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

K-244 GRAND MAsTER ARCHITECT.Moat Powerful—Give the Sign, Token and Word tothe Senior Grand Warden. (Re turns and gives them.)[See pages 197 and 198.1Most Powerful—Brother Joabert, are you a SublimeElected Knight ?~Master of Ceremonies—Most Powerful, my name willinform you.Moat Powerful—Give the Signs, Token and Word tothe Junior Grand Warden. (He turns and gives them.)[Seepages 218 and 219.1Most Powerful—Brother Joabert, it gives me joy unspeakableto find you thus skilled in our Royal Art, andas a reward for the faithful and meritorious, I will nowconfer upon you the degree of Grand Master Architect;come and contract your obligation.Master of Ceremonies then causes him to take threesquare steps to the altar, where he kneels and takes theobligation.OBLI0ATIO~J GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT.I—promise and swear on the obligations I havealready taken and contracted t~ keep secret the degreeof Grand Master Architect with which I am going to beentrusted; as well in iegard to masons as to the profane.I further promise to adore my God, to be faithful tomy King and Country, to be charitable to my neighborsand brothers, submitting myself, in case of any infractionof this my obligation, to have my body severed intwo, my memory lost and looked upon as infamous andforesworn. I further promise and consent that my namemay be written in red letters and hung up in the Chapteras a mark of my infamy.So God and his Holy Evangelist keep me; amen.Moat Powerful—Arise Brother Joabert, you will nowINITIATION. 245take three square steps to the Senior Warden who willinvest you with the Sign, Token and Word of a GrandMaster Architect.He does as ordered when the Senior Warden investshim as follows:sign Grand Master.ArchltecLTOKEN, 0. M. ARCHITECT.Join right hand to the other’sleft, interlacing the fingers;place the left hand on the hip;the brother will do the samewith his right hand.SIGN, GRAND MASTER ARCHITECT.Slide the right hand into’palm of theleft as if holding a pencil in one hand,and in the other a tracing board; makethe motion of tracing a plan on thepalm of the left hand, every now andthen directing the eyes towards theGrand Master as if drawing by dictation.PAss-WORD :—Rab-banaim.’”SACRED WORD :—Adonai.Note IW.—”Rsbblnicsl Hebrew. and signIfying tbe c~Iefof the creSt.teds. • A significant word Ii~ the high degrees. ‘—Xsekey’s Eae7ciopaedJaSt bseme.soar.• Artlol. Babbsaaizm.