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The Twelve Tribes and Astrology
Moses says-"Let Reuben live and not die, and let not his men
be few." The armorial bearings of Reuben are-Red, a man.
"Unstable as water" is still shown in the undulating hieroglyphic
which marks this aerial and brilliant, but often superficial
sign of the Watet-Bearer.
Of Simeon and Levi, Pisces, Jacob says-"Simeon and Levi
are brethren; instruments of cruelry are in their habitations. 0
my soul, come not thou into their secrer, unto their assembly,
mine honour, be nor thou unired: for in their anger they slew
a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall. Cursed be
their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I
will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel." This
alludes to their smiting Shalom, the city of Hamor and
Shechem, and slaying the latter because they had carried off
Dinah, the daughter of Leah. Moses says of them-"Let thy
Thummim and thy Urim be with thy Holy One, whom thou
didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the
waters of Meribah; who said unto his farher and his mother, I
have not seen him; neither does he acknowledge his brethren,
nor knew his children; for they have observed thy word, and
kept thy covenant. They shall teach Jacob thy judgments and
Israel thy law: and they shall put incense before thee, and
whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar. Bless, Lord, his substance,
and accept the works of his hands; smite through the
loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him,
that they rise not again." The armorial bearings of Simeon are
Yellow, a Sword.
These are the blessings of the twelve tribes of Israel, whose
names were engraven upon the rwelve stones of the High
Priest's breastplate, upon which, according to some traditions,
certain flashes of light appeared playing over certain of the letters,
and thus returning the answer of the Deity to the consulter
of the Oracle by Urim.
By comparing these blessings with the nature of the Signs
attributed to the particular tribes, we have been thus enabled
to trace more or less clearly the connection between them,
and also the derivation of the armorial bearings ascribed to
them in Royal Arch Freemasonry. ISO
isoThis ends the Mathers transcription.
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