Rituals of freemasonry: comprising the degrees of Entered apprentice, Fellow craft, and Master mason, in the lodge; (1870)
Sickels, Daniel. [from old catalog], Gould, James L. [from old catalog], Sheville, John W. [from old catalog], Simons, John. [from old catalog], Chase, Jackson H. [from old catalog] · New York, Masonic publishing company · leaf 581
up. THE ROYAL ARCH BANNER, Which should be displayed in every regularChapter of Royal Arch Masons, is composedof the four standards used to distinguish thefour principal tribes of the children of Israel,who bore their banners through the wilderness,viz: Judah, Ephraim, Reuben, and Dan; andunder… … lighting men, or men of war. They marchedin a hollow square in traveling through thewilderness, in order to guard and protect onevery side the sacred Ark of the Covenant.The escutcheon or shield on the banner isdivided into four compartments by a greencross, over which a narrow one of yellow…
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