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.246 ENOCH
EONS
into the Order himself, accepted the Grand
Mastership on the festival of St . John the
Evangelist in the year 814 . Other equally extravagant
opinions make his book rather a
source of amusement than of instruction . His
definition of Freemasonry is however, good .
He says that it is "a holy and religious society
of men who are friends, which has for its foundation
discretion - for its object, the service of
God fidelity to the sovereign, and love of our
neighbor ; and for its doctrine, the erection of
an allegorical building dedicated to the virtues,
which it teaches with certain signs of
recognition ."
Enoch, Legend of. This legend is detailed
in a preceding article. It never formed any
part of the old system of Masonry, and was
first introduced from Talmudic and Rabbinical
sources into the high degrees, where, however,
it is really to be viewed rather as symbolical
than as historical . Enoch himself is but
the symbol of initiation, and his legend is intended
symbolically to express the doctrine
that the true Word or Divine truth was preserved
in the ancient initiations .
Enoch, Rite of. A Rite attempted to be
established at liege, in France, about the year
1773 . It consisted of four degrees, viz ., 1 .
Manouvre, or Apprentice, whose object was
friendship and benevolence . 2. Ouvrier, or
Fellow-Craft, whose object was fidelity to the
Sovereign. 3 . Maitre, or Master, whose object
was submission to the Supreme Being . 4.
Architects, whose object was the perfection of
all the virtues . The Rite never made much
progress .
Enochian Alphabet . One of the most
important alphabets, or ciphers, known to
historic Masons is the Enochian, in consequence
of the revelations made in that char-
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acter . Tradition says the Christian princes
were accompanied in their journey to Palestine
by Freemasons, who fought by their side
and who, when at the Holy City, discov
important MSS., on which some of the historic
degrees were founded ; that some of
these MSS . were in Syriac and others in
Enochian characters ; and that on their return,
when at Venice it was ascertained that
the characters were identical with those in the
Syriac column, spoken of by Josephus, and
with the oldest copies in which the Book of
Enoch was written and are of great antiquity .
The brethren in tie A. A. Scottish Rite are
largely instructed as to matters pertaining
hereto in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth
degrees .
We present an exact copy of the alphabet,
as may be found by comparison with that in
the Bodleian Library .
The name He No C H, in Hebrew, signifies
"taught," or, more properly, "dedicated ." In
the Koran Enoch is called "Edria," from dar-
asa, to study, which word, more liberally
translated means, "to read or to study with
attention . l' (See Enoch.)
En Soph. VU ,1It . In the Kabbalistic
doctrines, the Divine Word, or Supreme
Creator, is called the En Soph or rather the
Or En Soph, the Infinite Intellectual Light .
The theory is that all things emanated from
this Primeval Light . (See Kabbala .)
Entered. When a candidate receives the
First Degree of Masonry he is said to be entered .
It is used in the sense of admitted, or introduced
; a common as well as a Masonic employment
of the word as when we say, "the
youth entered college" ; or, "the soldier entered
the service ."
Entered Apprentice. See Apprentice, Entered.
Entiek, John. An English clergyman,
born about 1703, who took much interest in
Freemasonry about the middle of the eighteenth
century . He revised the third edition
of Anderson's Constitutions, by order of the
Grand Lodge, which was published in 1756 .
The next issue of the Book of Constitutions
(1767) also has his name on the title-page as
successor to Dr. Anderson, and is often attributed
to him, but it is described as "A new
edition . . . by a Committee appointed by the
Grand Lodge," and it does not appear that he
had anything to do with its preparation .
(Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, xxi ., p . 80.) Entick
was also the author of many Masonic sermons,
a few of which were published. Oliver
speaks of him as a man of grave and sober
habits, a good Master of his Lodge a fair disciplinarian
and popular with the raft . But
Entick did not confine his literary labors to
Masonry . He was the author of a History
of the War which ended in 1763, in 5 vols ., 8vo ;
and a History of London,
in 4 vols ., 8vo . As an
orthoepist he had considerable
reputation
and published a Latin
and English Dictionary,
and an English Spelling Dictionary . He died
in 1773. [E. L . H .]
Entombment. An impressive ceremony in
thedegreeof Perfect Master of theScottish Rite .
Entrance, Points of. See Points of Entrance,
Perfect .
Entrance, Shock of. See Shock ofEntrance.
Entrusting . That portion of the ceremony
of initiation which consists in communicating
to the candidate the modes of recognition .
Envy . This meanest of vices has always
been discouraged in Masonry . The fifth of the
Old Charges says : "None shall discover envy
at the prosperity of a brother." (Constitutions,
1723, p. 53 .)
Eons . In the doctrine of Gnosticism, Divine
spirits occupying the intermediate state
which was supposed to exist between the Supreme
Being and the Jehovah of the Jewish
theology, whom the Gnostics called only a
secondary deity. These spiritual beings were
indeed no more than abstractions, such as
Wisdom, Faith, Prudence, etc . They derived