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

350 GRAND ELECT, PERFECT AND SUBLIME MASON.Senior Grand Warden—The Divine Delta on whichis engraved the sacred name of the Almighty God.Thrice Puissant—Where is that precious treasuredeposited?Senior Grand Warden—On a pedestal which is calledthe Pillar of Beauty.Thrice Puissant—What is your name?Senior Grand Wdrden—Jabulurn or Guibelum.Thrice Puissant—What does that name signify?Senior Grand Warden—Elected friend, favorite andzealous brother.Thrice Puissant—How many figurative signs havethe Grand Elect. Perfect and Sublime Masons?Senior Grand Warden—Nine, but three are mostnecessary to be known.Thrice Puissant—Give me thc principal ones?Senior Grand Warden—The first is cutting your bellyacross, in token of your obligation. The second is relativeto the burning bush, and the third is silence, byputting the first two fingersof the right handonthelips.Thrice Puissant—Go on my brother and givo me thesix others.,S~’njor Grand Warden—The fourth is Admiration, (seepage 323.) The fifth:interlace] all y~our fingers,hands raised overthe head, palms outward. (this sign serveto call a brother.) thesixth Admiration, (seepage 323.) Answer,look over your ehouldersalternately. Theseventh, clap yourhands on your thighs.Eighth alan.INITIATION.The eighth: put your hands, shut,to your mouth, as if to pull outyour tongue, then place it on yourheart. The ninth, raise your handas if ~u had a poniard in it tostrike a brother’s forehead, toshow that vengeance is eomp,leted.Thrice Puissant—What are theTokens?Senior Grand Warden—Theprincipal ones are three in351number: first, that of Intinia t e Secretary, B. .N. ..5.~.which signifies promises of acomplete alliance (see p. 3’18)The second, Circumspection:advance the hands reciprocallyfirst to the master token, thento the wrist, then to the elbow,and the ~vord is Gabaon.’Tbe third is Defiance, Resistanceand Remembrance: advancereciprocally the handsas in the fourth degree, draw-Token of CircumspectiuiiNote ib9.—’Gabaon. A signiSant word in the high degrees Oliveransa. (Landm., I. 335.) In philosophical Masonry, heaven, or. morecorrectly speaking. the third heaven. is denominated Mount Gahaco.which is feigned to he aecesaible only hy the seven degrees that rem.muses the binding staircase These are the degrees terminating in theRoyal Arch.’ Gabeon is (leSned to signify a high lace. • it is the~epiuagint nod viilgate form of Gshaon, which was Ii~e city in whichthe tehernecle was stationed during the reigns of David and Solomon.The word means a city built on a bill. ajid is referred to in 2 CbConI. 3. ~5oSolomon. and all the congregation wiih him, went to the highpiaco that was at Giheon: fur there was the tahernacle ot the con~gregation of God.’in a ritual of the middle ci the inst century. it is sold that OsbanonIs the name of a Ilaster Mason. —Kankey’s Enoyolopaeiia. haticleGabaca.