Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated - The Masonic Trowel

378 SUBLIME PRINCE OF THE ROYAL SECRET.
And on the outside of the door is the Grand Tyler, or
in his absence, the Assistant Grand Tyler, thus the
number of officers in that body would be sixteen, but
the Secretary and Keeper of the Seals and Archives being
generally replaced by the Grand Chancellor and the
Assistant Grand Tyler, being appointed only to supply
the Grand Tyler when absent, are not counted among
the officers, whose number is not to exceed thirteen, as
will be seen hereafter.
There are also in the hall, west of the officers, on the
right and left, fourteen members clothed in red, without
aprons, and each having on his breast, suspended
from a black ribbon, worn as a collar, the jewel of one
of the degrees, to wit, numbering these members from
one to fourteen, they wear respectively the jewels of
the 30th, 28th, 25th, 21st, 19th, 18th, 16th, 14th, 13th,
10th, 8th, 7th, 5th and 3rd degrees.
The first five are the Standard Bearers of the corps,
that encamp around the Pentagon; and the last nine are
the Commanders of the corps, that encamp around ,the
Nonagon, in the camp hereafter described
The names of the first fiy.e are as follows:
1st. Bezaleel, for tbe standard,
2nd. Aholiab,”’ for the standard,
3rd. MaY” Shim, for the standard, “N.”
4th. Garimont, for the standard,
5th. Aniariah, for the standard, “U.”
The names of the others are:
Note 871. •‘Ahoitab. A aklifoi ertificer of the tribe of Dan who was
appointed, together with aezaleei. to conatruct the tabernacle in the
wilderness and the ark of the covenant —Mackey’s Enoyciopadla of
rrsemaaonry. Article Ahollab.
Note 372.—It Ia a compotient part of a signIficant word In Masonry-
The comhinatiofl mahhah. literally what! the,’ Is equlvaient accordIng
to the Hebre”. method of elilpala, to the queatton, what’ Ia this the
— ‘ —Mackey’s EncyclopEdia of rreemaaonz7, Article Mab.
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SUBLIME PRINCE OF THE ROYAL SECRET 379
• 1st.
2nd.
Malachi,
51’ for the tent,
Zerubbabel, for the tent,
“S.”
“A.”
3rd. Nehemiah, for the tent,
4th. Johaben, for the tent, “I.”
5th. Phaleg, for the tent,
6th. Jehoiada, for the tent, “N.”
7th. Aholiab, for the tent, “0.”
8th. Joshua, for the tent, “N.”
9th. Ezra,”’ for the tent, “I.”
Thesefourteen names must certainly appear arbitrary
and without meaning. The rituals and other Masonic
works say nothing of the meaning and reason why these
names were selected. All that is to be done is to study
and perhaps that reason will be found.
But we have no right to leave out these or other names
or words, because these, as a slender thread, may lead
us to the discovery of what we are now igrt~rant of.
Otherwise the names and words, being left out, the real
meaning would never be discovered. However, for a
reception, in ample form, there should be present twenty-seven
officers and members, including the fourteen
Standard Bearers and Commanders above mentioned.
IHE CAMP :—Is a nonagon enclosing a heptagon, that
Ifote 373.—’Malachi or Malashlas. The last of the prophets. A sipnificent
word in the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite.’ ‘—Mackey a
1a’olopudia of rrsemasonry. hatlois Maisehi or Majanhias.
Note 374.—Ezra.. There are two persons named Ezra who sri.
recorded in Scripture. i. Ezra. a leading priest among the first colonists
who came up to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel. and who is mentioned by
Nebemiab; and 2. Ezra. the celebraled Jewish scribe and restorer of thg
law, who yislted Jerusalem forty-two years after the second Temple
had been completed. Caimet. however, says that this second Ears had
yislted Jerusalem previously in company with Zerubbabel. “—Mackey’s
aeyelop.dta of Frs.msaouzy, Artiste Em.