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CHIEF OF THE TAEERNACLE. 343
For receptions there is also a dark apartment, with
an altar in the centre, on which are placed a feeble light
and three skulls. In front of the altar is a skeleton.
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EECEPTIOK
1. Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and
tell the children of Israel : Ye
have seen what I
did unto the Mitzrayim, and how I bare you on the
wings of eagles, and brought you unto myself.
2. Now, therefore, if you will obey my voice indeed,
and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar
treasure unto me, above all people ;
is mine.
for all the earth
3. And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests,
and a holy nation. These are the words which thou
shalt speak unto the children of Israel.
INVOCATION.
H.\ P.'. O mighty and inscrutable Being, for
whose very self there is no name whatever, and even
the ineffable word expresses a limitation of thy
infinite essence !
of whom all the deities of all the
nations are but personifications of single attribiites :
we bow down unto thee as the simple absolute exist-
ence, that with a thought didst from thyself utter all