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And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their
heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. And they
had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. And they had
breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound
of chariots of many horses running to battle. And they had tails like unto scorpions, and
there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. And they
had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the
Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Although Abaddon is named only once in the King James version, the actual Hebrew
word (}wdb)) occurs five times in the Old Testament, where it is translated not as the
name of a destroying angel but simply as “destruction”—in Job 28:22; 31:12; 26:6; Proverbs
15:11; 27:20. In the last three of these passages the Revised Version retains the word
“Abaddon” as a name. Presumably Abaddon is therefore also intended to be the name
of the demon on the doorknocker to the Red Room. I asked Jac Partit to briefly describe
the rite:
The ritual of the 18th degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite takes place in
the three rooms you describe. As a knight of the East and the West the candidate is
escorted into the Black Room which is placed in time after the death and burial of
Christ and the focus is on death. The Chamber of Death is where the candidate is
placed to reflect on death and the emblems of mortality. The Red Room is then reached
by passing through a door on which a knocker is placed in the shape of an elemental
demon. This is the guardian who must be overcome to ascend to the next level—“Demon
est deus inversus”, “the Devil is God inversed”—we move from duality to the perfection
of unity. The Red Room is where the 18°—the Knighthood of the Pelican and Eagle and
perfection of the red cross—are conferred. The sequence of the colours black, white, red
are the threefold alchemical path from nigredo (putrefaction), to albino (resurrection) to
rebredo (perfection). As an aside that is why a Cardinal wears red—he has achieved
“spiritual perfection”.
As I considered further the claims made by Rhodes and Hannah that the 18° was
“Satanic” in character, I asked Jac Partit to comment from his perspective as an insider
to the rite:
The view that the 18 th degree is somehow Satanic presumably is based on Hannah’s
remarks. If King and Rhodes cover other areas than those I consider then can you highlight
them. Hannah raises three pieces of evidence:
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