Four Times Respectable College of Saint Andrew of Scotland

initiation, of necessity surrounds you with the darkness of the world and the prejudices practiced by the blindfold which covered your eyes. One could test your courage; through admission, your soul is carved out by suppositions to lead you toward virtues. = Here the Lord Master makes, if he wishes, a speech appropriate for this beginning and ends by saying: = My dear Brother, if you are entirely decided, approach frankly and come to place in my hands the invincible token of your respectable, unique, and final association. Answer, do you wish it? = If he answers = Yes = the Lord Master continues and says: = Brother Grand Inspector, have him advance. = Then the Grand Inspector hands him over to the Sub-Inspector, who makes him take three Apprentice steps on the Northern face of the board. He then returns him to the Grand Inspector, who makes him form three Fellowcraft steps on the surface of the West. The latter hands him to the Master of Ceremonies, who makes him form three Master steps on the surface of the South and brings him by three large square steps to the foot of the throne. Being on his knees before the table, the Lord Master takes the knife and, unfolding it, says to him: = Behold your engagement, my Brother. Take a reading of it, and if after having read it you are ready to sign it with your blood, just as the Brothers of this august College have done, you will let me know. Prepare yourself for it. -- However, here are a bandage and lancets. If you will, or if you have at least a small glass, even this ligature for the finger, and draw from it the little that is possible for you to make the blood come out = if the Recipient were to refuse, he would be dismissed on the spot. If he consents, he reads his obligation himself in a loud voice while all the Brothers, arms raised, remain on their knees, except the Lord Master who remains seated in front of the table. And after the Recipient has read it, the Grand Inspector, standing beside him, has him sign it. This being done, all the Brothers rightfully stand up, after which the Lord Master places two naked swords in a saltire crossed over the neck of the Recipient and says to him: = I make you a Knight Mason, Grand Scotsman of Herod. = Then he draws him close, seizes him by the two elbows in a cross, which forms the touch, raises him, and gives him the salute, which consists of placing the hands from one shoulder to the other after having carried them horizontally up to the forehead. He then gives him the password, which is BOAZ, the Fellowcraft's word, and tells him afterward: = As for the sacred words of the Grade, my dear Brother, seek and you shall find. Ask for the road that leads there and you will be given it. Then knock, and you will

be opened to, and the sagacity of your mind will perhaps know, without any help, how to penetrate this Mystery which veils these emblems and the letters that compose the sacred words. They are all known to you; you have well known them since the limits and the first ones. You have been told that for a time the words had been lost; finding them is an alliance of the spirit and grace and the complement of all that has been predicted to you. = Then they let him search, and if he asks, they show him in the middle of the enclosure, in front of the throne between the debris of the four columns, a brass chest well sealed, closing with a key or padlock, which he must lift with three shakes. Then, having struck 9 blows on the lid, the Lord Master gives him the keys; he opens it, and there emerge three gold medals, on each of which are the initial letters of the words of the first grades, and a fourth on which is written the Sacred words of the perfect Scottish Architects of Saint Andrew: JN.JA.JS. Which, decomposed from the first to the final letters, forms the words of the grade. It is up to him to develop them; he is given time to reflect until the following reception.

Jewels

The Lord Master then gives him the jewel, which consists of a Saint Andrew's cross crowned and crossed in its middle by a circle, in the center of which is a triangle that bears the mixed Hebrew name JNJAJS or a large J and two other Js on the upper crossbars. There is another jewel which is a kind of gold Glory, radiant, of round shape, serving as a field for a Saint Andrew's cross enameled green, on which rests a Saint Andrew enameled in natural figure and color. On the reverse, a triangle is engraved between 4 broken columns, and in the middle of the triangle, the Hebrew initials of the Word. This jewel is preferable, but it is of more difficult execution; it is worn at the buttonhole with a green ribbon edged with Red, except for those to whom their offices give the collar or the Grand Cordon, as will be said in the Regulations. Note: It is to be remarked that the iron or brass Chests contain, instead of old plans, all the Grades of so-called Masonry, because from the instant of his inauguration into the College, the Recipients acquire the Rights and knowledge thereof.

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