Blanchard J (anti-masonic) - Scotch Rite Masonry Illustrated Part I

198 MASTER ELECT OF FIFTEEN.Token.TOKEN.Interlace each other’s fingersof the right hand.PASS WORD —Elign~im or Eliam.SACRE]) WORD :—Zerbal, answer BenfaA.BATTERY :—Is fifteen strokes by five, 00000 0000000000.HOURS OF WORK:—From five in the morning untilsix at eve.MORAL:—That the unerring eye of justice will discoverthe guilty; and they suffer the punishment theircrimes deserve.Master~(Resuming his seat.) And now my brethrenjoin me in applauding the elevation of Joabert to thedegree of Elect of Fifteen. (All rise and together givethe battery, 00000 00000 00000.)Master—Brother Adoniram, you will now conductbrother Joabert to his seat, to listen attentively to thediscourse by our Grand Orator.INITIATiON. 199DISCOURSE BY GRAND ORATOR.Brother Joabert, in the legends of masonry, the greatestenemy of Hiram or Truth is called Akirop, or Jubelum.He had two companions to whom various nanwshave been given. You, brother Joabert, have pursuedand destroyed them all three. They represent, first,ignorance or darkness, second, superstition or error,third, egotism or ambition.In the legend or mythology of the Persians, they wereAhiriman’ or the evil principle attended by darknessand chaos.In the mysteries of the Egyptians, they were Typhon”the enemy and assassin of Osiris’ assisted by Serapisand Amenthis. Among the Greeks they were Titan,Python and Chimera.Many myths of the overthrow of the enemies of manand nature were invented. Now it is Jupiter, secondedby Apollo and Pan. Now it is Ormuzd,” aided by theMote gO.—~’Ahximan. The principle of evil in the system of zoroaster.and as such opposed to Ormuad. the principle of good. He emanated.pure, from the primitive light, and was the second born—Ormuad beingthe first; hut Abriman. yielding to pride, ambition and hatred .f the firstborn, or principle of good, was condemned by the Eternal to dwell for12.000 years in that part of space where no ray of lijht reaches, at theend of which time the contest between Light and lIar nsm. or Good andEvil, will terminate See Zoroaater.~ —Mackay’s Ennyolopeadia of Free.masonry, Aztiele Ahrlman.Mote •I.—”Typhon. The brother and slayer of Osiris. in the EgyptIanmythology. As Osiris was a type or symbol of the sun. Typhon was thesymbol of winter, when the vigor, heat and, as it were, life of the annare deatro ed and of darkness as opposed to light.’ ‘—Maoksya Enoyalo.Typhon.Mote U.—”During the last age it was a fashion among the materialphiloaophero to erpiain all ancient mythology, and the mysteries in thismanner, in order to show that they bad no religious sense. This wascarried co far that even christ was declared to be nothing but a symbolof the sun and the twelve a~atlea were the twelve signs of the zodiac!we cannot admit that the Osirian myth is to he ezpiained soleiy from theastronomical point of view. It had a higher meaning, and shadowedforth the great mystery ef the world, the conflicts of good and evil, of viceand virtue, and snnouncea that even through persecution and death, ins.tice and truth, and virtue. shail advance to a perfect victory; and thatthe night of death shah yield to an immortal day.“—Macoy’s Encyolo.psedia and Dictionary of Frsemsaonry. hztiol. Osiris.Mote U.—”Ormurd was the principle of good and the symbol of light,and Abrimmn the principle of evil and the symbol of darkness. ii oldPersian re~~ —Mackeys Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Az~ Or.an.