Light on Masonry

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE DEGREE OF GRAND ARCHITECT, OR COMPAGXOff ECOSSOIS. The lodge is divided into two parts, by a black curtain behind the throne. Near the throne is the altar, on which is the Bible, a double triangle, a square, a compass and a plan of the temple finished, as far as the third story. The whole lodge is hung...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE DEGREE OF GRAND ARCHITECT, OR COMPAGXOff ECOSSOIS. The lodge is divided into two parts, by a black curtain behind the throne. Near the throne is the altar, on which is the Bible, a double triangle, a square, a compass and a plan of the temple finished, as far as the third story. The whole lodge is hung with red, adorned with hyacinth flowers, but the hangings of the first apartment hould be covered with a black'drapery, which may be removed when the proper time arrives. This first apartment is illuminated by twenty-seven lights, distributed by 3 times 9. The titles of the officers are the same as in the preceding degree. The carpet, or flooring, only differs in having the triangle double. The jewel is a double triangle formed with a compass and level, and contained within a golden circle. The head of the compass has a golden sun, whose rays touch the head of the level. This jewel is worn by a large red cordon from left to right. In the first apartment, when hung with black, the cordon of the jewel is black; but the instant the hangings art- changed, the cordon is changed also. Serond Apartment.?(Used in the next degree.) Behind the black curtain is an 'altar, ' with masonic emblems painted on it. it is erected on seven steps and lighted with eighty-one candles, placed in a triangular form. Above it is a transparent painting representing a 'glory, ' surrounded by seven celestial intelligences. In the middle a luminous 'triangle, 'in which is written 7TV on the edge of the cloud tippear seven angel's heads. The ark of alliance supported by two cherubims, covering it with their wings. Before the ark is a lamb, reposing on a book sealed with seven seals. Before the ark, on the right, is the brazen sea. On each side of the room are placed five urns, in the middle is the .