that one should banish all external objects that strike us through the external senses and abandon oneself entirely in the heart to one's inner sensation.

The Word: The Ersth.? likely First Warden says: Benedictum sit Phlogiston universale in aeternum. Blessed be the universal phlogiston forever.

The second answers: Deus nobiscum. God with us. All say 12 times: Amen in saecula saeculorum. Amen. Amen, world without end. Amen.

The knocking . . . . . . . . as a sign of the 12 apostles or the 12 months for the working of the great secret. That is all that one allows to be heard in the second chamber of the Grand Master. In general, a strange silence is always observed, and when brothers meet, they say quietly into each other's ears:

1, Deus nobiscum. God with us.
2, Amen.

A small handwritten divider mark consisting of a slanted line with a dot on either side, resembling a division or percentage sign.

Rosicrucian Master.

This last degree, where everything ends at once, is morally the transfiguration of the soul, but psychologically, the highest exaltation of the great secret.

The Lodge is high-red or purple-red with gold, a magnificent hall, against which 2 vaults abut on both sides. In one, the brothers perform their usual prayer before and after the opening of the Lodge, and also before and after the work, which is carried out in the second chamber. When the Master opens the Lodge, all brothers kneel on their knees and worship the name G. On the other side of this G stands A, which indicates—since the English have G as the seventh letter—that they thereby wish to indicate the Holy Spirit, with which Freemasonry is concluded, and everything consists in this holy number. A is the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet and shows that One [1] is All and All is One [1]. Both signify God.

The number of brothers again consists of 12, and they are such children of God because the one who, further, when he has attained to the highest perfection, has this degree, also prays for those through whom, when our great secret is finished, the same distinguishes itself.

When the initiate of the Adept degree has taken the oath, which is the most difficult and hardest of all, the Grand Master tells him what is actually the true secret and explains to him the Akagien-Zweig acacia branch from the Master degree: how everything returns to its mother and is brought forth again from the same, and that humanity is the prima materia first matter of things, creatures, and all objects.

In the mystical sense, it is the perfection of inner peace and contentment in oneself and with oneself, and everything that comes into this degree must be completely and utterly pure, and the pretense and sensation of our soul unites itself here with the eternal God.