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

3,’SUBLIME KNJOHTS ELECTED.but as one of the attributes of our condition and a strikingobject, capable continually to recall us to that divineauthor of nature, that Sovereign Master of our days whohas been willing to render himself a victim for theiniquities of our fathers, and to withdraw them fromthe everlasting torments they had but too much deserved.You see also the two palm trees, very high and loftywhich seem to spread their branches over the tomb ofHiram Abiff. They are the emblem of the everlastingpalm, at which we all of us aim, and which are tracedfor us to be deserving of it.These, my Illustrious Brother are the chief objects ofour draft, which you ought to keep up to, and study thesame and be always the subject of your reflections. Weflatter ourselves (having so fair a road before you thatyou will follow it and never enter any other dangerouspath to scatter you from the many great duties you areto fulfill. You will find the exertion so much the moreeasy for it. In short, keeping firm to your obligationsand faithful to your promises, we shall find in you abrother zealous and officially charitable, worthy of bearingthe respectable name of Sublime Elected Knight,which you have now recejved. -LECTURE.Thrice 1-uiasani—Are you a Sublime Knight Elected?Inspector—Illustrious Thrice Puissant, my name willinform you.Thrice Puissant—What is your name?Inspector—Emeth.Thrice Puissant-What means that name?Inspector—A true man in all things.Thrice Puissant—How were you arrayed when introducedin this Chapter?LECTURE. 225Inspector—I had a sword in my right hand, the bladeacross my body and a compass in the left the pointa ofwhich rested on my breast.Thrice Puissant-Why the sword across your body?Inspector—To remind me that my body alLould besevered in two if I ~as vile enough to reveal the-mysteriesof this degree.Thrice Puissant—And why the points of the compasson your breast?Inspector—To show that my actions were encompassedas I was found worthy to receive the degree of .~ublimeElcctcd Knight.Thrice Puissant—How were you reported in the Chapter?Inspector—By seven knocks.Thrice Puissant—What signify these seven- knocks?Inspector—The seven years that were employed in theconstruction of the temple and its ornaments.Thrice Puissant—What is your sacred word in qualityof Sublime Knight Elected?Inspector—A donai, which is God.Thrice Puissant—And the pass-word?Inspector—Stollcin.Thrice Puissant—What is the sign of the SublimeKnights Elected?Inspector—To cross the arms on the breast, the fingersclinched, and thumbs elevated.Thrice Puissant-What is the sacred sign?Inspector—The promise I made, always to wear thecross in remembrance of my faults, since they are defacedthereby.Thrice Puissant-What is the token of acknowledg•