FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY, WISDOM, STRENGTH, BEA UTY. In the Royal Arch degree, as recognized in this country, there are five standards. The Royal Arch Captain carries a white ard, which is emblematic of a purity of heart, and rectitude of conduct. The standard of the Grand Master of the third Tail is scarlet, emblematic of cy and zeal, and is the priate color of the Royal Arch degree. The standard of the Grand Master of the second vail is purple, which is emblematic of union, being a due mixture of blue and scarlet, the priate colors of the Symbolic and Royal Arch degrees; and this teaches us to cultivate the spirit of harmony and love tween brethren of the Symbolic, and companions of the Sublime degrees, which should ever tinguish the members of a ety founded upon the principles of everlasting truth, and universal philanthropy. The ard of the Grand Master of the first vail is blue, the peculiar color of the Ancient Craft, or Symbolic degrees, which is blematic of universal friendship and benevolence. In the Royal Arch degree, as practiced in the Chapters of England, twelve standards are used, illustrating the twelve tribes of Israel, which are as follows: Judah, scarlet, a lion couchant; Issachar, an ass crouching beneath its burden; Zebulon, purple, a ship; Reuben, red, a man; Simeon, .yellow, a sword; Gad, white, a troop of horsemen; Ephraim, green, an ox; Manassah, colored, a vine by the side of a wall; Benjamin, green, a wolf; Dan, green, an eagle; Asher, purple, a cup; Naphtali, blue, a hind. The banner or grand standard of the Order of Masopic
knighthood is of white silk, six feet in height and five feet in width, made tripartite at the bottom, fastened at the top to the cross-bar by nine rings; in the center of the standard, a blood-red Passion Cross, edged with gold, over which is the motto, "In hoc signo uinces," and under, "Non nobis Domine, non nobis, sed Nomini tuo da Gloriam I" The cross to be four feet high, and the upright and bar to be seven inches wide. On the top of the staff, a gilded globe or ball, four inches in diameter, surmounted by the Patriarchal Cross, twelve inches in height. The Beauseant, or the battle-flag of the Ancient Knights Templar, is of woolen or silk stuff, six feet in height, and five feet in width, made tite at the bottom, fastened at the top to the cross-bar by nine rings. The upper half of the standard is black, and the lower half white. The grand standard of the Ancient and Accepted rite is of white silk, three-and-a half feet long, by two-and-a-half feet wide, edged with gold, gold fringe and tassels. In the cen ter, the double-headed eagle, under which, on a blue scroll, the motto, in letters of gold. "Deus Illeunigue Jus." On the upper part of a triangle, irradiated, the figures 33 in the center.