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

126 PROvOST AND JUDGE. LRVTVRR. 127Tito—What does that signify?Admiram—It is the name of the firsi grind warden.He was Prince Harodim” the eldest of the Provost andJudges, and inspector over 300 architects of the temple.Tito—What was Solomon’s intention in creating thisdegree?Adoniram—As it was necessary to establish order andregularity among such a number of workmen, Solomoncreated Tito Prince Harodiin,’ as ~vaaalso Adoniram,who w~s created Chief of the Provost and Judges, andalso the King’s great confidant and favorite, Joabert,who was initiated into the mysteries of this degree, andto him was given the key to open the ebony box thatcontained all the plans of the building; which boxyou have seen in the degree of Secret Master. Thisbox was hung under a rich canopy in the Sanctum Sanctorum:Joabert was sostruck with admiration at beholdingthese things that he fell on his knees pronouncingthe word Civi.Solomon seeing him in this attitude, pronounced theword Ky, and then put the scales in his hands, by whichhis knowledge duly increased.Tito—’.That did you perceive in the ~ [lodge?]A doniram—A figured curtain with a canopy, underwhich was suspended the ebony box containing the plans.Note 6&—”Naz’odlm, PrInce of. In the old icetores of the Ineffahie do.grees it Is said that Tito. the oldest of the Proroata and Judges, was thePrince of Harodim; that ii. chief of the three hundred architects who vs.the Harodim. or additional three hundred added to the thirty-three hundredMenatachifli mentioned in Chronicle~, and Who thus make u 1~ the on.-her of three thousand iii hundred recofded in the first Bonk of ings. andwho in the old l9ctnre of the degree of Provost and Jndge are auppesadto have heen the Rarodim or Rulers in masonry. The statement is amyth; hut it thus attempts to explain the discrepancy alluded to in the~article Ka.rcdlm.”-NaehOY’a EncyclopaedIA Of PrOsElaSesey, Aticls Nor.cairn. PrincO of.Note 67.—”A society termed the Grand Chapter of ilarodim was fornudat London in 1787 under the auspices of william Preston. which hasserved as the model of our Schools or Lodges of InstructIon. A foil Secountof it Is given in Preston’s Dluatrntiens. The term Rerodim signIfiesprInces sad rulers. A side degree of ronsidershid! ropete in this enuntryIs lIkewise termed Rarodim. ‘—Nonha’s MasonIc Die*ienaqd A’tieLeNaredim.Tito—have ~ou seen nothing else?~ Adoniram—I saw a triangle in the ~[lodge] on which were these two letters GA,thus entangled.Tito—What do they signify?Adoniram—That God himself was the Gjeat Architectof the temple, and had inspired David and Solomonwith the plan of it.Tigo—What else have you seen in the ~ [lodge]?Adoniram—A pair of scales which are the emblem ofrectitude, with which we should always execute the dutiesof this degree, as we are appointed judges to decideall disputes that may occur.Tito—Where is the body of our respectable MasterHiram Abiff deposited?Adoniram—TJ nder the footstbol of the throne in thecllapter room, which is separated from the temple, towhich you go by an arch-way on the north side of thetemple.Tito—Where is the heart interred?A doniram—In a golden urnswhich is shut up in theobelisk.Tito—What mean the letters “X’, and “J” whichappear on the north side of your draft?Adonirf.syn—Xinxe” and Jachinaj:—The 1~rst signi.fies the seat of the soul, and the second is the sacredword.Tigo—Wliere were you placed?Adordram—In the middle chamber.Ttto—Have you done any remarkable work since youbecame Provost and Judge?lots 58.—’‘lIAza. A signideant word in the high degrees. DelanonytJuiisur. p. 49) gIves it as Zlnohen. and says that it has teen translatedas ‘the seat of ihe soul.’ But in either form it has evidently undergonemwh rorruptinn as to he no longer comprehensible. “—Kaoke7’a Encyclopaodiaof Fisemasomy, Artiala KIngs.