After Hiram of Tyre, master supervisor of the construction site of the Temple of Jerusalem, as he once examined
the work, according to his custom (as we learn this in the *nee* of the regular *tri*) and through his death the
*nee* word was lost, one was compelled instead of that word to take on the word m . . b ... n ... The three times
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fifteen fellows were sent out to visit the *nee*, they said it out loud when they met him, and this word which
even now is the actual word in the regular *tri*, was maintained for may centuries, until finally, in the times of the
crusades in the promised land, when our order was settled with the one of St. John's of Jerusalem.What happened
then, in the time when they worked on the reconstruction of the temple of those Christians in Jerusalem and they
cleared away the foundation of the old temple, it was then whey they discovered the place, which starting from
then they called the most sacred, in which center they found four cubic stones and four round stones, which were
regular foundation stones and which were placed one above the other. The Chevaliers Macons were astonished
with amazement as they say on the last of these
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stones the word Yehova (this word is not pronounced like this, but out of veneration for the divinity, Adonai),
which was actually the word of the *nee* of Hiram. What did they do with these stones? They kept them safe and
when they returned from the promised land, they carried them to Scotland. After a while, they had the opportunity
to establish the Scottish St. Andrew *tri*, which saint we still celebrate yearly on the thirstiest of November as a
special celebration. Why do we celebrate the celebration of this saint? In remembrance of the fact that the Scots
chose him as their patron. Did the knights of the Scottish masons made no other discovery? Yes, Most Sublime.