Duncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor - Rose Croix

High Priest then reads Exodus vi. 2, 3:
"And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord: and I appeared unto
Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty; but by my name
Jehovah was I not known to them."
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After examining the Key, he proceeds to read, by the aid of it, the characters on the four
sides of the Ark.
High Priest (reading first side.)--Deposited in the year three thousand. Second side--By
Solomon, King of Israel. Third side--Hiram, King of Tyre, and Hiram Abiff. Fourth side-
-For the good of Masonry, generally, but the Jewish nation in particular. 1
High Priest (to candidates.)--Companions, here are three mysterious words, in a
triangular form, upon the Ark, which, when first found, were covered with three squares,
the jewels of our three ancient Grand Masters; and from this circumstance, we supposed
it to be the long-lost Master Mason's word; and, on applying our Key to it, it proved our
suspicions to be correct. It is the name of Deity in three languages, viz., Chaldaic,
Hebrew, and Syriac, which is the long-lost Master Mason's word, or Logos, and has now
become the Grand Omnific Royal Arch word.
It is the divine Logos, or Word, to which reference is had in John (i. 1-5):
"In the beginning was the word (Logos), and the word was with God, and the word was
God; the same was in the beginning with God: all things were made by him, and without
him was not any thing made that was made; in him was life, and the life was the light of
men: and the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not."
This word was anciently written only in these sacred characters, and thus preserved from
one generation to another. It was lost by the death of Hiram Abiff, was found again at the
building of the Temple, and will now be given to you; and you will re-member the
manner you receive it, and that you have sworn never to give it to others except in that
particular manner.
The candidates, instructed by the Principal Sojourner, now learn the Grand Omnific
Royal Arch Word, as follows:
Each one takes hold with his right hand of the right wrist of his companion on the left,
and with his left hand takes hold of the left wrist of his companion on the right. Each one
then
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places his right foot forward with the hollow in front, so that the toe touches the heel of
his companion on the right. This is called "three times three;" that is, three right feet