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

132 PROYOST A~JD JUDGE.Ezpe4—MY brother, these two words, Civi and Ky,are our pass words, the one means ask or knock and itwill be opened the other means arise or seek and itwill be found.The lesson taught is simply this: that justice is onlypossible through truth; to be just we must know thetruth. We should therefore learn to handk the keyof truth, and by investigation obtain evidence.Tito—Brother Expert, you will now conduct our newlymade brother to thc east. (1)oes so.)Tito—Brother Joabert. I now greet you with thegrip and sign of a Provost and Judge.i~Uh~d~Ih..GRIP.fingers of the right~~hhIIhhhPP~,PLack the two littlehands with the forefin-OjOpof P~o~o.t and Judge. ger, one of the other,and give seven light blows with Ihe thumb of the righthand on the palm of the same.SIGN.Place the two first fingers of the righthand on t~ie nose.and’s.U£flantt4~n.ANSWER.Place the first finger of the right hand.on the top of the nose, and the thumb ofthe same under the chin, forming a square.PASS WORD ;—TITo,~ Civi, Ky.SACRED WORD :—Jachinai,~ which is the plural of theword Jachin.GRAND WORDS :—Izrack-Jah, Jehovah, Hiram, Stol—kin, Geometra8s~ and Architect.Note 68.—Tito. A signifioniit word in the high degree.. The ScottlebIl~te rituaRa give the nnn~e of T~to. Pr~nee Harodim, to him who they saywarn the firM who wa~ appohited by Soi~mon a Proicat and Judge. Tbi.zion appears to be aRt.gethi’r inytb~c’aI, the word is not found in the~ebrew Rangijage. uor baa any menning been given to it. He Is representeda. baiilng been at favorite of tbe King ot israel. Be Is said tobave presided OV’F the Lodge of Intendants of tbe Building, and to havebecii one of the twelve illugtrious knights who were net over tbe twelieifibee. that of N.ipbtnll b4~Ing pla~’ed iiader Ida care. The whole ot thislegejid ii. of course. I’onneeted wilh the symboi~e slgnifl’fttion of tboaedegrc~s. ‘—Mackey’s Enc7ciopaedi& of Ereema.onry. hrtiol~ Zito.Note 68.—”A 08111c ‘orrnption of Shekinab, to be fonnd only in theFrench Cw.her. of tbe high degreea. —Mackey’s Enc~c1opa.d1a of Pro..masonry, Article Jaohinai.Note 64.—”Geometry. Iii the mocl~•rn r~tuaIa geometry ii said to beiho buala on which the 8uper~trueture of Masonry is erected; and in the-0ld Constitutions ot the Mediaeval Freewaaona of England the moat pi’omtI3M~t pRace of all the sciences is given to geometry, which Is made S~D0D7~luous wltb Masonry. Thus. In the Halliwell MS.. wblch date, not laterrbai, the latter part of the fourteenth century. the Constitutiona of’!dasoiiry are called ‘tbe Oonatitritlou of the art of geometry according teEucIid. the words gEometry and Masonry being us9d Indifferently throagb~q,ijI the doeamehi; and In the flarleian MS. It Is said. ‘ihum the craft(1eorn~try wis governed tbe,e, and that worthy MaatP? (Huelid) gale itthe I*Ime ~f Geometry, and It Is calied Mav.onrie In tbls land long atter.’In suothet part of the same Ms. ft is tbus defined. ‘The fltth acience iSaglied Geometry, and it teaches a man to mete and mesaI2re ot the earthand other thingR. which sciencE’ i~ Maaonric. “—Mackeys EmQalopmedi.d r.emai@n~, £rtiolo Gsorntz~.