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Ch. 7: Magic Talismanic Rings

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of a Past Master bears a raised gold sun-face. In a ring for the Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, the key­stone is usually enameled white with a black circle and white centre. Shrine Rings are distinctly Oriental in type, the prevailing design showing a simitar passed be­tween the horns of a crescent moon. In rings of the Knights Templar the design is usually a cross passed through a crown, with the motto of Constantine the Great: In hoc Signo vinces. The cross will be of black enamel (occasionally of red enamel) and the crown is gold. A special ring for this order has a Blue Lodge emblem on one shoulder and the Chapter emblem on the other, and is arranged for a diamond to be set in the centre of the bezel. On a fourteenth degree ring (Lodge of Perfection) appears the initial Hebrew letter (yod) of the Tetragrammaton, or Ineffable Name, now approximately sounded Yahweh. Sometimes the sym­bols of more than one degree appear on the ring, one example bearing those of the fourteenth, sixteenth, eighteenth, thirtieth and thirty-second ; this is one of the Consistory rings, as those for thirty-second degree Ma­sons are denominated. These usually have the double eagle on the bezel.
The variety of types of fraternity rings is manifold, most of the orders having a half-dozen or more different ring-designs, although certain distinctive elements run through all, as with the wide-spread Benevolent Protec­tive Order of Elks, for instance, on whose rings the elk-head is always conspicuously present. For rings of the Knights of Columbus, the anvil, sword and battle-axe are never-failing marks. The Brotherhood of Loco­motive Engineers, a labor organization of the highest type, has for its device a locomotive running on a rail­way track, with a telegraph pole at one side. The Loyal Order of Moose has the head of the patron ani-
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