Identifier: encyclopaediaoff00mack (find matches)
Title: An encyclopaedia of freemasonry and its kindred sciences : comprising the whole range of arts, sciences and literature as connected with the institution
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Mackey, Albert Gallatin, 1807-1881 McClenachan, Charles T. (Charles Thompson)
Subjects: Freemasonry Freemasonry
Publisher: Philadelphia : L.H. Everts
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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AARON A. ABBREVIATIONS Aaron. Hebrew pnx, Aharon, a wordof doubtful etymology, but generally sup-posed to signify a mountaineer. He was thebrother of Moses, and the first high priestunder the Mosaic dispensation, whence thepriesthood established by that lawgiver isknown as the Aaronic. He is alludedto in the English lectures of the seconddegree, in reference to a certain gign whichis said to have taken its origin Iroin the factthat Aaron and Hur were present on thehill from which Moses surveyed the battlewhich Joshua was waging with the Amale-kites, when these two supported the wearyarms of Moses in an upright posture, be-cause upon his uplifted hands the fate of thebattle depended. (See Exodus xvii. 10-12.) Aaron is also referred to in the lattersection of the Royal Arch degree in connec-tion with the memorials that were depositedin the ark of the covenant. In the degreeof Chief of the Tabernacle, which is the23d of the Ancient and Accepted Rite, thepresiding officer represents Aaron

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