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Scottish Rite Masonry Illustrated - The Masonic Trowel

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520 GRAND ELECT PERFECT AND SUBLIME M ~SON.<br />

FIFTH SION.<br />

Iiitvrlace all your fingers,<br />

hands rai~cd over<br />

the head, palms outward<br />

(tIlls ~igii ~erx e~ to C:<br />

a brother.)<br />

sixcir SiGN.<br />

.ld,ui,atioo (—ee p 51U<br />

\ Look<br />

AXI Lii.<br />

over ~aur shoniilers<br />

alternate!’<br />

SEVENTiI SION.<br />

illSign.<br />

Cl~p > our hands<br />

sour thighs.<br />

EIGIITH SIGN.<br />

Put ~‘our hands, shut,<br />

to your nirnith, as if to pull out your<br />

tongue, I hen l)la( on your heart.<br />

NiNTiI SIGN.<br />

Raise right hand as if von had a<br />

poniard in it to strike a hiotlier’s<br />

forehead, to Thow that<br />

COliii)!Ct( ii.<br />

engeance Is<br />

That of Intimate<br />

Secretary, B. ~.N.<br />

:.S.~. which sig-,<br />

nifies promises of<br />

a complete alliance<br />

(see p.3 48.)<br />

SECOND TOKEN.<br />

Circtsmspectian: Token of Circumspection.<br />

Nintn<br />

advance<br />

hands reciproeallxfirst<br />

to the<br />

master t o k e n,<br />

then to the<br />

wrist, then to<br />

the elbow, and<br />

theword is<br />

Gabaori~.<br />

FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH DEGREES. 521<br />

THIRD TOKEN.<br />

Defiance, Resistance and Remembrance.<br />

Advance reciprocally,<br />

the hands as in the fourth degree,<br />

drawing them to each other three<br />

times; then place the left hand on<br />

the brother’sback, then on his neck,<br />

as if to raise him.<br />

PASS WOens.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re are three principal ones:<br />

the first is Shibboleth, three times<br />

with an aspiration. <strong>The</strong> second is—<br />

El-Hanan. <strong>The</strong> third is most<br />

essential to be known, and is Bca-<br />

Make/i, Bamearah, which is inter-<br />

preted, “thank God we have found<br />

it.”<br />

COVERED womns.<br />

<strong>The</strong> first is Guiblim or Jabulum. <strong>The</strong> second is<br />

Makobim, which, interpreted: “That’s he! He is dead<br />

I<br />

“‘<br />

<strong>The</strong> third is Adonai, Supreme Lord of all.<br />

~ FIFTEENTH DEGRaR, OR KNIGHTS OF THE<br />

EAST OR SWORD.<br />

SIGN.<br />

Raise the right hand to the left shoulder<br />

and move it downward to the right<br />

hip, with a serpentine motion as if to represent<br />

the motion of the waters of a river;<br />

then draw the sword and bring it to the<br />

guard as if to fight.<br />

the East or SworE.<br />

Token of Re.i,Za,,ce and.<br />

Rezoembranre.

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