The sash, worn from left to right, is of broad black ribbon; and the jewel, a full moon or a golden equilateral, may be traversed by an arrow, point downward ; on the jewel is an arm upraised, holding a naked sword. Early French rituals inform us that this degree was translated, in 1757, from the German by M. De Beraye, Inspector-General of Prussian Lodges in France. It was probably introduced about that time, and the substitution of Noah for Solomon, and Peleg or Phaleg for H. A. B., and the Tower of Babel for King Solomon’s Temple, marks it as a more recent invention. The legend of the degree narrates the journey of Peleg, the architect of Babel, to the north, and ends with this statement:—“In trenching the rubbish of the salt mines of Prussia was found, in A.D. 553, at a depth of fifteen cubits, the appearance of a triangular building, in which was a column of white marble, on which was written, in Hebrew, the whole history of the Noachites.
