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Left Lancet: Thirteenth degree - Master of the Ninth Arch - no task is too difficult. This degree teaches that difficulties and dangers, however great, should not deter the true and faithful brother from progressing onward to perfection. It teachers the great truth that the finest things in life come only as the result of constant and often painful effort.
Isaiah 13:13 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble; and the Earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the Lord Almighty, in the day of His burning anger.
This lesson is illustrated by Moses appearing before the Pharaoh striving to gain the release of the Israelites. In the upper shield is a jewel showing the first three recipients of the degree, two to them lowering the third into a subterranean vault. In the lower shield are a rod, pick and shovel.
Right Lancet: fourteenth Degree - Jonathan and David - Whom virtue unites, death cannot separate.
Proverbs 23:23 Buy the truth and do not sell it; get wisdom, discipline and understanding.
This window shows King Darius conferring the title of Prince of Jerusalem upon Zerubbabel. Above is the crown of Kind Darius.
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