M. I declare this Lodge of Secret Masters open, and in order for business.  Brother Grand Marshal, please to inform the guards.

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Second section.—­Question—­What did you see in the Sanctum Sanctorum when the thick veil was removed?  Answer—­I saw the great circle, in which was enclosed the blazing star, which filled me with awe and reverence.

Q. What do the Hebrew characters in the triangle signify?  A. Something above my knowledge, which I cannot pronounce.

Q. What word did those Hebrew characters compose?  A. The ineffable name of the Great Architect of the Universe.

Q. To whom was that name revealed?  A. To Moses; he received the pronunciation thereof from the Almighty on the mount, when he appeared to him, and by a law of Moses it was forbidden ever to be pronounced unless in a certain manner, so that in process of time the true pronunciation was lost.

Q. What more did you perceive?  A. Nine other words.

Q. Where were they placed?  A. In the nine beams of the blazing luminary.

Q. What did they signify?  A. The nine names which God gave himself when speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, and the promise that his posterity should one day discover his real name.

Q. Give them to me, with their significations?  A.  “Eloah,” The Strong.  “Hayah,” He is.  “Shaddai,” The Almighty.  “Elyon,” The Most High.  “Adonai,” The Lord.  “Ahad Kodesh,” The Holy One.  “Riba,” The Mighty.  “Mahar,” Merciful.  “Eloham,” Merciful God.

Q. What doth the circle which surrounds the delta signify?  A. The eternity of the power of God, which hath neither beginning nor end.

Q. What doth the blazing star denote?  A. That light which should guide us to the Divine Providence.

Q. What is signified by the letter G in the centre of the blazing star?  A. Glory, Grandeur and Gomez, or Gibber Hodihu.

Q. What is meant by these?  A. By Glory is meant God, by Grandeur, man who may be great by perfection; and Gibber Hodihu, is a Hebrew word signifying thanks to God.  It is said to have been the first word spoken by the first man.

Q. What else did you see in the Sanctum Sanctorum?  A. The ark of alliance or covenant.

Q. Where was the ark of alliance placed?  A. In the west end of the Sanctum Sanctorum, under the blazing star.

Q. What did the ark with the blazing star represent?  A. As the ark was the emblem of the alliance which God had made with his people, so is the circle which surrounds the delta in the blazing star, the emblem of the alliance of Brother Masons.

Q. Of what form was the ark?  A. A solid oblong square.

Q. Of what was it made?  A. Of shittim wood covered within and without with pure gold, surmounted with a golden crown and two cherubims of gold.

Q. What was the covering of the ark called?  A. Propitiatory.