A Masonic source calls the substitute word "a jumble of letters" (US, 1866, quoting The Freemason's Treasury)
Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet provenDisputed: argued, often by a hostile witness
Year: 1866
SUMMARYA Masonic source calls the substitute word "a jumble of letters" (US, 1866, quoting The Freemason's Treasury) [Connections: Word coding & Masonic method, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDDuncan's note 120:1, citing The Freemason's Treasury p. 301, reads: "Respecting the lost word and its substitute, some say that King Solomon advised the change, while others affirm that the three Fellow Crafts adopted the substituted word without consulting him. And Dalcho observes that the interpolated word is not to be found in any language that ever was used. It is, in fact, not a word, but merely a jumble of letters, forming a sound without meaning."
DISPUTEDThe ritual says the word "signifies marrow in the bone" (Morgan p. 85). The writers cited in this note say it means nothing in any language
PATTERNEven the order's own writers disagree about what its central words mean
LENS (WW9)If the insiders cannot agree on the meaning, an outsider's sound-reading should not be stated with more confidence than theirs. Label it as Lens
OPENConfirm the author of The Freemason's Treasury (usually attributed to George Oliver, 1863) and find Dalcho's original remark