From Page 13 in Book The Post Master's or fourth Degree in Masonry
As this order is merly a ceremony before you can obtain the superexcellent order
of the R. Arch, little is to be said on the subject]-
No. 4: The representation of the Ark of the covenant that
was borne by the High Priest at the time that they surrounded the
walls of Jericho seven times, making long blasts with their
Ram's horns, &c. The Seven Lights on the plate is to represent the
High Priest that marched seven times going round the
walls of Jericho; & bore along with them the Tabernacle
& took its rise from the th time of Joshua, when the Israelites
had gained possession of the land of Canaan, by the overthrow
of Jericho, which was utterly destroyed; for the Temple ^tabernacle^ with
the Ark was then in Gibeon, & kept there untill the final dedication
of the Temple by King Solomon, & -------- was the word that King Solomon
expressed by smiting his breast three times, when so and so was
missing from the Temple &c
And God said let there be light and there was light
And the light shineth in darkness ^but^ and the darkness comprehendeth it not.
To all Most Excellent Brethren, Royal Arch Super=Excellent-Masons.
No. 5. Moses appears at the Burning Bush on Mount Horeb, on
Sinai displaying his sign, by casting his rod on the ground
turns to a serpent, and from a serpent into a rod again &c
being the first sign that Moses received by the Almighty on the
Mount, (but Moses appeared at the bush, his sandals or Shoes
"Community – An Explanation of Five Orders of Masonry copied May 9, 1845," p. 1, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed June 2, 2023, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/Nxx8