Man with Sword in Mouth

Ravignat has this image in the “61th Degree: Chevalier d’Orient – Knight of the East – Tschoudy and Bédarride”. I found the same image in the Fonds Gaborria, but there it is listed as the “47e degré”, but also called “Chevalier d’Orient”. In Ravignat’s translation, this is the tracing board of the degree: “in the middle a man holding in his right hand seven stars and in his mouth a two-edged sword.”

The letters refer to virtues such as Beauty, Divinity, etc.
The two-edged sword means that the degree of “Knights Prince Jerusalem” is above other degrees (Baylot collection).

In the 14th degree (Knight of the West) of the Mirecourt collection the letters are explained, they are separate words such as Beauty, Divinity, Wisdom, etc. of course dependent on the language the ritual was written in. In the same text, the sword is called double edged and it “expresses the superiority of the Knight of the West over all other Degrees.”

In the Kloss collection there is a document (“Chevalier d’Occident et d’Orient. Avec tableau” “17e gr. REAA. (Kl.MS:XXV.82)”, the document itself says 18º) with a very similar tableau, so the image also appears to (have) feature(d) in (proto) AASR degrees.

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