. The book of the chapter : or, Monitorial instructions, in the degrees of mark, past and most excellent master, and the holy Royal arch. Freemasonry is throughout so connected a system thatwe are continually meeting in an inferior degree with some-thing that is left to be explained in a higher. Such is thecase with the three squares of our ancient Grand Masters^whose peculiar history can only be understood by thosewho have advanced to the degree of Select The following quotation from the learned Dr. LightfootsProspect of the Temple, (ch. 15,) will at this time be readwith interest by
. The book of the chapter : or, Monitorial instructions, in the degrees of mark, past and most excellent master, and the holy Royal arch. Freemasonry is throughout so connected a system thatwe are continually meeting in an inferior degree with some-thing that is left to be explained in a higher. Such is thecase with the three squares of our ancient Grand Masters^whose peculiar history can only be understood by thosewho have advanced to the degree of Select The following quotation from the learned Dr. LightfootsProspect of the Temple, (ch. 15,) will at this time be readwith interest by the Royal Arch Mason; * Church of the Eedeemer, vol. i. p, 258. ROYAL ARCH. 135 It is fancied by tlie Jews, that Solomon, wlien he builtthe temple, foreseeing that the temple should be destroyed,caused very obscure and intricate vaults under ground to bemade, wherein to hide the ark when any such danger came;that howsoever it went with the temple, yet the ark, whichwas the very life of the temj^le, might be saved. And theyunderstand that passage in II Chron. xxxv. 3, Josiah saidunto the Levites, put the holy ark into the house which Solo-mon, the son of David, did build, &c., as if Josiah, havingheard by the reading of Moses manuscrij^t and byHuldahsprophecy of the danger that hung over Jerusalem,—com-manded to convey the ark into this vault, that it might besecured ; and with it, say they, they laid up Aarons rod, thepot of manna, and the anointing
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