Scottish Masonry: Apprentice, Fellowcraft, Master, Sublime Master, and Woodcutter

Masonic
Book Collection
of
GEORG KLOSS.
Manuscript
Catalog No. XXXI - 901
Stiller No. 1062
192 B 9

XXXI - 3, 192 B 9
Transcript from an Ms. around 1750
The woodcutter original: "fendeur" is verbatim consistent with (Ms. Darmstadt) XXXVI. 966. fol.

Transcript from an Ms. around 1750.
The woodcutter original: "fendeur" is verbatim consistent with (Ms. Darmstadt) XXXVI. 966. fol.

The Scottish grade centers on the sorrow Salomon felt for the loss of his favorite Hiram, the architect. One washes one's hands of all treason against Masonry. The sign is the opposite; the touch is the grip at the ankle, foot against foot on the outside. One raises the vault three times while pronouncing the three words: Jachin, Agrene, Tubalcain.

The sign is to cross with the right hand from the left shoulder to the right hip; one responds with a parallel at the lower belly. The words are Moabon, Geova, Schibolet. The touch is to take the hand in good faith while pushing it against the belly, while pronouncing these three words.

The sign is the thumb to the forehead, the hand horizontal on the surface of the earth; one responds with a triangle at the lower belly. The touch is the grip at the ankle, foot against foot on the outside; the left hand against the shoulder of the other. The words are Gomer, Gabaon, Giblin.

The sign is three fingers of the hand raised perpendicularly to the sky. The touch is the thumb of the right hand on the forehead of the other. The words are Alleluya, Emanuel, Amen. The password is: "God will it, so be it."

Q. Are you Scottish? A. Yes, I am. I know the three letters. Q. What do you mean by these three letters? A. The consecrated words are architects. Q. How did you enter the temple? A. By seven degrees. Q. What do they signify? A. That Masonry has seven grades. Q. Who are they? A. Apprentice, Companion, Master Elect, Scottish, Perfect Master, and Knight of the East. Q. How were you made a Scottish? A. By 3, 5, and 7. Q. What do these numbers signify? A. The fifteen architects who raised the body of our very dear Hiram. Q. What does the number 3 signify? A. That the Trinity governs the universe. Q. Why 5? A. The other architects or the five senses of man. Q. Why 7? A. Seven were substituted for the one. Q. Why 3 times 27? A. Because this number is that of three combined chambers. Q. What path does a Scottish take? A. By passing from the middle chamber to that of the 3rd. Q. What do you call this chamber? A. Noabac. Q. Why this name? A. Noabac was an elevated place in the Holy City upon which David and Salomon offered burnt offerings to the Lord, and it is to serve its name that Salomon gave the