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JOURNEY
JURISDICTION 373
Ionian captivity . He was the high priest by
lineal descent from the pontifical family, for
he was the son of Josadek, who was the son of
Seraiah, who was the high priest when the
Temple was destroyed by the Chaldeans . He
was distinguished for the zeal with which he
prosecuted the work of rebuilding, and opposed
the interference of the Samaritans . He
is represented by the High Priest in the Royal
Arch Degree according to the York and American
Rites .
Journey. Journeywork, or work by the
day, in contradistinction to task, or work by
the piece, and so used in all the old Constitutions.
Thus, in the Dowland MS ., there is
the charge "that noe maister nor fellows, put
no lord's work to taske that was want to goe
to jornaye ." It was fairer to the lord and to
the craftsman to work by the day than by the
piece.
Journeyman . When the Lodges were altogether
operative in their character, a Mason,
having served his apprenticeship, began to
work for himself, and he was then called a
journeyman ; but he was required, within a
reasonable period (in Scotland it was two
years), to obtain admission into a Lodge, when
he was said to have passed a Fellow-Craft .
Hence the distinction between Fellow-Crafts
and journeymen was that the former were and
the latter were not members of Lodges . Thus,
in the minutes of St. Mary's Chapel Lodge of
Edinburgh, on the 27th of December, 1689, it
was declared that "No Master shall employ a
person who has not been passed a Fellow
Craft in two years after the expiring of his apprenticeship"
; and the names of several journeymen
are given who had not complied with
the law . A similar regulation was repeated
by the same Lodge in 1705, complaint having
been made "that there are several Masters
of this house that tolerate jurnimen to work
up and down this citie contrary to their oath
of admission" ; and such journeymen were
forbidden to seek employment . The patronage
of the Craft of Freemasons was bestowed
only on those who had become "free of the
gil "
Jova. A significant word in the high degrees.
It is a corrupted form of the Tetragrammaton.
Jua. A corrupted form of the Tetragrammaton,
and a significant word in the high
degrees .
Jubal Cain. Erroneously used for Tubal
Cain, which see. Jubal was the second son
of Lamech by his first wife, Ada, and was the
founder of the science of music ; while the
third son, Tubal Cain, was a famous smithwright
.
Jubela-o-m . The mythical names of assassins,
the true interpretation of which is
only known to the initiate who is an esoteric
student .
Judah. The whole of Palestine was sometimes
called the land of Judah, because Judah
was a distinguished tribe in obtaining possession
of the country . The tribe of Judah bore
a lion in its standard, and hence the Ma-
sonic allusion to the Lion of the tribe of
Judah. (See also Genesis xlix. 9, "Judah is a
lion's whelp .")
Judah and Benjamin . Of the twelve
tribes of Israel who were, at various times,
carried into captivity, only two, those of Judah
and Benjamin, returned under Zerubbabel to
rebuild the second Temple . Hence, in the high
degrees, which are founded on events that occurred
at and after the building of the second
Temple, the allusions are made only to the
tribes of Judah and Benjamin .
Judith. (Heb ., i1"11,T1 .) Used in the
French Adoptive Masonry, and in the Fifth
Degree of Sovereign Illustrious Ecossais .
Jug Lodges . An opprobrious epithet bestowed,
during the anti-Masonic excitement,
upon certain assemblages of worthless men
who pretended to confer the degrees upon
candidates weak enough to confide in them .
They derived their instructions from the socalled
expositions of Morgan, and exacted a
trifling fee for initiation, which was generally
a jug of whisky, or money enough to buy one .
They were found in the mountain regions of
North and South Carolina and Georgia .
Junior Adept. (Junior Adeptus .) One of
the degrees of the German Rose Croix .
Junior Entered Apprentice . According
to the rituals of the early part of the last
century, the Junior Entered Apprentice was
placed in the North, and his duty was to keep
out all cowans and eavesdroppers . There was
also a Senior Entered Apprentice, and the two
seem to have occupied, in some manner, the
positions now occupied by the Senior and
Junior Deacons. (See Senior Entered Apprentice
.)
Junior Overseer . The lowest officer in a
Mark Lodge . When Royal Arch Chapters
are opened in the Mark Degree, the duties of
the Junior Overseer are performed by the
Grand Master of the First Veil .
Junior Warden . The third officer in a
Symbolic Lodge. He presides over the Craft
during the hours of refreshment, and, in the
absence of the Master and Senior Warden, he
performs the duty of presiding officer . Hence,
if the Master and Senior Warden were to
die or remove from the jurisdiction, the Junior
Warden would assume the chair for the remainder
of the term . The jewel of the
Junior Warden is a plumb, emblematic of the
rectitude of conduct which should distinguish
the brethren when, during the hours of refreshment,
they are beyond the precincts of
the Lodge. His seat is in the South, and he
represents the Pillar of Beauty . He has placed
before him, and carries in procession, a column,
which is the representative of the lefthand
pillar which stood at the porch of the
Temple . (See Wardens .)
The sixth officer in a Commandery of
Knights Templar is also styled Junior Warden .
His duties, especially in the reception of candidates,
are very important . His jewel of
office is an Eagle holding a Flaming Sword .
Jurisdiction of a Grand Lodge . The
jurisdiction of a Grand Lodge extends over