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PAGE . ROYAL ARCH MASONRY 1 REVIEWS" Masonic Monthly" 2 A M ASONIC HYJIM 2 A MASONIC PRAYER ... 2 PAPERS ON

MASONRYNo . XI . —Masonry and Swedenborgh 3 THE CRAFTProvincial ... ... 4 O RDERS OF CHIVALRY— Knights Templar—Provincial ... 4 PriHAGOUEAN LoDOli OF INSTRUCTION -1

NEW LODGE OF EGREMONT , COMBERLAND 4 MASONIC MISTERIES 5 MEETING OF THE PUOVINUIAL ( J HAND LODGE OF KENT 5 MASONIC MEETINGS FOR NEXT WEEK 5 MASONRY AND POLITICS 5 THE TALLEST MASON IN THE WORLD 5

BIRTHS , MARRIAGES AND DEATHS G ANSWKRS TO CORRESPONDENTS G THE L ONDON MASONIC SEASON G ANNUAL R EPORT OF ORDER OF RED CROSS G MULTDM IN PARVO , OR MASONIO NOTES AND QUERIES ( 1 GRAND L ODGE OF CANADA 7

PIC-N IC OF LODGE OF UNITY , SOUTHPORT 7 ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCEThe Chair Degree , & c 7 Royal Arch Masonry ... .. ... .. 8 ANOTHER FENIAN OUTRAGE : ( A Tale of tho Times ) ... 0 LIST OF A GENTS 10 ADVEIITISEMKNTS 10 , 11 & 1 _

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BY THK SON OF SALATIHEL . ( Continued . ) [ The rights of translation and reproduction reserved . " ] Before quitting tlio subject of tho Sacred Name , it will be well to quote tho following

remarks by Brother Albert G . Mackey , in his " Book of the Chapter , " and wc shall then proceed to tho elucidation of the tri ple tau—n celebrated emblem of antiquity—as well as one held in high esteem by English Koyal Arch Masons .

" TliJ name of God , which we , at a venture , pronounce JEHOVAH— -and which is called the 'Tetragrammaton , ' ( from the Greek telra , four ,

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and gramma , letter , ) because it consists in Hebrew of four letters , and the ' Ineffable name , ' because it was unlawful to pronounce it , was ever held by the Jews in the most profound veneration .

They claim to have derived its origin from the immediate inspiration of the Almighty , who communicated it to Moses , as his especial appellation , to be used only by his chosen people . This

communication was first made at the Burning Bush , when God said to the Jewish lawgiver : ' Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel : Jehovah the God of your fathers , the God of

Abraham , the God of Isaac , and the God of Jacob hath . sent me unto you : this [ Jehovah ] is my name for ever , and this is my memorial unto all generations . ' And at a subsequent period ,

he still more emphatically declared this to be his peculiar name , when he said : ' I am Jehovah : and I appeared unto Abraham , unto Isaac , and

unto Jacob , by the name ot El Shaddai ; but by my namo JEHOVAH was I not known unto them . '

" Ushered to their notice by tho utmost solemnity and religious consecration , this name of God became invested among the Israelites with the profoundest veneration and awe . To add to

this mysticism , the Kabbalists , by the change of a single letter in tho original , read tho passage which is , 'this is my name for ever , ' as if it had been written ' this is my name to be concealed . '

"This interpretation , though founded on an error , and probably an intentional one , soon became a precept , and has been strictly obeyed to this day . The word Jeltovah is never

pronounced by a pious Jew , who , -whenever ho meets with it in Scripture , substitutes for it tho word Adonai or Lord , a practice that has been followed by the translators of the common English version

of the Bible with almost Jewish scrupulosity , the word Jehovah in the original being always translated by tho word 'Lord . ' The uso of this word being thus abandoned , its pronunciation

was ultimately lost , since by the peculiar construction of the Hebrew language , which is entirely without vowel letters , the vocal sounds being supplied to the ear by oral teaching , the

consonants , winch alone constitute the alphabet , can , in their combination , givo no possible indication , to one who has not hoard it before , of thc true pronunciation of any given word . " There was ono person , however , who , it is said ,

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was in possession of the proper sound of the letters and the true pronunciation of tho word . This was the High Priest , who , receiving it through his predecessor , preserved the

recollection of the sound by pronouncing it three times , once a year , on the day of Atonement , when he entered the holy of holies of the tabernacle or the temple .

" If the traditions of masonry on this subject are correct , the kings , after the establishment of the monarchy , must sometimes have participated in this privilege , for Solomon is said to have been in possession of the word , and to have

communicated it to his two colleagues at the building of the temple . The Kabbalists and Talmudists have enveloped this ineffable name of God in a host of mystical superstitions , most of which are as absurd as they aro incredible , but all of them

tend to show the great veneration that has always been paid to it . Thus they say that it is possessed of unlimited powers , and that he who pronounce . it shakes heaven and earth , and inspires the very

angels with terror and astonishment . The Rabbins call it ' shem hamphorash , ' that is to say , 'the name that was declared , ' and they assert that David found it engraved on a stone whilo digging into tho earth .

" Besides the tetragrammaton or ineffable word , there are many varieties of the name which have been adopted with almost equal veneration among other nations of antiquity .

" All these names of God aro eminently symbolical . Iu fact , tho namo of God must be taken , in Freemasonry , as tho symbol of TRUTH , and

then the search for it will bo nothing but the search after truth , which is tho true end and aim of the masonic science of symbolism . The subordinate names aro the subordinate

modifications of truth , but the ineffable tetragrammaton is the symbol of the sublimity and perfection of divino truth , to which all good masons and all good mon aro seeking to advance , whether it bo by tho aid of the theological ladder , or by passing

between the pillars of Strength and Establishment , or by wandering in darkness , beset on all sides by dangers , or by travelling , weary and worn , over rough and rugged roads—whatever bo

the direction of our journey , or how accomplished , light and truth , tho Urim and Thummiin , avc tho ultimate objects of our search and our labor as Freemasons .