Speculative Freemasonry 229Q. How many steps was in Jacobs ladder?
A. 3.
Q. What was ye 3?
A. Father, Son & Holy Spirit.Q. What meant ye golden dore of ye temple, Qr (where) the went
in to sanctum sanctorum?
A. It was another type of Christ who is ye door ye way and the
truth & ye life by whome & in whom all ye elect entreth into
heaven.
Q. What was ye greatest wonder Yt seen or heard about the temple?
A. God was man and was God. Mary was a mother and yet a
maid.
Q. What signifies the temple?
A. Ye Son of God & partly of the church ye Son soffered his body
to be destroyed & rose again ye 3 d day & raised up tu us ye
Christian church we (which) in ye true spiritwal church.
Q. (What signifies) the ark of the covenant?
A. It represents as weel our saviour Christ as ye hearts of ye faith-
full for in Christs breast was ye doctrine both of law & gospel so
is in ye faithfull though not in ye measure he was ye true manna yt
descended to give life to ye world ye table of ye law move us to
love & obedience Aarons rod flowrishing wt blossoms signifies ye
swetnes of ye gospel & ye glory of our High priest Jesus Christ of
whome Aaron was a figure.The entire medieval Christian doctrine can be found reinforced in
this text: the immanence of God in man, the realization of the law by
the Incarnation of Christ, the construction within man of God's true
temple by obedience to the Law and by Love, the symbolic figure from
the Hebrew Scriptures as a sign of the gospel. This interpretation was
very familiar in the Middle Ages. Developed as early as the eighth cen-
tury by the Venerable Bede in his work De Templo Salomonis, it can be
found everywhere in Strabo's Ordinary Gloss of the Bible.
The end of the ritual makes a long allusion to the two pillars of the