ROYAL LODGE
The Royal Arch lectures in the English system say that the Royal Lodge was held in the City of Jerusalem, on the return of the Babylonish captives, in the first year of the reign of Cyrus; over it presided Zerubbabel the Prince of the Jews, Haggai the Prophet, and Joshua the High Priest.
ROYAL AX
See Knight of the Royal Ax.
R
The Hebrew letter is 7, pronounced Resh. The eighteenth letter in the English and other Western alphabets- The word Resh signifies forehead and in the Phenician and hieroglyphic character is presented as in the illustration. Compare this with the Hebrew letter. Its numerical value is 900, and the equivalent as a name of God is [...]
RABBANAIM
The word off, is Rabbinical Hebrew, and signifies the Chief of the Architects. A significant word in the advanced Degrees.
RABBINISM
The system of philosophy taught by the Jewish Rabbis subsequent to the dispersion, which is engaged in mystical explanations of the oral law. With the reveries of the Jewish teachers was mingled the Egyptian, the Arabic, and the Grecian doctrines. From the Egyptians, especially, Rabbinism derived its allegorical and symbolic mode of instruction. Out of [...]
RABBONI
Literally, My Master, equivalent to the pure Hebrew, Adoni. As a significant word in the advanced Degrees, it has been translated a most Excellent Master, and its usage by the later Jews will justify that interpretation. Buxtorf (Talt mudic Lexicon) tells us that about the time of Christ this title arose in the School of [...]
RAGON, J. M.
One of the most distinguished Masonic writers of France. His contemporaries did not hesitate to call him “the most learned Freemason of the nineteenth century.” He was born in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, most probably at Bruges, in Belgium, where in 1803 he was initiated in the Lodge Réunion des Amis du [...]
RAGOTZKY, CARL AUGUST
A German who was distinguished for his labors in Freemasonry, and for the production of several works of high character, the principal of which were Der Freidenker in der Maurerei oder Freimüthige Briefe über wichtige Gegenstände in der Frei-Maurerei, that is, The Free-thinker in Freemasonry, or Candid Letters on important subjects in Freemasonry, published at [...]
RAINBOW FOR GIRLS, ORDER OF
A organization planned to sow the seeds of love, law, religion, patriotism, and service in the hearts of the girlhood of America for harvest in the coming years. These sentiments prompted a Brother, the Rev. William Mark Sexson, McAlester, Oklahoma, then the Grand Chaplain of his State, to write the ritual and lay the foundations [...]
RAINBOW, THE MOST ANCIENT ORDER OF THE
A secret association existing in Moorfields in 1760
