days afterwards Solomon sent for the three Grand Master Architects, Gibulum, Joabert and Stokin, and directed them to go and search among the ancient ruins, in hopes of discovering more treasure.  They departed, and one of them, viz., Gibulum, in working with a pickaxe among the rubbish, discovered a large iron ring fixed in a cubic stone.  On removing this stone, a cavern was discovered.  Gibulum offered to descend.  A rope being fastened ’round his body, and in this manner he descended thrice, and discovered the golden triangle of Enoch, as was represented in the ceremony of your initiation.  They then carried the stone and triangle to King Solomon, when the same circumstances occurred, which took place when you presented the same to us.  The two Kings then informed the three Knights that they were ignorant of the true pronunciation of the mysterious word until that time, and that this word being handed down through a succession of ages, had been much corrupted.  The two Kings, accompanied by the three Knights, descended with the sacred treasure into the secret vault.  They encrusted the golden plate upon the pedestal of the pillar of beauty, and the brilliancy of the plate was sufficient to enlighten the place.  The secret vault was afterwards called the sacred vault.  Whenever the Lodge of Perfection was holden, nine Knights of the Ninth Arch tiled the nine arches which led to the sacred vault; the most ancient stood in the arch next to the anti-chamber of the vault, and so on in regular progression, the youngest taking his station in the first arch, which was near the apartment of Solomon.  We were suffered to pass without giving the pass-words of the different arches.  There were living at that time several ancient masters, who, excited by jealousy at the honors conferred upon the twenty-five brethren, deputed some of their number to wait upon Solomon, and request that they might participate in those honors.  The King answered that the twenty-five masters were justly entitled to the honors conferred on them, for their zeal and fidelity.  Go, said he, in peace, you may one day be rewarded according to your merits.  Upon this, one of the deputies with an unbecoming warmth, observed to his companions, “What occasion have we for a higher degree?  We know the word has been changed, we can travel as masters, and receive pay as such.”  Solomon mildly replied, “Those whom I have advanced to the degree of perfection, have wrought in the ancient ruins, and though the undertaking was difficult and dangerous, they penetrated the bowels of the earth, and brought thence treasures to enrich and adorn the Temple of God.  Go in peace, wait with patience, and aspire to perfection by good works.”  The deputies returned and reported their reception to the masters.  These masters, vexed at the refusal, unanimously determined to go to the ancient ruins, and search under ground, with a view of arrogating the merit necessary for the accomplishment of their desires.  They departed