of stone, as stone is distin-
guished for firmness and durability; so this color teaches
us constancy and decision of character.
The flame color reminds us to cultivate ardent affec-
tion and charity. The various colors united in this gir-
dle are expressive of that unity and the olive interwoven
of that peace which should link us together.
And as these colors shine in your girdle, so let the
virtues they represent shine in your heart and life.

Your apron T now invest you with is white, linedand

bordered with crimson : these colors symbolized have
already been explained to you.
—
Note 150. “This idea of the unchanging immortality of that which is
divine and true, was always connected by the ancients with the color
of green. Among the Egyptians, the god Phtha. the active spirit, the
creator and regenerator of the world, the goddesss Paseht. the divine
preserver, and Thoth. the instructor of men in the sacred doctrines of
truth, were all painted in the hieroglyphic system with green flesh.”
Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Green,
—
Note 151. “Among the gentile nations of antiquity purple was con-
sidered rather as a color of dignity than of veneration, and was deemed
an emblem of exalted office. Hence Homer mentions it as peculiarly
appropriated to royalty, and Virgil speaks of purpura regum, or ‘the pur-
ple of kings.’ Pliny says it was the color of the vestments worn by
the early kings of Rome; and it has ever since, even to the present
time, been considered as the becoming insignia of regal or supreme
authority.”'— Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Purple.
—
Note 152. “White. White Is one of the most ancient as well as
most extensively diffused of the symbolic colors. It is to he found In
all the ancient mysteries, where it constituted, as it does in Masonry,
the Investiture of' the candidate. It always, however, and everywhere
has borne the same signification as the symbol of purity and Innocence.’
— Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry. Article White.
—
Note 153. “Black. Black, in the Masonic ritual, is constantly the
symbol of grief. This is perfectly eonsisent with its use in the world,
where black has from u mote antiquity been adopted as the garment
—
cf mourning.’’ Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry. Article Blaok.
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INITIATION. 327

Thus, my brother, by your meritorious and blameless

conduct, constancy and integrity you
have attained
the title of Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason,
which is the summit of Ancient Craft Masonry, and
upon your arrival to which I sincerely congratulate you.
I most earnestly recommend to you the strictest care
and circumspection in your walk through life that the
sublime mysteries of this degree be not profaned, and
as to what remains of completing your knowledge in the
Ancient State of Masonry I will call your attention to
our Grand Orator, who will now deliver the discourse of
this degree.

DISCOURSE BY GRAND ORATOR.

My dear brother, when the Temple of Solomon was

finished those masons who were employed in the con-
struction of that stately edifice acquired immortal honors.
Their order became more uniformly established and
regulated than it had been before. Their delicacy in
admitting new members into their order brought it to a
high degree of respect, as the merit of each candidate
was the only thing they paid attention to. With these
principles instilled into their minds many of the Grand
Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons being able workmen
left Jerusalem after the dedication of the temple and

dispersed themselves among the neighboring kingdoms,

instructing all who applied and were found worthy of
receiving the Sublime Mysteries of the Royal Art.
Notwithstanding tl^ese precautions the order in the
three first degrees multiplied over the face of the earth,
so that their numbers were without measure. And by
their indiscriminate admission their secrets were dis-
closed, their knowledge became common and the degrees
328 GUAM) ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASONS.

fell into great disrepute. The Grand Elect and Perfect

Masons were so cautious in concealing the mysteries of
the higher degrees of masonry that they determined to
initiate only as far as the third degree.
You are aware, my brother, that many unworthy ma-
sons of the lower degrees have by their imprudence
suffered their signs and tokens to be discovered by
cowans. These occurrences chagrined the Perfect Ma-
sons, who were but few in number, and they endeav-
ored to stop the evil, but all their exertions were fruit-
less.
The Craft degenerated, as receptions were obtained
too easily.
The intervals of thedegrees were broken into too
hastily, and mere amusement was preferred to useful in-
struction. Innovations increased and new doctrines
were introduced which destroyed all the old and useful
regulations of the order.
These differences occasioned disputes, quarrels, heart
burnings, jealousies and dissensions, which in the end
produced the discovery of the mysteries of the first three
degrees to the vulgar and profane.
How happy it is, my brother, that those unguarded
brethren were ignorant of the Sublime Mysteries of the
Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons. Let us, mv
brother, endeavor to prevent these degrees from sharing
the same unhappy fate by preserving them in their
Ancient Perfection as we have traveled to obtain the
knowledge of the Ancient Eiec-t, and to imitate them in
their devotions, whose principal study was the contem-
plation of the adorable attributes of the Grand Archi-
tect of the Universe.
Solomon expressly chose this word for the Ancient
Masters to fill the principal workmen with veneration
for the great and eternal God, to whom the temple was
dedicated and also to incite them to perform their
several duties cheerfully while employed in erecting a
temple to his Holy name.
 INITIATION. 329

This wise King knew the force of his most Holy name
he also knew that he had appeared to Moses in the
Burning Bush and had declared to him his true name,
and that he was the only Patriarch who knew it; also
that he would be invoked bv no other name in the tem-
ple.

My brother, the real and ineffable name of the Grand

Architect of the Universe as given by God
to Moses was
the Master’s Word. When our Grand Master Hiram
Abiff was killed, by his courage and magnanimity its
discovery was prevented, which frustrated the hopes of
his murderers. It was then determined never to entrust
a secret of so much importance to any person; and
another word was used in its stead until the discovery
of the brilliant Delta by the Knights of the Royal Arch
in the" ruins of Enoch, on which was engraved the
Ineffable name which constitutes the Perfection of Ma-
sonry.
Solomon, King of Hiram, King of Tyre,
Israel, ancT
communicated the interpretation of the characters on
the brilliant Delta to none but the Grand Elect, Perfect
and Sublime Masons, under whose immediate protection
they placed it in the Sacred Vault under the Sanctum
Sanctorum of the temple, by which cowans have never
been able to discover the place where the Sacred name
was deposited, as a strict guard was kept to prevent the
admission of any but the Grand Elect, Perfect and Sub-
lime Masons.
The temple was begun in the fourth year of the reign
of Solomon, the third after the death of David, four
hundred and eighty years after the passage of the Red
Sea, and on the second day of the second month, called
330 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.

Jyar, in the year of the world 2992, and was completed

in a little more than seven years.
After a solemn invocation of the blessings of the
Eternal God at the dedication of the house erected to
his name, Solomon held a feast with all the children of
Israel for fourteen days, during which period he gave
audience workmen.
to all the
The first was the Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime
Masons who were introduced into the Sacred Vault, and
at the same time the Grand Master Architects were in
the King's apartment.
He admitted to the degree of Perfection some of the
most virtuous of the brethren and made them most
solemnly promise to live together in peace, unity and
concord, and to exercise the works of charity’ and be-
nevolence in imitation of their deceased chief, and to
make justice and equity the basis of their actions; to
observe a profound silence of this degree and not to re-
veal it to any person but those who are entitled to re-
ceive it and had given proof of their zeal, fervor and
constancy in support of the craft; to assist each other
and to relieve their mutual wants; to inflict vengeance
on traitors and to punish perfidy and injustice. f

The King then blessed them in thename of the Lord I

God of Israel and showed them the Ark of Alliance I

opened, from whence (lie Eternal Jehovah, the Grand |l

Architect of the Universe, delivered his oracles. I

He ordered many and admitted them to a I
sacrifices
libation, embraced them and gave each of them a gold I
ring as a proof of the alliance which they had formed II
with virtue and the virtuous and made them several I
presents with permission either to remain in Jerusalem I
or to travel into foreign countries.
 INITIATION". 331

On the second day he admitted the Masters and

Knights Elected into the middle chamber and there
made them promise in the most sacred manner never to
dejiart from the principles of virtue. To bear in their
recollection the conduct of their respectable and much
lamented chief as a model, to live in unity with each
other in their wants and necessities and to faithfully
guard the mysteries of the order and never communicate
them to any but those who had merit sufficient to de-
serve them.
He then gave them the degree of Grand Master Archi-
tect and decorated them with the honors thereof, and
also bestowed on them some other favors and permitted
them also either to remain in Jerusalem or retire as they
thought proper.
On the third day he gave audience to the Fellow
Crafts in the Eastern part of the temple and rewarded
those who appeared to him to be virtuous with the de-
gree of Master.
On the Entered Apprentices he conferred the degree
of Fellow Craft and introduced them into the Porch of
the temple ;
made them
he then promise never to forsake
those principles of virtue, of which their Ancient Chief
was a memorable example; to live united and mutually
to assist each other in carefully preserving the Signs,
Tokens and Words, and never to communicate them to
any but those whose unexceptionable characters entitle
them to that favor. He then made them several presents
and permitted them to retire out of the city if they
pleased and to enable those to prosecute their journey
with ease and satisfaction, and as farther reward for
their good conduct he gave orders to his Intendants to
defray their expenses. Thus far this wise and virtuous
 33 '? GRAND ELECT. PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.

King o! behaved worthy of himself and gained

Israel
universal favor; but in process of time, when he had ad-
vanced in years, his understanding became impaired and
he grew deaf to the voice of the Lord and was strangely
irregular in his conduct. •

Proud of having erected an edifice to his maker and

- much intoxicated with his great power, he plunged into
all manner of licentiousness and debauchery and pro-

faned the temple by offering incense to the Idol Moloch

instead of offering it to the living God.
The Grand Elect and Perfect Masons saw this and
were sorely grieved and fearful that his Apostasy 164
would end in some dreadful consequence and perhaps
bring upon them their enemies, whom Solomon vainly
and wantonly defied. The people, copying the follies
and King, became proud and idolatrous,
vices of their
neglecting the worship of the True and living God for
that of idols.
Those masons who had instructed their children in the
paths of virtue, agreeable to the principles of their or-
der, endeavored by their council and example to deter
their fellow citizens from impiety and licentiousness but
without success. A great majority of good masons left
Jerusalem that they might not behold the dreadful
punishment which awaited the idolatry of the people.
—
Note 154. “The Temple was completed in the year ot the world
3000. Thus far, the wise King of Israel had behaved worthy of him-
self, and gained universal admiration; but in process of time, when
he had advanced in years, his understanding became impaired; he grew
deaf to tae voice of the Lord, and was strangely irregular in his con-
duct. Proud of having erected an edifice to his Maker, and intoxicated
with his great power, he plunged into all manner of licentiousness and
debauchery, and profaned the Temple, by offering to the idol Moloch that
incense which should have been offered only to the living God.
The Grand Elect and Perfect Masons saw this, and were sorely
grieved, afraid that his apostasy would end in some dreadful conse-
quences. and bring upon them those enemies whom Solomon had vain-
gloriousl.v and wantonly defied. The people, copying the vices and
follies (if their king, became proud and idolatrous, and neglected the
worship of the true God for that of idols. Mackey's Encyclopaedia of
Freemasonry, Article Perfection, Lodge of.
 INITIATION. OOu

As an adequate punishment for the licentiousness of the

people, God permitted divers nation to make war on
them and to pillage their country. Ten of the tribes
fell from the house of David and elected Jeroboan
their King, by the style of King of Israel.
Rehoboam governed the tribes of Judah. In this
manner were the tribes of Israel divided and under two
distinct governments for 254 years, when the ten revolt-
ed tribes, having become weak and degenerated by
following the wickedness and idolatry of the Kings who
governed them, fell a prey to Shalmaneser, King of
Assyria, who in the reign of Ilosea, King of Israel, be-
sieged the city of Samaria, laid their country waste and
utterly extirpated their government ; such was the
wretched fate of a people who disdained subjection to
the laws of the house of David, and whose impiety
ended in their destruction.
In the third month of the reign of Jehoiachin, King
of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, took the
city of Jerusalem and carried off the King captive and
cut into pieces all the vessels of the temple. Zedekiah
was then made King of Judah and had reigned eleven
years.
On the seventh day of the fifth month called Ab,
Nebuzaradan, Captain of the Guards, entered Judah
with fire and sword, took and sacked the city of Jerusa-
lem, razed its walls and destroyed that superb model of
excellence, the temple. The people were carried captives
to Babylon and the conquerors carried with them all the
treasures of the temple. This happened in the year of
the world 3470, 470 years, 6 months and 10 days after
its dedication.
The Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons who
were at Jerusalem at that time exerted themselves with
great bravery and fortitude in its defense, but without
effect, for as soon as the temple had fallen into one
general heap of ruins they directed their whole attention
to the preservation of the Sacred Vault from injury and
:l;> I flllWI) ELECT. PERFECT AND SFBLIME MASON.

lilt* golden plate I’roin being discovered.

For that purpose a party fought their way into the
Sacred Vault, where thev found the golden plate on the
agate stone uninjured. (They also discovered the body
of Galahad, son of Sophoris, a considerable man among
the Perfect Masons and chief of the Levites.)
Galahad was the guardian of the Sacred Vault and
took care of the burning lamp. ITis fortitude and
magnanimity was not excelled by Hiram Abiff, who -400
years before lost his life rather than to reveal the Mas-
ter’s Word. Galahad preferred being buried under the
ruins of the temple rather than to discover to the bar-
barians by his coming out of the place where the greatest,
treasures were deposited. They then cried Bea-Makeh
and Bamearah that is to sav, “Thank God, we have
;

found it.”
This is the grand password and known by those who
are guardians of the sacred treasure.
It is difficult to express the excessive joy which they
felt on the discovery of the Sacred Word, and, being
fearful that the sacred characters should he found out,
they defaced it and broke down the tables of gold, as
they found it impossible to carry away the agate trian-
gular stone. They therefore overset and broke the
pedestal on which the Sacred name had been deposited.
They took from Galahad the robes of the chief of the
Levites and retired, well satisfied with their success and
determined that in future no trace of the Sacred name
should be found but in the hearts of good masons. From
this determination we derive the custom of spelling the
most holy name of names, letter by letter, without giv-
ing a syllable. This word was used in the temple when
it was rebuilt under the order of Cyrus and is observed
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INITIATION . 335

by the Grand Elected to this day.

Once a year the High Priest, in the middle of a num-
ber of brethren who had received the degree of Perfec-
tion, formed themselves in a circle to spell the Sacred
word and at the same time the people without the tem-
ple were ordered to make a great noise lest they should
be overheard. Bv which means the habit of writing or
pronouncing the great and awful name was lost, as they
were uncertain of the number of letters which composed
it and of the real interpretation and sublime meaning

or the great name of their God. It defines his essence,

his existence, his unity, his goodness and his eternity in
one word.
The Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons who
had penetrated into the ruins of Enoch and who ac-
quired the inestimable treasure left J udah and went into
other countries. Some went into Egypt and Assyria and
others crossed the Sea and went into Europe ;
many set-

tled in England, Scotland and Ireland. They retained

their virtue and faith inviolable and afforded each other
those fraternal acts of kindness which endear us to each
other and gave to the world such striking proofs of
wisdom, virtue and integrity that they became the ad-
miration of the people among whom they lived. In con-
sequence of which innumerable applications were made
to them for initiations.
The good brethren chose from among them such as
were found famed for the exercise of virtue and morality
and invited them to deplore the uncertainty of human
events.
They also laid before them the conduct of Solomon
as a memorable example to shun vice and practice vir-
tue in imitation of their beloved and much lamented
33 (> GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.

Master Hiram Abiff. They exhorted them to invoke

the blessing of the adorable, I am, who was, and is, and
will be the eternal father of those who love him and
obey his laws, many of them were initiated agreeable
to their wishes.

When the Princes ofEurope united their forces to

conquer the Holy Land and deliver Jerusalem from
the hands of the barbarians who had it in possession
a number of the Grand Elect with other masons volun-
tarily offered their services in so holy an enterprise,
upon condition of being allowed the privilege of choos-
ing their own Chief, which was granted them. They
hoisted their own standard and departed.
In the tumult and disorder of war they still retained
and exercised the most virtuous principles, union and
harmony reigned in their tents. They lived together
without distinction of rank and acknowledged no general
but in time of action. They gave mutual assistance to
each other and extended their charity to the indigent
and distressed, even among their enemies.
In action the^ were valiant and enterprising and ren-
dered such signal service to the confederate army that
they received from them the highest honors.
The Princes were surprised at the prodigies of valor
which were performed by the masons, and when they
learned that their courage and zeal, their virtue, their
disinterestedness and union were founded on the broad
basis of the mystic institution they solicited the honor
of initiation.
The Princes promised a strict observance of all the
laws and regulations of the Craft and were initiated
into the masonic mysteries. They were instructed in
our history and taught the mystery of universal re-
 INITIATION.

155
ligion and benevolence which binds our members to-
gether in one band, in every clime and in every station
of life.

The great revolutions which have so fre-

political
quently changed the form of Empires have never af-
fected our glorious, profession. We possess all the
principles and 'forms in their pristine purity.
Let us, my brother, offer our prayers at the throne of
mercy that we may never be divided. Amen.

LECTURE GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.

Thrice Puissant — Brother Senior Grand Warden,
what are you ?
Senior Grand Warden — Thrice Puissant,
I am a
Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason. There is
nothing but what is revealed to me.
—
Thrice Puissant Where were you received?
—
Senior Grand Warden In a place where the rays
of the •Sun and Moon are »ot wanted.
—
Thrice Puissant Where is that place situated?
—
Senior Grand Warden Under the Sanctum Sancto-
JTote 155. — “The all true Masonry is towards religion.
tendency of
If it make any progress is to that holy end.
progress, its Look at
its ancient landmarks, its sublime ceremonies, its profound symbols
—
and allegories, all inculcating religious doctrine, commanding religious
observance, and teaching religious truth, and ‘who can deny that it is
eminently a religions institution?
But, besides. Masonry is, in all its forms, thoroughly tinctured with
a true devotional spirit. We open and close our Lodges with prayer; we
invoke the blessing of the Most High upon all our labors: we demand
of our neophytes a profession, of trusting belief in the existence and the
superintending care of God; and we teach them to bow with humility and
reverence at his awful name, while his holy law is widely opened upon
our altars. Freemasonry is thus identified with religion; and although
a man may he eminently religious without being a Mason, it is impos-
sible that a Mason can be ‘true and trusty’ to bis Order unless he is a
respecter of religion and an observer of religions principle.
But the religion of Masonry is not sectarian. It admits men of every
creed within its hospitable bosom, rejecting none and approving none for
his peculiar faith. It is not Judaism, though there is nothing in it
to offend a Jew; it is not Christianity, but there is nothing in it repug-
nant to the faith of a Christian. Its religion is that general one of
—
nature and primitive revelation, handed down to us from some ancient
and patriarchal priesthood,— in which all men may agree and in which
no men can differ.”- Mackey’s Encyplopaedia of Freemasonry, Article
Religion of Masonry.
338 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.

rum of the Grand Architect of the Universe, in a lodge

and sacred place called the Sacred Vault.
Thrice Puissant —
Who introduced you into that
-

place ?

Senior Li rami II arden — The* most wise and puissant

of all Kings.
Thrice Puissant — In what way did you enter that
dace ?
—
Senior Grand Warden Through a. long narrow pas-
sage composed of nine arches.
—
Thrice Puissant How were you introduced into the
Holy Vault ?
Senior Grand Warden —By three knocks.
—
Thrice Puissant To what do these three knocks al-
lude?
—
Senior Grand Warden To the age of my apprentice-
ship and the number of Knights Elected who penetrated
into the bowels of the Earth and took from thence the
precious treasure of the Grand Elect, Perfect and Sub-
lime Masons.
—
Thrice Puissant What followed these knocks?
Senior Grand Warden —
Five other knocks, which
distinguished the age of the Fellow Craft and also the
number which was completed by the arrival of Guiblim,
Joabert and Stolkin with the precious treasure which
Divine Providence had ordained to be deposited in the
Sacred Vault, where these three brethren found it:
Solomon, King of Israel, and Hiram, King of Tyre,
making the number.
Thrice Puissant — What answer was made to these
fiveknocks?
Senior Grand Warden —
Seven oilier knocks, which
alluded to three things: First, the Age of a Master.
Second, that there were chosen seven Expert Brethren
to replace our Grand Master Hiram Abiff. Third, that
Solomon was employed seven years in the construction
of the temple.
—
Thrice Puissant What answer was made to the seven
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INITIATION . 339
o

knocks ?

Senior Grand Warden —Nine loud knocks, which

mark the age of a Perfect Master, and which, when
represented by the numbers of the Grand Elect, Perfect
and Sublime Masons, make eighty-one.
Thrice Puissant —What followed these nine knocks?
Senior Grand Warden — The door the ninth vault of

was opened and I entered into the most Holy and sacred
place of all the earth, at the same time I pronounced
156
Shibboleth , Shibboleth, Shibboleth, with an aspira-
tion.

Thrice Puissant —What is the meaning of that word?

Senior Grand Warden — It is the first password and
signifies plenty.

Thrice Puissant —What did you perceive on entering

that holy place?
Senior Grand Warden — The most brilliant light,

which dazzled my eyes and struck me with amazement.

—What was
Thrice Puissant the brilliant light that
so affectedyou?
Senior Grand Warden — w It T
as the Ineffable and real
name of the Almighty and Grand Architect of the Uni-
verse, engraven on a triangular plate of gold upon an
agate stone, which had been deposited there by one of
Note 156. — “Signifies
an ear of corn and a stream or flood of water.
The name given by which the ancient Jews sought
to a test or criterion
to distinguish true persons or things from false. The term originated
thus: After the battle gained by Jephthah over the Ephraimites. (Judges
xii..) the Gileadites, commanded by the former, secured all the passes
of the river; and, on an Ephraimite attempting to cross, they asked him
if he was of Ephraim. If he said no. they bade him pronounce the
word Shibboleth, which the Ephraimites. from inability to give the
aspirate, gave Sibboleth. By this means he was detected as an enemy,
and immediately slain. In modern times this word has been adopted
into political and other organizations as a pass or watchword.’’—
Macoy’s Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Freemasonry, Article Shib-
boleth.
 *

3-10 OK,VXD ELECT. PERFECT AKD SUBLIME MASOX.

the ancient patriarchs and was found by the Knights

of the Royal Arch.
Thrice Puissant — What do you the Pedestal call on
which was placed?
it

Senior Grand Warden — The Pillar of Beauty.

Thrice Puissant — In what manner did we receive this
brilliant Delta?
Senior Grand Warden — By the laborious search of
the Ancient Knights of the Royal Arch, who discovered
this inestimable treasure among the ruins of the temple
built by the Patriarch Enoch.
— Explain the name me?
Thrice Puissant to
Senior Grand Warden — cannot. I

Thrice Puissant — How

•
you make me
will sensible
that you know it?
Senior Grand Warden — Makobin and Machbenah
’ 57

were substituted the place of

in it.

Thrice Puissant— What the meaning of these

is

words?
Senior Grand Warden —Understanding, Knowledge
and Wisdom.
Thrice Puissant — To whom did God first communi-
cate this 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 himself
to him on Mount Sinai.
Thrice — What
Puissant became of the word after-
wards ?

Senior Grand Warden — It was effaced, and the Gold-

en Plate on which it was engraved was melted down
—
Note 157. “Macbenac means in Girlie ‘tin* blessed son.’ This word
the Stuart Masons applied to their idol, the Pretender, the sou of Charles
I.” — Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Mac.
 INITIATION. 341

by the pious and zealous masons, after the destruction

of the temple by Nebuzaradan, being fearful that the
Divine Delta should fall into the hands of the impious;
the sacred name would be profaned.
—
Thrice Puissant What have you perceived in the
degree of Illustrious Knight?
—
Senior Grand Warden Twelve great lights.
—
Thrice Puissant What do they allude to?
—
Senior Grand Warden Twelve masters who were
elected by Solomon on the works of the temple
to carry
after the death of Hiram Abiff and who commanded
the twelve tribes of Israel. •

—What were the names of the twelve

Thrice Puissant
masters ?

Senior Grand Warden —Joabert, Terry, Mor-

.Stolkin,
phey, Alycuber, Dorson, Herim, Berthemar, Tito, Zer-
bal, Benac-hard and Tabor, the first nine were those who
were elected to search for the traitor Jubelum (Akirop),
one of the assassins of Hiram Abiff.
—
Thrice Puissant Over what tribes had they the in-

spection ?

Senior Grand Warden —Joabert over the tribe of.

Judah.
Stolkii^over the tribe of Benjamin
Terry over the txibe of Simeon,
Morphey over the tribe of Ephraim,
Alycuber over the tribe of Manasseh,
Dorson over the tribe of Zebulun,
Herim over the* tribe of Dan,
Berthemar over the tribe of Asher,
Tito over the tribe of Kaphtali,
Zerbal over the tribe of Beuben,
Benachard over the tribe of Tssachar,
Tabor over the tribe of Gad.
31? GRANT) ELECT. PERFECT AND SCBT.TME MASON.

These masters superintended the working of the

tribes, paid them their wages, and rendered daily an
account of their proceedings to Solomon.
Thrice Puissant — Do the lights allude to anything
else?
Senioi •
—
Grand Warden To the twelve Princes of
Solomon, and their governments, who furnished suste-
nance for the workmen and the King's household.
Thrice — What are their names and the
Puissant
countries over which they presided?
Senior Grand Warden — Hur, the son of Hur, Infen-
dant General in Mount Ephraim.
Aminadab; son of Aminadab, in the region of Dor,
he was married to Yaptha, Solomon’s daughter.
Hesed, the son of Hesed, in Amboth and all Heper,
etc.
Baana, son of Baana, in Taawich Megiddo, etc.

Deter, son of Deter, in Mahaz-Bethshemesh, etc.

Geber, son of Geber, in Bamoth Gilead, etc.

Ahinadab, son of Jetdo, in Mahanaim,

etc.

Ahimaaz, in Naphtali, married Basmoth, Solomon’s

daughter.
Baana, son of Hushea, in Asheraloth, etc.
Jehoshaphat, son of Pernah, in Issachar, etc.
Shimei, son of Elah, in Benjamin, etc.
Gebor, son or TJri, in the country of Gilead, etc.
—
Thrice Puissant Why do the Secret Masters wear the
ivory key?
Senior Grand Warden —To
remind them that the
Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons are the only
depositaries of Ancient Masonry. The secrets of which
must be carefully locked up from the profane.
—
Thrice Puissant What is the meaning of the tomb
 INITIATION. 343

at the east door of the temple?

—
Senior Grand Warden It is the tomb wherein was
placed the body of our much lamented and respectable
Master Hiram A biff, which Solomon caused to be erect-
ed there as a testimony of the high esteem the brethren
had for that Great Architect.
Thrice Puissant — What is the meaning of the Bal-
ance ?
—
Senior Grand, Warden It teaches us to be just and
equitable.
Thrice —
Puissant What signifies the Sword which
the Grand Master of Ceremonies held naked in his hand
at your entrance ?
—
Senior Grand Warden It is employed to defend our
Illustrious Grand Master and to punish those who shall
depart from virtue, and shall be so perfidious as to re-
veal the secrets committed to their care, Solomon gave
those who were deserving, the name of favorite, and
constituted them Sublime Knights, decorated them with
a large black ribbon, on which was painted a flaming
heart opposite their breast. He desired them not to
travel without this mark of distinction, and instead of
the poniard gave them a sword of justice and said: “As
you have been the conductors of the work of the temple
you are now to defend it with the sword.”
—
Thrice Puissant What is the meaning of the inflamed
heart?
—
Senior Grand Warden The ardent charity we should
have for each other.
—
Thrice Puissant What is your word in quality of
Knight Elected ?
—
Senior Grand Warden Begoal-Kol, and signifies by
him or through him every thing was discovered, there
are three pass-words necessary to be known, first Kekam
which signifies vengeance, second Stolkin, the name of
him who found the body of Hiram Abiff under the sprig
of Acacia, third Joabert, who cut off the head of Abiram,
(Akirop) and brought it to Solomon in company with
344 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.

Ills eight companions.

Thrice, Puissant— What the meaning of the eight
is

lights together and one by itself?

Senior Grand Warden — The nine elected who went
in search of Jubulum, (Akirop.)
Thrice Puissant — Have you received any distinction
since you have been made a Knight Elected?
Senior Grand Warden — Solomon being willing to re-
ward the trouble of the Elected, advanced them to the
degree of Sublime Knights and joined to their chapter
three zealous brethren to make their 'number twelve. lie
showed them the riches of the temple and gave to each
a golden key that they might be distinguished from the
rest of the brethren, and gave them the name of Emetli
or (Amar-Jah,) a word which signifies truth, or a true
man on all occasions, he also gave them command of the
twelve tribes of Israel.
Thrice Puissant — Have you penetrated any farther?
Senior Grand Warden — Solomon soon after initiated
me into the degree of Grand Master Architect, to re-
compense me for my zeal, fervor and constanc\ , and in T

the end to lead me to the celestial throne.

—
Thrice Puissant What was the name of the stranger
who acquainted Solomon with the place where the trai-
tor Jubelum, (Akirop) had secreted himself?
Senior Grand Warden — rs
His name was PerignaiT he
—
Note 158. “Perignan. When the Elu degrees wore first Invented,
the legend referred to an unknown person, a tiller of the soil, to whom
King Solomon was indebted for the information which led to the dis-
covery of the craftsmen who had committed the crime recorded in the
third degree. This unknown person, at first designated as Tinconnu.'
afterwards received the name of Perignan. and a degree between the
elu of nine and the elu of fifteen was instituted, which was called the
‘Elu of Perignan,’ and which became the sixth degree of the Adon
hiramite Rite. I am utterly at a loss ns to the derivation or radical
meaning of the word, hut am inclined to the theory which gives to
this, as well as to many other words in the high degrees, a reference
:
to the adherents, or to the enemies, of the exiled house of Stuart. for
—
whose sake several of these degrees were established." Mackey's Ency-
clopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Perignan.
 INITIATION'. 345

was a squarer and polisher of marble in the quarry of

Gibelum, near Joppa, not far from the sprig of Acacia,
when the body of Hiram Abiff was found, he was not
enrolled among the workmen of the temple, but for this
piece of essential service Solomon rewarded him and
enrolled him among the workmen and changed his name
to Guiblim because he continued to walk therein.
—
Thrice Puissant What signifies the three lights plac-
ed at the door of the Elected Knights?
—
Senior Grand Warden *The three Fellow Crafts who
assassinated our respectable Master Hiram Abiff.
—
Thrice Puissant What was their origin and what
were their names ?
Senior Grand Warden — They were from the tribe of
Dan, and sons of the same parent, they were called first
Jubelum, (Akirop) and by some Aben, (Akirop,) the
second was Jubelo, (Gravelot) and the youngest Jubela,
(Guibs.) *

Thrice Puissant —What became of the two younger

brothers of Akirop ?

Senior Grand Warden — They fled to the country of

Cheth.
— How came they be discovered in
Thrice Puissant to
that country ?

Senior Grand Warden — By the assiduity of Bengabee

Solomon's Intendant in the country of Cheth.
Thrice Puissant — What method did Solomon take to
have them arrested ?

Senior Grand Warden — He demanded them of Maa-

cha King of Cheth, whom he wrote on that occasion.
to
Thrice Puissant — Who was the bearer of Solomon’s
letter to King Maacha ?
Senior Grand Warden — Zerbal, Captain of the King’s
34(i GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON,

guards.
Thrice Puissant — Did the King of Cheth hesitate to
deliver them up?
Senior Grand Warden — No, gave guard
he* a to escort
the messengers and search with them.
Thrice Puissant — Where were they found?
Senior Grand Warden — In a quarry called Bendaca.
Thrice Puissant — Had not Solomon an intendant of
that name?
Senior Grand Warden — He had, one who was married
to one daughters.
of his
Thrice Puissant — How came they discover the two
to
assassins ?

Senior Grand Warden — By the intelligence of a

shepherd who showed them the place of their retreat.
—
Thrice Puissant : Who were the persons who saw
them first?
Senior Grand Warden —Zerbal and Elignam, after
five day’s search.
Thrice Puissant — In what manner were they carried
up to Jerusalem?
—
Senior Grand Warden In chains, with their hands
fastened behind their backs.
—
Thrice Puissant What was the form of the chains?
—
Senior Grand Warden A square, a r\de and a mal-
let, on which was engraved the kind of punishment they
were to suffer at Jerusalem.
—
Thrice Puissant On what day did they arrive at
Jerusalem ?
Senior Grand Warden —
On the fifteenth day of the
month Nissan, anno 3775; which answers to the month
of April.
— How long was before the
Thrice Puissant it assas-
sins were executed ?
Senior Grand Warden — One month.
Thrice Puissant— How many masters did Solomon
send search for them
to ?

Senior Grand Warden — There were of which fifteen,

 \

INITIATION. 347

number I was one.

— Were there no other persons?
Thrice Puissant
Senior Grand Warden — There were troops which
were sent an as escort.
Thrice Puissant — What was done with the two assas-
sins when they arrived J erusalem at ?

Senior Grand Warden — They were carried before

Solomon to whom they confessed their guilt, after
which they were confined one day and one night in a
dungeon in the tower of Achizar, after which they were
led to execution.
Thrice Puissant — What kind of punishment did they
receive ?

Senior Grand Warden — At the hour of ten the in

morning they were tied,naked, to two stakes, their arms
and legs extended, their bodies were then opened from
their necks to the middle and in that condition they
were exposed to the heat of the sun for eight hours dur-
ing which time the flies and other insects feasted on
their blood and entrails. At length their cries were so
lamentable that it drew tears from the executioner, who
in commiseration of their suffering severed their heads
from their bodies, w hich were given
T
to the wild beasts
for foodand their heads were placed on the South and
West pinnacles of the temple. The head of Akirop
who was killed sometime before was placed on the East
pinnacle, as a memento to the people to avoid such
horrible crimes.
—What are the words of the Elected
Thrice Puissant
of Fifteen?
Senior Grand Warden — Zerbal and Elignam the ; first
is the name of the Captain of the Guards who appre-
hended the assassins in the quarry, and the last God’s
 348 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON,

people.
Thrice Puissant —What hour was ft when t lie two
rullians expired ?

Senior Grand Warden —At six in the evening ven- 1

geance was completed.

Thrice Puissant —What is the meaning of the letters
B. \N. \S.\ which you see in the triangle of the Inti-
mate Secretary?
—
Senior Grand Warden The alliance of Moses and
Aaron, the same of Solomon with Hiram King of Tyre;
they also signify alliance, promise and perfection.
—
Thrice Puissant What is the word of the Grand
Master Architect?
Senior Grand Warden —Eab-Banain, (master build-
er. *
)

Thrice Puissant —In what manner were you after-

wards rewarded ?

Senior Grand Warden — Divine providence was gra-

ciously pleased to direct my researches into the bowels
of the earth, wherein I discovered the brilliant Delta on
which was engraved the sacred name of the Almighty.
As a reward for my zeal Solomon gave me the degree
of guardian of the narrow passage which leads to the
Sacred Vault.
—
Thrice Puissant What quality did you receive on
that occasion?
Senior Grand Warden — That of Knight of the Royal
*Arch.
whom were you received?
Thrice Puissant— By
—
Senior Grand Warden By Solomon King of Israel
and Hiram King of Tyre. As a reward for mv labor
they also gave the same rank to my two companions
Toabert and Stolkin.
—
Thrice Puissant What was your name then?
 INITIATION. 349

Senior Grand Warden Guibeliun. —

—
Thrice Puissant What is the sign of the Knight of
the Royal Arch?
Senior Grand Warden That of Admiration.—
—
Thrice Puissant What is the Token and Word ?
—
Senior Grand Warden Here it is, (he gives it), the
word is Jabulum.
Thrice Puissant — Are you a Grand Elect, Perfect and
Sublime Mason ?
Senior Grand Warden —
have penetrated into the
I
most sacred place of the earth. all
—
Thrice Puissant What is the name of that place?
Senior Grand Warden —
It was first called the Secret
Vault, but after the Divine Delta was placed therein it
was called the Sacred Vault.
Thrice Puissant— Where do the Grand Perfect Elect,
and Sublime Masons Work?
Senior Grand Warden — In holy place under ground.
a
Thrice Puissant— Where that place situated
is ?
Senior Grand Warden — Tinder the Sanctum Sanc-
torum the temple
of Jerusalem. of
Thrice Puissant — What the work of the Perfect
is
and Sublime Mason?
Senior Grand Warden — Respectfully preserve in to
our hearts the sacred mysteries of masonry. To sanctify
those who have been initiated. To practice the purest
morality, and to aid and assist, to succor and defend
our worthy brethren.
—
Thrice Puissant Where do the 'Perfect and Sublime
Masons travel ?

—
Senior Grand'W arden Through all the Equators of
the Globe to spread the knowledge of their divine
mysteries.
—
Thrice Puissant What does the Sacred Vault con-
tain ?
—
Senior Grand Warden The precious treasure of the
Grand Elect, Perfect and Subl ime Masons.
—
Thrice Puissant What is that precious treasure?
350 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.
—
Senior Grand Warden The Divine Delta on which
is engraved the sacred name of the Almighty God.
Thrice Puissant —
Where is that precious treasure
deposited ?

—
Senior Grand Warden On a pedestal which is called
the Pillar of Beauty.
Thrice Puissant —
What is your name?
—
Senior Grand Warden Jabulum or Guibelum.
— —
Thrice Puissant What does that name signify?
Senior Grand Warden Elected friend, favorite and
zealous brother.
Thrice Puissant — How many signs have
figurative
the Grand Perfect
Elect, and Sublime Masons?
Senior Grand Warden — Xine. but three are most
necessary be known.
to
Thrice Puissant — Give me the principal ones?
Senior Grand Warden — The cutting your
first is belly
across, in token of your obligation. The second is rela-
tive to the burning bush, and the third is silence, by
putting the first two fingers of the right handonthelips.
—
Thrice Puissant Go on my brother and give me the
six others. . M
 INITIATION. £51
The eighth put your hands, shut,
:

to your mouth, as if to pull out

your tongue, then place it on your

heart. The ninth, raise your hand
as if you had a poniard in it to

strike a brother’s forehead, io

show that vengeance is completed.

Thrice Puissant —What are the
Tokens ?

Senior Grand Warden — The

principal ones are three in

Ninth Sign.
Eighth Sign.
number : first, that of Inti-

mate Secretary, B..\N. \S. *.

which signifies promises of a
complete alliance (see p. 348)
The second, Circumspection:
advance the hands reciprocally
first to the master token, then

to the wrist, then to the elbow,

9 1 "

and the word is Gabaon.

The third is Defiance, Resis-
tance and Remembrance ad- :

vance reciprocally hands the

as in the fourth degree, draw-

Token of Circumspection.
—
Note 159. “Gabaon. A siguifiant word in the high degrees. Oliver
says. (Landm., i. 335.) ‘in philosophical Masonry, heaven, or, more
correctly speaking, the third heaven, is Gabaon,
denominated Mount -

which is feigned to be accessible only by the seven degrees that com-

pass the winding staircase. These are the degrees terminating in the
Gabaon is defined to signify ‘a high place.’ It is the
Royal Arch.’
Septuagint and Vulgate form of Gibeon, which was the city in which
the tabernacle was stationed during the reigns of David and bolomon.
The word means a city built on a hill, and is referred to in 2theChron.
high
i 3. ‘So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to
place that was at Gibeon; for there *was the tabernacle of the con-
gregation^of ]Gcal.the
m , ddle of the ]ast century, it is said that Gabanon
is the name of a Master Mason.”— Mackey’s Encyclopaedia, Article
Gabaon.
35 ? GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.

ing them to each other three

times; then place the left hand on
the brother's back, then on his
neck as if to raise him.
—
Thrice Puissujit What are the
pass-words ? ^
Senior Grand Warden — There
are three principal ones : the first
is Shibboleth three times with am
aspiration. The second is El-
Hanan. The third is most essen-
tial to be known and is Bea-Mak-
eh, Bamearah, which is interpret-
ed “thank God we have found it.”
Thrice Puissant —What are the covered words?
Senior Grand Warden — There The
are three : first

is Guiblim or Jabulum. The second is Makobim, which

interpreted; “That’s he! He is dead!*’ The third is
Adonai, Supreme lord of all.

Thrice Puissant Give — me the word?

Senior Grand Warden — Thrice Puissant, I cannot, I
am not able to pronounce it Machbenah and Mah-hah-
bone, were substituted in its place. You know what I
mean, Adonai is the last covered word for this myster-
ious one..
— How do you enter
Thrice Puissant lodge into a of
Perfection ?

Senior Grand Warden —With firmness and constancy

in my heart.
Thrice Puissant — Why do you always stand a lodge in
of Perfection in a posture of surprise?
Senior Grand Warden-*- In allusion to Moses who was
obliged to stand in that position when he received the
table of the laws from the Almighty, and also the two
 INITIATION. 353

Kings, Solomon and Hiram, who were seized with sur-

prise when they beheld the sacred name on the Golden
Plate which was brought to them by Guibelum, Joabert
and Stolkin.
Thrice Puissant — What the sign of cutting
signifies
your belly.
Senior Grand Warden — An allusion the wounds of to
our respectable Master Hiram Abiff.
Thrice Puissant — What are the of a Grand
tools
Elect, 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 discover and to
raise the square stone on the top of the arches which
were built by Enoch and also to break the pedestal on
which the treasure was deposited when the temple
was destroyed by Xebuchadnezzar and to prevent the
sacred name of names from falling into the hands of
the profane. They melted down the plate and determin-
ed never to write, engrave or pronounce it, but to treas-
ure it in their hearts.
Thrice Puissant — When the Grand Elect came to the
Vault did they find anything besides the pillar of
Beauty ?

Senior Grand Warden — Yes, they found the body of

Galaad. 4
Thrice Puissant — Who w Galaad?
r
as
Senior Grand Warden — He was the son of Sophoris,
a considerable man among the Perfect Masons, and
Chief of the Levites, Galaad was the guardian of the
Sacred Vault, and to him was entrusted the care of the
lamp which burnt without ceasing in that Sacred and
Holy place. His fortitude and magnanimity were not ex-
354 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.

celled by Hiram* Abiff, who 400 years before lost his life
rather than reveal the secrets of a Master Mason. So
Galaad preferred being buried undej the ruins rather
than to discover to the barbarians bv his coming out of
the place where the greatest of treasures were deposited.
Thrice Puissant —What did the Grand Elect do with
the body of this worthy chief?
Senior Grand Warden — They wished to follow the
example of Solomon, by burying him with every masonic
honor and then to erect a superb monument to his mem-
ory, and perpetuate to future generations, the heroic
sacrifice he had made of himself to preserve the inestim-
able treasure of the Sacred Vault of which he was the
faithful keeper, but the distress in which the brethren
were involved by the capture of Jerusalem prevented it.
They took away his habit, consisting of his Tiara and a
robe of fine linen which they burnt, and they interred
his body in the ruins of the Sacred Vault, under the
Pillar of Beauty.
—
Thrice Puissant How did Solomon live after the
dedication of the temple?
—
Senior Grand Warden This wise king, this king so
virtuous whom God had appointed to rule over the chil-
dren of Israel became deaf to the voice of the Lord, and
was strangely irregular in his conduct. Proud of having
erected an edifice to his maker and intoxicated with his
power he plunged into all manner of licentiousness and
debauchery and profaned the temple of the Most High
by offering incense to the idol Moloch, which only should
have been Offered to the living God. These crimes pene-
trated deeply into the hearts of the good masons, the
greater part of whom voluntarily exiled themselves from
their country, that they might not be spectators of the
punishment which they feared the Almighty would in-
flict npon Jerusalem. They accordingly left Judea
and went into foreign countries among strangers.
—
Thrice Puissant How many years did Solomon
reign ?
 INITIATION. 355

Senior Grand Warden — Forty years, and died when

he was ninety-four, and was buried in Jerusalem.
Thrice Puissant— Who was king Jerusalem of after
Solomon ?

Senior Grand Warden — Rehoboam, his son.

Thrice Puissant — Did anything remarkable happen
in reign?
his
Senior Grand Warden — God permitted the kingdom
of Israel to be divided as a punishment for the sins of
the people of Jerusalem as had been predicted by the
prophets.
— Relate me the punishment
Thrice Puissant to of the
kingdom of Judah.
Senior Grand Warden — When the crimes of the peo-
ple had become insufferably great, God permitted
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon to make war upon
them, who following the predictions of the prophets
sent Nebuzaradan his general, who reduced all Judea
with fire and sword, took and sacked the city of Jerusa-
lem and reduced the temple of the living God to a heap
of ruins. The conquerors carried with them as captives
160
into Babylon, Zedekiah and all his people, also all the
ornaments and treasures of the temple. This happened
470 years, G months and 10 days after its dedication.
The Grand Elect and Perfect Masons who were at Jeru-
salem at this time exerted themselves with great brav-
—
Note 160. “Zedekiah. A personage in some of the ,high degrees,
whose melancholy fate is described in the Second Book of Kings and in
the prophecies of Jeremiah. He was the twentieth and last, kiug of
Judah. When Nebuchadnezzar had in his second siege of Jerusalem
deposed Jehoiachin. whom he carried as a captive to Babylon, he placed
Zedekiah on the throne in his stead. By this act Zedekiah became trib
utary to the kiug of the Chaldees, who exacted from him a solemn
oath of fidelity and obedience. This oath he observed no longer than
till an opportunity occurred of violating it. In the language of the
author of the Books of Chronicles, 'he rebelled against King Nebuchad-
nezzar, who had made him swear by God.’
This course soon brought down upon him the vengeance of the
offended monarch, who invaded the land of Judah with an Immense
—
arm*." Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Zedekiah.
35G GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME' MASON.

ery and fortitude in its defence, but without effect, for

soon beholding the temple of God falling into one gen-
eral heap of ruins, they directed their whole attention
to the preservation of the Sacred Vault from injury and
the Golden Plate from being discovered. For this pur-
pose a party of them fought their way into the Sacred
Vault where they found the golden plate on the agate
stone uninjured. Their joy was excessive on this occa-
sion. They all cried out Bea-Makeh Bamearah, that is,
“thank God w'e have found it."
Thrice Puissant — What did they do after this dis-
covery ?

—
Senior Grand Warden They retired contented, re-
solving that in future they would never trust this holy
name to be written or engraved, but to preserve it faith-
full}' and that their descendants should
in their hearts
only know it by tradition, from thence arose the custom
of pronouncing the letters only, without joining the
syllables which was observed afterward in the temple
which was built by Cyrus.
—
Thrice Puissant How long did the captivity of the
brethren continue after the destruction of the temple by
Nebuchadnezzar ?
Senior Grand Warden — The first captivity was sev-

enty years as was predicted by the prophet Jeremiah.

—
Thrice Puissant How did the Israelites behave in
Babylon during their captivity?
—
Senior Grand Warden They repented of the crimes
of which they were guilty and by example of the Grand
Elect, wdio were with them, they worshiped the only
true and living God as the prophets had before written
—
Th rice Puissant -Who were those prophets?
Senior Grand Warden — Habakkuk, Zcchariah, Hag-
 INITIATION 357

gal and Malaehi.

Thrice Puissant — Who
was it gave liberty to the
Israelites and permitted them to return to their own
country ?

Senior Grand Warden — Cyrus/ 61

king of Persia, who
was the conqueror of all the East. He not only gave per-
mission to the Israelites to return to their own country
and rebuild the city of Jerusalem, but also presented
them all the sacred vessels which had belonged to the
temple, and which had been preserved by the care of
Mithridates, the second treasurer.
—Where do the Grand
Thrice Puissant Elect, Perfect
and Sublime Masons work day this ?

Senior Grand Warden — In place chosen a to re-estab

lish the edifice which had been ruined by the traitors.

—What are the wages

Thrice Puissant of our success?

Senior Grand Warden — Virtue, which all may obtain

who desire it.

Thrice Puissant—What recompense do you expect?

Senior Grand Warden — The destruction and of vice
the knowledge and my brethren.
love of
Thrice Puissant — What do you the place which
find in
has been chosen?
Senior Grand Warden —Dead Bones, Blood and a
Burning Lamp.
Thrice Puissant —What did you do with the lamp?
—
Note 161. “The personal relations to God’s people, which were sus-
tained by this mighty conqueror, are full of masonic interest. The Jewish
nation had been broken up by Nebuchadnezzar fifty years before his
coming, and the remnant, not destroyed, carried away to Babylon,
where Cyrus lound them. He became to them a generous liberator and
a just guardian of their rights. Nearly 250 years before that period,
the prophet Isaiah had announced him by name as ‘the Shepherd of the
Lord.’ who should perform all God’s pleasure and rebuild the city and
—
temple. Isaiah xliv. This he hastened to do, and only two years after
his conquest of Babylon, issued his celebrated decree, which was, in
effect, the re-establishment of the Jewish nation.” —
Morris’s Masonic
Dictionary, Article Cyrus Artaxerxes.
 I

358 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.

Senior Grand Warden— put it out.

—
Thrice Puissant Then you were in darkness?
Senior Grand Warden — No,
Thrice Puissant, T had
no occasion for lamp or light, I was enlightened by the
effulgence of the most brilliant and Divine Delta.

OATII OF ALLEGIANCE.
To be taken by every brother when advanced to the degree of
Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason.

In presence of the Grand x\rchitect of the Universe,

and of this respectable assembly of Freemasons, I
solemnly promise to obey the general regulations of the
Supreme Grand Council for the jurisdiction of the
Western Hemisphere, and to acknowledge said Supreme
Grand Council as the only authority of the Scotch Kite
in said jurisdiction, and I further promise and swear
that I will have no intercourse as a mason of said Kite
with any masonic body of masons pretending to he sub-
ject to. any masonic authority of said Kite in this juris-
diction other than said Supreme Grand Council of
which the Illustrious brother is now Sov-

ereign Grand Commander. So help me God.

 CLOSING CEREMONIES
Grand Elect, Perfbct and Sublime Mason.
Thrice Puissant —Brother Senior Grand Warden from
whence came you ?
Senior Grand Warden — Thrice Puissant, from Judea,
Thrice Puissant — What did you bring from thence?
Senior Grand Warden — The precious treasure of the
Grand Elect engraven upon my heart, which I will give
you.
Thrice Puissant —Approach my brother, (the Senior
Warden leaves his seat and approaches the Thrice Puis-
sant with the sign of admiration and whispers in his ear
the ineffable word, letter by letter.)
Thrice Puissant — (Strikes three and says,) breth-
ren wil 1 please form the chain around the altar, (all
kneel on left knee and form with hands above their
heads,) the Thrice Puissant then whispers in the ear of
the brother next to him the ineffable word, that brother
gives it to the next and so on until it reaches the Thrice
Puissant again.
—
Thrice Puissant My dear brethren, the word which
was lost is found, engraved in the deepest part of our
hearts, let us retire in the dark and purify our hearts
from all uncleanliness. Let us pray.

CLOSING PRAYER.
Direct our steps, Oh Adonai, Supreme Lord and Mas-
ter of the Universe, grant that we may shun the paths
of the wicked and not fall into the pit which our ene-
mies have made for us, that the effulgence of divine wis-
• > (iO GRAND ELECT. PERFECT AND SFBT.TME MASON.

dom may enlighten us, that wo may possess he means of

I

being charitable by the gifts of this providence, and

grant oh Lord that we may not be unsuccessful pur
labor; bless and sanctify our works that we may know
and acknowledge thy power and strength and grant that
the virtue which masonry teaeheth may he firmly en-
grafted in our hearts. And the honor and glory shall be
ascribed to thy most holy and mighty name. Amen.
(All now take their places.)
Thrice Puissant — Brother Senior Grand Warden,
what's the clock?
Senior Grand Warden — Thrice Puissant it is mid-
night.
Thrice Puissant—Why do yon say midnight? it is

Senior Grand Warden — Because after labor comes

rest and night the time of
is iniquity.
Th Puissant— What brought you here?
rice
Senior Grand Warden— The desire of practicing in
common with my brethren the arts of virtue, justice and
charit}'.
—What that
Thrice Puissant you here?
is it attracts
Senior Grand Warden — The and adorablebrilliant
Delta.
Thrice Puissant— How comes the Delta often men- so
tioned degree
in this ?

Senior Grand Warden —To learn the power, goodness,

mercy and majesty of the Grand Architect of the Uni-
verse, the God of Heaven and Earth, the Eternal Father
of nature.
Thrice Puissant —What do you carry from hence?
Senior Grand Warden — A great of doing good.
desire
Thrice Puissant — What can Grand Perfect
a Elect,
and Sublime Mason desire more when he is come to the
 CLOSING CEREMONIES. 361

Sublime Degree of Perfection ?

Senior Grand Warden — The Eternal, “Beatitude”

for which he will ever sigh without ceasing, and which
he can only acquire by his good works.
Thrice Puissant — Brother Senior and Junior Grand
Wardens, acquaint the brethren that I am going to close
this lodge of Perfection by the mysterious numbers, 3, 5,
7 and 9.

Senior Grand II arden — Brethren you will please take

notice that the Thrice Puissant Grand Master is going
to close this lodge of Perfection by the mysterious num-
bers 3,5, f and 9.
Junior Grand Warden — Brethren you will please take
notice that the Thrice Puissant Grand Master is going
to close this lodge of Perfection by the mysterious num-
bers 3, 5, 7 and 9.

Thrice Puissant — (Knocks three; 000. All rise.)

Senior Warden — (Knocks three; 000.)
Junior Warden— (Knocks three; 000. All make the
sign of Admiration.)
Thrice Puissant — (Knocks five; 00000.)-
Senior Warden — (Knocks 00000.) five;
Junior Warden — (Knocks 00000. All make the
five;
sign of Admiration.)
Thrice Puissant — (Knocks seven; 0000000.)
Senior Warden — (Knocks seven; 0000000.)
Junior Warden — (Knocks seven; 0000000. All make
the sign Admiration.)
of
Thrice Puissant — (Knocks nine; 000000000.)
Senior Warden — (Knocks nine: 000000000.)
Junior Warden — (Knocks nine; 000000000. make All
the sign of Admiration.)
Thrice Puissant— To the glory of the Grand Archi-
362 GRAND ELECT, PERFEC T AND SUBLIMF SON.

tect of theUniverse and under the auspices of the Su-

preme Grand Cpuncil of the Sovereign Grand Inspector
General of the 33d degree for the northern jurisdiction
of the Western Hemisphere in the Valley of New York,
and by virtue of the authority on me conferred by this
Sublime Grand Lodge of Perfection, T declare ils works
thereof now closed. Brothers Senior and Junior Grand
Wardens, officers and brethren of this Sublime Grand
lodge of Perfection, admonish you to retire in peace,
1

to practice virtue and religion and to always live as be-

comes those who live in the immediate presence of the
Grand Architect of the Universe, and may God bless our
country and our arms.
—
Thrice Puissant Together brethren, (all clap. 3, 5. 7
and 9.)
 STATUTES AND REGULATIONS
FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF ALL
Regular Lodges of Perfection
TRANSMITTED BY THE
Sovereign Grand Council of Sublime Princes of
the Royal Secret, at Berlin, Paris
and Bordeaux.
ARTICLE 1st,
No lodge of Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mas-
ters can proceed to work by electing officers or receiving
candidates unless warranted by a Charter from the Sub-
lime Princes of the Royal Secret or from a Grand In-
spector of the order or his Deputy, duly signed and
sealed, without which they are to be regarded as irregu-
lar, and the work declared null.

article 2nd.
No lodge of Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mas-
ters can correspond with any other such lodge, except
such as are reported by the Secretary General of the
Grand Council to the Grand Inspector or his Deputy,
and by him communicated.
article 3d.
Whenever a lodge of Perfection is made acquainted
with the existence of another lodge of Perfection not
included in the list furnished itself by the Grand In-
spector or his Deputy, it should at once advise the
Grand Inspector or his Deputy thereof, that it may be
made known to the Grand Council.
364 STATUTES \XD REGULATIONS.

ARTICLE 4th.
If any brethren assemble irregularly for the purpose
of initiating persons into this degree, they should be
reprimanded, and no mason of a regular lodge can
7‘ecognize or visit them on pain of such penalties as the
laws of the lodges of Perfection shall prescribe.

article 5th.
Royal lodge of Grand Elect, Perfect and Sub-
If a
lime Masters should expel one of its members for mis-
conduct, information thereof must forthwith be given to
the Grand Inspector or his Deputy, that he may be able
to notify thereof the other regular lodges and the Grand
Council. If a regular lodge should violate the laws im-
posed upon by the solemn provisions of our secret
it .

constitutions or should refuse to submit and to ask for-

giveness in the most humble manner by a petition
signed by all the members confessing their fault, show-
ing at the same time that they have ceased to work un-
til such time as it Grand Council of the
shall please the
Sublime Princes to relieve them from interdiction, to
pardon them, and receive them again into favor.
article 6th.
Any new lodge that may come into possession of new
degrees, relating to the order in general should im-
mediately make the same known to the Grand Inspector
or his Deputy.

ARTICLE 7th.
The present statutes and regulations must be read to
every brother when he takes the degree of Royal Arch.
He must promise punctually to obey them, and at all
times to recognize the Knights of the East, Princes of
Jerusalem, Knights of the East and West. Knights of
 LODGES OF PERFECTION. 365

the White Eagle, Knights Rose Croix, Patriarchs

Noachite, Knights of the Royal Axe, Grand Pontiffs,
Knights Princes Adept, Knights of the White and
Black Eagle, Sovereign Princes of the Royal Secret and
the Grand Inspectors and their Deputies as, his chiefs,
whom he must promise to respect and their Council to
follow in whatever they direct. He must also promise to
increase in zeal, fervorand constancy for the order, to
the end that he may one day attain to the degree of
Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason, and to be
submissive and obedient to the statutes and regulations
heretofore made, or that may hereafter be made by the
Sovereign Princes, chief of the order of masonry, and
that he will pay them all the honors to which they are
entitled and to add more force to such obligation, he
must sign a submission in due form.

ARTICLE 8TH.
Every lodge of Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime
Masons should have nine officers, including whom the
number of members should not exceed twenty-seven.
The Thrice Puissant is not counted among the nine
officers. He represents Solomon. Hiram King of Tyre
sits on his right, in the absence of the Grand Inspector

or his Deputy.
First — The Grand Keeper of Seals representing
Galahad, son of Sophonia chief of the Levites, who sits
on the left of the Thrice Puissant.
Second — The Grand Treasurer, representing Guibu-
lum, the confidant of Solomon, who sits in front of the
table of shew-bread.

Third — The
Grand Orator, representing Abdamon,
who explained to Solomon many enigmas and the
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366 STATUTES AND REGULATIONS.

hieroglyphics engraven on the pieces of marble found

in the ancient ruins of Enoch on the mountain of Acel-
ilcma"'"wlio sits near the Altar of Incense in the North.
Fourth — The
Grand Secretary representing Joabert,
the favorite of the two allied kings who sits in the
South opposite the altar of incense.
Fifth — The Senior Grand Warden representing
Adoniram, son of Abda, Prince Harodim of Labanus
who after the death of Hiram Abiff was inspector of the
laborers on Mount Libanus and the first of the seven
secret masters, who sits in the West.
Sixth —
The Junior Grand Warden representing Ma-
habon, the most zealous master of his time, and a great
friend of Hiram Abiff, who sits in the West, on the left
of the Senior Grand Warden.
Seventh — The Grand Master
of Ceremonies, repre-
senting Stolkin, one of the three who discovered the nine
arches and the Delta, who sits in the North.
—
Eighth The Captain of the Guards, representing
Bendia or Zerbal, who held that office during the alliance
of the two kings and who sits between the two Grand
Wardens.
Ninth —
One Tyler or two that the lodge may be well
,

guarded.
article 9th.
The Thrice Puissant and other officers are
to be elect-
ed every third year. No one but a Prince of Jerusalem
can be elected to preside. The election isHo be held on
Note —
“Aceldama.
162. From the Syro-Ohaldalc. meaning field of
blood, called because It was purchased with the blood -mon§y which
so
was paid to Judas Iscariot for betraying his Lord. It Is situated on
the slope of the hills beyond the valley of Hinnom and to the south
of Mount Zion. The earth there was believed, by early writers, to
have possessed a corrosive quality, by means of which bodies deposited
In It were quickly consumed; and hence it was used by the Crusaders,
then by tbe Knights Hospitallers, and afterwards by the Armenians, ns
a place of sepulture, and th<' Empress Helen is said to have built
a charnel-house in its midst. Dr. Robinson (Biblical Researches, 1..
p. 524.) says that the field Is not now marked by any boundary to dis-
tinguish It from the rest of the field, and the former charnel-house la
now a ruin. The field of Aceldama is referred to In the ritual of the
r

—
Knights Templars." Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry. Articl*
Aceldama.
 LODGES OF PERFECTION. 367

the 3d day of the 12th month Adar, which answers to

the 21st day of February, that memorable day of the
year 2995, when the precious treasure was found by
three zealous master masons under the ruins of our an-
cient patriarch Enoch. The mode of electing cither of
the officers or a candidate depends on the particular
laws of the lo'fge, but when the officers have been elect-
ed they must take an obligation to the Grand Inspector
or his Deputy, that they will perform the duties of
their office with zeal, constancy, fervor and affection
towards their brethren.

article 10th.
Everything like party organization and cabal is ab-
solutely prohibited in connection with the election of
officers, on pain of expulsion and erasure of membership.

ARTICLE llTH.
All the brethren must, in open lodge, wear all their
decorations. A brother who enters a lodge without his
ornaments or the insignia of some higher degree shall
lose his right to vote at that meeting, and pay into the
treasury such tine as the lodge shall impose.

ARTICLE 12TII.

. Lodges of Perfection are to be held on specified days

and at fixed hours, whereof the brothers shall have due
and regular notice from the Secretary, in order that if
business of importance prevents any brother from at-
tending lie may advise the Secretary thereof by letter
on the morning of the day of meeting, whereof the
Secretary shall*inform the lodge in the evening. This
the brethren shall not omit, under such penalties as the
Thrice Puissant and the lodge may determine.

ARTICLE 13th.
All lodges tif Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Ma-
368 STATUTES AND REGULATIONS.

sous must mutually visit each other, by deputations or

correspondence, as frequently as possible and communi-
cate to each other whatever light they may acquire.

ARTICLE UTIL
The Grand Secretary shall issue to every brother who
is about to travel, a certificate" signed by the Thrice
Puissant, the Wardens and the Grand Keeper of the
Seals, who shall there affix_ the seal of the lodge and
countersigned by the Grand Secretary. The signature
of the brother to whom it is granted must appear in the
margin.

ARTICLE loTH.
The Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons may
admit to the degree of Perfection such brethren as are
worthy thereof, and who have held office in symbolic
lodges, and to ail the degrees that precede that of Per-
fection to wit: Secret Master, Perfect Master, Confi-
dential Secretary, Provost and Judge, Intendant of the
Buildings, Elect of the Xine, Elect of the Fifteen, Illus-
trious Knight, Grand Master Architect and Knight of
the Royal Arch.
The Thrice Puissant may confer three degrees at one
and the same time on each brother by way of reward for
zealous service, and may at last confer the degree of
Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason when the
proper time has elapsed.

ARTICLE 16TH.
Besides the feast days of t be 21th June and 21th
of December, the Grand Elect, Perfect-and Sublime
Masons, must every year, on the 51 h of October, cele-
brate the rebuilding of the First temple of the Lord.
The Prince who is oldest and highest in degree, will
preside, and if the two Wardens be of inferior degree,
 LODGES OF PERFECTION. 369

their places will be filledby such brethren higher in de-

gree as the president shall appoint and so with all other
officers.

ARTICLE 17tH.
All matters whatever must he proposed by a Grand
Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason and the members
will vote in order commencing with the youngest, and
whenever a candidate is proposed to the lodge it must
be shown that he respects and is attached to his relig-
ion, that he is a person of true probity and discretion,
and that he has given proofs of his zeal, fervor and con-
stancy for the order and his brethren.

ARTICLE 18tII.
When the Wardens are notified by the Thrice Puis-
sant of his intention to hold a lodge, they must attend
and with might advance the prosperity of the
ail their

lodge. The Master of Ceremonies must also be notified

in advance that he may prepare the hall.

article 19th.
The Grand Keeper of the Seals, will have the Seals
ready for receptions, set everything in order, and affix

the seals to all certificates or other* documents signed by

the officers of the lodge.

ARTICLE 20th.
The Grand Orator will deliver a discourse at each re-
ception enlarging
(initiation) therein upon the excel-
lence of the order. Tie will instruct the new brethren, ex-
plain to them the mysteries and exhort them not to
slacken in their zeal, fervor and constanev, that they
may attain to the degree of Grand Elect Perfect, and
Sublime Mason. If he has noticed any indiscretions on
the part of any brethren or any dispute among them, he
370 STATUTES AND REGULATIONS.

will advise the lodge thereof, that it may endeavor to

bring about a reconciliation.

ARTICLE 21SX.
The Grand Treasurer will safely keep all funds de-
voted to charitable purposes, as well as moneys received
for receptions, lie will keep a regular book of accounts,
at times ready to be examined by the lodge, and as
all

charity is an indispensable duty among masons, the

brethren should voluntarily contribute, to the fund for
that purpose, each according to his means.*

article 22nd.
The Grand Secretary will keep a record of all the
transactions of the lodge, plainly written, and always
ready to be inspected by the lodge, the Grand Inspector
or his Deputy, he will dispatch all orders issued by the
Thrice Puissant within such time that they may reach
their destination in due season. He must prepare all

requisitions that are to be transmitted to the lodge to

the Grand Council, the Grand Inspector or his Deputy,
or into foreign countries, and he will take the greatest
possible care to keep the business of his office in perfect

order.

•article 23rd.
The Master of Ceremonies must repair to the temple
in due season so as to have everything ready that the
work may not be delayed. He is always one of the ex-
aminers of visiting brethren and introduces them ac-
cording to their degrees, consequently he ought to be at
all points instructed in the several degrees and possess

the confidence of the lodge.

 LODGES OF PERFECTION. 371

ARTICLE 24tH.
The Captain of the Guard sees that the Tyler does
his duty, and it is his business to see the lodge well
tyled. He receives till wearing his hat and
visitors
sword in hand, unless they are Princes masons in whose
'v

presence he is uncovered. He will advise the Thrice

Puissant whenever a visitor desires to be admitted, will
assist in examining him, and will in all cases’ precede
the brethren in the ceremonies of instruction. When he
reports that the visitor is a Prince mason, such visitor
will be received with all the honors, the brethren form-
ing the vault of steel with their swords, and the Grand
Master of Ceremonies conducting him to the foot of the
throne and afterwards to an elevated seat near the
Thrice Puissant.

ARTICLE 25TH.
If any lodge is for good cause dissolved or temporarily
interdicted, the officers thereof must deposit the charter,
regulations and statutes, and all the papers of the lodge
with the Grand Council if there be one, and if not with
the Grand Inspector or his Deputy, where they will re-
main until the lodge is allowed to resume labor, and if
the members of such lodge should not submit to the de-
cision of the Grand Council, their disobedience with
their names, degrees and civil characters, are to be noti-
fied in writing to all the recognized lodges in the two

Hemispheres, that they may incur the contempt of all

masons.
May the Grand Architect of the Universe avert so
great a misfortune and inspire us to select good men for
our brethren, that thereby the order may attain Perfec-
tion.
372 STATUTES AND REOULATIONS.

ARTICLE 26TH.
1
1*
member of the lodge that lias been dissolved bv
an)’
the Grand Council, shows that body by petition, that he
is innocent, he shall he restored to favor and affiliated
with another lodge.

ARTICLE 27TH.
Nothing that is done in a lodge should be made known
out of the lodge, except to a member of the same, under
such 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 well
informed brethren and he shall take his obligation also
unless more than one member of the lodge shall state
that they have seen him sit in a rgularly constituted
lodge of at least the degree of that which he seeks to
visit.
*

ARTICLE 29TH.
Every lodge may have two Tylers, whose good char-
acter should be known. They will he clothed at the
expense of the lodge and wear the proper jewel at the .

button hole of their coats.

article 30tii.
The Knights and Princes Masons being the great
them
!

lights of the lodge, all complaints against shall be

made and presented at the next lodge meet-
in writing
ing. The lodge shall hear and decide and if a party
things himself aggrieved he may appeal to the Grand
Council which shall determine in the last resort.
article 31st. I
Secrecy as to the mysteries being of indispensable j

obligation flic Thrice Puissant Grand Master shall be- I

 LODGES OF PERFECTION'. 373

fore closing any lodge inculcate that duty on the b ret In

ren in the usual manner and form.
ARTICLE 32nd.
If a memberbe sick, any member knowing thereof
must forthwith inform the Thrice Puissant in order that
he may receive the necessary attention, and the Brother
Hospitaller must visit him to see that he is properly
cared for.

article 33rd.
When a brother dies, all the brethren are obliged to
attend his funeral in the usual manner.
article 34th.
If a brother meet with misfortunes, it is the duty of
every brother to visit him.
article 35th.
If the Thrice Puissant be not present at a lodge meet-
ing, for one hour after the hour fixed for opening, and
there be five brethren present the oldest officer will for
the time take the throne and proceed regularty with the
work, provided the Grand Inspector and his Deputy are
absent, but if either of them be present, he shall be
invited to take the throne, with all the honors, the same
honors being paid the Deputy as to the Inspector in the
absence of the latter.
ARTICLE 36TH.
To secure regularity in the lodge the Thrice Puissant
Master and the Grand Inspector or his Deputy must
keep a list of all the members of the lodge, showing the
degree and civil character of each, to be laid before the
Grand Council and transmitted to all the regular lodges.
They will also advise the Grand Inspector or his Deputy
of every matter of interest communicated to the lodge.
ARTICLE 37th.
If the members of any lodge deem it necessary to
make any alterations in the present constitutions and
374 STATUTES AXJ) REfJ ITT, ATTONS.

regulations, tliat can only be done by petition in writing

presented to the lodge prior to the annual feast. If the
members, upon mature consideration of the matter pro-
posed, find nothing therein contrary to said statutes and
regulations, the proposition in writing shall be trans-
mitted to the Grand Council of the Princes, and if they
approve it, it shall be sent to the Grand Inspector or his
Deputy for the District, who shall decide thereon, none
of our ancient customs, obligations or ceremonies being
changed, nor the force of our present constitutions and
regulations diminished, on pain of interdiction.
Whereof all lodges of Grand Elect Perfect and Sub-
lime Masons and of Ancient Masons, regularly estab-
lished under our protection shall so govern and direct
themselves for the future, in every place in the world
where our order is under the direction
established, being
of the Inspector, his Deputy or the Princes Masons, in-
dividually or inGrand Council if there be one; whereto
to give force and actuality, we have resolved to create
Inspectors and Deputy Inspectors who shall travel by
land and sea, to take note and observe in all lodges
regularly constituted.
A copy of which laws and regulations shall be de-
Deputy Inspectors
livered to our aforesaid Delegates,
with authentic Patents and Powers in due form that
they may be recognized and duly empowered in the
exercise of their functions.
So decreed by our Chiefs and Worthy Protectors in
lawful assembly of true science and ample power as
representatives of the Sovereign of Sovereigns.
Done at the Grand Orient of Paris, Berlin and Bor-
deaux, in a holy place under the Celestial Vault, near
the B. *.B. \ the 25th day of the 7th month of the year
 .

375'
LODGES OF PERFECTION.

Illustrious and very

1762, and transmitted to the very
Puissant Prince Stephen Morin, Grand Inspector
of all

the regular lodges in the new world.

At the Grand Orient of Berlin under the Celestial
Vault, the day and year above mentioned and
certified
Deputies, the 22nd
by us. Grand Inspectors General and
of December, 1768.
[Signed.]
Etrenne Morin.
Moses Cohen,
SpUzer.
Hyman Isaac Long .

-
 HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
Fourteenth Degree, or Grand Elect Perfect and
Sublime Mason.
Lodges —
Dissolved by the Lutheran Reformation Titles lit for the
— —
Dialect of a Mad-house Travesties Christian Ordinances The Cata-
——
combs of a New Worship Infidelity its Mother. Rebellion its Cradle
Conjuring and Legerdermain Satan Fills their Hearts with Lies.

That this was one of the Ramsay degrees is proved

—
by its name in France: “Grand Scotch Mason ol' per-
fection, of the Vault of Jas. AT." Mackey, (Mote 1J+1 )

admits this name to be proof that it was invented and

used by Jesuits to destroy Protestantism and restore the
Stuarts; (see Art's Lodge and Rite of Perfection,) but
framed by Ramsay in the Jesuits’ College at Paris. At
first the rite was fourteen degrees. Afterward it was
enlarged by De Bonneville to twenty-five, (1754,) in
the same college. Then, four years later, it was merged
in “The Council of Emperors, 1758: and sent by them
to the United States, by the Jew, Morin; increased in —
Charleston, S. C., in 1881, to 33°, where it stands now.
England was Protestant, —The German Lodges, Re- .

bold says, p. M, were nearly all “dissolved" by the

^
Lutheran Deformation. Germany has a Protestant ,

Emperor; England a Protestant government: and

France , unhappy France, fell between the upper and
nether millstones of a corrupt church and infidel lodges,
whose Grand Orient lias since voted to strike from its i
Ritual the words: “The existence of God, and the im-
mortality of man!” After the flight of the Stuarts in
 TITLES FIT FOR THE DIALECT OF A MAD HOUSE,, 377

1688 to he Jesuits’ College in Paris, and their recogni-

I

of
tion by the French King, France became the breeder
volcanoes for all Europe, and, that America should
receive the Freemasonry which now covers the United
States, from such a source, is as if Benedict Arnold
and
Aaron Burr, both of whom were Masons, had formed a

system of secret lodges to “elevate mankind and Eu-

rope had received and adopted them The very!
terms
and titles of this degree— “Grand, Elect , Perfect and
Sublime Mason," are fit for the dialect of a mad house;
and they recall to the Scripture: “Madness is in
mind
the
their hearts ichile they live , and after that they go to
dead." But there is a method in this madness. It makes
money like Mormonism and Popery. And, like literal

madness in rabid animals,* its venomous virus produces a

zeal of proselytism, like the restless longing of

hydro-
phobia to bite itself into whatever living thing is free

from it. And this degree reveals the secret of this ter-
rible moral enemic.
We assume that Christianity, the Bible of the Christ-
ian nations, is true, and that the vagaries of the heathen
tribes is untrue. And, if so, then that which attempts
the entire subversion of the Christian system, is not a
local, particular evil, like robbery or fraud, but a
funda-
mental, and universal one and this total subversion is
;

precisely what is attempted by this degree. Thus.

1. It scorns and scoffs at the God of the Bible. We
read in Ritual
its
“The candidate looks for the last time on the Solo-
mon ian school/ ‘’On one side, and in the past, appears
5

the formidable God of bv-gone generations lus name is ;

inscribed on the Breast-plate of the High Priest of the

Jews. On the other side, and far in the future, the
Eternal, Good, Simple, Benevolent, Merciful, Equitable
and ever consoling Father of Mankind, whose titles are
written with the blood of that Sublime Teacher, who
first of all proclaimed the existence of a God
of Love
and Love only.” Ritual page 292.
378 TRAVESTIES CHRISTIAN ORDINANCES.

It requires but a glance at this plain paragraph to see

that it is a scoff at the Jehovah of' the Old Testament,
who is the Jesus Christ of the New. And its ignorance
equals impudence. The name of this same “Sublime'
its

Teacher'’ is dropped from the Scriptures quoted in the

Lodge, in many of the degrees ; and his religion, on the
altar of the lodge, is put on a level with the worships
of “four-footed beasts and creeping See Note
things.’’
155 of this degree. And as to Christ teaching a “God of
3
Love only; “The Scriptures,” which Christ endorsed,
•

teach that “Justice and judgment are the habitation of

His throne!’' Nay, this same “Sublime Teacher” said
of some: “These shall go away into everlasting punish-
3
ment/
2. This degree makes a false use of the Decalogue,
and a profane use of the Lord's Supper.
While the candidate is led into and around the lodge,
the Thrice Puissant reads the ten Commandments;
knowing, as he must, that the Decalogue is not the Ma-
son’s law of life, but the Lex Naturoc or Law of Nature.
( See the Ritual, page 312.) Mackey says: “'The ten
Commandments are not obligatory upon a Mason!" (See
Art Decalogue.) And on page 319 of the Ritual, the
Thrice Puissant and Candidate take solemnly conse-
crated bread, and drink wine from a cup. The obvious
and intended effect of which must be to degrade the
Decalogue, and rival and run down Christ’s commemora-
tive supper.
3. Then the candidate is made to swear (p. 317), not
to “take arms,” or “ enter into any conspiracy against his
33
country. Nevertheless the ten Lodges of the District
of Columbia all entered into such a conspiracy before the
Rebellion, and Pike, Sovereign Grand Commander of
Washington, and
this Rite, initiated, in Federal Lodge,
fought Indians against the Fnion at Pea Ridge, Ark.
And years before, Southern Lodges, and Charleston, the
 , —
THE CATACOMBS OF A NEW WORSHIP. 379

seat and headquarters of the Supreme Council, were

combined in a conspiracy to break up the country ; and
all the while this oath was being administered by and to

conspirators to quiet the fears of Northern Masons and

!

insure the success of the Bebellion. The effect of such

wholesale fraud and sanctimonious false swearing,
whether intended or not,, could only be to make Christ’s
religion of sincerity and truth, an impossibility within
its influence.
4. But that the intention of the framers of this degree
was to make a clean riddance of Christianity is proved
by history, and is evident from the degree itself.

The eminent French patriot, poet and historian, La-

martine writing of the times when this degree and its

Scottish Bite originated, says : “The Spirit of Philos-

ophy had organized occult associations after the image
of Freemasonry.’’ “Between the initiated and exist-
ing institutions, the jrar was concealed, but the more
deadly.” “These lodges were the catacombs of a new
worship.” Hist, the Girondists, vol. I, p. £88.
What that new underground religion was, is seen on
the preceding page: “Frederick the Great was the
corrupter of the Empire.” * * * “Military men,
educated in the School of Frederick, academies modeled
after the genius of Voltaire; colonies of Jews enriched
by war, and French refugees formed the public mind.”
p. 187. And again on the next page: “The sect of
Illuminees, founded and guided by Weishaupt, was
spreading in Germany in conjunction with the Freema-
sons and the Rosicrucians, p. 187.
This testimony of Lamartine is mild, impartial, relia-
ble, and concurrent with all the sound writers of that

day. And never, perhaps, since the march of time be-

380 INFIDELITY ITS MOTHER, REBELLION ITS CRADLE.

gan, were the destinies of society in the hands of men so

completely abandoned of God and goodness as the per-
sons named above and and associates.
their followers
Voltaire's writings guided, andanimated them.
his spirit
And his common reference to Christ, was in the words:
‘'Crush the wretch!" And these minds controlled tlie
ideas which controlled the public mind and thought
when and where The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
was born and named, "Rite of Perfection and such
men were its god-fathers. Its mother was infidelity,
and its cradle rebellion. And whether the pretence of
Mitchell and Dalcho that the Charleston Supreme Coun-
cil, and its “Ancient and Accepted Scottish Bite/’ were

chartered by the infidel monarch, Frederick, in 1786, be

fact or fiction, the double-headed eagle, which was
the banner of both Frederick and the Charleston Coun-
cil, proves the identity of their spirit, nature and intent.
But what is this degree in itself? Its legend says
that the real name of God was lost, till it was found by
Masons, 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 this
one, or invented a like legend of his own, the two are
similar in origin, nature, 'and effect. They both utter-
ly destroy Christianity, while pretending to favor and
expand it.

If we turn we see in this de-

to the Ritual (page 320,)
gree men kneeling, and repeating the Hebrew names of
the consonants which spell Jehovah, which consonants
they sav they found on that three cornered gold plate, in
a cave dug before the deluge. They hear no name pro-
nounced. The letters were never lost. The pronuncia-
tion of the name was lost, by the silence of superstitious •
 CONJURING AND LEGERDEMAIN. 381

Jews, who, in reading, paused and passed it. That is

not recovered. Our word Jehovah was formed, as we

and Freemasons now pronounce it, by uniting its own
consonants with the vowel sounds of Adonai. That tri-
angular plate, had there been one, could not speak.
They pretended to find letters onit, and shout that they

have found the true name of God; and some of them

hint that our Savior stole the name out of the latter
Temple, to conjure and work his miracles by while !

their whole trick is the conjuring and legerdemain of

which they accuse Christ
But what do they mean to accomplish by it? We an-
swer, what they mean is, obviously, what they get, viz:
money and power over mind. And what the devil, who
inspires them*, means, is equally plain. He knows that
“This is life eternal to
, know the living and true God
and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent A He knows, too,
that the Holy Ghost is ready to lead penitent, believing
men 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 and
the Substance of the Hew. And Satan wishes to keep
men from, coming to Christ to be saved. And if he can
so stultifv and besot men that they will believe that
Ramsay “fabricated and yet that it tells
this degree,

truth and “elevates men” !

—
That the story is manufac-
tured, made up, and yet the name is real, and Masonry
a good thing! Then he has accomplished the ruin of
every such deluded man Pie has taken away God, and
!

the only Mediator by whom finite creatures can come to

Him and set his dupes to gazing on imaginary letters,
;

on an imaginary gold plate! And this is as good as

worshipping the moon, or praying to spirits (devils.)
 SATAN FILLS TllEIR HEARTS WITH LIES.

with one's fingers on a table ;

— lie accomplishes a double •

purpose; — he plucks men from God and chains them to

himself ;
—he sets them to “behold and wonder/' and
then he knows that they will “despise and perish" as they !

do; — he inserts himself into their worship; —mesmeri-

zes them as conjurers mesmerize men; —charms them as
serpents charm rabbits and birds ;
— fills their hearts with
lies as he did Ananias and Sapphira ;
“possesses” them,
in short. And if he fails to convince their understand-
’
7
ings, or “blind '
their minds, he drags them, perhaps,
into vices to disable them for doing good.
Such is this Fourteenth degree of The Ancient and
Accepted Scottish Rita. Of course, all who receive it
and the degrees preceding it, do not become its victims,
but multitudes do. And when once he has set up his
strong hold in the pulpit, bar, press, and above all. in
colleges and schools;
“Ten thousand rove the woods and brakes among.
Some eastward and some westward and all wrong.”

All lose the way to God. None “find rest to their souls,”
after Satan enters into them, as he entered Judas and
Ahithophel. But we are “complete in Christ,” because
He is our way to God, who is Infinite and Immovable.
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CHAPTER XXV
Fifteenth Degree or Knights of the East or
163
Sword .

decorations : — This assembly is two

styled a Council,
apartments are necessary, the first is the apartment of
the East representing a Palace, fitted in the eastern up
style with water green hangings, with throne, canopy,
etc. Over the throne is a Sun, etc., behind the throne
may be a representation of the dream of Cyrus; in the
West are two arm-chairs.
second apartment: — Is the hall of the West and
represents the ruins of the Grand Lodge of Perfection
at Jerusalem, with red hangings, and illuminated by
seventy lights, in groups of seven each or usually twenty-
five, viz: Three in the North, five in the South, seven
in the West, and nine in the East, and the Delta, making
twenty-five. In the passage between these two rooms
—
Note 163. “Knight of the East or Sword. The 15th degree of the
Ancient and Accepted rite. It refers to those valiant Masons who, with
trowels in hand and swords by their sides, were every ready to construct
and defend the Holy City and Sanctuary. It is founded on the circum-
stance of the assistance rendered by Darius to the Jews, who, liberated
from their captivity by Cyrus, had been prevented by their enemies from
rebuilding the temple. This degree requires three aparments, styled Hall
of the West and Hall of the East, between which must be an ante-
chamber or passage, representing the road from Jerusa^m to Persia.
The first apartment represents the encampment of the Masons among
the ruins of Jerusalem. The hangings are crimson. The room is
lighted 'with 70 lights, disposed in groups of 7 each, in commemoration
of the 70 years’ captivity. The second apartment represents the
council chamber of Cyrus, King of Persia, and should be decorated
according to the customs of the Orientals. In the ante-room, separat-
ing the two apartments, must be a solid bridge, resembling stone,
with a representation of running water under it. The jewel, of gold,
is three triangles, one within the other, diminishing in size, and
inclosing two naked swords, crossed hilts downward, resting on the
base of the inner triangle.’’ Macoy’s Encyclopsedia and Dictionary
Freemasonry, Article Knight of the East or Sword.
38-1 KNIGHTS OF THE EAST OR SWORD.

should be a wooden bridge guarded ul both end: by

armed men.

TITLES FIRST APARTMENT.

Sovereign Master, represents Cyrus,
Master of Cavalry, represents Senior Warden,
Master of Infantry, :

represents —Junior Warden,

Master of Palace, represents Orator,
Master of Finance, represents Treasurer
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 caps
or turbans, with a sun embroidered on the front. The
Sovereign Master, Master of Palace and the Master of
Dispatches, each wear a red or green collar round the
neck, from the end of which is suspended a Golden Sun.
second apartment —
Sovereign Master is Styled
:

Thrice Excellent. Wardens are styled Excellent War-

dens. All others are styled Venerables. All wear a
water colored girdle fringed with gold.
In the second apartment the presiding officer in the
first part of the reception represents Ananias, seated in
the East and styled Sovereign Grand Master, clothed as
the other brethren, but wears a crown and holds a gavel
in his hand. ITis jewel is three triangles interlaced,
suspended from the end of the order.
In the second' part of the reception he represents
Zerubbabel.
The Senior Warden sits in the West clothed as the
other brethren ; his jewel is a square within three trian-
gles.
The Junior Warden’s jewel is a level within three
 KNIGHTS OF THE EAST OR SWORD. 385

triangles. The Captain

Guard is clothed as the
of the
other brethren, wearing the sash and jewel. All the
brethren wear green mantles or cloaks trimmed with
red, and the sash and jewel, and armed with swords;
two cross swords are embroidered on the front of the
sword belt.
order :
—
Water green colored sash with a green rosette
at 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, or

suspended from it.
apron —
White, lined and bordered with green, two
:

cross swords, painted on the flap. On the apron are

three links of a chain of a triangular form, below them
an arched bridge, on the center arch the letters L. *.
O..P. \
banner —
Green silk, bordered with red, on it a lion
:

and wolf, emblems of the tribes of Judah and Benja-

ft

min.
 1 * 4
Knights of the East or Sword .

[All the officers being at their stations except the

Sovereign Master.]
Master of Cavalry — Sir Knights, the Sovereign Mas-
ter has ordered us to assemble to hold a Council, le£
us be attentive to what he will propose to us. Here he
comes! [Sovereign Master enters, marches up to the
throne, strikes one with the pommel of his sword and
brings it to a salute. All return the salute.]
—
Sovereign Master Sir Knight, Master of Cavalry,
. what is your duty ?
—
Master of Cavalry To see that the Council is secure,
that none may enter who are not true Knights.
—
Sovereign Master Sir Knights, Masters of Cavalry
and Infantry, make your inspection. (They leave their
stations, examine both doors and return.)
Master of Cavalry — Sovereign Master, the guards are
at their posts, the Council is secure, and we may deliber-
ate in safety.
Note 164.— ‘Knight of the East or Sword.
f
[Scotch Masonry.] The —
first degree conferred in the Council of Princes of Jerusalem, Scotch
Masonry, and the fifteenth upon the catalogue of that system. The
officers are, Cyrus the Sovereign, Nehemias the Senior General, the
Junior General, Grand Master of the Palace, Grand Master of Cere-
monies, Grand Master of Dispatches, and Grand Captain of Guard.
The hangings of the Council Chamber are water-green tapestry; of the
hall of the Workmen, red. There are seventy lights. The apron is
white, lined and edged with green, and displays a chain of three
links; upon the movable part, two crossed swords. Jewel, the same
as the Grand Master Architect, T\hich see, together with crossed swords
at the bottom. Hour to open, the end of the seventy years of cap-
tivity; hour to close, the completion of the second Temple. Age 70."
— Morris’s Masonic Dictionary, Article Knights of the E,ast or Sword.
 )

KXIGHTS OF THE EAST OR SWORD. 387

Sovereign Master — Sir Knight, Master of Cavalry, is

that sufficient ?

Master of Cavalry— It is not, Sovereign Master, we

should be satisfied that all present are entitled to a seat
in the Council.
—
Sovereign Master Satisfy yourselves, Sir Knights,
Masters of Infantry and Cavalry. (They leave their
stations and receive the pass-word from each Knight
and return.
Master of Cavalry — Sovereign Master, present are all

Knights the East

of Sword.or
Sovereign Master — Together, Sir Knights. (All clap
five and two; 00000 00.) Glory to God and our Sover-
eign.
Sovereign Master — I declare this Council of Knights
of the East or Sword open. He then strikes and says,
be seated, Sir Knights.
 CHAPTER XXVI
Fifteenth Degree or Knights of the East or
105
‘J WORD.
INITIATION.

The first is in the Grand lodge

part of the initiation
of Perfection. The Master of Ceremonies prepares the
candidate as a Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime Mason,
conducts him to the door and knocks 3, 5, 7 and 9.
—
Captain of Guard Thrice Puissant Grand Master,
there is an alarm at the door.
Thrice Puissant — See the cause
of that alarm, vener-
able Captain of the Guard. [Captain of the Guard goes
to the door, knocks 3, 5, 7 and 9, opens it and says:]
What is the cause of this alarm ?

Note 165. — “Knightof the East. (Chevalier d’ Orient.) This is

a degree which has been extensively diffused through the most im-
portant Rites, and it owes its popularity to the fact that it commemo-
rates in its legend and its ceremonies the labors of the Masons in the
construction of the second Temple.
“1. It is the fifteenth degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite, the description of which will apply with slight modifications to
the same degree in all the other Rites. It is founded upon the history
of the assistance rendered by Cyrus to the Jews, who permitted them
to return to Jerusalem, and to commence the rebuilding of the house of
the Lord. Zerubbabel, therefore, as the Prince of the Jews, and Cyrus
the King of Persia, as his patron, are important personages in the
drama of reception; which is conducted with great impressiveness
even in the old and somewhat imperfect ritual of the last century,
but which has been greatly improved. I think, iu the modern rituals
adopted by the Supreme Councils of the United States.
The cordon of a Knight of the East is aa broad green watered
ribbon, worn as a baldric from left to right. The sash or girdle is
of white watered silk, edged above, and fringed below with gold. On
it is embroidered a bridge, with the letters L. D. P. on the arch, and
also on other parts of the girdle human heads, and mutilated limbs,
and crowns, and swords. The apron is crimson, edged with green,
a bleeding head and two swords crossed on the flap, and on the apron
three triangles interlaced formed of triangular links of chains. The
jewel is three triangles interlaced enclosing two naked swords.” —
Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Knight of the East.
 INITIATION. 389

—
Master of Ceremonies A Grand Elect, Perfect and
Sublime Mason, who solicits the honor of being created
a Knight of the East or Sword.
—
Captain of Guard Is this an act of his own free will
and accord?
Master of Ceremonies It is. —
—
Captain of Guard By what further right or benefit
does he expect to obtain this privilege ?

—
Master of Ceremonies By the benefit of the Sacred
Word, and with your assistance we will give it. (The
Captain of the Guard retires aiftl the word is given as in
the lodge of Perfection^ when all rise.)

—
Captain of Guard Who is this brother, venerable
Grand Master of Ceremonies, and whence comes he?
—
Master of Ceremonies His name is Zerubbabel
160
a
Prince of the house of Judah who oomes from Babylon
to view the ruins of the temple and the holy city.
—
Captain of Guard What does he desire ?
—
Master of Ceremony To offer his services to his
brethren who have returned from captivity.
—
Captain of Guard Let him wait a time with patience
and I will inform the Thrice Excellent Grand Master of
—
Note 166. “This eminent Prince who in wisdom, influence and zeal
for God's honor, was' only second to Solomon himself, is introduced
into the degrees of Royal Arch and Red Cross Knight, also into various
degrees of Scotch Masonry, occupying the same relation to the second
temple as Solomon did to the first. So prominent, indeed, was his
position, that the Second Temple is most frequently called after his
name. The name Zerubbabel signifies ‘begotten in Babylon,’ referring
to his nativity. He is called ‘the son of Shealtiel.’ He was the
prince, or head, of the tribe of Judah, at the time of the return from
the Babylonish captivity, B. C. 536. Of the decree of Cyrus he
immediately availed himself, and placed himself at the head of those
of his countrymen ‘whose spirit Gocl had raised to go up to build
the House of the Lord which is in Jerusalem.’ It was probable that
he was in the service of the King of Babylon, for he had a C’haldaie
name, Sheshbazzar, and was appointed by Cyrus governor of Judea.
Being armed with a grant from that King, of timber and stone for
the building, and of money for the expenses of the builders, he col-
lected the materials, including cedar trees from Lebanon, and got
together masons and carpenters to do the work by the opening of the
second year of their return. But misrepresentations at the Court of
Persia cast a blight upon the prospect, and for many years the work
of building ceased. In the second year of Darius, however. B. C. 520,
a favorable decree was secured, gained, according to masonic tradition,
by a pergonal appeal from Zerubbabel. who had spent some of the
years of his youth with Darius, while the latter was a private
—
citizen.’’ Morris’s Masonic Dictionary, Article Zerubbabel.
390 KNIGHTS OF THE EAST OR SWORD.

his request. (Captain of the Guard enters, approaches

the throne, knocks 3, 5, 7 and 9.)
—
Thrice Excellent What is the cause of this alarm?
—
Captain of Guard Thrice Excellent Grand Master,
there is without a Grand Elect, Perfect and Sublime
Mason who solicits the honor of being created a Knight

of the East of Sword.

—
Thrice Excellent Is this an act of his own free will
and accord?
Captain of Guard— It is.

Thrice Excellent —Who is .this brother, venerable

Captain the Guard, and whence
of comes he?
Captain of Guard — His name
167
is Zerubbabel a
Prince of the house of Judah, who comes from Babylon
to view the ruins of the temple and the holy city.
Thrice Excellent—What does he desire?
Captain Guard— To
of offer his services to his breth-
ren who have returned from captivity.
Thrice Excellent — You and
will retire let this Prince
of the house Judah be admitted.
of
Captain Guard
of — (Having opened the door) it is

the order of the Thrice Excellent Grand Master, that

this Prince of the house of Judah be admitted.
Thrice Excellent — (Knocks three; 000 . All rise.)
(Master of Ceremonies and candidate enter, approach
the altar and salute.)
—
Note 167. “This traditional history relates that Zerubbabel. for
the protection of his people, armed 7.000 Masons, and placed them in
the van to repel such as should oppose their march to Judea. Their
march was unimpeded as far as the banks of the Euphrates, where
they found an armed force opposed to their passage. A conflict
ensued, and the enemy was cut to pieces or drowned at the passage
of the bridge. The emblematic color of the degree is in allusion to
this circumstance. The journey occupied four months, and in seven
days from their arrival the work of restoring the temple was com-
menced. The workmen were divided into classes, over each of which
n chief, with two assistants, was placed. Every degree of each class
was paid according to its rank, and each class had its distinctive modes
—
of recognition.” Macoy’s Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Freemasonry,
Article Knight of the East or Sword.
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INITIATION. 391

Thrice Excellent — My brother, this lodge has been

selected to rule and govern the remnant of the children
of Israel, who have returned from captivity where they
had been carried after the destruction of Jerusalem and
08 1

King Solomon's temple by Nebuchadnezzar King of

the Chaldeans. We cannot receive you as befits your
rank, for we are poor and discouraged, as our once noble
city still remains in ruins. But we welcome you, and
rejoice that you have not forgotten your brethren, and
thank you also for }^our kind offer.
—
Master of Ceremonies (For Candidate) Thrice Ex-
cellent Grand Master, this is the first year of the reign
169
of Cyrus King of Persia, and he hath made a procla-
mation throughout kingdom, and put it also in
all his

writing, saying, “thus saith Cyrus Kirqf of Persia. The

Lord God of Heaven hath given me all the kingdoms
of the earth, and he hath charged me to build him an
house at Jerusalem.'’ I have come hither at the re-
quest of my brethren to offer up our prayers unto the
God of Israel, that he will cause Cyrus the King to re-
member his proclamation and set free all the children
of Israel now in bondage, and let them go up to Jerusa-
lem which is in Judah and rebuild the house of the
Note 168. — “Nebuchadnezzar was engaged during his whole reign
in wars of conquest. Among other nations who fell beneath his
victorious arms was Judea, whose king, Jehoiakim, was slain by
Nebuchadnezzar, and his son, Jehoiachiu, ascended the Jewish throne.
After a reign of three years, he was deposed by Nebuchadnezzar, and
his kingdom given to his uncle, Zedekiah, a monarch distinguished for
his vices. Having repeatedly rebelled against the Babylonian king,
Nebuchadnezzar repaired to Jerusalem, and after a siege of eighteen
months, reduced it. The city was leveled with the ground, the Temple
pillaged and burned, and the inhabitants carried captive to Babylon.”
— Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Nebuchadnezzar.
—
Note 169. “The Jews, who had been carried away by Nebuchad-
nezzar on the destruction of the Temple, were then remaining as
captives in Babylon. These Cyrus released A. M. 3466. or B. C. 538.
and sent them back to Jerusalem to rebuild the house of God, under
the care of Joshua, Zerubbabel, and Haggai. Hence, from this con-
nection of Cyrus with the history of Masonry, he plays an important
part in the rituals of many of the high degrees.” Mackey’s Encyclo-
paedia of Freemasonry, Article Cyrus.
392 KNIGHTS OF TIJ E EAST OR §WORD.

Lord God of Israel which is in Jerusalem.

Thrice Excellent — Brethren let us offer up our prayers
for the success of the noble prince Zerubbabel.

PRAYER, KNIGHTS OF THE EAST OR SWORD.

Thou, 0
Lord, wilt save the afflicted people and wilt
level the high towers of pride. By thine aid have 1 run
through a troop of enemies, and by my God I leaped in
safety over a wall.
As for God, his way is perfect, the word of the Lord
is tried, hea buckler to all those who trust in him, for
is

who is God save the Lord? Or who is a rock save our

God ? He teacheth nie to war, so that a bow of steel is
broken by mine arms. Thou hast also given me the
shield of thy salvation, and thy right hand hath holden
me up, and thy strength hath given me power. I have
pursued mine enemies and overtaken them, neither did
I turn again until they were consumed. I have wounded
them and they were not able to rise, they are fallen
under my feet for thou hast girded me with strength unto
the battle. Thou hast subdued under me those that rose
up against me. Therefore will I praise the Lord for-
evermore. Amen.
Master of Ceremonies — (For candidate) Thrice Ex-
cellent Grand Master, I will now retire, and after I have
visited the ruins of the temple I shall return to Babylon,
170
and if an audience with Cyrus
possible obtain the
King and remind him of his proclamation, and en-
deavor to obtain the liberty of our brethren in captivity,
to enable us to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the house
of the Lord.
—
Note 170. “This distinguished character, the founder of the Per-
sian Empire, is introduced in Scotch Masonry in the degrees of Knight
of the East and Grand Master Ad-vitain: in Ohivalrie Masonry, in the
degree of Knight of the Red Cross, and in Chapter Masonry, in the
degree of Royal Arch.
“He defeated »the Median King, about B. C. 559. and began a
career of conquest, which made him the hero of the East. Thirteen
years later lie defeated (’nestis and conquered Lydia. He captured
Babylon, B. C. 538. lie fell in battle. B. C. 529. His monument is
still shown at Pasergadae. In good preservatlon.“--Monis’a Masonic
Dictionary, Article Cyrus Artexerxes.
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INITIATION. 393
V *

Thrice Excellent— (Tv candidate) Again we thank

you Zerubbabel for your kind offer. We will also furnish
you with an escort to the Persian frontier while we offer
up our prayers for your success.
—
Thrice Excellent Excellent Senior Grand Warden,
you will take a sufficient number of guards; let Zerub-
7
babeP view the ruins of the temple and the holy city,
'

and conduct him to the Persian frontier, for he bears

the tears and distresses of his brethren.
Thrice Excellent —Brethren, I declare this lodge ad-
journed.
Master of Ceremonies and Senior Warden conduct
the candidate to the ante-room, divest him of his orna-
ments, bare his head and neck and bind his waist with
chains, throw a black veil over his head, etc., meanwhile
the brethren retire to the first apartment, representing
the court of Cyrus, when the officers take their stations.
—
Master of Ceremonies (With candidate knocks 5 and
2 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 one
knocks as a Knight of the East or Sword.
Sovereign Master — Sir Knight, Captain of the Guard
see who knocks. (Captain of the Guard goes to the
door, knocks 5 and 2, then opens it.)
—
Note 171. “Zerubbabel. In writing tbe life of Zerubbabel in a
Masonic point of view, it is incumbent that reference should be made
to the legends as well as to me more strictly historical details of his
eventful career. With the traditions of the Royal Arch, and some
other of the high degrees. Zerubbabel is not less intimately connected
than is Solomon with those of Symbolic or Ancient Craft Masonry. To
understand those traditions properly, they must be placed in their
appropriate place in the life of him who plays so important a part
in them. Some of these, legends have the concurrent support of
Scripture, some are related by Josephus, and some appear to have
no historical foundation. Without, therefore, vouching for their authen-
ticity, they must be recounted, to make the Masonic life of the builder
of the second Temple complete.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry,
Article Zerubbabel.
 KNIGHTS OF THE EAST OR SWORD.

Captain of Guard — Who knocks, and what do von

desire ?

Master of Ceremonies — beg I that you

if possible,
would procure me the honor of speaking the king. to
Captain of Guard— Who arc you ?

Master of Ceremonies — A Jew by nation, a Prince

by blood, descendant from the race of David and the
tribe of Judah, but a captive and slave by misfortune.
—
Captain of Guard What is your name?
—
Master of Ceremonies Zerubbabel 172 .

—
Captain of Guard What is your age?
Master 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 of distresses

my brethren.
Captain of Guard—Wait a while and go and I will
intercede with the king for you. (Captain of the Guard
shuts the door and approaches the altar.)
—
Captain of Guard Sovereign Master, there is with-
out one who desires the honor of being admitted into
your presence.
—
Sovereign Master Who is he ?
—
Captain of Guard A Jew by nation, a Prince by
—
Note 172. “Zerubbabel (sown in Babylon), a Prince of .Tiulab. son
of Shealtiel, of the royal house of David, was the leader of the first
colony of Jews that returned from captivity to their native land under
the permission of Cyrus, carrying with them the precious vessels
belonging .to the temple for the service of God. With the aid of
Joshua and his body of priests, Zerubbabel proceeded, on his arrival
in Jerusalem, to rebuild the fallen city, beginning with the altar of
burnt-offerings, in order that the daily services might he restored. The
Samaritans, however, having been offended at being expressly excluded
from a share in the land, threw obstacles in the way to hinder the
work, and even procured from the Persian court an order that it should
bo stopped. Accordingly, everything remained suspended until the sec-
ond year of Darius Hystaspis (B. C. 521). when the restoration was
resumed and carried to completion, through the Influence of Zerubbabel
with the Persian monarch. This subject is beautifully exemplified’ in
the degrees of the East and Sword and the Knight of the Red Cross.”
Macoy’s Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Freemasonry. Article Zerubbabel,.
 :

INITIATION. 395

blood, descendantfrom the race of David, and tribe of

Judah, but a captive and slave by misfortune.
—
Sovereign Master What is his name?
—
Captain of Guard Zerubbabel.
Sovereign Master—What age is his ?

Captain of Guard— Seventy years.

Sovereign Master— What motives bring him hither?
Captain of Guard— The and tears his distresses of
brethren.
Sovereign Master— Let him be admitted. (Captain of
the Guard opens the and the Master of
door, they enter
Ceremonies conducts him seven times round the room
while the following is read
—
Sovereign Master By the rivers of Babylon, there
we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion,
we hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst
thereof, for there they who carried us away captives re-
quired of us a song, and they who wasted us, required
of us mirth, saying sing to us one of 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 forget
her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue
cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I prefer not J erusalem
above my chief joy.
Bemember, 0 Lord the children of Edom in the day
of Jerusalem, who raze it, raze it, even to the
said,
foundation thereof. 0
daughter of Babylon, who art to
be destroyed, happy shall he be who rewardeth thee as
thou hast served us. Happy shall be he that taketh and
dasheth thy little ones against the stones. (When this
is 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
son KXTCfTTS OF TTTF 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 Cavalry 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 Judea and rebuild the tem-
to return to
ple, revive the laws of the God of Battles and the ordin-
ances of Moses.
Master of Cavalry —Brother Master of Ceremonies,
let the candidate face the East. (Master of Ceremonies
causes him to do so.)
—
Master of Cavalry Sovereign Master, there stands
here in the West one who desires the honor of being
admitted into your presence.
—
Sovereign Master What brings him hither?
—
Master of Cavalry He comes to implore your bounty
and justice.
—
Sovereign Master On what occasion ?
—
Master of Cavalry To 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, to
suffer them to return to Judea and rebuild the temple,
revive the laws of the God of Battles and the ordinances
of Moses.
Sovereign Master — Since motives so praiseworthy have
 INITIATION
-

. 39 T

brought him hither, permit him to approach' our pres-

ence with his face uncovered.
—
Master of Cavalry Brother Master of Ceremonies,
conduct the candidate to the East. (Master of Cere-
monies conducts him to the East, causes him to kneel
before the Sovereign Master and takes the veil off his
head.)
Sovereign Master — This is indeed Zerubbabel, who
saved my life at the risk of his own. Arise Zerubbabel
and prefer your request. (Master of Ceremonies causes
him to rise and says :)
—
Master of Ceremonies (For candidate) Sovereign
Master, the tears and lamentations of my fellow captives
and the remnant of our people at Jerusalem have com-
pelled me to appeal to your justice and mercy. Many
remain here in bondage and all anxious for the happy
day to arrive when they shall be engaged in rebuilding
the holy city and the house of the Lord. They have
prayed me to obtain an audience with your august
majesty to implore your clemency and that you will he
pleased to restore to those their freedom who are now in
bondage, to enable them to return to the land of their
fathers and to aid and assist in rebuilding the house of
the Lord.
Sovereign Master —
(To candidate) Zerubbabel, I have
often heard of your fame as a wise and skillful mason
and I have a profound veneration for that ancient and
honorable institution, and a sincere wish to become a
member of the same; I have also, like yourself lamented
the seventy years’ captivity of the Israelites. I now
promise to grant your request if you will communicate
to me the secrets of masonry which distinguished the
Jews from all other nations.
Master of Ceremonies — Sovereign Master, when our
Grand Master, Solomon King of Israel communicated
to us the first principles of masonry, he informed us*
398 KNTGTTTS OF THE EAST OR SWORD.

that equality was its foundation.Equality does not

reign heie. Your rank, your superiority, your titles and
your court are not admissible in the place where instruc-
tions are given in our mysteries. Solomon also taught
us that Truth was a divine attribute and the foundation
of every virtue. To be good and true was the first lesson
we were taught in masonry. My engagements are sacred
and inviolable, I am unable to reveal our secrets, and if

liberty is to be obtained at such a price, I would prefer

an honorable exile or a glorious death.
Sovereign Master — Sir Knights, I admire the discre-
tion and virtue of Zerubbabel. He deserves liberty as a
reward for his firmness. Zerubbabel, you are free.
Guards free Zerubbabel from those chains and that garb
of slavery. (The brethren take off his chains) and may
those badges of servitude never
again disgrace the
hands of a mason and more especially those of a Prince
of the house of Judah. Sir Knight, Master of Cere-
monies conduct Zerubbabel to the seat of honor.

—
Master of Ceremonies Sovereign Master, permit
Zerubbabel to thank thee for thy great clemency and
favor, and at the same time to again urge the prayers
and entreaties of his brethren in bondage.* In the first
year of thy reign, thou didst issue thy Loyal Proclama-
tion and promised to give them their liberty and permit
them to return to the land of their fathers and aid and
assist their own kindred and brethren in rebuilding the
house of the Lord. Wilt thou not harken unto their
voice that thou mayest reign in peace and prosperity on
thy throne that God hath given thee?
—
Sovereign Master Princes, Generals and Knights, T

have for a long time meditated to give the captive ma-

sons their liberty. It troubles me to see those people in
 INITIATION. 399

chains. Their God, whom they call their mighty God,

has appeared to me in a vision, and methought this God
threatened me like a roaring lion ready to upon and
fall

devour me, methought I heard these words from his

mouth which signifies in our l&ngu$gc, render my people
their liberty, or thou shalt die. Alarmed at the sight,
I endeavored to escape by flight but my feet refused to

obey. Then I saw Xebuchadnazzar and Belshazzar,

Kings of Babylon, lying prostrate and loaded with
chains, and above them in a bright glory the ineffable
name. Amazed and terrified, I awoke. From you there-
fore, beloved Princes, I expect counsel in this matter
as regards what I must do to the people of Israel. (All
observe a profound silence for awhile.)
—
Master of Palace Sovereign Master, the voice which
you heard in your dream was that of the Great Archi-
tect of the Universe, who long since through his proph-
ets foretold your coming, and gave you dominion over
the East. The captives are the children who have been
in bondage seventy years. The God of their fathers
whom they call their mighty God, commands you to free
them from bondage, and permit them to return to their
own country, that they may assist their brethren in re-
building the house of the Lord. The chains upon the
prostrate Kings, warn you of your fate should you re-
fuse. The roaring
lion represents his anger that will
overtake and destroy you if you disobey his commands.
Thus, Sovereign Master do T interpret your dream and
would counsel you to render the people of Israel their
liberty and live.

Sovereign Master — Grand Master of Palace, I will

harken unto thy voice. Zerubbabel, I consent that Israel
be sent at liberty, even that they are permitted to
400 KNIGHTS OF THE EAST OK SWORD.

return to their own country or remain in my dominions,

and that you may go and build a temple to the mighty
God, and that the vases and all the other ornaments of
the old temple be raised and restored to you for the
ornaments of the Kew. Further, appoint you chief
I

over allthe Jewish nation and command that they obey

you as such,and as an authentic mark of mv good will I

arm you with this sword. ( invests him with it) to com-
bat with your enemies and to make you formidable to
such of your brethren that might combat against you. 1
also invest you with this green sash and apron, (invests
him) in imitation of those worn by the masons employed
at the building of Solomon's temple. I will now deliver
you in charge of Yebuzaradan, my general who will in-
struct you in the art of war and give you guides and an
escort to conduct you in safety to your brethren, where
you will found the new temple. Thus I decree Grand
Master of Cavalry. You will now retire with Zerubba-
bel and instruct him in the art of war, procure guards
and an escort for him to conduct him in safety to his
brethren. (After he retires the brethren go into the
second apartment and the officers take their stations.
When all is ready the Master of Ceremonies conducts
him to the bridge which he attempts to cross, but is
opposed by the guards who rob him of his apron and
sash. He attacks them and drives them off, crosses the
bridge and arrives at the door of the second apartment
or lodge of Perfection, and the Master of Ceremonies
knocks 5 and 2.)
—
i

Excellent Senior Warden Thrice Excellent Grand

Master, there is an alarm at the door.
—
Thrice Excellent Venerable Captain of the Guard,
see the cause of that alarm. (Captain of the Guard goes
to the door, knocks 5 and 2, then opens it.)
—
Captain of Guard What is the cause of this alarm?
—
Master of Ceremonies Zerubbabcl, Trincc of the
house of Judah, I wish to see my brethren, that 1 may
inform them of my deliverance from Babylon, and that
 INITIATION. 401

of the unhappy remnant of the fraternity which have

been freed from captivity. (Captain of Guard shuts
the door.)
—
Captain of Guard Thrice Excellent Grand Master,
it is Ze rub babel, Prince of the house of Judah, who

wishes to see his brethren that lie may inform them of

his deliverance from Babylon and lhat of the unhappy
reranant of the fraternity who have been freed from
bondage.
Thrice Excellent— (KnQcks 5; 00000. All rise.) Let
Zerubbabel be admitted. (Captain of Guard admits
them, they enter and halt at the altar.)
—
All Health to Zerubbabel Prince of Judah.
—
Captain of Guard Thrice Excellent Grand Master, I
introduce to you Prince Zerubbabel who wishes to he
received into the bosom of our fraternity.
—
Thrice Excellent Zerubbabel I welcome you, and
would be much pleased to hear an account of your
deliverance.
—
Master of Ceremonies (For candidate) Thrice Ex-
cellent Grand Master, on iny arrival at Babylon, Cyrus
gave me permission to enter his court and approach the
foot of his throne and implore his bounty for my breth-
ren in captivity. He was touched with the mysteries of
the fraternity and armed me with this sword for the
defence of my brethren and honored me with the title
of brother among his companions. He granted me my
freedom and committed me to the care of his faithful
subjects who conducted me on mv journey and assisted
me in conquering my enemies at the passage of the
river Euphrates, where notwithstanding our victory we
lost the marks of distinction which had been given us by
the king.
—
Thrice Excellent My brother, the loss which you
have met with show s that the justice of our fraternity
r

would not endure the triumph of pomp and grandeur.

In decorating you with those honors, Cvrus was not
guided by that spirit of equality which has always char-
402 KNIGHTS OF THE EAST OR SWORD.

acterized you. By this loss all the marks of

distinction
received by you from that Prince have disappeared, but
you have preserved that of Freemason 17;. But before 1
communicate to you those secrets, which since our cap-
tivity have been preserved among hhc remnant of our
fraternity, we must recpiire of you assurances that you
have not lost the sentiments or knowledge of masonry
during your servitude. How far have you advanced in
masonry ?
Master of Ceremonies — (For candidate) To that of
Perfection.
—Give me the
Thrice Excellent sign.
Master of Ceremonies— (Gives or more generally
it)
the candidate.
Thrice Excellent — Give the Master
to Ceremonies of
the grip and words.
Candidate — (Gives them.)
Thrice Excellent — Sir Knights, Zerubbabel
I believe
is worthy our new mysteries. What say
to participate in
you? (All answer by holding up their swords.)
—
Thrice Excellent Venerable Master of Ceremonies,
you will conduct Zerubbabel by three steps to the altar
and there let him kneel and
contract his obligation.
(Master of Ceremonies causes him to advance by three
steps and kneel at the altar, when the Thrice Excellent
leaves the throne, goes to the altar and administers the
following obligation:

OBLIGATION KNIGHT OF THE EAST OR SWORD.

I promise and swear in the presence of the Great
Architect of the Universe, and before all the brethren,
Knights of the East here present and assembled, on the
faith of an honest man and freemason, to be faithful in
my religion and laws of the state, and as far as in my
power never to reveal the mysteries of the degree of
Knights of the East, and never receive into this degree
any brother but conformable to the ancient statutes and
constitutions of the order, under the penalty of being
 :

INITIATION. 403

dishonored and losing the title of a freemason, and of

being deprived of the advantages of the Council. So
God maintain me in uprightness and justice. Amen.
—
Thrice Excellent Venerable Master of Ceremonies,
you will now conduct our brother to our Excellent Sen-
ior Grand Warden who will invest him with the signs,
grip and words of this degree. (Thrice Excellent re-
turns to the throne, seats the brethren and the Master of
Ceremonies conducts the candidate to the Senior War-
den.)
Excellent Senior Grand Warden —
My dear brother, I
rejoice at the favors you have received from our Sover-
eign Cyrus, for by his bounty you and the nation have
become free. He has armed you with a sword to defend
yourself against your enemies. I will now decorate you
with this sash,- worn from the right shoulder to the left
hip, and now put you in possession of the signs, grip
and words of this degree, which are as follows

SIGN, KNIGHTS OF THE EAST OR SWORD.

Raise the right hand to the left shoul-
der and move it downward to the right
hip, with a serpentine motion as if to
represent the motion of the waters of a
river; then draw the sword and bring it to
the guard as if to fight.

Sign Knights
of the East
or Sword.
 404 KNIGHTS OF THE EAST Oil SWORD.

TOKEN.
S e i / e‘ mutually
the left hands, the
arms lifted and ex-
tended as if to re-
pulse an attack at ;

the same time make

with the right hand
the motion of clear-
ing the way; then
point the swords to
each other’s heart.
One says J udah the
other answers.
Ben jannin.
Token.
march :
— Proceed proudly by five long steps and hold
the sword high.
battery: Seven strokes by five and two.
age —
Seventy } ears.
:
r

pass word: Iaaborou, liammain or liberty of pass-

age.
—
grand word: Shalal, Shalom, Abi, in Latin Re -
storavit pacem palri. lie resotored peace to his country.
sacred word Raph-o-dom. :
—
Senior Grand Warden —
(Continuing) My brother, the
destruction of the temple subjugated masons to such
severe calamities we feared that their captivity and dis-
persion might have impaired their fidelity to their en-
gagements, and for this reason we have been obliged
while rebuilding the temple to remain in a secret and
retired place, where we carefully preserve some of the
ruins of the ancient temple. I
We do not introduce any to that place unless we know
them to ho true and worthy masons* not only by their
signs, grips and words, but also by their conduct. To 1
 INITIATION. 405

those, and those only we communicate our seciets with

pleasure, and we require as a pledge that they should
bring with them some remains of the monuments or or-
naments of the old temple. Those which you received
from Cyrus are sufficient.
The object of our labors is to rebuild the temple of
the Great Architect of the Universe. This sublime work
has been reserved for you.
The engagements into which you, with us have en-
tered under the name of Zerubbabel require you to aid
and assist us in rebuilding the temple in its original
splendor. The sword which Cyrus has given you is to
be used in defending your brethren and punishing those
wdio would profane the august temple which we raised
to the glory of the holy one of Israel. It is on these
conditions you participate in our ceremonies. Vener-
able Master of Ceremonies, you will now conduct
Zerubbabel to the brethren and satisfy them that he has
the signs, grip and words, after which you will conduct
him to our Thrice Excellent Grand Master in the East.
(Master of Ceremonies conducts him to the North and
East columns and he gives each Knight the signs, grip
and words. He then conducts him to the Thrice Excel-
lent Master.)
Thrice Excellent — My brother, your deliverance by
Cyrus and having been created a Knight by him, I now
present you with this trowel. (Presents it,) a symbol
of your new dignity, that hereafter you may labor with
a trowel in one hand and use the sword with the other
to defend ourselves against our enemies should we ever
be attacked, for in that manner we have proceeded to
rebuild it.
[Presents him with sash and girdle.]
Receive this girdle as a mark of true knighthood.
40C KNJGTTTS OF TTTF EAST OF SWORD.

which you acquired at the River Euphrates by the vic-

tory you obtained over those who opposed your passage.
[Presents him with a green rosette.]
Though we do not admit among our ceremonies any
of the decorations .which were given to you by Cyrus,
yet we are willing to preserve their remembrance by a
rosette of that color.
[He affixes it to his coat and presents him With the
collar and jewel.]

This collar and jewel is the badge of the Knights of

the East or Sword. May justice and equity, represented
by the sword, be your guide.
[He next presents him with the gloves.]
Knights and Princes, I hereby declare Zerubbabel to
be a chief and a ruler over the labors of masonry.
Zerubbabel, ascend the throne of the Sovereigns of our
lodge, preserve the triangular stone of this edifice, and
rule the workmen asSolomon, Hiram and Joabert have
done before you. [Seats him on his right hand.]
TJu ice Excellent
’ —Join me Sir Knights! [All clap
three times with their hands and at each time say with
a loud voice, Zerubbabel.]
Thrice Excellent — Illustrious Grand Orator, you have
the floor.

ADDRESS BY GRAND ORATOR.

My brother, after the destruction of the holy city and
the temple by Nebuzaradan, he took all the prisoners
whom he had captured and carried them away into
captivity into Babylon, making his triumphal entrance
into Babylon with an immense number of these un-
fortunates in chains, not excepting even the unhappy
king Zedekiah himself, who died three years after. He
 INITIATION. a 407

ordered the linkt ol their chains to be made of a trian-

shape in order more fully to insult the captive
1

gular
Jews, who he knew had a profound religious veneration
and respect for the triangle or delta. Great was the
sfirrow of the masons when they witnessed the destruc-
tion of the temple, the grandest work of human hands,
which had been directed by the Great Architect of the
Universe himself. Their tears never ceasd to flow, un-
til the day of their liberation, when they
were permitted
to build it anew, after the model of the former one.
This grace, after seventy years of captivity was ac-
corded to them by Cyrus King of Persia, a prince fa-
mous alike for his brilliant victories and great human-
ities. This great conqueror, master of the Eastern
world had a singular and remarkable vision. He ap-
peared to hear a voice from the Heavens directing him
to give liberty to the captives. The Prophet Daniel,
who had become one of the 'favorites of the monarch
and arrived at honor and rank in his court, explained to
him the true interpretation of the vision.
Zerubbabel, a Prince of the house of Judah, having
gained admission to the presence of King Cyrus de-
manded of him the freedom of his nation and permis-
sion to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple.
The King graciously granted the request and made
restitution to him of all the treasures which had been
carried away from the holy temple by his predecessors
and honored Zerubbabel with the title of Knight of the
order, and directed that every facility and assistance
should be afforded him and his compatriots, and issued
a royal edict to that effect. Then Zerubbabel assembled
allthe Israelites, the number of whom were forty-two
thousand three hundred and sixty (42,360) exclusive
Note 173.—-“Chain, Triangular. One of the legends of Freemasonry
tells us that when the Jewish Masons were carried as captives from
Jerusalem to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar, they were bound by triangular
chains, which was intended as an additional insult because to them
the triangle, or delta, was a symbol of the Deity, to be used only on
sacred occasions. The legend is of course apocryphal, and is worth
nothing except as a legendary symbol.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of
Freemasonry, Article Chain Triangular.
408 KNIGHTS OF THE EAST OK SWORD.
0

nf hr slaves.
f He then made choice of those freemasons
\vho had escaped the fury of their
enemies at the de-
struction of the lemple to the number of seven
thou-
sand (<\(W0) whom lie created Knights, and
placed at
he head ol the people to tight >ucli as
I

might oppose
their passage into .Judea.
Zerubbabel had received from the (J rand Treas-
-Attci

urer all the riches of the temple he took his

departure
accompanied by his people, on the day which
corre-
sponds with the 22nd of March.
Jfe prospered
oil his journey as far as the
banks of
the Euphrates which separates Judea from
Syria.
The Knight Masons who arrived there first, found
armed troops to prevent their passage on account of
the
treasures the\ carried with them. The
remonstrance of
the Knights and the Edict of Cyrus 4 were 1 '

equally un-
available to restrain their insolence and
they fell on the
Knights Masons but were repulsed with such
ardour
that to a man they were either drowned
or cut to pieces
at the passage of the bridge.
After this victory 175 Zerubbabel caused an
altar to be

twu hundred years before he was born

at Jerusalem. And accordingly,
a. the restorer
after the seventy vearf /
saiat>.
the JUJD1 P ,(> f .

Babylon were accomplished,

the following proclamation.
it pleased the iLrd
apt
i
The Lord God of Heaven hhath IS? to ,ssur
vit *v
Ju '

the kingdoms of the earth, and he hath

wf l a]]
"uf
house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah
his people? bis God be with him. and let
js in Judah, and build the house of the
cha
Who
him
SPtheS.
Lord °God of
MaC ° y '
to

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am J?“ ild him an
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were opposed by the Assyrians, who incited i, r Euphrates they ,

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vast amount of golden vessels which they ° f t ^°
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hostile array, and. notwithstanding the

wefe .^rrvheK dl°«
d up ln
remonstrance i
Jow8,
the edict of Cyrus, disputed their passage and
Ihe enemy with such ardor as to ensure
Assyrians having been slain in the battle or
VorubbahTd
a shorn
drowned
v't' .
rppi,,sr<1
° f tTl,>
r att empt to
cross tb<> river in their retreat. The rest of the
rupted. and. after a march of four months 7cr„t.h ,hb ,rne,V 'I ,,s ,,nJ »iter-
lcn,. with bis weary followers, at Xen o’o^^ at Jpr,,s "
,
22d of June, five hundred and thirty-five rears r" Th-‘'
Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry. Article before
Zerubbabel.
ChrS? t- "5r
Mackey s ~
 -

INITIATION . 409

erected on the field of battle on which an Holocaust to

theGod of armies was offered.
The Israelites then -passed the river and arrived at
Jerusalem, where -after seven days rest, with the assist-
ance of a number of Jews who had escaped from the
fury of the war and the rigors of the captivity had been
wandering, dispersed and miserable near the ruins
which had once been the scene of their grandeur.
Among this number were several Grand Elect, Per-
fect and Sublime Masons, who had received a knowl-
edge of the mysteries from their ancestors and met
together secretly to mourn over the misfortunes of their
brethren and to practice the ceremonies of their order.
These zealous masons sought among the rubbish and
ruins for the entrance to the sacred vault, which had
not been discovered by the enemy at the destruction of
the temple, and after diligent search were successful
and used to meet there and practice their mysteries,
being animated with the hope of some day seeing their
labors renewed. They continued to elect a chief to
preside over their assemblies until Zerubbabers return
when they began the foundation and work of the new
temple.
Hardly was the work begun however, when the
Knights Masons were disturbed by false brethren from
Samaria, who, jealous of the glory the two tribes of
Judah and Benjamin, were to acquire being now free,
resolved to declare“war against them in order to defeat
their design of rebuilding the temple. Zerubbabel be-
ino‘
© informed of their intentions ordered that all the
workmen should be armed with a sword, so that while

they worked with a trowel' they might defend them-

selves and repulse the enemy when required.
410 KNIGHTS OF THE EAST OR SWORD.

The construction of the new temple lasted forty-six

(46) years, beginning in the reign of Cyrus and ending
in that of Artaxerxes, and constructed in the same man-
ner as the first one by Solomon.
This second temple having been destroyed by the
Romans, the Knights Masons of the present age de-
scendants of those who constructed it are obliged under
the guidance of a new Zerubbabel to raise a third temple
to the glory of the Supreme Architect of the Kni verse.

LECTURE KNIGHT OF THE EAST OR SWORD.

—
Grand Orator Venerable Master of Ceremonies, are
you a Knight of the East?
—
Master of Ceremonies I have received, that charac-
ter, my name, my robes, my sword and my firmness,
well assures you thereof.
—
Grand Orator By what means did you arrive at this
high degree?
—
Master of Ceremonies 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 Ceremonies — Zerubbabel.
Grand Orator— What your origin?
is

Master of Ceremonies — am an T the

Israelite of tribe

of Judah.
Grand Orator— What your profession?
is

Master of Ceremonies — Masonry.

Grand Orator—What buildings did you erect?
Master of Ceremonies — Temples and tabernacles.

Grand Orator — Where did you construct them, l>eing

deposed of land?
 INITIATION. 411

—
Master of Ceremonies In my heart.
—
Grand Orator What is the surname of a Knight of
the East?
Master of Ceremonies— That of a Freemason.
—
Grand Orator Why are you a Freemason?
—
Master of Ceremonies Because the masons who
wrought in the temple of Solomon were qualified such,
and of course they and their descendants were declared
exempt from any and every charge and duty; even that
of going to war, their families being called free by
excellence, but in process of time having been subdued,
they only recovered their right through the bounty of
King C} rus, who confirmed it to them, thus, therefore
r

they are called most free.

—
Grand Orator Why did Cyrus give the Israelites
their liberty?
—
Master of Ceremonies Because God appeared to him
in a dream and charged him to set his people free and
allow them to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the tem-
ple which had been destroyed.
—
Grand Orator What are the duties of a Knight of
the East?
—
Master of Ceremonies To love and adore God, to
hold tradition in honor, to succor our brethren in
necessity, to anticipate their wants, to receive with
friendship strange brethren, to visit the sick and com-
fort them, to aid in burying the dead, to pray for those
that 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 adoring
vour maker, and an exact observer of the laws of his
country. In fine, to follow the precepts of masonry in
all its points and render justice and honor to the Princes
of Jerusalem, and respect to all superior orders.
Tlirirc Excellent — Brother Orator, you will now read
the statutes and general regulations of the Knights of
the East. [He does so.]
 CLOSING CEREMONIES
Knights of tiie East or Sword.

Thrice Excellent — (Strikes 3 and 2 with the pommel

of his sword,) Princes and Knights, this council is

closed.

Thrice Excellent — (Together all clap 5 and 2.) Glory

be to God, Honor to our Sovereign and prosperity to

the Ivnights of the order. All retire.

I
 HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
Fifteenth Degree, Knights of the East or Sword
A Jewish Degree — “Believe a Lie That They All Might be Damned."

This is a Jewish degree. There is no hint as to who

“
invented it. But The Knight of the Sword ” was the
15th in the “Rite of Perfection which the Jew 9 Morin,
brought from France. This rite had 25 degrees. But
Macoy says (Encyc. Art Rite of Perfection ,) Stephen
Morin and others introduced some modifications and
additions into the rite and transplanted it into the
L'nited States, under th^name of “The Ancient and Ac-
cepted Rite.” But who are Stephen Morin and others?
,”
Robert Folger, 33°, and “Ex-Secretary General says
that thirteen out of sixteen of them were Jews; of
course,- ex- Jews, for some of the degrees compliment
Christ, which sincere Jews will not do. They were there-
fore Jews who retained nothing of Judaism but its
hatred of Christ —
(Folger s History, p. 38.) Hence
this flimsey degree bespatters the Jews with praise.
7.000 of them cut to pieces and drowned an armed force
in the Euphrates, “to a man/' as Jack Falstaff demol-
ished his enemies, in fiction, (see Note 167), and the
Ritual (p. 399), makes King Cyrus say, as the candi-
date's chains are being taken off “May those badges of
:

servitude never again disgrace the hands of a Mason;

and more especially, those of a Prince of the house of
Judah!” Their leader, Morin, was afterward cashiered
and recalled bv the body which appointed him, for
falsehood, and forgery of Masonic Constitutions, and
sunk out of history. Ko one knows where he died.
(See Folger, p. 21, Hoc.) And the whole web-work of
* this degree shows its Jewish origin. Though, in the
preceding 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 de-
 0
4 1 1 “believe a lie that they all might be damned
—
gree are Jewish; the Scriptures read are Jewish; the —
apron given by Cyrus is of the pattern worn by the
builders of Solomon’s temple, and Solomon- himself is
referred to by name four or live times in this degree.
Jn short, the degree came from the brains of Jesuits;
strained through the brains of ex-Jews, whose motive in
destroying Christianity, like that of Judas, in betraying
Christ, was money.
But, in Note 171, as if to crown the infamy of this
degree, and its fellows, we have these remarkable words
from Mackey :

“Some of these legends hare the concurrent support of

Scripture; some are related by Josephus ; and some ap-
”
pear to have no historical foundation
Now if a rational, deliberate, artful design was formed
to destroy popular confidence in the Bible, this was the
way to do it :
—
To form a mass, or degree, made up of
inspired Scripture, uninspired human history, and mere
professed fiction, all mixed and mingled together indis-
criminately and to go through solemn repetitions of
;

this mixture, night after night, for weeks and months

and years; attended with oaths, solemnities and prayers:
with promises and threats of murder, by mangling, if the
sacred thing should be revealed !
—
in short, to do just
what is done in the actings, and repetitions of this and
other degrees; and to charge and collect vast sums of
money for them ;
—
together, forms a compound of jug-
glery, deceit, fraud, swindling, and profanation, which
devils only could have invented, and bewitched men only
could practice. Tt contains the swindling of lotteries
and mock auctions. Tt. blends Bible with fiction, and
treats them as alike true and sacred. And the dupe
swallows the compound and ruins bis soul as the body
is ruined by eating sawdust in meat, or sand in sugar.

Tf the Mason believes it. be trusts in lies. Tf be disbe-

lieves it, be despises the Bible. And while the Holy
Spirit is grieved* and insulted and driven away by its
prayers, the devil enters the worshippers who are left
“to believe a He that they all might he damned
 —

CHAPTER XXVII
179
Sixteenth Degree or Princes of Jerusalem .

decorations — Two apartments are used in the

: cere-
mony of reception.
first Apartment: — Called the hall of the West,
representing the hall of the Knights of the East or
Sword at Jerusalem, hung with yellow colored hang-
ings. The East represents the interior of the Sanctum
Sanctorum, with the sacred furniture in its proper *

place ; in the first part of the reception a large curtain

or veil is drawn across in front of the entrance to it, in
the third part of the reception this curtain or veil is
drawn aside. In front of said curtain in the East is a
canopied throne elevated on five steps, covered with yel-
low colored cloth; near it is an altar covered with the
same on which is a sceptre, sword, trowel and scales.
A balance held by a hand is painted on the front of said
altar. All the officers occupy small thrones covered with
the same cloth. The ball- in the last part of the re-
ception is illuminated by twenty-five lights, in groups
of five each.
—
Note 176. “Prince of Jerusalem. The 16th degree of the Ancient and
Accepted rite. The history of this degree is founded upon the incidents
that occurred during the building of the second temple, at which time
the Jews were much annoyed by the constant and malicious interference
of the Samaritans, their ancient enemies. This degree is closely con-
nected with, and a continuation of, the degree of the Knight of the East
and Sword, to which the reader is referred for a more detailed statement.
There should be two principal apartments in addition to the ante-room.
The first apartment represents the court of Zerubbabel at Jerusalem.
The hangings are of saffron color, except the East, which is hung with
white, blue, red and violet colors, in stripes. The second apartment
represents the council chamber of Darius, King of Persia. The hangings
are green, the throne and canopy saffron color. In it is no Masonic
furniture.’’ Macoy’s Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Freemasonry, Article
Princa of Teruialem.
 416 PRINCES or JERUSALEM.

second apartment : — Is red, representing an eastern

- palace and should be fitted up with as good taste and
knowledge of eastern customs as may be suggested.
titles: — The officers of a Council of' Princes of
Jerusalem shall be styled and take rank as follows:
First —The Most Equitable Sovereign Prince Grand
Master. Jewel, hand and
of justice- mallet.
Second — The Grand High Substitute Deputy.
Priest,
Jewel, surrounding a
a circle Delta.
• Third — Most Enlightened Grand Orator. Jewel same
as in the lodge Perfection.
of
Fourth — The Most Enlightened Senior Grand Mar-
den. Jewel, strength and
pillar of a shield.
Fifth — The Most Enlightened Junior Grand War-
den. Jewel, a compass resting on the segment of a
circle.
Sixth —
The Valorous Grand Secretary and Keeper of
the Seals and Archives. Jewel, a balance in equi-
poise.
Seventh —The Valorous Grand Treasurer. Jewel, an
oblong. square and a vase.
—
Eighth 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, as
in the lodge of Perfection.
—
.

Eleventh The Valorous Grand Tyler. Jewel, a flam-

ing sword.
All the jewels should be of gold and on square medals.
—
meetings: Are called conventions, the brethren Val-
orous Princes.
—
quorum for bustness: Five members of a Council
of Princes of Jerusalem shall constitute a quorum for
opening and transacting business, provided always the
Most Ecmitable, the Grand High Priest or either of the
Wardens am present.
—
election: Annually on the 20th of the month
 PRINCES OF JERUSALEM. 417

Tebet.
installation : —
The 23d of the month Adar, on
which days a feast should be held.
dress: —
The officers and brethren are clothed in
yellow robes and caps, with red gloves and swords,
with a shield and cuirass.
officers: Wear their official jewels suspended
from yellow collars.

brethren*: —Wear the sash with the jewel sus-

pended from the bottom of it.
sash : —Yellow,edged with gold, worn from right
to left. On it is embroidered a balance, a hand of
justice, a poinard, five stars and two crowns.
’

—
jewell 77 A gold medal. On one side is engraved
a hand holding a balance in euipoise, on the other a
two edged sword in a perpendicular position, hilt
down, with the letters D. *.Z. •. one at each side of it
and five stars surrounding the point.
apron : —Red, lined and bordered with yellow ;
on
itare painted the temple, a square, a buckler, a tri-
angle and a hand. The flap is yellow on it is a balance ;

and 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 middle

of the day.
—
Note 177. “The jewel is a model of gold; on which is engraved a
hand, holding an equal baJance; a double-edged sword, surrounded
by five stars; on one side of which is the letter D, and on the
other the letter Z, the initials of Darius and Zerubbabel. The
Princes of Jerusalem are sometimes styled ‘Chiefs of Masonry’, and
are authorized to visit and inspect all lodges of inferior degrees.”
— Macoy'a Encyclopaedia, and IWctionary of Freemasonry, Article
Prince of Jerusalem. '
 OPENING CEREMONIES
178
Princes of Jerusalem
—
Most Equitable Most Enlightened Senior Grand
Warden, how comes it that we use two apartments in
this degree, one yellow and the other red?
—
Senior Grand Warden Most Equitable Sovereign
Prince Grand Master, because one apartment repre-
sents Jerusalem an holy place, where the first temple
was erected, and the other red, Babylon, in allusion to
the blood that was shed in the different combats that
were fought on the road between Babylon and Jerusa-
lem by the Knights Masons when they returned from
captivity.
—
Most Equitable It it is so, Most Enlightened Sen-
ior arrd Junior Grand Wardens, acquaint the \ alorous
Princes here present that I am going to open this
Council.
—
Senior Grand Warden Valorous Princes, the Most
Equitable Sovereign Prince Grand Master, informs
you that he is about to open this Grand Council. Be
attentive to what he proposes.
—
Junior Grand Warden Valorous Princes, the Most
Equitable Sovereign Prince Grand Master informs
— —
Note 178. “Prince of Jerusalem. [Scotch Masonry.] The second
degree conferred in the Council of Princes of Jerusalem, Scotch
Masonry, and the sixteenth upon the catalogue of that system. The
officers are. Most Equitable, representing Zerubbabel; Grand High
Priest, representing Jeshua; a Senior and Junior Most Enlightened
Grand Warden, Grand Keeper of the Seals and Archives, Grand
Treasurer, Grand Master of Ceremonies, Grand Master of Entrances
and Grand Tyler. The apron is white, bordered with gold lace and
lined with aurora color; on it are the emblems o-f the degree. The
jewel is a square silver medal, displaying on both sides a balance
in equipoise, two-edged sword, with five stars surrounding the point
and the letters f>. and Z. on opposite sides. Hours of work, sun-
rise till sunset.”- Morris's Masonic Dictionary, Article Prince of
Jerusalem.
 OPENING CEREMONIES. 419

you that he about to open this Grand Council. Be

is

attentive to what he proposes.

—
Most Equitable Most Enlightened Senior Grand
Warden, what’s the clock?
—
Senior Grand Warden Most Equitable Sovereign
Prince Grand Master, it is five in the morning.
—
Most Equitable (Knocks three; 000; All rise.).
Order Valorous Princes Draw swords
! Carry!

swords ! Present swords !

—
Most Equitable To the glory of the Grand Archi-
tect of the Universe, in the name and under the aus-
pices of the Supreme Council and Sovereign Grand
Consistory of Supreme Chiefs of Exalted Masonry for
the United States of America, their territories and
dependencies and by virtue of the authority on me
conferred. I declare the works of Council of
Princes of Jerusalem opened.
Most Equitable — Carry swords! Return swords!
Most Equitable — (Together! All give the sign and
battery.)
Most Equitable— (Knocks one ; 0.) Be seated Valor-
ous Princes.
 — ;

CHAPTER XXVIII
*
•Sixteenth Degree or Princes of Jerusalem
initiation.
The Council being opened in the yellow apartment
or court of Zerubbabel, the Master of Ceremonies pre-
pares the candidate in the ante-room by placing a
piece of crape over his head and face, leads him to the
door of the Council and knocks three and two 000 00.
—
Master of Entrances Most Enlightened Senior
Grand Warden, there is an alarm at the door.
—
Senior Grand Warden See the cause of that alarm.
Valorous Grand Master of Entrances. (Master of En-
—
Note 179. “Prince of Jerusalem. (Prince de Jerusalem). This was
the sixteenth degree of the R.ite of Perfection, whence it was trans-
ferred to the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, where it occupies
the same numerical position. Its legend is founded on certain in-
cidents which took place during the rebuilding of the second
Temple, when the Jews were so much incommoded by the attacks
of the Samaritans and other neighboring nations, that an embassy
was sent to Kirig Darius to implore his favor and protection which
was accordingly obtained. This legend as developed in the dogreg.
is contained neither in Ezra nor in the apocryphal books of Esdras.
It is found only in the Antiquities of Josephus (lib. xi., cap. i\\,
sec. 9), and thence there is the strongest internal evidence to show
that it was derived by the inventor of the degree. Who that in-
ventor was we can only conjecture. But as we have the statements
of both Ragon and Kloss that the Baron de Tschoudy composed the
degree of Knight of the East, and as that degree is the first
section of the system of which the Prince of Jerusalem is the
second, we may reasonably suppose that the latter was also com-
posed by him. The degree being one of those adopted by the
Emperors of the East and West in their system, which Stephen
Morin was authorized to propagate in America, it was introduced
into America long before the establishment of the Supreme Council
of the Scottish Rite. A Council was established by Henry A.
Francken. about 1767, at Albany, in the State of New York, and a
Grand Council organized by Myers in 178S, in Charleston, South
Carolina. This body exercised sovereign powers even after the
establishment of the Supreme Council, which was May 31st, 1801,
tor, in 1802 it granted a Warrant for the establishment of a Mark
Bodge in Charleston, and another in the same year, for a Lodge
of Perfection, in Savannah, Georgia. But under the present regu-
lations of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, this prerogative
has been abolished, and Grand Councils of Princes of Jerusalem no
longer exist.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry. Article
Prince of Jerusalem.
 m
INITIATION. 421

trances opens the door and the Master of Ceremonies

enters with the candidate and conducts him to the
altar.)
Most Equitable —What
do you desire my brother:
—
Master of Ceremonies (For candidate) I have
come to prefer the complaints of the people of Israel
180
against the Samaritans who refuse to pay the trib-
ute imposed on them for defraying the expenses of
the sacrifices offered to God in the temple.
Most Equitable — I have no power over the Samari-
tans, they are subjects of King Darius, who is at
Babylon and to him such complaints must be made,
but I will arm you however and cause you to be ac-
companied by four Knights that you may the more
readily overcome any difficulty which may present it-
self to you in your journey to the Court of Darius.
—
Most Equitable Valorous Grand Master of Cere-
monies, you will invest our brother with a sword and
shield decorate him as a Knight of the East and
;

proceed on your journey to the Court of Darius. I

also present you with this letter to the king, (handing
it to the Master of Ceremonies) that you may the
more readily gain an audience with him, meanwhile
this Council is adjourned.
The Master of Ceremonies and three other brethren
retire to the ante-j*oom with the candidate and he is
decorated as a Knight of the East. The Princes then
go into the second apartment or Court of Darius and
the officers take their stations.

OFFICERS IN THE COURT.

— Sovereign Master representing Darius.

First
Second— Master of Cavalry as Senior Warden.
Note* 180. — “The descendants of these people became the adver-
saries of the .Jews, when. B. C. 536, they began to return from
Babylon to rebuild the Temple of the Lord, and were only ef-
fectually silenced in the reign of Darius Hystaspis, B. C. 51!).“ —
Morris’s Masonic Dictionary, Article Samaria.
422 PRINCES OF JERUSALEM.

Third— Master of Infantry as Junior Warden.

Fourth — Master of Palace as Orator.
Fifth — Master of Dispatches as Treasurer.
Sixth — Master of Chancery as Secretary.
Seventh — Master of Ceremonies.
Eighth — Master of Entrances as Captain of the
Guard.
All the officers being in their stations, the Master
of Ceremonies from without, knocks on the door three
and two 000 00.
;

—
Master of Infantry Sir Knight Master of Cavalry,
there is an alarm at the door.
—
Master of Cavalry Sir Knight Master of Infantry,
see who approaches and what it is they desire.
—
Master of Infantry Sir Knight Master of En-
trances attend to that alarm. See who approaches and
what it is they desire. (Master of Entrances goes to
the door, knocks three and two; 000 00 and opens it.)
—
Master of Entrances 'Who approaches the presence
of King Darius and what is your desire?
—
Master of Ceremonies Five companions Knights
and Princes, who have been £ent from Jerusalem as
ambassadors to the Court of Darius to pray for jus-
tice against the Samaritans. (Master of Entrances
shuts the door.)
Master of Entrances —
Sir Knight Master of Infan-
try, the alarmcaused by five ambassadors who have
is
been sent from Jerusalem to the Court of Darius.
—
Master of Infantry Sir Knight Master of Cavalry,
the alarm is caused by five ambassadors who have
been sent from Jerusalem to the Court of Darius.
—
Master of Cavalry Sovereign Master, there are
without five Knights and Princes who have been sent
from Jerusalem as ambassadors to the Court of
Darius to pray for justice against the Samaritans.
 INITIATION. 423

Sovereign Master — Permit these ambassadors to

enter.
—
Master of Cavalry Sir Knight Master of Infantry,
permit these ambassadors to enter.
—
Master of Infantry Sir Knight Master of En-
trances, permit these ambassadors to enter. (Master
of Entrances opens the door, the five enter, approach
the East and kneel on one knee.)
—
Sovereign Master Arise Knights and Princes and
declare your wishes. (All rise.)
—
Master of Ceremonies Sovereign Master, Great
King Darius In the first year of the reign of Cyrus
;

King of Persia, he issued his proclamation throughout

all his kingdom and put it also in writing, saying thus;

saith Cyrus King of Persia, the Lord God of Heaven

hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he
hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem,
which is in Judah; who is there among you of all his
people? his God be with him, and let him go up to
Jerusalem,, which is in Judah, and build the house of
the Lord God of Israel, (he is the God) which is in
Jerusalem. He also set our people free, and restored
to us the holy vessels of the temple and they returned
to Jerusalem to aid and assist in rebuilding the house
of the Lord, but the Samaritans hindered and inter-
rupted them during the reign of Cyrus the King, and
even until now, and oh mighty King, myself and four
companions, Knights and Princes, have been sent from
Jerusalem as ambassadors to your Court to pray for
justice against the Samaritans who have refused to
contribute to the rebuilding of the temple of the true
God, and also refusing what is requisite for the sac-
rifices. We have been sent unto thee by Zerubbabel
and the people of Israel, who entreat that you will
compel the Samaritans to perform their duty.
—
Sovereign Master Grand Master of Chancery, let
search be made in the archives of the Palace for the
 m PRINCES OF JERUSALEM.

decree issued by Cyrus the Great King. (Master of

Chancery retires for a few moments, then enters with
a roll of parchment, takes his station and says:)
—
Master of Chancery Sovereign Master, I have
found the proclamation of Cyrus in the archives of
the Palace.
—
Sovereign Master Be pleased to read it. (Master
of Chancery reads.)
A
DECREE OF CYRUS.
Cyrus the King to Sysina and Sarabasan sendeth
greeting
Be it known unto
you, that I have given leave to all
the Jews that are my dominions, to return into
in
their own country and there to rebuild their capital
city, with the holy temple at Jerusalem, in the same
place where it stood before. I have likewise sent my
treasurer Mithridates Zerubbabel, the governor of
Judea, to superintend the building and see it raised
sixty cubits upwards from the ground, and as many
over.
The walls to be three rows of polished stone and
one of the wood of the country, together with an altar
for sacrifices, and all this to be done at my charge. It
is my further pleasure that they receive, entire to
themselves, all the profits and revenues that were for-
merly enjoyed by their predecessors, and that they
have an allowance paid them of 205,500 drachma^
in consideration of beasts for sacrifices, wine and oil.
and 2,500 measures of wheat in lieu of fine, and all
this to be raised upon the tribute of Samaria, and the
priests may offer up sacrifices according to the laws .

and ceremonies of Moses, and pray daily for the King

and the Royal family, and for the welfare and happi-
ness of the Persian Empire, and let no man presume
to do anything contrary to the tenor of this my royal
w ill and proclamation upon pain of forfeiting life and
estate. Signed, Cyrus Rex.
 \

INITIATION. 425

Sovereign Master— 1 is enough. The request of

the people of Israel is just and Let the de-
equitable.
cree of Cyrus the King be fulfilled, and I shall im-
mediately issue my orders compelling the Samaritans
to pay the tribute imposed on them, and in order that
your object may be the more readily accomplished, our
Master of Chancery will present you my decree which
you will deliver to the people eff Samaria and Zeyrub-
babel on your arrival at Jerusalem. Master of Chan-
cery, you will make out and deliver to the ambassadors
my decree. (Master of Chancery hands them the de-
cree.)
Sovereign Master — Depart now in peace.

When they receive the patent, they make a low obei-

sance and retire to the ante-room, after which the
brethren retire to the Council Chamber of the Knights
of the East or Sword, or Court of Zerubbabel and the
officers take their stations. When all is ready, as many
brethren as is convenient, together with the ambassa-
dors, light their torches, advance to the door in double
file, and the Master of Ceremonies knocks five ;
00000
on the door.
—
Master of Entrances Most Equitable, there is an
alarm at the door of the Council Chamber.
—
Most Equitable See the cause of that alarm Valor-
ous Grand Master of Entrances. (Master of Entrances
knocks five; 00000 then opens the door.)
—
Master of Entrances Who dares approach this
Council Chamber among the ruins of Jerusalem?
—
Master of Ceremonies The ambassadors returning
from Darius the King, bringing with them his decree,
and glad tidings to the people of Israel. (Master of
Entrances closes the door and reports the same to
the Most Equitable.)
—
Most Equitable Let them be admitted. (All rise
Master of Entrances opens the door, they enter with
426 PRINCES OF JERUSALEM.

lighted torches and inarch around the Council Cham-

ber while the following is sung, in which all join.)

• TRIUMPHAL CHORUS.
Raise (lie glad voices of triumph,
No longer shall tyrants enslave us,
Lo! he is coming to save us,
Judah's Lion to save.
Crown him *ith garlands of laurel.
Clothe him in raiment of honor,
Welcome to Salem our brother
Zerubbabel, the brave.
Huzza! warmly we welcome our brother,
Zerubbabel, the brave.

Welcome the day of rebuilding,

The Chief whom we honor shall lead us,
The prayers of the righteous shall aid us,
Once more in Judea free.
And on the mountains so holy,
Our temple shall raise to the Lord,
In Zion his name be adored.
To him bend the knee,
Hosanna! in Zion our God be adored.
To him bend the knee.

Glory to God in the highest,

He leads us from bondage and night,
He brings us to freedom and light,
His name shall be adored.
And on the bells of the horses,
Shall be written in letters of Gold,
And again shall be sung as of old,
Holiness to the Lord!
Hosanna, once more we will sing as of old,
Holiness to the Lord.
•

(At the conclusion of the singing they halt in front

of the altar facing the East.)
—
Most Equitable Welcome Princes and ambassa-
dors welcome back to Jerusalem let us thank the God
! ;

of our fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac

and the God of Jacob for their safe return, and wait
anxiously to hear how you have fared in your mission.
—
Master of Ceremonies Most Equitable, after the
Council had conferred on us the high honor to bear
the petition of our brethren to Darius the King, we
departed on our journey, reached Babylon in safety
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AO ~
INITIATION. Jrw I

and obtained an audience with the King, who received

us with great kindness and ordered the letter to be
read, and thereupon directed search to be made in the
royal archives for the decree made by Cyrus in the
first year of his reign. The Master of Chancery hav-
ing found the decree, and after hearing it read, King
Darius confirmed the same and ordered a decree to be
prepared and presented to us to be delivered to you.
(Hands to the Most Equitable,) after which we were
dismissed with honors and rewards, and have returned
in safety hither. These people have met us without
the city, and accompanied us hither, singing songs of
joy and praise for our happy return and doing us great
honor.
—
Most Equitable We too, my brethren, return thanks
to God for your 'safe return and the success of your
mission. 'Resume now your seats in the Council. (All
are seated.)
Most Equitable —Valorous Grand Secretary, you
will now
read the decree. (Grand Secretary takes the
decree from the Most Equitable and reads as follows

181
DECREE OF DARIUS .

We, Darius first King of Kings, Sovereign of Sov-

ereigns, and Lord of Lords, being willing to favor in
our gratitude and goodness, our dear people of Jer-
usalem in example of our Most Illustrious and Most
Puissant predecessor King Cyrus, having heard their
complaints by their ambassadors against the people of

Note 181.— ‘Withregard to the exiled Jews, then residing as cap-

tives in hisdominions, he pursued the same generous policy as
Cyrus had done, and restored them many of the privileges they
had lost. The year after his accession to the throne, viz.: B. C. 520,
he issued a decree confirming that of Cyrus, made 16 years before.
This aroused the prophets Haggai and Zechariah to encourage their
countrymen to resume the work of building which had for a num-
ber of years languished, and the temple was completed within four
years.” Morris’s Masonic Dictionary, Article Darius Hystaspis.
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428 PRINCES OF JERUSALEM.

Samaria, who have refused to contribute to the con-

struction of the temple of the Lord, and the neces-
saries for the sacrifices of which they have need; or-
der by these presents, that they are to submit unto our
former orders, under the penalty of incurring our
highest displeasure and vengeance. Given in our
Grand Court, the fourth day of the second month of
the year 3534, under the seal of the faithful Satraps
of all Judea and of our reign the third current of the
above.
Signed, Darius Rex. •

—
Most Equitable Glory to the Lord God of our
fathers for his tender mercies honor and prosperity
;

to the Sovereign! Join me Knights and Princes in

the acclamation
—
All (Clap their hands five times; 00000.) Glory
to God, honor and prosperity to the Sovereign.
—
Most Equitable Valorous Grand Master of En-
trances, cause it to be proclaimed throughout the city,
unto the people, that Darius the King has graciously
granted our requests, and commanded that the work
upon the house of the Lord shall no longer be hin-
dered or delayed; and bid them rejoice for the end of
the sorrowing and suffering of Israel approaches.
(Master of Entrances retires for that purpose.)
Most Equitable — My brethren, the people of Jerusa-
lem are under the greatest obligations to you for the
zeal and courage you have displayed in surmounting
the obstacles which you encountered in your journey
You deserve our thanks and gratitude. Most Enlight-
ened Senior Grand Warden, behold the brethren who
have aided us in this important affair, how shall we
reward them ?
—
Senior Grand Warden Most Equitable, we approve
of your suggestion, but still I am at a great loss what
to answer. You are aware that the people dispute with
 INITIATION. 429

each other, and there is none to sit in judgment be-

tween them. Those who have returned from the cap-
tivity claim lands of those who have possessed them
many years, and there is no tribunal to decide.
Let our brethren be made judges and governors of
Jerusalem to administer justice and equity. So shall
they receive honor and distinction, and do the people
good service.
—
Most Equitable Most Enlightened Senior Grand
Warden, it shall be as thou sayest. Approach my
brethren. (The five approach the throne.)
—
Most Equitable By the authority and power in me
vested as the Most Equitable Sovereign Prince, Grand
Master of this Council, I do hereby create and consti-
tute you a tribunal of five judges and governors of
Jerusalem who shall judge between man and man, and
administer justice and equity, and whose judgment
shall be without appeal, and invest you with all the
prerogatives of your rank as such. Valorous Grand
Master of Ceremonies, you will now conduct these
brethren to the altar that they may contract their ob-
ligation.(Master of Ceremonies conducts them to the
altar where they kneel and take the following:)

OBLIGATION PRINCES OF JERUSALEM.

I in the presence of the Great Architect of

the Universe and of this Council of Princes of Jerusa-
lem, do hereby and hereon most solemnly and sincerely
promise and swear, that I will never reveal the secrets
of this degree, to any person or persons, except to
those to whom same may legally belong.
the
I furthermore promise and swear that whenever I

am called upon to judge and decide between my breth-

430 PRINCES OF JERUSALEM.

ren, I will do so with justice and equity, and will en-

deavor to reconcile all differences and disputes be-
tween them.
I furthermore promise and swear never to fight mv

brother Prince of Jerusalem, and never consent to re-

ceive any mason in this decree unless conformable to
the ancient statutes and regulations of the order.
I furthermore promise and swear to appear at all

times at the Council when I shall be summoned to at-

tend by tile proper officers, unless having good reason
for the contrary.
To all of which I do most solemnly promise and
swear, binding myself under no less a penalty than
that of being deprived of all the advantages of the
Council and of masonry in general. So God maintain
me in uprightness and justice. Amen.
Most Equitable —Arise my brethren, Princes and
Governors of Jerusalem. (All rise.)

—
Most Equitable Valorous Grand
Master of Ceremonies, you will now
conduct the candidates to our Most
Enlightened Senior Grand Warden,
who will invest him with the apron,
sash and jewel, signs, grips and words
of this degree. (Master of Ceremonies
conducts him to the Senior Warden
who invests him as follows:)

SIGN.

Present yourself boldly with your

lefthand resting on your hip, as if
Sign Princes
of Jerusalem, ready for a combat.
«
 INITIATION. 431

ANSWER. / %

Extend the arm at the height of

the shoulder, as if to begin the com-
bat, the right foot forming a square
with th« toe of the left.

Answer.

TOKEN.

Join right hands, placing the

thumb on the joint of little finger;
with the thumb strike on that joint
5 times, by 1, by 2 and by 2, at same
time join right feet by the toes so
as to form a straight line, touch
the knee. Lastly place the left hand
open on the shoulder, one of the
other. One says twenty, the other
twenty-three.
Token.

battery: — Five, some Council

in five times five.

march :
— One slow step on the
of the toes, some-
tip
times five are made under the sign thus Slide the :

left foot forward, bring up the right foot to the toe

of the left, make a short pause and so on until the
five steps are made.
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4.‘12 PRINCES OF JERUSALEM.

—
hours of work: From sunrise until high twelve.
—
pass word: Tebet.
sacred word: Adar.
He then invests him with apron and sash.)
i

—
Senior Warden Valorous Grand Master of C ere-
monies, you will now conduct the candidate to the
Most Equitable. (Master of Ceremonies conducts him
to the Most Equitable.)
—
Most Equitable My brother, you have been ap-
pointed a Judge and Prince of Jerusalem, that you
may render justice to all the people; you have been
decorated with a yellow sash to which is attached a
gold medal.
The balance on it is to remind you to make justice
and equity your guide, the hand of justice is a mark of
your authority over the people, the sword or poinard
of the fate that overtakes the oppressor and unjust
judge, the stars the number of your members, the ini-
tials on your jewel attached to your sash, will ever
remind you of the clemency of Darius and the grati-
tude of Zerubbabel. The colors of the apron, with
which you have been invested are emblematical of that
fervency and zeal which have procured you this honor,
and of the day of hope that now by your means dawns
on Israel. The emblems thereon have a reference to
the works and virtues of masons, and to your duty
in the high office which you now possess. Be just,
merciful and wise.
Valorous Grand Master of Ceremonies, you will
now conduct the candidate to the post of honor. (Mas-
ter of Ceremonies conducts him to a seat in the EastT

Most Equitable — Most

Enlightened Grand Orator,
you have the floor. (Grand Orator, delivers a lecture,
reads the statutes, and passes the lecture with the
Master of Ceremonies, or either.)
 INITIATION. 433

LECTURE PRINCES OF JERUSALEM.

—
Grand Orator Valorous Grand Master of Cere-
monies, arc you a Prince of Jerusalem?
—
Master of Ceremonies The road to Babylon is
known to me.
Grand Orator —A\ hat were you before you traveled
that way?
Master of Ceremonies—-l was a Knight of the East,
which merited after a captivity of seventy years and
I
mv ancestors found the precious treasure of the Grand
Elect, Perfect and Sublime Masons under the ruins
of Solomon's temple which was destroyed by Nebu-
chadnezzar's General, Nebuzaradan, who commanded
his troops.
Grand Orator — Plow came you by the dignity of
Prince ?

—
Master of Ceremonies By the great zeal and ar-
dour that I have shown on different occasions and the

success I met with in my embassy to King Darius.

—
Grand Orator Where did you travel to merit this
dignity ?

—
Master of Ceremonies From Jerusalem to Babylon.
—
Grand Orator For what reason were you sent?
—
Master of Ceremonies As the Samaritans refused
to pay the tribute for the sacrifices of the new temple,
therefore an embassy was sent to King Darius by the
people of Jerusalem, to lay before him their just com-
plaints.
Grand Orator — What was the number of the em-
bassy ?

—
Master of Ceremonies Five.
—
Grand Orator Who was the chief?
—
Master of Ceremonies The Great Architect of the
Universe and myself.
—
Grand Orator What is your name?
1*51 PRINCES OF JERUSALEM.

—
Master of Ceremonies Zerubbabel.
—
Grand Orator AY ere there any enemies on the road
who obstructed your passage?
—
Master of Ceremonies Yes, and we were obliged to
defend ourselves from the assaults of the very people
we went to complain of.
—
Grand Orator What did you obtain of Darius af-
ler your interview with him?
—
Master of Ceremonies We obtained a decree from
him to the people of Samaria, to submit all the de-
mands of the people of Jerusalem.
—
Grand Orator How were you received on your re-
turn to Jerusalem?
—
Master of Ceremonies We were received with great
pomp and magnificence. The people of Jerusalem came
out to receive us with great joy and accompanied us
into Jerusalem, expressing their joy by bonfires dis-
played by fives around the city in allusion to our num-
ber and in consequence of our success, created us
;

Princes.
Grand Orator — Where did those Princes assemble
to render justice to the people?
Master of Ceremonies — In two chambers of the
temple.
Grand Orator — How were they arrayed in Grand
Council ?

Master of Ceremonies In gold. —

—
Grand Orator Why in gold?
Master of Ceremonies In order — to receive the peo-
ple more respectably, therefore they chose the richest
and most precious vestment.
—
Grand Orator Did they wear anything else remark-
able ?

Master of Ceremonies —They were decorated with a ,

large gold colored ribbon, worn from the leftshoulder

to the right hip, to which was suspended the jewel of
the order. ,
 INITIATION. 435

—
Grand Orator How came they to wear that jewel?
—
Master of Ceremonies To show that for their great
zeal, courage and knowledge, they obtained the title of
governors of the people whom they were to rule with
equity.
Grand Orator —What represents the draft of the
Princes of Jerusalem?
—
Master of Ceremonies The city of Jerusalem sur-
rounded by bonfires displayed by fives. On the return
of the embassy the people gathered around them with
instruments of music. The craft were armed with
swords and shields, some carrying equilateral triangles
and one with an equal balance.
—
Grand Orator Why do the Princes of Jerusalem
stillwear their aprons ?
—
Master of Ceremonies In remembrance of their
first origin.

Grand Orator —What is the pass-word?

—
Af aster of Ceremonies Adar, a Hebrew word, the
name of one of their months, on the 23d day of which
they returned thanks to God for the reconstruction of
the temple.
—
Grand Orator What is the first sign?
Master of Ceremonies
•
— That of command. [Giving
it] .

Grand Orator— The second sign?

Master of Ceremonies— That of defending. [Giving
it.]

Grand Orator— What posKire are you be to in when

you address fhe Council i
3

Master of Ceremonies — With a grave air the left

hand on the left hip, the hollow of the right foot a
little distance from and forming a square with the left
heel.
 CLOSING CEREMONIES
Princes of Jerusalem.
—
Most Equitable Most Enlightened Senior Grand
Warden, what is the hour?
—
Senior Grand Warden Most Equitable, the Sun
has traversed half its career and justice is done to
the people.
Mosf —
Equitable Most Enlightened Senior Grand
Warden, proclaim that I am going to close this Coun-
cil by the mysterious numbers.

—
Senior Warden Valorous Princes, the Most Equit-
able announces to me that he is going to close this
Council by the mysterious numbers.
—
Most Equitable Knocks three 000. (All rise.) To
;

the glory of the Grand Architect of the Universe, in

the name and under the auspices of the Supreme
Council and Sovereign Grand Consistory of Supreme
Chiefs of Exalted Masonry for the United States of
America, their territories and dependencies, and bv
virtue of the authority on me conferred, I declare this
Council closed. Together Princes.
All— (Clap five; 00000, with their hands, which
closes the Council.
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PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS
Sixteenth Degree; or, Princes of Jerusalem.
False Worship of the Shakers. — “Changing1

the Glory of the Incor-

—
ruptible God.” A Devilish Magnetism
Christ Eliminated from the Degree.
prevents their Escape.

Here, judge if hell, with all its power to damn,

Can add one curse to the foul thing I am.
—
The Veiled Prophet Unveiled.
The one who teaches the people of the United States
the psychology of false worship will rescue our people
from the doom it leads to and, as America is
;

he who teaches Americans enlightens the world. The

history of this degree is given in the foot-notes 176,
178 and 179, and need not be repeated. We
there see
that the inventor of the degree derived it, not from
the Bible, but from Josephus; and that, “who that in-
ventor was we can only conjecture.” But of the de-
gree, itself, we are told that it is one of those which
the Jew, Morin revised and it clearly bears the mark
;

of his fingering. As it was the Sixteenth in the old

Rite of Perfection, made by Ramsay and his Jesuits,
it doubtless contained the libations of the Knights
Templar. But as the Templars’ degrees call Christ
“the Savior of the world,” the Jews, who modified
“
that Rite into the Charleston Ancient and Accepted
”
Scottish Rite were careful to eliminate Christ out of
it, though all the Templars’ degrees profess to come

from the Crusades, whose Knights were defenders of

“
Christianity and Soldiers of Jesus Christ.” And these
Princes of Jerusalem were of those military Christian
Monks. But Morin and his thirteen Jew Inspectors-
 ,

438 FALSE WORSHIP OF THE SHAKERS.

General turned them into ancient Jews of the time

of the Second Temple. Thus our world-renowned
“ Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite'’ was formed in
fraud and imposition, by money-getting Jews of the
line of Judas Iscariot, who sold Christ for silver; not
that he wished 4:0 have Jesus “condemned,’’ but be-
cause he wanted money.
But what keeps up this degree today? Doubtless
the costly yellow drapery, “yellow robes and caps,”
“red gloves and swords” help. But nothing could have
kept this dull, insipid child’s play up for 133 years,
since it was started by Jesuits in 1754, but the sorcery
of a false worship. What then is a false-worship ? Its
psychology? And the “hiding of its power?”
False worships are simple or mixed. In 1774 per-
sons called Shakers settled above Albany, N. Y. They
now number a^ few thousands. They believe in Christ
and much of the Bible, which saves them from abso-
lute heathenism. But their worship is dancing or leap-
ing four or five inches from the floor, in separate men’s
and women’s apartments singing, falling on their
;

knees, and making a roaring sound with their groans.

This is simple, man-invented, false worship. It fills

them with unutterable emotion and elevation. Their

sincerity, industry, and ingenuity are acknowledged.
A neighbor of the writer, a Mr. Collar in W heaton,
111., was a devoted Freemason. He said liis emotions,
while going through the Masonic ritual, ( stripping ,

swearing circumambulating; kneeling, praying, lectur-

,

ing and clapping of hands, with signs, grips and pass

words, all which are now well known and come
abroad;) going through this ritual for himself, or put-
ting others through it, Mr. Collar said, filled him with
the most delicious emotions. Yet he passed for a man
 :

“changing the glory of incorruptible god.” 439

of average sense! Mr. E. O. Hills, Dupage county,

of
111.,going around the globe with a company of Ameri-
cans in Northern Indostan went into an old temple
;

whose gods were monkeys. Leaving the temple, an old

ape, perched above the low entrance door, showed his
teeth and threatened fight, when one of the Americans
raised his cane to strike and drive him away. Instantly,
several priests seized his arm, and, with the most
whimsical awe, besought him not to strike their god.
Those men were not fools, and yet “no one,” said Mr.
Hills, “could doubt their sincerity.” All life is myster-
ious, and “everything runs into infinity.” “We worship
everything,” said our Professor Cole late from ,

Africa for every thing has life. Even the solid Gran-
;

ite rock contains spores or life-seeds, or, as Pope has

it
“See through this air, this ocean and this earth
Ail matter quick and bursting into birth.’’

And men may lose themselves in the mysterious, as

Hottentots have been known to mesmerize themselves,
by gazing on the motions of a worm.
This is subjective, or psychological worship “chang- ;

ing,” as Paul says, “the glory of the incorruptible God

into an image, made like to corruptible man, and to
birds, four-footed beasts and creeping things.” (Rom.
i. 23.)
In 1717, at Appletree tavern, London, Masonry was
transformed into such a mystic mesmerism. Men
knew it was not stone-masonry, because these masons

were not Masons, but everybody, and they “went it

blind.” The hood-wink was its type. Their very oaths
were not trusted to the candidate before taken, but
sworn piecemeal, and, Sampson-like, they were lit-
erally :

“Eyeless in Gaza at a mill with slaves.”

And this abject surrendry to the unknown, both per-

sons and things, was an invitation to every devil not
440 A DEVILISH MAGNETISM PREVENTS THEIR ESCAPE.

yet east into “the pit/' ( Luke vii. 31, and Kcv. xx. 3,)
to give them —
profound attention; leap into the
his
saddle; guide them nowhere and land them upon
nothing; which is precisely what they do. (Sec
Mason's Passim.)
Men rescued from snake-charming, like Masons res-
cued from the lodge, tell us that the serpent’s eyes
emit rainbows which enchant them; while a devilish
magnetism prevents their escape. Such is the glamour
of the lodge, and such the glamour of false worship
when devils enter it. And the reason why all Masons’
minds are not crippled and crushed by it. is. that but
one in five habitually attend the lodges and of that :

fifth who attend but few believe it. But, in the clear
light of eternity,' if not before, the veiled prophet is
unveiled, and its hideousness appears as to poor ZcJica.
when
—
“He raised his veil the maid turned slowly round.
Looked at him—-shrieked— and sank upon the ground.’’
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CHAPTER XXIX
Seventeenth Degree or Knights of the East and
182
West .

This degree originated in Palestine in the year 1118 .

Eleven Knights took the vows of secrecy, friendship

and discretion between the hands of the Garinus
Prince and Patriarch of Jerusalem. The meeting is
called a Council.
decorations : —
The Council Chamber is in the shape
of a heptagon hung with crimson, sprinkled with gold
stars. In each of the seven angles is' a square
column
on the capitals of which are the initials of Beauty,
Divinity, Wisdom, Power, Honor, Glory, Force, and
on their bases the initials of Eriendship, Union, Res-
ignation, Discretion, Fidelity, Prudence and Temper-
ance. In the East is a throne or canopy elevated by
seven steps, supported by four lions and four eagles
—
Note 182. “Knights of the East and West. The 17th degree of
the Ancient and Accepted rite. It is entirely philosophical, ami
makes no pretense in its history with Freemasonry. Its origin
—
dates back to the time of the crusades; that in 1118 the same
year that the Order of the Temple was instituted— eleven Knights
took ihe vows of secrecy, friendship, and discretion, between the
hands of the Patriarch %f Jerusalem. The Lodge-room is in the
shape of a heptagon, hung with crimson, sprinkled with stars of
gold. In each angle is a square column; on the capitals of which
are the initials, respectively, of the following words; Beauty.
Divinity, Wisdom, Power, Honor, Glory, Force; and on the bases of
these columns are the initials, respectively, of the words Friend-
ship, Union, Resignation, Discretion, Fidelity, Prudence and Tem-
perance. On each column is a brilliant light. Bodies of this degree
are called Preceptories. The Master is styled Venerable, and rep-
resents John the Baptist. The jewel is a heptagonal medal of
gold and silver. On one side are engraved, at the angles, the same
letters as are upon the square columns, with a star over each. In
the center of it on the- same side, is a lamb, lying on a book with
seven seals; on the seals are, respectively, the same letters. On the
reverse side are two swords crosswise, points upwards, and the
hilts resting on an ev£n balance; in the corners are the initials of
the seven churches.’’ Macoy’s Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of
Freemasonry, Article Knights of the- East and West.
 ;

442 KNIGHTS OF THE EAST AND WEST.

and between them an angel or seraphim with six

wings. On one side of the throne a transparency rep-
resenting the sun and on the other side one represent-
ing the moon below them a rainbow and in front a
;

basin of perfumed water and a human skull and cross

bones. There are six elevated canopies of three steps
in the north and south of the Council Chamber, Eleven
of these being occupied by the Venerable Ancients and
the twelfth at the right of the All Puissant left vacant.
At the West are two canopies of five steps for the
Venerable Wardens. On a pedestal in front rests a
large Bible from which hang seven seals.
The Tracing Board of this degree is a heptagon
within a circle, the upper portion forming a rainbow
over the angles on the outside of which are the letters
B. *.D. \W. *.P. *.H. G. *tS. *. which are the ini-
•
.

tials of the seven words on the capitals of the columns.

At the angles on the inside are the letters F. \U. *.
R. *.D. F. P. *.T. *. which are the initials of the
•
.
*
.

seven words on the bases of the columns. In the cen-

ter a man clothed with a long \$hite gown with a gol-
den girdle round his waist, his feet on a section of a
globe hair and beard white as snow with right hand
;

extended holding seven stars his head encircled by a

glory emanating from a delta; a t^vo edged sword in
his mouth. Around him stand seven golden candle-
sticks with burning candles and over each, one of the
initials of the seven churches of Asia —
Ephesus,
Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira Saydis, Philadelphia, and
Laodicea. The sun and moon, a basin and chafing dish
are also depicted.
clothing : —White robes with a zone of gold around
the waist, long white beards and golden crowns.
order: —A broad white ribbon extending from the
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KNIGHTS OF THE EAST AND WEST. 443

right shoulder to left hip from which the jewel is sus-

pended. Also a cross of the order suspended by a
black ribbon round the neck.
apron —
White lined with red, edged with gold,
:

with the tracing board painted thereon on the mov- ;

able part of two edged sword.

jewel: —A
heptagonal medal usually of silver,
with a golden star in each of the seven corners with
one of the initial letters B. D. •
. P *
. W
G .
*
. .
•
. H .
•
.

S. *. in the center a lamb on a book with seven seals.

On the reverse side the same initials in the angles with
two swords crosswise, points upwards, the hilts rest-
ing on the scales of an equi-poised balance.
battery :
— Six and one knocks ;
000000 0,

age :
Very ancient.
 OPENING CEREMONIES
Knights of the East and West.
All Puissant —
(Rising and resting his right arm on
the Bible with seven seals) Venerable Knights Princes,
what is your duty? '
.

Senior Warden — To know if we are secure

All Puissant— See we are
that (Senior Warden
so.

goes the door sees that the Council

to is tyled.) HP

Senior Warden —All Puissant we are perfect in se-

curity.
All Puissant— (Seven raps; 0000000 0.) All rise.
Respectable Knights, Princes, this Grand Council of
Knights of the East and West is now open and T claim
your attention to the business thereof.
Senior Warden —We
promise obedience to the All
Puissant’s Commands. (Led by Senior Warden all sa-
lute the All Puissant who returns the salute.
All Puissant —One rap; 0. All are seated.
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CHAPTER XXX
Seventeenth Degree or Knights of the East and
183
West .

PREPARATION OF CANDIDATE.

Master of Ceremonies prepares -candidate in an

ante-room hung with red and lighted by seven lights
Note 183. —
“Knights of the East and West. [Scotch Masonry.] —
The degree conferred in the Chapter of Princes of Rose Croix,
first
Scotch Masonry, and the seventeenth upon the catalogue of that
system. The presiding officer is entitled All-Puissant; the two
Wardens are called Venerable Knights, the bretnren Respectable
Knights. The historical lessons refer to the organization of this
order, A. D. 1118. The apron is white, lined with red, and edged
with gold. It displays a plan of the draft; on the movable part
a two-edged sword. The Jewel is of silver, seven-sided; one face
displaying, at each angle, a golden star, and the initials, succes-
sively, B. D. W. P. H. G. S., in the centre a lamb on a book with
seven seals; the other face displays the same initials together,
a two-edged sword between the scales of an equi-poised balance.
Age, very ancient. The hangings arc red.’’ Morris's Masonic Dic-
tionary, Article Knights of the East and West.
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44G KNIGHTS OF THE EAST AND WEST.

by clothing- him with a long white robe and brings him

barefooted to the door of the Council.
—
Master of Ceremonies (with candidate seven raps;
000000 0.)
All Puissant —
(Seven raps; 000000 0.) The young-
est Knight present *will go to the door and demand
who knocks.
—
Knight (Seven raps 000000 0, then opening door.)
;

Who comes there?

—
Master of Ceremonies All Puissant, it is a valiant
brother and Most Excellent Prince of Jerusalem who
requests to be* admitted to the Venerable and All Puis-
'
sant.
—
Knight It is a valiant brother and Most Excellent
Prince of Jerusalem who requests to be admitted to
the Venerable All Puissant.
—
All Puissant Let him be introduced. (Knight re-
tires and Senior Warden goes to the door.)
Senior Warden —
(Taking candidate's band,) come
my dear brother, I will show you mysteries worthy of
contemplation. Give me the sign, token and word of
a Prince of Jerusalem, [candidate gives them as on
pages 430 and 431] when lie is conducted within
about six feet of the throne of the All Puissant and
caused to kneel.
Senior Warden —
[To candidate] Brother you no
doubt have always borne in memory the obligations of
your former degrees and have as far, as in the power
of human nature, lived. agreeably to them.
—
Candidate I have ever made it my study and I
trust my and life will prove it.
actions
—
Senior Warden Have you particularly regarded
your obligations as a Sublime Knight of Perfection,
Knight of the East and Prince of Jerusalem? Do you
recollect having injured a brother in any respect what-
ever or have you seen or known of his being injured
;

by others without giving him timely notice, as far as

 INITIATION. 447

was in your power? I pray answer, me with candor.

—
Candidate I have in all respects done my duty, and
acted with integrity to the best of my abilities.

—
All Puissant You will be pleased to recollect my
brother, that the questions which have now been put
to you are absolutely necessary for us to demand in
order that the purity of our Most Respectable Council
may not be sullied and it behooves you to be particu-
lar in your recollection, as the indispensable ties which
we are going to lay you under will in case of your de-
fault, only increase your sins and serve to hurl you
sooner to destruction, should you have deviated from
vour dutv. Answer me my dear brother.
' - 4

Candidate — I never have.

All Puissant —Weare happy my brother that your
declaration coincides with our opinion, and we are re-
joiced to have it in our power to introduce you into
our society. Increase our joy by complying with our
rules, and declare if you are willing to be united to us
by taking a most solemn obligation.
—
Candidate I ardently wish to receive and to have
the honor of being united to such a respectable and
virtuous society.
All Puissant —
One of the Knights will bring me a
basin of water and napkin. [Youngest Knight brings
a ewer of perfume, a basin of water and clean white
napkin.]
All Puissant —
[To candidate] you will now wash
your hands. [Order is obeyed.]

SCRIPTURE RECITATION BY THE ALL PUISSANT.

“The earth the Lords and the fullness thereof the

is
world, and they that dwell therein For he hath
founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the
floods. Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or
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448 KNIGHTS OF THE EAST AND WEST.

who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean

hands and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his
soul unto vanity nor sworn deceitfully. He shall re-
ceive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness
from the God of his salvation. This is the generation
of them that seek him, that seek thy face O Jacob.
Selah.”
Senior Warden now conducts candidate close in
front of the All Puissant's throne, causes him to kneel
on both knees, places his right hand on the Bible and
his left between the hands of the All Puissant when
he proceeds to take the following obligation

* OBLIGATION KNIGHTS OF THE EAST AND WEST.

I do promise and solemnly swear and declare

in the awful presence of the Only One Most Holy
Puissant Almighty and Most Merciful Grand Architect
of Heaven and Earth; who created the universe and
myself through his infinite goodness-, and conducts it
with wisdom and justice; and in the presence of the
Most Excellent and Upright Princes and Knights of
the East and West here present in Convocation and
Council on my sacred word of honor, and under every
tie both moral and religious, that I will never reveal
to any person whomsoever below me or to whom the
same may not belong by being legally and lawfully ini-
tiated, the secrets of this degree which is now about
to be communicated to me, under the penalty of not
only being dishonored, but to consider mv life as the
immediate forfeiture, and that to be taken from me
with all the tortures and pains to be indicted in man-
ner as T have consented to in the preceding degrees.
I further promise and solemnly swear that I never

will fight or combat with my brother Knights, but will

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INITIATION. 445

at all times, when lie lias justice on his side, be ready

to draw my sword in his defence, or against such of his
enemies as seek the destruction of his person, his honor,
peace, or prosperity. That I never will revile a brother
or suffer others to reflect on his character in his absence
without informing him thereof, or noticing it myself, at
my option. That 1 remember on all occasions to
will
observe my former obligations and be just, upright and
benevolent to all my fellow creatures, as far is in my
power.
I further solemnly pronjjse and swear that I will pay
due obedience and submission to all the degrees beyond
this but particularly the Sublime Princes of the Royal
Secret and the Supreme Council of Grand Inspectors
General, 33d degree, and that I will do all in my power
to support them in all justifiable measures for the good
of the craft and advantage thereof, agreeably to the
Grand Constitutions.
All this I solenfnly swear and sincerely promise, upon
my sacred word of honor, under the penalty of the severe
wrath of the Almighty Creator of Heaven and Earth
and may he have mercy on my soul on the great and
awful day of judgment agreeably to my conformity
thereto. Amen. Amen. Amen.
The All Puissant from the ewer of perfumed ointment
proceeds to anoint candidate’s head, eyes, mouth, heart,
the tip of his right ear, right hand and right foot.
All Puissavl —You are now, my dear brother, received
a member of our society. You will recollect to live up
to the precepts of and also remember that those parts
it.

of your body which have the greatest power of assisting

you in good or evil have this day been made holy.
Master of Ceremonies now conducts candidate to the
west, before the tracing hoard between the two Wardens.
Senior Warden —Brother, you will examine closely
everything which the All Puissant is going to show you.
[Pauses a moment.] Is there mortal here worthy to
open the book with seven seals? (All cast their eyes
 !

KNTOTITS OF TITK FAST AXD WEST,

down and sigh.)

Senior Warden — (continuing,) Venerable and respect-
aM(‘ bictlnvn be not afflicted j
here is a victim [pointing
to candidate,] whose courage you content.
will give
Senior Warden — |
lo candidate.]
I)o you know the
reason why the Ancients have long white heards?
Candidate — T do not, but 1 presume vou do.
Senior Warden — They are those who came here after
passing through great tribulation and having washed
their robes in their own blood. Will you purchase such
robes at so great a price?
Candidate— Yes; 1 am willing: [Wardens then con-
duct. him to the basin, bare his arms, tie a string or

bandage around each arm, when each with a lancet

makes a trifling incision so as barely to draw blood
which is wiped on a napkin and exhibited.
Senior Warden — See my brethren a man who has
spilled his blood to acquire a knowledge of our mysteries
and shrunk not from the trial

All Puissant — [Opens First Sea] 1 **

of Bible and takes
out a bow, a quiver filled with arrows and a crown which
he hands to the youngest Knight saying: Depart and
continue the conquest.
.1// Puissant — [Opens Second Seat and removes, a
sword which he hands to next oldest Knight.] Oo and
Note 184. — “Seals,
Book of the Seven. ‘And I saw.* says St. John In
the Apocalypse (v. 11. in the ‘right hand of him that sat oil the throne
a book written within and on the hack side, sealed with seven seals.’
The seal denotes that which is secret, and seven is the number of per-
fection: lienee the Book of the Seven Seals is a symbol of that knowledge
which is profoundly secured from all unhallowed search. In ^reference to
the passage quoted, the Book of the Seven Seals is adopted as a symbol
of the Apocalyptic degree of the Knights of the East and West, the
—
seventeenth of the Ancient and Accepted Rite.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia
of Freemasonry, Article Seals. Book of the Seven.
 INITIATION. 451

destroy peace among the profane and wicked brethren

that they may appear in our Council.
All Puissant —[Opens Third Seal and takes out a bal-
ance which he hands to next oldest Knight.] Dispense
rigid justice to the profane and wicked brethren.
All Puissant —[Opens Fourth Seal and takes out a
human which he hands to next aged Knight. J
skull Go
and endeavor to convince the wicked that death is the
reward of their guilt.
All Puissant —
[Opens Fifth Seal and removes a cloth
stained with blood and hands it to the next oldest
Knight.] When will the time arrive that we shall re-
venge and punish the .profane and wicked who have de-
stroyed so many of their brethren by false accusations?
All Puissant — Opens Sixth Seal and that moment
the Sun (on the chart) is darkened and the Moon
stained with blood.]
All Puissant —[Opens Seventh Seal and takes out in-
cense which lie hands to next oldest Knight, also a vase
with seven trumpets which he gives to seven Venerable
Ancients.] The four other Venerable Ancients with
large inflated bladders who occupy four corners repre-
senting the. four winds now display them.
All Puissant —Here is seen the fulfilment of a proph-
ecy (Rev. vii, 3). Strike not nor punish the profane
and wicked of our order until I have selected the true
and worthy masons.
The four winds again blow (bladders are whisked
about) and one of the Venerable Ancients blows a blast
on his trumpet when ..the Wardens cover candidate’s
arms and take from him his apron and jewel, (jewel of
previous degree.)
Four winds blow and Second Trumpet sounds, when
Junior Warden invests candidate with the apron and
jewel of this degree.
Four winds blow and Third Trumpet sounds, when
Senior Warden invests candidate with a long white
beard.
452 KNIGHTS OF THE EAST AND WEST.

Four winds blow and Fourth Trumpet sounds, when

Junior Warden invests candidate with a crown of gold.
Four winds blow and Fifth Trumpet sounds, when
Senior Warden invests candidate with a golden girdle.
Four winds blow and Sixth Trumpet sounds, when
Junior Warden gives candidate the sign, tokens and
word.

SIGN.

Look at your right shoulder and

say, Abaddon.

ANSWER.

Look at left shoulder and say,

J ub ulum.

^jign and Answer.

FIRST TOKEN.

Place left hand in t

each other’s right

|
hand, closing the fin-
gers.

SECOND TOKEN.

A touches B's left

shoulder with right
hand and B, answering
touches A’s right
shoulder with left
Firm Token. hand. Second Token.
 INITIATION’. 453

SIGN ON ENTERING COUNCIL.

Touch Tyler’s forehead, when ho

answers by putting his hand on your
forehead.
pass word: —
Jubulum.
sacred word Abaddon.
: —
The four winds (bladders) again
blow and the Seventh Trumpet
sounds; next all the trumpets sound
together when the Senior Warden
conducts candidate to the elevated
vacant canopy at the right of the All
Puissant.
Sign on Entering Council.

This supposed to represent the end of the world

is

when all good masons receive their reward by being

conducted to a throne at the right hand of the All
Puissant, having been purified by washing their robes
in their own blood.
All Puissant— (To candidate.) My brother, when the
Knights and Princes undertook to conquer the Holy
Land, they took a cross to distinguish them as a mark
of being under its banners; they also took an oath to
spend the last drop of their blood to establish the true
religion of the most High God.
Peace being made they
could not lulfil their vows, and therefore returning
home to their own country, they resolved to do in theory
v hat they could not do by practice, and determined
never
to admit or initiate any into their mystic ceremonies
but
thosewho had given proofs of friendship, zeal and dis-
cretion. They took the name of Knights of the East
and West in memory of their homes and the place where
the order began and they have ever since
; .strictly ad-
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454 KNIGHTS OF THE EAST AND WEST.

hered to their ancient customs and forms. In the year

1118 the first Knights, to the number of eleven, took

theirvows between the hands' of Garinus, Patriarch and

Prince of Jerusalem, from whence the custom is derived
of taking the obligation of this degree in the same
position.

LECTURE KNIGHTS OF THE EAST AND WEST.’

— Brother Venerable Grand Senior War-
All Puissant
den, are you a Knight the East and West of ?

Senior Warden — am. I

All Puissant — What did you when you were see re-
ceived ?

Senior Warden —Things that were marvelous.

All Puissant — How were you received?
Senior Warden — By water and the effusion of blood.
All Puissant—A mason should not hesitate to spill
his blood for the support of masonry.
All Puissant — What are the ornaments of the Grand
Council ?

Senior Warden — Superb thrones, sun, moon, per-

fumed ointment and a basin of water.
All Puissant— What the figure the draft? is of
Senior Warden — A heptagon within a circle.
All Puissant— What the representation of is it?
Senior Warden — A man vested a white robe with in •

a golden girdle round his waist in his right, hand seven ;

stars; his head surrounded with a glory; a long white

Note 185. — “The modern ritual as used in the United States has boon
greatly enlarged. It still retains the apocalyptic character of the degree
which always attached to it, as is evident from the old tracing-board,
which is the figure described in the first chapter of the Revelation of St.
John. The jewel Is a heptagon Inscribed with symbols derived from the
Apocalypse, among which are the lamb and the book with seven seals.
The apron is yellow, ltped and edged witli crimson. In the old ritual
Its device was a two-edged sword. In lie new one is a tetractys of ten
t

dots. This is the first of the philosophical degrees of the Scottish Rite.
The seventeenth degree of the fhnptcr of Emperors of the East and
West. Mackes’* Encyclopaedia of F TC « ma * onr y. Article Knight of tha
East and West.
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INITIATION. 455

beard two edged sword in his month surrounded by

; a ;

seven candlesticks with these letters: E.*.S.-.P.*.T..S.\

P.-.L.
All Puissant —What signifies the circle?
Senior Warden — As the circle U finished by a point,
so should a lodge be united by br< therly love and affec-
tion.
All Puissant — What the heptagon?
signifies
Senior Warden — Our mystic number, which is en-
closed in seven letters.

All Puissant — What are the seven letters?

Senior Warden — B. \W. \P. \H.
*.D. \S. *.G. *. which
signifies Beauty, Divinity, Wisdom, Power, Honor,
Glory and Strength.
All Puissant — Give me the explanation the words of
Senior Warden — Beauty; adorn: Divinity; that
to
masonry is of divine origin Wisdom ability to invent
:
;

Power; to destroy the profane and unworthy brethren:

Honor; an indispensable quality in a mason, that he
may support himself in his engagements with respect-
ability: Glory; that a good mason is on an equality
with the greatest prince and Strength is necessary to
sustain us.
All Puissant —What signifies the seven stars?
Senior —The
Warden seven qualities which masons
should be possessed of; Friendship, Union, Submission,
Discretion, Fidelity, Prudence and Temperance.
All Puissant — Why should a mason be possessed of
these qualities?
Senior Warden — Friendship is a virtue that should
reign among brothers: Union; is the foundation of
society : Submission ;
to the laws, regulations and de-
crees of the lodge without murmuring : Discretion ;
that
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45G KXIGIITS OF THE EAST AND WEST.

'i mason should always be on his guard and never suffer

himself to be surprised: Fidelity; in observing strictly
uur obligations: Prudence; to conduct ourselves in
such a manner that the profane, though jealous, may
never be able to censure our conduct and Temperance;
to avoid all excesses that may injure either body or soul.
All Puissant—What signifies the seven candlesticks
with their letters?
—
Senior Warden The seven churches of Asia: Ephe-
sus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thvatira, Sardis, Philadelphia
and Laodicea/
—What
All Puissant the two-edged sword?
signifies
Senior Warden — expresses the superiority
It of this
degree over others that precede
all it.

All Puissant — there any higher degrees than

'Are
this ?

Senior Warden —Yes, there are several.

All Puissant — What the book with seven
signifies
seals which none but one can open?
Senior Warden — A Lodge or Council masons which of
the All Puissant alone has the right to convene and
open. •

All Puissant—What enclosed theis seal?in first

Senior Warden — A bow, arrows and crown.

All Puissant — What the second?
in *

Senior Warden — two-edged sword.

All Puissant — What the third?
in
Senior Warden — A balance.
All Puissant — What the fourth?
in

Senior Warden — Death’s head.

All Puissant — What the in fifth?
Senior Warden — A cloth stained with blood.
All Puissant — What the sixth?
in
 INITIATION. 457

Senior Warden —The power to darken the sun and

tinge the moon with blood.
All —
Puissant What in the seventh?
Senior Warden — Seven trumpets and perfumes.
All Puissant — The bow, arrows and crown signify
that the orders of this respectable Council should be
executed with as much quickness as the arrow flies

from the bow, and be received with as much submission

is if it came from a crowned head or chief of a nation.
The sword, that the Council is always armed to punish
the guilty. The balance is a symbol of justice. The
skull is the image of a brother who is excluded from a
Lodge or Council. The cloth stained with blood, that
we should not hesitate to spill ours for the good of
masonry. The power of obscuring the sun and tinging
the moon with blood is the representation of the power
of Superior Councils in interdicting their works if they
are irregular, until they have acknowledged their error
and submitted to the rules and regulations
°
of the craft,
#

t
established by the Grand Constitutions. The seven
trumpets signify that masonry is extended over the sur-
face of the earth, on the wings of fame and supports
.

itself with honor. The perfumes denote that the life

of a good mason should be, and is, free from all re-
proach, and is perfumed by means of good report.
—
All Puissant What age are you?
—
Senior Warden Very ancient.
—
All Puissant Who are you?
Senior Warden — am a Patrician
I (i. c, of Patmos.)
All Puissant —Whence came you?
Senior Warden — From Patmos.
 CLOSING CEREMONIES
Knights of the East and West.
All Puissant — Brother Venerable Grand Senior War-
don, what’s the clock ?

Senior Warden —Thrice Puissant, there is no more

time.
Thrice Puissant — (Seven raps; 000000 0.) All rise.
Senior Warden— (Seven raps; 000000 0.)
Junior Warden — (Seven raps; 000000 0.)
All Puissant — Venerable Knights Princes, this Coun-
cil is closed.
 ,

PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS
Seventeenth Degree, or Knights of the East and
West.
To Burlesque and Degrade Christ.
— “To Destroy Profane and Unworthy
Brethren.” — “Evil Be Thou My Good." — “Every Lodge is a Synagogue
of Satan.”

This horrible degree is a compound of Falsehood

Burlesque , Sacrilege and Sorcery.
Its pretended antiquity and derivation from the Cru-
sades are false. “It is needless to say these pretensions
have no foundation in truth.” Macoy's Cyclopaedia,
Art. Scottish Rite.
The highest Masonic authorities agree that Ramsay
invented the falsehood that these degrees came from
the Princes, Nobles and Knights of the Crusades, to
draw 1 1 the young French Aristocrats, who scorned
English Masonry, started by stone masons. But once
depraved by initiation, and dazzled by the gold starred
drapery of the lodge, called a Council the French Ma- —
sons were pleased to find themselves in higher degrees,
which the coarser London mechanics were sworn to obey.
But the Satanic object of the degree was to burlesque
and degrade Christ. This is indeed, the one, grand,
central aim, end and object of the whole Masonic sys-
tem. The beer-guzzling London Lodge burlesqued Him
by setting croney to raise the dead by the grip of the
a
lion's pawor “King of Judah/’ which is Christ. But
in this revolting degree, they travesty Christ by setting
a French infidel to mock the Bible and the God of the
|(i(| "to DESTROY PROFANE AND UNWORTHY BRETHREN/

Bible, by opening the book with seven seals (Rev. 5,

[>),which Christ alone as the Cod of Prophecy can do!

.No o#ie can read this dark and damning degree, which
was played nightly over France, before the “Reign of
Terror,” unless his conscience is seared, and his heart
hardened by demon-worship, and not see that this degree
and its fellows helped work the guillotine and soak the
soil with blood. Nor is the drama yet done. These
degrees framed by the French, as impudent assaults on
God, whose name ten years since the Grand Orient
erased from its ritual, sent here by the hands of Jews,
whose fathers crucified Christ; planted by those ‘‘chil-
dren” on whom his blood was invoked, in our City ot
Charleston, S. C., have already, from Southern lodge-
rooms, sent forth a war from that very city, which has
furnished eighty-two Governmental grave-yards, filled
with Northern corpses. And this same Book, which
their degree mocks and mimics, assures us that blood
is yet to flow to the horses’ bridles “from
the great wine
press of the wrath of God.' (Rev. ij, 20.)
Sacrilege is profaning sacred things. And this degree
uses the sacred symbols of the Revelation to run its
own dirt machine of the. lodge. Glance at the faithful
expose of it. Then glance at the foot-notes which con-
firm, by Masonic authorities, every word of that expose.
And what do you see? You see the august and awful
symbols of the Apocalypse used as wheel-grease for their
devil's machine. You read that “Masonry is of divine
origin that “water and blood" mean that “a Mason
diould not hesitate to spill his blood for the support of
Masonry.” You read that the word “Power" means
“power to destroy proffinc unworthy brethren!'
and
And that “Submission,” one of the seven qualities which
Masons should possess, means “Submission to the lairs,
vp filiations and decrees of the lodge ‘Without mainlin-
ing/' and that, when those “decrees" are made bv
un-
 ! ;

“evil be thof my good.” 461

known superiors and from unknown motives!! And

'

' tli e skull is the image of a brother who is excluded

from a lodge or Council /’ and “ the clotli stained with
blood that we should not hesitate to spill ours for the
,

good of Masonry
Turn now to the text and see that these quotations
are fairly and accurately made; and then say to your
consciences, before God, if the Anarchists hung in Chi-
cago had anything in their theory, viler, more murder-
ous, more damning than the Masonic lodge
Sorcery means conjuring by, for and with evil Spirits.
And there are devils exearnate as well as incarnate, and
this degree is sorcery; for what human purpose conceiv-
able or inconceivable can a -lot of men. Infidels, Jews,
hypocrites, weak Christians, pagans and Mahometans
keep up a recitative of such stuff as you read in this
degree, and that for more than a century and a half
from 1754 to this day? What but the same devilish-
ness which met by Chicago Lake Side for years, to learn
lessons which their bombs reduced to practice; to spend
their earnings for liquor, and then curse society because
they were poor ! What is “the doctrine of devils” if this
degree is not ?
“Evil be thou my good,’’

which Milton puts into the mouth of Satan, was before

stated in the Bible, as a Satanic principle, and seen to
be true in the experience and observation of men. It is
to choose sin, and practice it, and then seek to burn
down society to the level of their own wretchedness.
The practitioners of this degree have for a full century
and a half, drawn all its vitality from what they deny,
viz: the Bible. The Bible is God’s word, or it is an
empty bauble. And here are lodges, which live on what
they deny! Tf it is a falsehood why do they repeat and
act it in their degrees? * Ah The Bible is true. The
!
4f>? “every lodge ts a synagogue -of SATAN.”

legions who infested the Cfcidarene; the widow’s daugh-

ter,and inhabited the Magdalene; that sifted Peter and
demoralized Judas, and resisted Christ and his Apostles ;

inhabited all the Gentile shrines and stole from God the
worship of this world, are at their dark tricks still.

They rule the world’s darkness. They hoodwink man-

kind. Every lodge is a Synagogue of Satan, and its
ritual is sorcery. And their fearful activity to-day doe?
not prove their power, but only that their time is short.

* %
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CHAPTER XXXI
Eighteenth Degree ok Sovereign Prince or Rose
Croix de Herodem and Knight of the
186
Eagle and Pelican .

This Order is called Rose- Croix from the rose on the

cross of the jewel being emblematical of the Son of
God, who is compared to a rose by St. John the evangel-
187
ist. Herodem because the first Chapter of the degree
Note 186. — “Prince of Rose sometimes called Knight of the
Croix,
Eagle and Pelican. The 18th degree of the Ancient and Accepted rite.
It is the most ancient, interesting, and most generally px-acticed of the
philosophical degrees of Masonry. It is found in all the principal rites,
and where it does not exist by name its place is supplied by others,
whose symbols do not differ materially from it. To those who have not
gone beyond the symbolic degrees, the name is perhaps more familiarly
known than any other of the higher degrees. Of its origin nothing satis-
factory is known. Baron Westerode, in 1784, supposes it to have been
instituted by the Knights Templar in Palestine, in the twelfth century,
and asserts that Prince Edward, afterward King Edward I., was then
admitted into the Oi’der, under the auspices of Raymond; he also says
that the Order was derived from Ormesius, its founder, an Egyptian
priest, who had -been converted to Christianity. Ragon has elaborately
investigated the subject, and attributes its origin to a pious and learned
monk, named John Valentine Andrea, who flourished in the latter part
of the 16th century; and the same author says that Andrea, grieved at
seeing the principals of Christianity forgotten in idle and vain disputes,
and that science was made subservient to the pride of man instead of
contributing to his happiness, passed his days in devising what he sup-
posed to be the most appropriate means of restoring each to its legitimate,
moral and benevolent tendency. Clavel affirms that the degree was
founded by the Jesuits, for the purpose of counteracting the insidious
—
attacks of freethinkers upon the Romish faith.” Macoy’s Encyclopaedia
and Dictionary of Freemasonry, Article Prince of Rose Croix.
—
Note 187. “Herodem, Royal Order of. Dr. Oliver claims that this
Order was instituted by Robert Bruce, after the battle of Bannockburn,
which took place on St. John’s day, 1314. He says: ‘The Royal Order
of H. R. D. M. — —
Herodem had formerly its seat at Kilwinning, and
thei e is reason to think that it and St. John’s Masonry were then gov-
-

erned by the same Grand Lodge. But during the 16th and 17th centuries
Masonry was at a very low ebb in Scotland, and it was with the greatest
difficulty that St. John’s Masonry was preserved. The Grand Chapter of
H. R. D. M. resumed its functions about the middle of the last century
at Edinburg; and in order to preserve a marked distinction between the
Royal Order and Craft Masonry, which had formed a Grand Lodge there
in 1736, the former confined itself solely to the two degrees of H. R. D. M.
and R. S. Y. C. S., i. e. Herodem and Rosycross.’ It is more probable,
however, that Chevalier Ramsay had more to do with the creation of this
Order than Robert Bruce. This appears to be the opinion of Ragon.”
Macoy’s Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of Freemasonry, Article Herodem,
Royal Order of.
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464 SOVEREIGN PRINCE OF ROSE GROIX.

was e on a mountain ol' that name.

1 1 1 ( 1 Knight of the
Eagle because of the eagle on the jewel and Knight of
the Pelican because the pelican is cmblefnatical of
Christ, who shed his blood for mankind.
—
decorations T hree apartments are necessary for a
Chapter of this degree. The First Apartment repre-
sents Mount Calvary, and is hung with black and
lighted by three" eandclabras, each having eleven
branches and each branch holding a yellow wax candle,
making thirty-three lights in all.
The eandclabras rest on three pillars or columns six
feet high placed in the west of the apartment. On one
is the word Faith on another Hope, and on the third
Charily in letters of gold. At the east of this apart-
ment is a hill to represent Mount Calvary and on it are
three crosses with a skull and cross-hones on each. In
front of the hill stands the altar covered with a black
cloth, on which is a cross and two lighted candles of
yellow wax; behind the altar a black curtain extends
from the ceiling, hiding the hill from view.
The Second Apartment contains a transparency rep-
resenting the ascension of Christ and over it a trans-
parent triangle surrounded with rays of glory. In front
of the transparency is the altar and behind it an organ.
This apartment is lighted entirely by the transparency.
The Third Apartment -representsHell and is shown
by transparencies of monsters and human beings encir-
cled with flames, while devils with pitchforks add to
their torment. On each side of the entrance human
skeletons are represented with arrows in their hands.
titles:' " —
The Master is styled Most Wise and Per-
fect Master and is seated on a step of the altar in the
—
Note 188. “In the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Kite, whence the
Rose Croix Masons of the United States have received the degree, it is
placed as the eighteenth on the list. It is conferred in a body called
a ‘Chapter.’ which derives its authority immediately from the Supreme
Council of the Thirty-third, and which confers with it only, one other
and inferior degree, that of Knights of the Last and West." It> prln-
elpal officers are a Most Wise Master and two Wardens. Maundy
Thursday and Easter Sunday, arc two obligatory days of meeting.”
Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Rose Croix, Prince of,
 SOVEREIGN PRINCE OF ROSE CROIX. 465

firstapartment, having before him a small table on

which is a lighted yellow wax candle, a Bible, square
and compass, and a triangle. There are two Wardens,
termed Most Excellent and Perfect Senior Warden,
whose station is in the north, and Most Excellent and
Perfect Junior Warden, whose station is in the south,
and a Secretary and Treasurer who also have the appel-
lation of Most Excellent and Perfect. The youngest
Knight present acts as Tyler. The brethren are styled
Most Respectable and Perfect Knights.
clothing : — The Most Wise and Perfect Master
robed in black, with a brilliant star of seven points over
his heart with a circle engraved thereon, and the letter
J.:. in the center, with the words Faith, Hope and Char-
ity around the edge of the circle. Brethren clothed in
black with a white woolen chasuble bordered black and
on it a large red cross before and behind.
apron :
198
— For brethren of first apartment, white
lined and bordered with black ;
on it
A
a globe surrounded
by a serpent, beneath the letter J. on the movable part ;

a skull and cross-bones. For brethren of second apart-

ment, white apron lined and bordered with red triple ;

golden triangles within three squares enclosed in three

circles, with the letter J. :. in the center. Aobovc them
the extended compass, each point on the angle of a tri-

angle.
order : —
A broad black ribbon edged with gold from
which is suspended the jewel.
Note 189. —
‘The aprons an* two. mourning and festive. The fo'rmer
Is white, lined and edged with black. It displays a globe, surrounded
by a serpent, beneath the letter J.; on the movable part, a skull and
cross-bones. On the lining is a red cross. The latter is white, lined
and edged with red, displaying a triple triangle of gold within three
squares enclosed in three circles, the letter J. in the center: above
them, the extended compass, each point on an angle of a triangle. This
is technically the Scotch Rite Apron.” Morris’s —
Masonic Dictionary,
Article Sovereign Prince of Rose Croix, de H-R-D-M
466 SOVEREIGN PRINCE OF ROSE CROIX.

jewel:’
80
— A golden compass extended the sixteenth
part of a circle. On the head of the compass an an-
crown consisting of three series
tique, five pointed, triple
of points, arranged by three, five and seven. Between
the legs of the compass is a cross resting on the are, its
center occupied by a full blown red rose of four petals
whose stem twines around the lower limb of the cross.
At the foot of the cross is a pelican tearing its breast to
feed young, which arc arranged five or seven in num-
its

ber in a nest around it. On the reverse of the jewel is

the figure of an eagle with extended wings. On the arc
of a circle the pass-word of the degree engraved in
cipher, also the name of the Knight who wears it.

Note 190. — “The jewel of the Hose Croix is ;igolden compass. ex-
tended on an arc to the sixteenth part of a circle; or twenty-two and
a half degrees. The head of the compass is surmounted by a triple
crown, consisting of three series of points arranged by three, live, and
seven. Between the legs of the compass is a cross resting on the tire;
its center Is occupied by a full-blown rose, whose stem twines around
the lower limb of the cross; at the foot of the cross, on the same side
on which the rose is exhibited, is the tigure of a pelican wounding its
breast to feed its young which are in a nest surrounding it, while on
the other side of the jewel is the figure of an eagle with wings dis-
played. On the are of the circle, the P.'.W.'. of the degree is engraved
in the cipher of the (frder.
“In this jewel are included the most important symbols of the degree.
The Cross, the Rose, the Pelican, and the Eagle are all important sym-
bols, the explanations of which will go far to a comprehension of what
is the true design of the Rose Croix Order. They may be seen in this
—
work under their respeetive titles.” Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Free-
masonry, Article Rose Croix, Prince of. 1
 OPENING CEREMONIES
iSovereign Prince of Rose Croix de Herodem and
191
Knight of the Eagle and Pelican .

Master —My Perfect Brothers Knights Princes Ma-

sons, please assist me to open this Chapter.
Senior Warden —
Most Respectable and Perfect
Knights, the Most Wise and Perfect Master asks you
to assist in opening this Chapter.
Junior Warden —
Most Respectable and Perfect
Knights, the Most Wise and Perfect Master asks you
to assist him in opening this Chapter.
—
Master (Three and four raps 000.0000.) ;

Senior Warden —
(Three and four raps; 000 0000.)
Junior Warden —
(Three and four raps; 000 0000.)
—
Master Most Excellent and Perfect Wardens, what
is our care?

—
Senior Warden To ascertain whether the Chapter is
well covered and if all the brethren present are true
Knights.
—
Master Convince yourself my perfect brethren, one
from the north and the other from the south.
—
Senior Warden Most Wise and Perfect Master, all
Note 191.— “Sovereign Prince of Rose Croix, de H-R-D-M. [Scotch
—
Masonry.] The second degree conferred
Rose Croix, Scotch
in the Chapter of Princes of
Masonry, and the eighteenth upon the catalogue of
that system. It Is otherwise known as Knights of the Eagle and Pelican.
The assembly is termed a Sovereign Chapter. The officers are: Most
Wise" and Perfect Master, Most Excellent and Perfect Senior Warden
and Junior Warden, Captain of Guard, Master of Ceremonies, Secretary
and Treasurer. Its historical lessons are Intensely Christian, the masonic
support of Wisdom, Strength and Beauty being exchanged for the
Christian virtues. Faith, Hope and Charity.” Morris's Masonic Diction*
ary, Article Sovereign Prince of Rose Croix, de H-R-D-M.
 SOVEREIGN PRINCE OF ROSE CROIX.
-

4f)8

present arc true Knights of Eose Croix and of the

Eagle.
Master —What’s the hour?
Senior Warden — It is the moment that the veil of the
temple was rent when darkness and consternation cov-
ered the earth when the stars disappeared and the lamp
;

of day was darkened; when the implements of masonry

were lost and the cubic stone sweat blood and water:
that was the moment when the great masonic word was
lost.

Master — Since masonry has sustained so great a loss,

let us endeavor, by new works, to recover the lost word,
for which purpose we will open this Chapter of Eose -1

Croix.
Senior Warden — Most Eespectable and Perfect
Knights this Sovereign Chapter of Eose Croix is now
open, let us do our duty.
—
Junior Warden Most Eespectable and Perfect
Knights this Sovereign Chapter of Eose Croix is now
open, let us do our duty. *
9
All —
(Kneeling on right knee at altar.) Let us do 8
our duty; let us do our duty, (repeating it seven times 1
with a jiause' before the seventh.) I
All —
(Kneeling on right knee at altar.) Let us do 'B
our duty: let us do our duty, (repeating it seven times
with a pause before ihe seventh.) <
 CHAPTER XXXII
Eighteenth Degree or Sovereign Prince of Rose
Croix de Herodem and Knight of the
« Eagle and Pelican.
192
initiation .

Candidate comes to the door of the Chapter, kneels

and presents his petition for the degree and a certificate
that he is in good standing as a Prince of Jerusalem'
and a Knight of the East and West and must remain
kneeling till answer is returned. Petition and certifi-
cate are taken to the Master, who selects a Knight to
instruct candidate and returns answer by him. The
Knight throws the answer to candidate, who rises and
reads it. The answer names the time for his initia-
tion, provided the ballot in his behalf is clear and gives
the name of the Knight who is to instruct him.
—
Knight (To candidate.) You must procure....
pair of men’s gloves and. .pair of women’s gloves and
. .

. .sticks of sealing wax and present each member of

. .

this Chapter a pair each of men’s and women’s gloves

and two sticks of wax. You must also make a donation
of at least Dollars to this Sovereign Chapter. of
Rose Croix, also three wax candles for this Chapter
and two for each of the Knights at the time of your
reception. Will you do so?
—
Note 192. “The aspirant for the degree makes the usual application
duly recommended; and if accepted, is required, before initiation, to
make certain declarations which shall show his competency for the
honor which he seeks, and at the same time prove the high estimation
—
entertained of the degree by those who already possess it.’’ Mackey’s
Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Article Rose Croix, Prince of.
470 SOVEREIGN PRTNCE OF ROSE CROIX.

Candidate — 1 will.

Knight — Do you solemnly engage on your honor,

never to reveal the place where you are received, who
receives you or the names of those present at your re-
ception ?

Candidate — I do.
Knight — Do you solemnly promise to conform to all
the ordinances of this Chapter and keep yourself uni-
formly clothed as far as you are able?
Candidate I do. —
Knight — Do
you promise to at all times and in all
places acknowledge the authority of the Most Wise and
Perfect Master, and never to confer this degree with-
out permission and to answer for the probity and re-
spectability of those you may propose for this degree?
Candidate I do. —
On the evening appointed in the answer to petition
of candidate he comes to the ante-room.
—
Master Most excellent and Perfect Senior Warden,
what is the cause of our assembling here?
—
Senior Warden The propagation of the Order and
the perfection of a Knight of the East and West who
demands to be received among us.
Master —Let the ballot be spread.
If the ballot is clear, the Master of Ceremonies at
once ushers the candidate into the Chamber of Reflec-
tion; a gloomy apartment painted or draped in black.
In the center is a small table on which is a Bible and a
skull and cross-bones and a candle inside of the skull
is the only light in the room. After leaving candidate
alone here a short time, Master of Ceremonies returns,
dresses him as a Knight of the East and West, with a
sword and white gloves, when he addresses him:
—
Master of Ceremonies All the temples are demol-
ished, our tools are destroyed with our columns; the
^acred word is lost notwithstanding all our precaution
 .

INITIATION. 471

and we are in ignorance of the means of recovering it,

or of knowing each other. The order in general is in
the greatest consternation ! Will you assist us in re*
covering the wfrd ?
—
( kin di da te Mos t cheer f u ly
1

—
Master of Cere monies Follow me. (Conducts him
fo the door of the Chapter.)
—
Master of Ceremonies (Three and four raps; 000
0000 .)
Senior Warden —
What do you want?
Master of Ceremonies — It is a brother Knight of the
East .and West who is wandering in the woods and
mountains and who, at the destruction of the second
temple, lost the word and humbly solicits vour assist-
ance to recover it. (Senior Warden opens the door and
candidate is conducted in.)
Senior Warden — (Seven raps; 000 0000.) Most
Wise and Perfect Master, this is a Knight of the East
and West who was wandering in the woods and moun-
tains and who at the destruction of the second temple
lost the word, and humbly solicits your assistance to
recover it. [The Master is seated at the foot of the
altar and the members on the floor, each with heads
down, elbows on their knees, their faces covered with
their left hands and their right hands on their necks,
their jewels covered with black crape.]
—
Master (To candidate.) My brother, confusion has
come upon our works and it is no longer in our power
to continue them. You must perceive from our looks
and the consternation which prevails among us, what
confusion reigns on the earth. The veil of the temple
is rent, [the black curtain in front of the hill repre-
senting Calvary is drawm aside] the light is obscured
and darkness spreads over the earth the flaming star
;

has disappeared, tho cubic stone sweats blood and water

and the sacred word is lost; therefore it is impossible
we can give it to you. "Nevertheless it is not our in-
tention to remain inactive. We will endeavor to recover
472 SOVEREIGN PRINCE OF ROSE CROIX.

it. Are you disposed to follow us ?

Candidate —I am.
Master— Most Excellent and Perfgct Brother War-
dens, it is necessary this worthy Knight should travel
thirty-three years [alluding to the years of the life of
1

Christ, ’
]
to learn the beauties of the new law.
The Wardens conduct the candidate slowly seven
times around the room, causing him to kneel as he
comes in front of the altar and when passing the West
to bend the right knee, also to call out the name of each
of the columns, Faith, Hope and Charity, as he passes
them, after which he is halted in front of the Master.
—
Master My brother, what have you learned on your
journey ?
Candidate —
(Instructed.)
-
I have learned three vir-
tues, by which to conduct myself in future: Faith,
Hope, Charity. Inform me if there are any others?
—
Master No, my brother, they are the principles and
—
Note 193. “In passing from Scotland to France it greatly changed
its form and organization, as it resembles in no respect its archetype,
except that both are eminently Christian in their design. But in its
adoption by the Ancient and Accepted Rite, its organization has been so *
changed that, by a more liberal interpretation of its symbolism, it has
been rendered less sectarian and more tolerant in its design. For while
the Christian reference is preserved, no peculiar theological dogma is
retained, and the degree is made cosmopolite in its character.
“It was, indeed, on its first inception, an attempt to Christianize Free-
masonry; to apply the rites, and symbols, and traditions of Ancient
Craft Masonry to the last and greatest dispensation; to add to the first
Temple of Solomon and the second of Zerubbabel a third, that to which
Christ alluded when he said, ‘Destroy this temple, and in three days
will 1 raise it up.’ The great discovery which was made in the Royal
Arch ceases to be of value in this degree; for it another is substituted
of more Christian application: the Wisdom, Strength, and Beauty which
supported the ancient Temple are replaced by the Christian pillars of
Faith, Hope and Charity; the great lights, of course, remain, because
thev are of the very essence of Masonry; but the three lesser give way
to the thirty-three, which allude to the years of the Messiah’s sojourning
on earth. Everything, in short, about the degree is Christian; but, as
I have already said, the Christian teachings of the degree have been
applied to the sublime principles of a universal system, and an interpre-
tation and illustration of the doctrines of the ‘Master of Nazareth,’ so
adapted to the Masonic dogma of tolerance, that men of every faith
may embrace and respect them. It thus performs a noble mission. It
obliterates, alike, the intolerance of those Christians who sought to erect
an impassable barrier around the sheepfold, and the equal intolerance
of those of other religions who would be ready to exclaim ‘Can any
good thing come out of Nazareth?’
’’
—
Mackey’s Encyclopaedia of Free-
masonry, Article Rose Croix, Prince of.
 fv O
INITIATION. 4 O
(

the pillars of our Approach near to us

new mystery.
and make an engagement never to depart from that
faith.
—
Master (Seven raps; 000 0000. All rise and candi-
date is conducted to and caused to kneel on the step to
the altar with his riglft hand on the Bible.)

OBLIGATION SOVEREIGN PRINCE OF ROSE CROIX DE

I1ERODEM.
1 do solemnly and sincerely promise and swear
under the penalty of all my former obligations which I
have taken in the preceding degrees, never to reveal
directly or indirectly, the secrets or mysteries of Sov-
ereign Prince of Pose Croix and Knight of the Eagle
and Pelican, to any brother of an inferior degree, nor
to any in the world besides who is not justly and law-
fully entitled to the same, under the penalty of being
forever deprived of the true word, to be perpetually in
darkness, my blood continually running from my body,
to suffer without intermission the most cruel remorse of
soul that the bitterest gall, mixed with vinegar, be my
;

constant drink the sharpest thorns for mv pillow and

;

that the death of the cross may complete my punishment

should I ever infringe or violate in any manner or form
the laws and rules which have been, are now, or may be
hereafter made known or prescribed to me.
And I do furthermore swear, promise and engage on
my sacred word of honor, to observe and obey all the
decrees which may be transmitted to me by the Grand
Inspectors General in Supreme Council of the thirty-
third degree. That 1 will never reveal the place where
I have been received, nor the ceremony used at my re-
ception to any person on earth but to a lawful Prince of
Pose Croix. That T never will initiate any person into
this degree but by a lawful patent obtained for that pur-
pose, either from this Chapter or from a Superior Coun-
cil so help me God and keep me steadfast in this my
;

solemn obligation. Amen. (Candidate kisses the Bible.)

474 SOVEREIGN PRINCE OF ROSE CROIX.
Master— Brethren,, all is accomplished. (Members,
all but the Wardens stand with their faces covered with
their hands while the Wardens divest candidate of his
apron and “order/’ [white ribbon] of Knight of the
East and West when the Master puts on him the white
woolen chasuble of a Prince of Rose Croix.)
—
Master This habit, my brother, teaches you the
uniformity of our manners, and our belief ; and will re-
call to your recollection the principal points of our mys-
teries. This black apron with which I invest you (puts'
it on him) is a mark of our sincere repentance of those
evils .which were the cause of all our misfortunes and it
will also serve to show you those who are in search of
the true word. This ribbon (puts the “order” of the
degree on him) is the mark of our constant mourning
till we have found it [the true word.] Pass to the west
and assist us to search for it. (Wardens conduct candi-
date to the west.)
Master —
(Seven raps; 000 0000.)
Senior Warden —
(Seven raps;’ 000 0000.)
Junior Warden —
(Seven raps; 000 0000.)
The brethren all rise and make the sign of the good
shepherd.

SIGN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD.

Cross the arms on breast with hands ex-

tended and eyes raised to heaven. ^

Shepherd
 INITIATION. 475

—
Master Most Excellent and Perfect Brother War-
dens, what is the motive of our assembling?
Senior Warden —
The loss of the word, which, with
your we hope
assistance, to recover.
—
Master What must we do to obtain it ?
—
Senior Warden Be fully convinced of the three vir-
tues which are the basis of our columns and our princi-
ples.
Master — What are they?
Senior Warden —Faith, Hope, Charity.
Master— How we shallthose three columns?
find
Senior Warden— By traveling three days in the most
profound obscurity.
Master— Let us brethren, from
travel, north east to
and from west to south. (All pass around the room as
indicated seven times bending their knees as they pass
the altar in the east, candidate being conducted by
Master of Ceremonies. At the third time around, the
Master passes to the second apartment, at fourth time
around, the Wardens pass to the second apartment; at
the fifth time the balance of the officers except Master
of Ceremonies follow and at the sixth time around, the
members also pass to the second apartment, leaving
Master of Ceremonies with candidate to complete the
seventh alone, when they halt suddenly at the door of
the second apartment.
Master of Ceremonies —
(To candidate.) You cannot
enter unless you give me the word.
—
Candidate I am in search of the word by the help of
the new’ law and the three columns of Masonry. The
members in the second apartment uncover their jewels
and change their clothing from black to red.
Candidate —
(Seven raps on door. Senior Warden
slams the door in his face.)
476 SOVEREIGN PRINCE OF ROSE CROIX.

Master of Ceremonies — (To candidate.) These marks

of indignity are not sufficiently humiliating; you must
pass through more rigorous proofs before you can find
it. (Removes and apron and puts over him
his chasuble
a cloth covered with dust and ashes.)
—
Master of Ceremonies (Continuing.) I am going to
conduct you into the darkest and most dismal place,
from whence the word shall triumphantly come, to the
glory and advantage of masonry. Place your confidence
in me. (Conducts him into the third apartment, re-
moves the cloth from him, leads him around the room
three times and calls his attention to the representa-
tions of the torments of the damned.
—
Master of Ceremonies The horrors which you have
just seen are but a faint representation of those you
shall suffer if you break through our laws, or infringe
the obligation you have taken.
Master of Ceremonies —
(Seven raps; 000 0000, on
door of second apartment.)
Senior Warden — Most Wise and Perfect Master, there
is an alarm at the door.
—
Master See who knocks.
Senior Warden —Whoknocks there?
—
Master of Ceremonies It is a Knight, who, after
having passed through the most jirofound and difficult
places, hopes to procure the true word as a recompense
for his labor.
—
Senior Warden Most Wise and Perfect Master, it is
a Knight, who, having passed through the most pro-
found and difficult places, hopes to procure the true
word as a recompense for his labor.
—
Master Introduce him to the west of the Chapter
with his eyes wide open. (Candidate is conducted in,
after which he is covered with a veil.)
 INITIATION. m
—
Master From whence came you?
Candidate —
(Instructed.) From Judea.
—
Master By what Toad have you passed?
—
Candidate By Nazareth.
—
Master Who conducted you?
—
Candidate Raphael.
—
Master What tribe are you of?
—
Candidate Of the tribe of Judah.
—
Master Take the initials of each of these words;
what do they form ?
194
Candidate— J. \N. *.R. \I. \
—
Master My brethren, what happiness The word is !

recovered! Give him light. (Veil is removed.)

All —
(Clap hands several times.) Hosanna in the
highest; on earth peace, good will to men. Led by the
organ all join in the following:
ANTHEM.
Grateful notes and numbers bring,
While the nam<} of God we sing,
Holy, holy, holy Lord
Be thy glorious name adored.
Men on earth and saints above,
Sing the great Redeemer’s love;
Lord thy merc'ies never fail,
Hail, celestial goodness, hail!

While on earth ordained to stay,

Guide our footsteps in thy way, *
Mortals, raise your voices nigu
Till they reach the echoing sky.

Men on earth and saints above.

Sing the great Redeemer’s love;
Sing the great Jehovah’s praise.
Glorious in his works and ways.

—
Master Approach, mv brother, I will communicate
to you our perfect mysteries. (Candidate is conducted
to Master.)
Note 194. — “On
the segment of the circle are the letters I. N. R. I.
The jewel of gold, with the pelican and eagle of silver.
is In this jewel
are included the most important symbols of the degree. The cross, the
rose, the pelican and the eagle, are all important symbols, the explana-
tion of which will go far to a comprehension of what is the true design
of the Rose Croix degree.” —
Macoy’s Encyclopaedia and Dictionary of
Freemasonry, Article Prince of Rose Croix.
478 SOVEREIGN PRINCE OP ROSE CROIX.

CHARGE TO CANDIDATE.
I congratulate you my brother on the recovery of the
word, which entitles you to this degree of Perfect Ma-
sonry. I shall make no comment or eulogium on it. Its
sublimity will no doubt be duly appreciated by you.
You perceive, no doubt, with satisfaction, that you were
not deceived when you were promised an aim Sublime
which makes you perfect in the mysteries of masonry
and unveils to you its allegorical emblems. To that
point we are about to arrive. Now that you have at-
~
tained this high estate in masonry, you have found in it
all that is beautiful and good; you h?vp become perfect.
The sublime and the true have been developed to your
eyes. It is not enough, my brother, to have been able to
merit and acquire it, you must more and more render
yourself perfect in it and study to draw from it for the
future all the fruits possible, and may you my dear
brother long enjoy it among us. Grant us that friend-
ship, which is the bond of all associations, and be as-
sured of ours, which }T)u have now acquired.
I will now instruct you in the signs, tokens and words
of this degree.

SIGN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD.

Cross the arms on breast with hands ex-

tended and eyes raised to heaven.

Good Sfaepliff*
 INITIATION* 470

SIGN OF RECONCILIATION.

Raise right hand and with index fin-

ger point upward.

answer. *

Point downward with index finger of

right hand.

Ulga of Reconciliation.

SIGN OF HELP.

Cross the legs, the right behind the

Sign of Hel»
 ——
480 SOVEREIGN PRINCE OF ROSE CROIX.

ANSWER.

Same except left leg behind the right

Answer.

TOKEN.
Give the sign of the Good Shepherd ; face each other,
bow; place reciprocally crossed hands on breast and give
the fraternal kiss and pronounce the pass word.
pass w^ord: Emmanuel.
sacred word: I. :.N. :.R. :.I. :. Inri; .lettered by the
persons giving it alternately. They are the initials of
the latin words; Jesus , Nazarenus, Rex , Judoeorum ,
signifying Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews. [In
Latin I and J are interchangeable.]
—
Master Go, my brother, and make yourself known to
all the members of this Sovereign Chapter and return
again. (Candidate passes from one to another whisper-
ing the pass-word in the ear of each, then returns and
kneels before the altar when the brethren gather around
him and each places his right hand on him.)
—
Master (Investing candidate with ribbon and jewel
of degree.) By virtue of the authority vested in me by
 —

INITIATION 481

195
this Sovereign Chapter of Rose Croix, I do hereby
constitute and create you a Sovereign Prince of Rose
Croix de Herodem and Knight of the Eagle and Pelican
that vou may enjoy now and forever all the privileges,
prerogatives and titles attached to this sublime degree,
as virtue and humanity are the foundations of it. I
hope my brother never to see you dishonor the ribbon
with which you have been invested.
—
Note 195. “Rose Croix, Sovereign Prince of. Because of its great
importance in the Masonic system, and of the many privileges possessed
by its possessors, the epithet of ‘Sovereign’ has been almost universally
bestowed upon the degree of Prince of Rose Croix. Recently, however,
the Mother Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite at •Charles-
ton has discarded this title, and directed that the word ‘Sovereign’ shall
only be applied to the thirty-third degree of the Rite; apd this is now
the usage in the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States.’’ Mackey’s
Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, Article Rose Croix, Sovereign Prince of.
 Y ;

PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS
Eighteenth Degree, or Sovereign Prince of Pose
Croix de Herodem, and Knight of the
Eagle and Pelican.
—
Pretended Scotch Origin of Degree False. To Steal the Popularity of
— —
Robert Bruce. Rose Croix Hell, a Masonic Caricature. Impudent and
Detestible Mimicry.

The review of this degree appropriately closes Yol.

1, of this work. To understand it, read carefully the
foot-notes, taken from the masters of Masonry, and
seers of religious antagonism to the Bible and God.
From these Masonic teachers we learn that this degree
of the Rose (or blond-red) Cross “was founded by the
Jesuits for the purpose of counteracting the insidious
attacks of Free Thinkers upon the Romish Faith,”
(Note 1S6.) This testimony of Clavel is obviously true.
“It is conferred in a body called a Chapter/ Note 188)
which is the Romish name for a Dean and his Clergy.
“The word is now exclusively appropriate for lodges
conferring degrees higher than the Symbolic,” or Old
York degrees, (Mackey's Cyclopaedia, Art. Chapter.)
These “higher” degrees, we need scarcely say, are
French; invented in the Jesuits’ College of Clermont,
Paris; and that at the time when Scotch mind led the
Protestant world. Scotland had overthrown and ex-
pelled Popery without shedding a drop of Popish blood
though her own martyrs shed plenty France then led
!

the false worships of the Anti-Christian world, by infi-

delity and superstition in the form of atheism and
Romanism. And this Rose Cross degree was falsely de-
rived from Scotland by Oliver, who said it was instituted
by Robert Bruce, in a mountain called “Herodem
(Note 187.) This stupendous falsehood was invented
for the double purpose of giving Masonry the popularity
 TO STEAL THE POPULARITY OF ROBERT BRUCE. 483

of Robert Bruce , the hero of Bannockburn; and deriving

this degree from Scotland, then the leading nation of
pure Bible Christianity But, as here vstated by C lav el,
!

(Note 186.) the degree was invented by Jesuits, to

popularize and protect priestcraft and the Romish su-
perstition, from atheism which is born of priestcraft : —
which makes the lovely and simple religion of Christ so
shockingly abhorrent that men revolt at it, and mistak-
ing priestism for Christianity, flee to atheism to get rid
of it. To comprehend this, read carefully this expose,
which, depicting the hall or halls where this, so called

“eminently Christian” degree is enacted, thus describes

its lodge room
“The First Apartment represents Mount Calvary, and
is hung with black/’ and lighted with wax candles.
“The Second Apartment contains a transparency rep-
resenting the ascension of Christ;” and
“The Third Apartment represents Ilell” as a lake of
boiling brimstone, out of wdiich “human beings encir-
cled with flames,” are attempting to crawl, while “devils
with pitchforks” are pitching them back. Such is the
room, and such the drapery of the rooms where this de-
gree of the Rose Cross is enacted, of which the Masonic
Lexicographer, Mackey, says, “everything, in short,
about the degree is Christian.” See (Note 193.)
This is about as just, fair, and true a picture of Bible
Religion as would be a painting of the Slavery-Re-
bellion, representing it as a Hell of War, Poverty,
Liquor, Poison, Arson, and Negro-whipping with Robert
Toombs, Jefferson Davis, John B. Floyd, Judah P.
Benjamin and others, creeping up the banks to get out;
with Johan Most and his Anarchists thrusting them
back with hot pitchforks, over the dead line of Libby and
 ”

484 HOSE CROSS HELL, A MASONIC CARICATURE.

Andersonville, with Lincoln in the distance looking on

smiling.
Doubtless the Hell of the Bible, which is a hell of sin
and wrath made by and preferred by them to
sinners,
Heaven, is hotter than flames, and more offensive than
brimstone. But this Rose Cross Hell is a Masonic
caricature invented by priests, to scare sinners and keep
them paying Peter’s Pence, to support them in luxury
and vice. Such a Hell is in short a stupendous Masonic
falsehood; a double-acting caricature, to manufacture a
Romish population of weak and timid dupes; and
sturdy, stupid atheists.
But the use Masons now make of it is succinctly ex-
plained in the expose (p. 476) where the Master of
Ceremonies “leads the candidate around the room three
times ;” calls his attention to the “representations of the
torments of the damned and then tells him:
“The horrors which you have just seen are but a faint
representation of those you shall suffer if you break
through our laws, or infringe the obligation you have
taken.”
This degree thus clearly proves and shows the identity
and oneness of Popery and Masonry; both in their
origin and their object. Both are the invention of
priests. Both are false religions. Both farm men’s in-
terest in eternity that tyrants may tax and govern them
in time.
Both this degree and the 17th, preceding, are called

by Masonic Authorities, “entirely philosophical” (Hole

182,) and they are. They lay hold of the Apocalypse
which has been largely a sealed book to Christ’s Church
and they thus use “the Revelation of Jesus Christ” for
the purpose of Devils; who, by entering- Judas Iscariot,
 IMPUDENT AND DETESTABLE MIMICRY. 485

procure the crucifixion of Christ; and then seize the

Cross on which the world's horror was enacted ; to turn
it into an idol, draw away the sinner’s attention from
the sufferer; and cheat mankind out of salvation by his
death.
Now when you have waded through the gewgaws and
trumpery of these two devR caricatures of the Revela-
tion, made by and 18th degrees, where the
these 17th
most sublime and awful realities are degraded by the
most impudent and detestable mimicry; as “the angels
holding the four winds of the earth." (Rev. 7, 1 ,) per-
sonified by men, called Masons, holding, and whisking
bladders filled with wind; -with which more diabolical
balderdash then open your Bibles and read the Revela-
;

tion itself, which wonderful book is a series of tableaux

or plates, in the war against idolatry down to the final
;

gathering of Gog and Magog to the great battle-day of

God; and you will clearly discern “the Philosophy of
these two devils’ degrees which is to degrade the Reve-
lation of Jesus Christ.”
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