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purer and gentler Aryans was ill at ease and far
from home. Rev. Dr. Garrison claims in a "Contribution
to the History of the Lost Word," appended
to Foot's Early History and Antiquities of
Freemasonry, that the four-syllabled name, Jehovah,
was held by the Hebrews as the Ineffable, and that
Adonai was used as a substitute. The Highpriest
once every year, at the time of the atonement, entered
alone into the Holy of HoUes and there repeated
the name. The name was thus withdrawn
from and finally lost by the common people. This
is ingenious and too literal to cover the case. The
old query, "What is in a name?" is, after all, not
so easy of answer ; or the answer might be, "every
thing or nothing," according as you understand it
or look at it. Before the introduction of the
Masoretic points or indices of vowel sounds, the
consonants were read by metrically intoning the
text. The principle of the Mantram was therefore
known to the Highpriest at least, and, therefore, the
Word, the Name, that Known in all its plenitude
and used with power, "caused the whole world to
shake," may have been used or invoked in the Holy
of Holies by the Kabalistic Hierophant. Some who
read this may be even yet so ignorant of the potency
of sound as to smile at the credulity and gullibility