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Chapter 4 - Signs & Symbols
With regard to the "angelic alphabet," TRMC informs that the Jews speak of a
celestial and mystic alphabet, which is communicated by the angels to the
patriarchs. Presumably, certain figures were traced in the heavens by early
astronomers and astrologers. There exist several of such alphabets. In
Freemasonry, the angelic alphabet is alluded to in the Fourth Degree of the
Ancient and Accepted Rite, that of Secret Master. 510 The alphabet shown at the
bottom of the illustration of mystic alphabets, called "Passing the River," is said
to have been used by the Cabalists, and has become the subject of consideration
with the brethren of the Fifteenth Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish
Rite. 511
As an appendix to John Yarker's last revision of the high degrees of the Rite
of Memphis, whose rituals were originally published by E. J. Marconis de Negre
in his classic work The Sanctuary of Memphis in 1849, there appear the ciphers
shown in the illustration below. The degree of Knight of Scandinavia (34°), the
degree of Sage of Mythras (64°), the degree of Knight Commander of the Lybic
Chain (75°), and the degree of Sublime Master of the Great Work (90°) all seem
to have had their own alphabets:
510 TRMC, p. 33.
511 Cf. EOF, p. 545.