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upon Aaron ' s forehead , that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things , which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts ; and it shall always be upon his forehead , that they may be accepted before the Lord . " This plate had engraven on it , nlPpb Wlp kodesli latifiovah , which is rendered , in pur translation , and agreeably to the ancient versions , " Holiness to the Lord . * ' The size and form are not
defined by Moses , but the JeAvish doctors say it was two finders broad , and made In a circular form , adapted to the shape of the head , and so long that it reached from ear to ear , and was fastened by a blue lace or ribbon , which was tied behind the head . The mitre was a turban of fine linen , furnished in front with a plate
of pure gold , bearing the inscription we have mentioned . In chap , xxxix , this ornament is called '"Its nezer , froni a root signifyirig " to separate f hence , it denotes a crown , as a mark of separation or distinction . It was formerly the custom in Royal Arch Chapters for the third Principal to wear a mitre of this descripti plate , as well as the breast-plate ordained to be worn by "the high priest . These two prna ^ breast-plate , as worn by that officer in the Mount Sion Chapter ( the oldest in London ) , are now in the possession of a past Principal ; their use , as well as that of some other regalia , has been discontinued *
We are induced to believe that in the Kadosh was formerly comprised the degree—if it may be so called- —of High Priest ; and that it is not unlikely to have been adopted by the military and religious orders in Palestine , and conferred on the principal clerical members of those orders . We can suggest no better theory for the connection of priestly and knightly rank in the degrees of chivalry . ** 4 Oliver speaks of five degrees of Kadosh : the Knight Kadosh ; Kadosh ofthe Chapter of Clermont ; Philosophical Kadosh ; Kadosh , Prince of Death ; and the one of which we have been now treating . We have already observed that the Kadosh degree—prior to the establishment of the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Rite in this country—was always conferred in encampments of Knights
Templar ; the preamble ofthe certificates issued up to the year 1851 , runs thus : — " Royal and Exalted Religious and Military Order of H . R . D . M ., Grand Elected Masonic Knights Templar , K . D . O . S . H . of St . John of Jerusalem , Palestine , & c . " By this title , the Order would also appear to assume a derivation from the Hospitallers . The ritual ,
however , connects the degree with the Knights Templar , and furnishes the history ofthe destruction of the Knights by the atrocious Philip of France and his minion Clement V . The Knights' costume should be black , worn as an emblem of mourning for the death of the illustrious Jaques de Molay , the martyred Grand Master .
• We are told by Pluche , that in the East , a person preferred to honours , bore a sceptre , and sometimes a plate of gold on the forehead , called & Tcadosh ? to apprise the people that the bearer of these marks of distinction possessed the privilege of entering into hostile equips without fear of losing his personal liberty ,
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upon Aaron ' s forehead , that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things , which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts ; and it shall always be upon his forehead , that they may be accepted before the Lord . " This plate had engraven on it , nlPpb Wlp kodesli latifiovah , which is rendered , in pur translation , and agreeably to the ancient versions , " Holiness to the Lord . * ' The size and form are not
defined by Moses , but the JeAvish doctors say it was two finders broad , and made In a circular form , adapted to the shape of the head , and so long that it reached from ear to ear , and was fastened by a blue lace or ribbon , which was tied behind the head . The mitre was a turban of fine linen , furnished in front with a plate
of pure gold , bearing the inscription we have mentioned . In chap , xxxix , this ornament is called '"Its nezer , froni a root signifyirig " to separate f hence , it denotes a crown , as a mark of separation or distinction . It was formerly the custom in Royal Arch Chapters for the third Principal to wear a mitre of this descripti plate , as well as the breast-plate ordained to be worn by "the high priest . These two prna ^ breast-plate , as worn by that officer in the Mount Sion Chapter ( the oldest in London ) , are now in the possession of a past Principal ; their use , as well as that of some other regalia , has been discontinued *
We are induced to believe that in the Kadosh was formerly comprised the degree—if it may be so called- —of High Priest ; and that it is not unlikely to have been adopted by the military and religious orders in Palestine , and conferred on the principal clerical members of those orders . We can suggest no better theory for the connection of priestly and knightly rank in the degrees of chivalry . ** 4 Oliver speaks of five degrees of Kadosh : the Knight Kadosh ; Kadosh ofthe Chapter of Clermont ; Philosophical Kadosh ; Kadosh , Prince of Death ; and the one of which we have been now treating . We have already observed that the Kadosh degree—prior to the establishment of the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Rite in this country—was always conferred in encampments of Knights
Templar ; the preamble ofthe certificates issued up to the year 1851 , runs thus : — " Royal and Exalted Religious and Military Order of H . R . D . M ., Grand Elected Masonic Knights Templar , K . D . O . S . H . of St . John of Jerusalem , Palestine , & c . " By this title , the Order would also appear to assume a derivation from the Hospitallers . The ritual ,
however , connects the degree with the Knights Templar , and furnishes the history ofthe destruction of the Knights by the atrocious Philip of France and his minion Clement V . The Knights' costume should be black , worn as an emblem of mourning for the death of the illustrious Jaques de Molay , the martyred Grand Master .
• We are told by Pluche , that in the East , a person preferred to honours , bore a sceptre , and sometimes a plate of gold on the forehead , called & Tcadosh ? to apprise the people that the bearer of these marks of distinction possessed the privilege of entering into hostile equips without fear of losing his personal liberty ,