INCOMMUNICABLE NAME. The tetragrammaton, so called because it was not common to, and could not be bestowed upon, nor shared by, any other being. It was proper to the true God alone. Thus Drusius (Tetragrammaton, sive de Nomine Dei proprio, p. 108) says, "Nomen quatuor literarum proprie et absolute non tribui nisi Deo vero. Unde doctores catholici dicunt _incommunicabile_ [not common] esse creaturae." INEFFABLE NAME. The tetragrammaton. So called because it is _ineffabile_, or unpronounceable. See _Tetragrammaton_. INTRUSTING, RITE OF. That part of the ceremony of initiation which consists in communicating to the aspirant or candidate the aporrheta, or secrets of the mystery. INUNCTION. The act of anointing. This was a religious ceremony practised from the earliest times. By the pouring on of oil, persons and things were consecrated to sacred purposes. INVESTITURE, RITE OF. That part of the ceremony of initiation which consists of clothing the candidate masonically. It is a symbol of purity. ISH CHOTZEB. Hebrew בצה שיא, _hewers of stones_. The Fellow Crafts at the temple of Solomon. (2 Chron. ii. 2.). ISH SABAL. Hebrew לבס שיא, _bearers of burdens_. The Apprentices at the temple of Solomon. (2 Chron. ii. 2.). J JAH. It is in Hebrew הי whence Maimonides calls it "the two-lettered name," and derives it from the tetragrammaton, of which it is an abbreviation. Others have denied this, and assert that _Jah_ is a name independent of Jehovah, but expressing the same idea of the divine essenee. See Gataker, _De Nom. Tetrag._. JEHOVAH. The incommunicable, ineffable name of God, in Hebrew הוהי, and called, from the four letters of which it consists, the tetragrammaton, or four-lettered name. L LABOR. Since the article on the Symbolism of Labor was written, I have met with an address delivered in 1868 by brother Troué, before St. Peter's Lodge in Martinico, which contains sentiments on the relation of Masonry to labor which are well worth a translation from the original French. See _Bulletin du Grand Orient de France_, December, 1868. "Our name of Mason, and our emblems, distinctly announce that our object is the elevation of labor. "We do not, as masons, consider labor as a punishment inflicted on man; but on the contrary, we elevate it in our thought to the height of a religious act, which is the most acceptable to God because it is the most useful to man and to society.