The Hebrew letter is Samech. The nineteenth letter in the English alphabet. Its nulnerical value is The Hebrew letter Shin, a tooth, from its formation, is of the numerical value of One of a certain Indian sect, who have emigrated Christianity, and who in some remeets resemble the Quakers in their doctrine and mode of life. Sometimes written Saud. The worship of the sun, moon, and stars, the Tsaba Hashmaim, meaning the host of heaven.
The Hebrew words pronounced Jehovah Tsabaoth, and meaning Jehovah of Costs, a very usual appellation for the Most High in the prophetical books, especially in Isaiah, Jeremiah, Zechariah, and Malachi, but not found in the Pentateuch. Hebrew word, meaning the Burden, the Latin Onus. Sometimes spelled Sabael. In the lecture of the Second or Fellow Craft's Degree, it is said, In six days God created the heavens and the earth, and rested upon the seventh day; the seventh, therefore, our ancient Brethren consecrated as a day of rest from their labors, thereby enjoving frequent opportunities to contemplate the glorious works of creation, and to adore their great Creator.
In the Rose Croix instructions, sackcloth is a symbol of grief and humiliation for the loss of that which it is the object of the Degree to recover. When Moses came down from the Mount and entered into his tent. Aaron went to visit him, and Moses acquainted Aaron with the Laws he had received from God,together with the explanation of them.
After this Aaron placed himself on the right hand of Moses, and Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron, were admitted, to whom Moses repeated what he had just before told to Aaron.
These being seated, the one on the right hand, the other on the left hand of Moses, the seventy elders of Israel, who compose the Sanhedrim, came in, and Moses again declared the same laws to them, as he had done before to Aaron and his sons.
