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

K396 KNIGHTS OF THE EAST OR swoRD.bounty and justice of the king.Master of Cavalry—On what occasion?’Master of Ceremonies—To beg grace for my brethren,masons in captivity for seventy years.Master of Cavalty—Who are you?Master of Ceremonies—Zerubbabel a Hebrew Prince,sprung from the race of David.Master of Cavalry—What is the grace you-would ask?Master of Ceremonies—TO see my brethren set free,to suffer them to return to Judea and rebuild the temple,revive the laws of the God of Battles and the ordinancesof Moses.Master of Cavalry—Brother Master of Ceremonies,let the candidate face the East. (Master of Ceremoniescauses him to do so.)Master of Cavalry—Sovereign Master, tbere stanaishere in the West one who desires the honor of beingadmitted into your presence.Sovereign Master—What brings him hither?Master of Cavalry—lie comes to implore your bountyand justice.Sovereign Master—On what occasion?Master of Cavalry—wTo beg grace for his brethren,masons in captivity for seventy years.Sovereign Master—Who is he?Master of Cavalry—Zerubbabel, a Hebrew Prince,sprung from the race of David.Sovereign Master—What is the grace he would ask?Master of Cavalry—To see his brethren set free, tosuffer them to return to Judes and rebuild the temple,revive the laws of the God of Battles and the ordinancesof Moses.Sovereign Master—Since motives so praiseworthy haveUNTIAYION. 397brought him hither, permit him to approach our presencewith his face uncovered.Master of Cavalry—Brother Master of Ceremonies,cpnduct the candidate to the East. (Master of CeremoniescQnducts him to th~ East, causes him to kneelbefore the Sovereign Master and takes the veil off hishead.)Sovereign Master—This is indeed Zerubbabel, whosaved my life at the risk of his own. Arise’ Zerubbabeland prefer your request. (Master of Ceremonies causeshim to rise and says:)Master of Ceremonies—(For candidate) SovereignMaster, the tears and lamentations of my fellow captivesand the remnant of our people at Jerusalem have compelledme to appeal to your justice and mcrcy. Manyremain here in bondage and all anxious for the happyday to arrive when they shall be engaged in rebuildingthe holy city and the house of the Lord. They haveprayed me to obtain an audfence with your augustmajesty to implore your clemency and that you will bepleased to restore to those their freedom who are now inbondage, to enable them to return to the land of theirfathers and to aid and assist in rebuilding the house ofthe Lord.Sovereign Master—(To candidate) Zerubbabel, I haveoften heard of your fame as a wise and skillful masonand I have a profound veneration for that ancient andhonorable institution, and a sincere wish to become amember of the same; I have also, like yourself lamentedthe seventy years’ captivity of the Israelites. I nowpromise to grant your request if you will communicateto me the secrets of masonry which distinguished theJews from all other nations.Master of Ceremonies—Sovereign Master, when ourGrand Master, Solomon King of Israel communicatedto us the first principles of masonry, he informed us