The Royal Arch word, "Jah-buh-lun," a name built from three languages (US, 1866)
Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet provenDisputed: argued, often by a hostile witnessCode: a stated code
Year: 1866 · Places: Africa
SUMMARYThe Royal Arch word, "Jah-buh-lun," a name built from three languages (US, 1866) [Connections: Word coding & Masonic method, Nov 5, 2026]
RECORDDuncan's Royal Arch degree: "the words, Jah-buh-lun, Jehovah, G-o-d, are given at low breath" (p. 224). The companions pronounce "the syllables or letters alternately" (p. 224), and the word "must also be given by three times three" (p. 224). The lecture explains: "It is the name of Deity in three languages, viz., Chaldaic, Hebrew, and Syriac" (p. 249). The word "was lost by the death of Hiram Abiff, was found again at the building of the Temple" (p. 249), and it is called "the long-lost Master Mason's word" (p. 249)
CODEThis is a composite word built from syllables, split among three speakers, with its make-up stated in the text
PATTERNThis is the one documented case here where a society openly says a password is built from syllables taken from different languages, which is the kind of construction sound-chain readings look for
LENS (WW9)Compound "god-names" built from several languages do exist in the record. The receipt is the ritual text that names the parts, not the sound alone
OPENThe text names Chaldaic, Hebrew and Syriac, not Egyptian. Any reading of a syllable as Egyptian needs its own source
DISPUTEDMasonic bodies have changed this degree over time; check current usage before making claims about today's practice
SOURCEDuncan, Royal Arch (mirror), pp. 224–225, 249 (Malcolm C. Duncan, 1866).