. The book of the chapter : or, Monitorial instructions, in the degrees of mark, past and most excellent master, and the holy Royal arch. wisdom, and in under-standing, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workman-ship, to devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in sil-ver, and in brass, and in cutting of stones to set them, andin carving of timber, to work in all manner of I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son ofAhisamach, of the tribe of Dan, and in the hearts of all thatare wise-hearted I have put wisdom that they may make allthat I have commanded thee: the
. The book of the chapter : or, Monitorial instructions, in the degrees of mark, past and most excellent master, and the holy Royal arch. wisdom, and in under-standing, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workman-ship, to devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in sil-ver, and in brass, and in cutting of stones to set them, andin carving of timber, to work in all manner of I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son ofAhisamach, of the tribe of Dan, and in the hearts of all thatare wise-hearted I have put wisdom that they may make allthat I have commanded thee: the tabernacle of the congre-gation, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seatthat is thereupon, and all the furniture of the tabernacle.* * The reference at this place which is made in some chapters to Adoniram,who was one oS the craftsmen at the temple of Solomon, and the mixture ofIlia name with that of two of the sons of Noah who lived almost two thousandyears before him, is~^o preposterous an anachronism, as to prove that it isa palpable ?anovation, at first introduced by some ignorant ritualist, and per- ROYAL ARCH. 127. Exodus iv. 9. And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour it upon the dry land: and the water which thou takest out of the river, shall become blood upon the dry land. The last miraculous sign by which Moses was to establishhis authority and to prove his mission among the Jews andthe Egyptians is here recited. Masonically it bears the samesymbolic reference as the other two, to a change for the better—from a lower to a higher state—from the elemental water inwhich there is no life, to the blood which is the life itself—from darkness to light. The progress is still onward to therecovery of that which had been lost, but which is yet tobe found. And here we find an allusion to the tabernacle erected fortemporary worsliii) by Joslma^
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