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

200 MASTER ELECT OF .IFTREN. INITIATION. 201Amahospands and Szeds. They all agu~e in fixing theSolomon having learned this, wrote immediately toperiod of the victory in the zodical sign of Capricornus,King Maacha of Cheth, desiring him to give up thesewhen the sun begins his ascension and when nature resumesher work of annual reproduction. In the degreeceive at Jerusalem the punishment due for their crimes.two villains to the people he should send, in order to re-of Elect of Nine of which you have passed, you haveIn consequence of which, Solomon elected fifteen oflearned that Jubelusn (Akirop) one of the ruffians, wuthe most worthy brethren and zealous masters, in whichkilled in a cave. That skeleton in the East is a representationof him, with a setting maul with which he wasAkirop. They began their march on the 15th day ofnumber were included the nine that went to the cave ofarmed when he knocked down Hiram Abif. His headSolomon had embalmed in order to be exposed until theother two were found out.Six months after Akirop was killed, Bengabee” oneSolomon’s Intendants, made inquiry in the country ofCheth, tributary to Solomon, when he learned thatJubels, (Guibs) and Jubelo, (Gravelot) the two otherasassins5’ had relired there, thinking themselves safe.Note W.—”Ueagabee. Found in some old rituals of the high degreesfor Beudekar. se the name of an Intendant of Solomon. It is Eangaherin the catalogue of Solomon’s officers, 1 KIngs iv. 13, the son of Ocher.or the son of the strong man.’‘—Maskays Rnoyolop.sdia of Freemasonry,Article Bengahee.Note SL—”Thoae who trace Specnlative Msaon.~ to the ancient solarworship, of whom Ragon may he conSidered as the exponent. find in thinlegend a symbol of the conapiracy of the three winter months to destroythe life-giving heat of ihe sun. Those who, like the disciples of the Riteof Strict Observance, trace Masonry to a Templar origin, explain thelegend as referring to the conspiracy of the three renegade knights whofalsely accused the Order, and thus aided King Philip and Po Clementto abolish Tempiarlam and to slay its Grand Master. Hutc~nson andOliver, who labored to give a Christian interpretation W all the symbolsof Masonry, referred the legend to ihe crucifixion of the Messiah, thetype of which is, of course, the slaying of Abel by his brother Cain.Others, of whom the Chevalier flamasy was the leader, sought to give ita political significance; and, making Charles ihe First the type of theDu~lder. symbollsed Cromwell and his adherents as the conspirators. TheMasonic scholars whose aim has been to identify the modern system ofFreemasonry with the Ancient Mysteries, and especially with the Egyptian,which they supposed to he the germ of all the others, interpret the con-Irstors as the symbol of the Evil Principle, or TIphon. alsying the GoodP~ inciple. or Osiris; or, when they refer to the Zoroastic Mysteries ofPersia. as Abriman contending against Ormuad. And hatly, in thePhilosophic degrees, the myth is interpreted as signifying the war ofFalsehood. Ignorance and Superstition against Truth. Of the supposednames of the three Assassins there is hardly any end of variations, fogthey materially dlifer in all the principal Rites. Thus we have the threeJJJ’. in the York and American Rites. In the Adonhiramite system wehave Romvel. Oravelot and Ahiram. In the Scottish Rite we find thenames given in the old rituals as Juhelum Akirop. sometimes Ahiram.Juheio Romvel and Juhels Oravelot. Schterke and Oterfut are in someof the Oermsn rituals, while other Scottish rituals have Ahiram, RomvelEnd Robhen. In all these names there is manifest corruption and thetience of msny Masonic scholars has been well.nlfh exhauste4~ in seek.for some plausible and satisfactory derirstion. ‘—Mackey’s Enoycle.geedia of Freemasonry. Artlois Assassins of the Third Degree,the month Tamoaz, which answers to the month of June,and arrived on the 28th of the same month in the countryof Cheth, and delivered Solomon’s letter to KingMaacha, who trembled at the news and immediately ordereda strict search to be made for the two ruffians, andif found to be delivered to the Israelites, and said hewould be happy in having his country cleared of suchmonsters.For five days there was a strict search made, whenZerbal and Elignam were the first to discover them inthe quarries of Bendaca. They chained theni togetherand loaded them with irons, on which were engraved thecrimes they had been guilty of, to have their approachingfate before their eyes.They arrived at Jerusalem on the 15th of the followingmonth, and when conducted to Solomon, he chargedthem, with the most striking reproaches of their blackcrimes, and ordered them to be put in the Tower ofAchizar, until the day they were t~ bc executed by themost excruciating torments and death proportionable ifpossible to their crimes. On the day of execution theywere tied to two stakes by the neck, middle and feet,their arms behind them.The executioner then opened them from the breast tothe arae-pubi.s, and cross wise, and they were left in thiscondition eight hours, in which time the flies and otherinsects sucked their blood.