"Tisri" Quotes from Famous Books
... some other word covered by it, was forbidden to be pronounced. But that its pronunciation might not be lost among the Levites, the High-Priest uttered it in the Temple once a year, on the 10th day of the Month Tisri, the day of the great feast of expiation. During this ceremony, the people were directed to make a great noise, that the Sacred Word might not be heard by any who had not a right to it; for every other, said the Jews, would be incontinently ... — Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry • Albert Pike |