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

268 THIRTEENTH OR ROYAL ARCH DEORRE. INITIATION. 369BATTERY :—Five strokes, by two and three; 00 000.SACRED WORD :—Jehovah.HOURS OP LABOR :—From evening until morning.Inspector—Brother Expert, you will now conduct thebrethren to the East, to listen to the discourse by thoGrand Orator.DISCOURSE BY GRAND ORATOR.My brethren, it is my intention at this time to giveyou a cl.earer account than you have yet been acquaintedwith of masonry, of which at present you barely knowthe elements. In doing this, it will be necessary to explainto you some circumstances of very reronte antiquity.Enoch,’” son of Jared, was the sixth son in descentfrom Adam and lived in the fear and love of his God.God appeared unto him in a dream and spoke to him byinspiration and communicated to him as follows: Asthou art desirous of knowing my name, follow me andI will acquaint and teach thee. After this a mountainseemed to rise to the heavens, and Enoch”’ was carriedthere, when God showed him a golden triangular plate,enlightened brilliantly ~nd his ever blessed name engravedthereon in Hebrew characters. He gave strictorders never to pro~nounee it.After that Enoch seemed to be carried under groundperpendicularly through nine arches, and in the nintharch he ~aw the tame brilliant plate with the sameNote 11S,—”Znoch. Though the Scriptures furnish hut a meagre secountnf Enoch. the traditions of Freemas.,nry closely theconnect institution. him. byitumerous circumaiauc’ea. with the cans historj ofMackay’s Encyclopaedia of rreemasonq, Artic a Eacek.Note 1l9.—”’The circumstances which ocurred at that time are recorded~n a tndition which forms uhot hus icli culled the great Masonic‘Legend of 5noch.’ and nhirh runs to this effectHooch, being inspired hy the licat High. e,i,i in cowmemoratiou of awonderful yision. heilt a ten,i~ie under ground end dedicated it c God.—Machey’s Encyclopaedia ct r-eamaaanry, Article Eanch.characters and a flaming light around it, which he hadseen before.Enoch being full of the spirit of the most high God,built a temple under ground and dedicated it to God,accompanied with nine arches, one above the other, inthe same form as that he had seen in his dream.Methuselahise the son of Enoch, constructed the buildingwithout being acquainted with his father’s motives.This happened in that part of the world which wasafterwards called the land of Canaan, and since knownby the name of the Holy Land. Enoch”’ caused a triangularplate of gold to be made, each side of which was acubit long. He enriched it with the most precious stonesand encrusted the plate upon a stone of agate of thesame form. He then engraved upon it the ineffablecharacters and placed it on a triangular pedestal ofwhite and black marble, which he deposited in thedeepest arch. When Enoch’s temple was completed, hemade a door of stone and put a ring of iron therein bywhich it might be occasionally raised, and placed it overthe opening of the arch, that the matters enclosed thereinmight be preserved from the universal destructionNote 110.—Wa son. Methuselah. constructed the building, althoughhe was not acquainted with his fathers moUves Lot the erection. Thistemple consisted of nine brick Yanits, situated perpendicularly beneatheach other and communicating by apcrtures left in the arch of eachyagit.’ —Machey’s Enoyciopeadla of Yreemaeoary, Article Zuoch.Note 1*l,—”Enocb then caused a triangular plate of gold to be made.each aide of which was a cuhit long, he enriched it with the most preciousstones and encrusted the plate upon a atone of agate of the mm. form.On the plate he engra,sd. in ineffabie characters, the true name of Deity,and, placing It on a cuhical pedestal of white marble, he deposited thewhole within the deepest arch.when this aubterransan building was completed he made a door ofstone, and, attaching to It a ring of Iron. by which it might be occasionallyraised, he placed it over the opening of the uppermost arch, and socovered it over that the aperture could not be discovcreL Ruoch himselfwas not permitted to enter it but once a year.”—Mackey’s Znc~o1cpeediaetirsemaacnry. Article R~ooh.