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

142 INTUNDANT OF THE BUIWI ~G. INITIATION. 141Behold now upon the altar those scales o( justice areplaced upon a new trestleboard representing the multiplicationtable invented by Pythagoras, and this is toremind you that arithmetic is the first of sciences andthat the Intendant of Buildings received the first scientificdegree of Freemasonry and must know that numbersdisclose the order and harmony of nature.I will now raise you, uot as you were raised before,but as Hiram was raised by Stolkin, under the sprig ofacacia.He then takes the candidate’s right elbow in his lefthand and with the right hand the Master’s grip’ and bythree different pulls lift him up from the stool andthrows off the red veil.Thrice Puissant—Illustrious Brother Tito, you willnow invest our new brother with the signs, grips andwords of this degree.Interlace the fingers of both hands,turn the palms upwards, let the handsfall on the waist, look upwards andsay, Alcar.SIGNS.Place the thumbs on the temples, thehands open so as to form a square,. stepbackwards two paces, step forward twop&ces, then place the hands over the eyesand say, Ben-Rorim.”Place the right hand on the heart, theleft on the hip, balance thrice with theknees, one says Jai, the other says Jak.”Sign of OrbS.sign of5urpstm.Intendant of BulidbgiNote U.—”Deuhhwlm. Corruptly spelled benehorlm jn ~ of the .10rituals. A signiScant wor In the h~h r~sea. probably signifying entb~t Is f ebnrn.’—XaOha75 EnCy Free.aeaq. ~tieje*enhhw~Note W.—”Ual@nides calls it the two-letter name. and darivee itfrom the Tetragrammaton, of which he says it is an abbreviatIon. Coherehave denied this and amert that Jah I. a name independant of Jeho,ah.hut expressIng the aa~e idea @f the Divine hience. It is uniformly tram.isted in the authorized version of the Bible by the word Lad. heing thr.considered as synonymous with Jehovah, except in Psalm lxviii. 4. wherethe original word is preserved: Extol him that rideth. upon the heavemby his name JAH.’ upon which the Targum eamment is: Extol him whouitteth on the throne of glory in the ninth heaven; YAN is his asms. “—Leeheys 3noyelo~eedia of lreemaaoasy. Axtisle Uah.