Gen. i. 1-3.  “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.  And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.”

Deut. xxxi. 24-26.  “And it came to pass when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, that Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, Take this book of the law and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.”

  Ex. xxv. 21.  “And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above, upon the
  ark, and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give
  thee.”

He then declared it to be the book of the law upon which the Grand Council, in an ecstasy of joy, exclaimed three times, “Long lost, now found, holiness to the Lord;” at the same time drawing their hands across their foreheads.

Q. What further was found in the ark?  A. A small vessel containing a substance, which, after the Council had examined, and the High Priest again read from the book of the law, Ex. xvi. 32-34, he pronounced to be manna: 

“And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord commanded; fill an omer of the manna to be kept for your generations, that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.  And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the Lord to be kept for your generations.  As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the testimony, to be kept for a token.”

The High Priest then took a rod from the ark, which, after he had read the following passage,

  Numb. xvii. 10.  “And the Lord said unto Moses, Bring Aaron’s rod
  again before the testimony to be kept for a token.”

He pronounced to be Aaron’s rod, which budded and blossomed as the rose.

Q. Was there anything further found in the ark?  A. There was a key to the ineffable characters belonging to this degree, as follows

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—­|—­|—­|X

beginning at top of this diagram at the left hand angle.  The upper left angle without a dot is A, the same with a dot is B, etc.

[Illustration]

Q. What further was said to you?  A. The High Priest read the following passage: 

Exodus vi. 2, 3.  “And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord, and I appealed unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name Jehovah was I not known to them.”

He then informed us that the name of Deity, the divine Logos, or word, to which reference is made in John i. 1-5.