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Title: Stray leaves from a Freemason's notebook
Year: 1856 (1850s)
Authors: Neale, Erskine
Subjects: Freemasonry
Publisher: J.W. Leonard, Masonic Publishers
Contributing Library: Auburn University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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We frequently find, not only in Freemasonry but else-
where, the addition of the Greek letters A and Ώ subjoined
to all and each of the above
-mentioned monograms, to

51 Icon, de Dieu, p. 212.
52. Triall of Private Devotions, A. d. 1625.
53. Amongst the Mosaics in the nave of St. Maria Maggiore at
Rome, we find a design of the Israelites stoning Moses and Aaron in
their flight to the Tabernacle, on the morning after the punishment of
Korah, Dathan, and Abiiam, a hand from heaven surrunds them
Virith a vesica piscis, from which the stones, arrested, fall innocuously
to the ground ; while a third figure (hke the fourth in the fiery fur
-nace of the three children) appears beside them, within the vesica
piscis, intended doubtless for our Saviour. (Lord Lindsay, ut supra,
p. 101.)


24 THE INSIGNIA OF


denote the eternity of Christ as Jehovah. Thus Du-
cange—

Circulus hie summi comprendit nomina regis,
Quem sine principio et sine fine vides.
Principium cum fine simul tibi donat A cum Ω ;
X et P Christi nomina sancta tenent⁵⁴
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We will now examine how far this doctrine is applica-
ble to Royal Arch Masonry. It appears from evidence
which is incontrovertible, that this great and holy Being
was known under the same name, or one which very
nearly resembled it, in almost every nation under the
canopy of heaven, however they might have departed
from the true faith and manner of worship. By one he
was called Ivah, or Evah ; by another, Javoh; by others,
Jevah, Jove, Jupiter, &c. Macrobius, in his Saturnalia
(l. i., 18), says, that it was an admitted axiom amongst
the heathen, that the triliteral JAH, or rather IAΩ, was
the sacred name of the Supreme God. And the Clarian
oracle, which was of unknown antiquity, being asked
which of the deities was named IAΩ, answered in these
memorable words:—
" The initiated are bound to conceal the mysterious
secrets. Learn thou, that IAΩ, is the Great God Supreme,
who ruleth over all."
Now it so happens, that in the gems of the early
Christians we find these very letters, IAΩ, which are an

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