M. 2nd V. Give them [words given as before], they are

right, you have my permission to enter this second veil. [Pass in.] Three most excellent masters you must have been, or thus far you could not have come ; but further you cannot go without my words, sign, and word of exhorta- tion. My words are Shem, Japhet,^ and Adoniram; my sign is this [See plate 13, fig. 5], it is in imitation of one given by God to Moses, when he commanded him to thrust his hand into his bosom, and taking it out it became as leprous as snow. My word of exhortation is explanatory of this sign, and is found in the writings of Moses.
P.S. Companions, we will pass on, and make an alarm at the third veil.