Q. What further was found in the ark? A. A small vessel containing a substance, which, after the Council had examined, and the High Priest again read from the book of the law, Ex. xvi. 32-34, he pronounced to be manna:
"And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord commanded; fill an omer of the manna to be kept for your generations, that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt. And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the Lord to be kept for your generations. As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the testimony, to be kept for a token."
The High Priest then took a rod from the ark, which, after he had read the following passage,
Numb. xvii. 10. "And the Lord said unto Moses, Bring Aaron's rod again before the testimony to be kept for a token."
He pronounced to be Aaron's rod, which budded and blossomed as the rose.
Q. Was there anything further found in the ark? A. There was a key to the ineffable characters belonging to this degree, as follows
beginning at top of this diagram at the left hand angle. The upper left angle without a dot is A, the same with a dot is B, etc.
Q. What further was said to you? A. The High Priest read the following passage: