Duncan's Ritual of Freemasonry.pdf - FatimaMovement

Looking again into the Ark, the High Priest takes
out four pieces of paper, which he examines
closely, consults with the
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King and Scribe, and then puts together, so as to
show a key to the ineffable characters of this
Degree:
KEY TO THE INEFFABLE CHARACTERS.
The key to the ineffable characters, or Royal
Arch Cipher, alluded to above, consists of right
angles, in various situations, with the addition of
a dot. By transposition, it forms twenty-six
distinct characters, corresponding with the
twenty-six letters of the English alphabet. There
are two methods of combining these characters
for secret correspondence: One method is to call
the first sign, , a; the second, , b; the
third, , c; and so on, reading from left to
right, thus:
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