who agreed to abandon Baal worship and build a
school for the prophets. So he did. He then assumed the title of
Heremon of Tara. From Tara, which was changed from Lothair Croffin into
Tara. From Tephi comes our goddess of Liberty, on old coins, sitting on
a lion. Now, at Tara, Jeremiah buried the ark of the covenant, tables of
law, &c., and instituted the nine-arch degree of Masonry, to keep in mind
its hiding-place,--so all may understand Jer. iii. 16: "And it shall come
to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days,
saith the Lord, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the
Lord; neither shall it come to mind; neither shall they remember it;
neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more." This
means that when the ark is found the ceremony will end; for the ark has
to be found and go before the Jews when they return to their own land.
Jeremiah was the first Grand Master. He, too, is the real St.
Patrick--simply the Patriarchal Saint, which became St. Patriarch, then
St. Patrick. The Roman Church introduced St. Patrick to offset the St.
Patriarch.

Jeremiah well knew where the Tribes of Israel were in his day. He knew
that Judah, Levi, and Benjamin, were in Babylon, filling in the seventy
years of captivity, and the small remnant that Nebuchadnezzar left of
them in Judah were scattered hither and thither. The Nine Tribes, or
Israel, were settled in Central Asia, and were spreading Northward and
Westward. This he knew, as easily as Peter did centuries after, when he
wrote his epistle to the brethren, scattered abroad in Pontus, Galatia,
Cappadocia, and Asia; or as James, who dedicated his epistle to the
Twelve Tribes which were scattered abroad; or as the Blessed Master who
commissioned and sent His disciples after the lost sheep of the House of
Israel. The place and locality of the Nine Tribes were known to the
Jewish nation in the time of Josephus, the historian, for he speaks of
them, and gives them a fraternal letter which the House of Judah sent
unto the House of Israel. You are to keep in mind that it is after this
the Tribes of Israel are to be lost. All prophecies after 700 B.C., up
to this, our day, and till about 1882 A.D., that had reference to Israel,
plainly mark out the dwelling-place of these Tribes, and yet these
prophecies not being understood, till these latter days, Israel was as
actually lost as if there had been no such prophecies