You entered the Lodge between two columns. They represent the two which stood in the porch of the Temple, on each side of the great eastern gateway. These pillars, of bronze, four fingers breadth in thickness, were, according to the most authentic account--that in the First and that in the Second Book of Kings, confirmed in Jeremiah--eighteen cubits high, with a capital five cubits high. The shaft of each was four cubits in diameter. A cubit is one foot 707/1000. That is, the shaft of each was a little over thirty feet eight inches in height, the capital of each a little over eight feet six inches in height, and the diameter of the shaft six feet ten inches. The capitals were enriched by pomegranates of bronze, covered by bronze net-work, and ornamented with wreaths of bronze; and appear to have imitated the shape of the seed-vessel of the lotus or Egyptian lily, a sacred symbol to the Hindus and Egyptians. The pillar or column on the right, or in the south, was named, as the Hebrew word is rendered in our translation of the Bible, JACHIN: and that on the left BOAZ. Our translators say that the first word means, "_He shall establish_;" and the second, "_In it is strength._" These columns were imitations, by Khūrūm, the Tyrian artist, of the great columns consecrated to the Winds and Fire, at the entrance to the famous Temple of Malkarth, in the city of Tyre. It is customary, in Lodges of the York Rite, to see a celestial globe on one, and a terrestrial globe on the other; but these are not warranted, if the object be to imitate the original two columns of the Temple. The symbolic meaning of these columns we shall leave for the present unexplained, only adding that Entered Apprentices keep their working-tools in the column JACHIN; and giving you the etymology and literal meaning of the two names. The word _Jachin_, in Hebrew, is [Hebrew]. It was probably pronounced _Ya-kayan_, and meant, as a verbal noun, _He that strengthens_; and thence, _firm, stable, upright_. The word _Boaz_ is [Hebrew] Baaz. [Hebrew] means _Strong, Strength, Power, Might, Refuge, Source of Strength, a Fort_. The [Hebrew] prefixed means "_with_" or "_in_," and gives the word the force of the Latin gerund, _roborando--Strengthening_. The former word also means _he will establish_, or _plant in an erect position_--from the verb [Hebrew] _Kūn, he stood erect_. It probably meant _Active_ and _Vivifying Energy_ and _Force_; and _Boas, Stability, Permanence_, in the _passive_ sense.