The book of the ancient and accepted Scottish rite of freemasonry : containing instructions in all the degrees from the third to the thirty-third, and last degree of the rite : together with ceremonies of inauguration ... etc. (1914)
McClenachan, Charles Thompson · New York : Macoy Pub. & Masonic Supply Co. · leaf 363
ationof a myrtle-tree, of violet color. The jewel is the letter fc$, suspended from a short col-lar of narrow, watered, violet-colored ribbon. The Most Puissant Leader wears a tunic of blue silk,its collar decorated with rays of gold representing aglory, and the body of it sprinkled with stars of… … RECEPTION. ***** My brother, the initiate is he who possesses thelamp, the cloak, and the staff. PRINCE OF THE TABERNACLE. 353 The lamp is reason enlightened by science ; thecloak is liberty, or the full and entire possession ofones self, which isolates the sage from the currentsof instinct; and…
