ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ARABIC ORDER NOBLES MYSTIC SHRINE
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January 11, 2004 To: Imperial Officers, Past Illustrious Potentates, Honorary Past Potentates, Rabbans and Nobles
Es Salaam Alekum:
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I" I am that I am" may be translated as, "I am who I am". This personal name of God is a declaration of God's revelation of his inner most being as presence. Let me extend a hearty welcome to each of you by saying Happy New Year. Thank you Nobility for your support.
Now this is a new year which is bestowed upon us to do good deeds. We must now set higher goals. We must pick up the pace, which requires the effort of all the Nobles.
Now we must work, while it is still day because no many knows when night cometh. Like the Prayer of Jabez....."oh, that you would bless the temple indeed and enlarge the temples territory, that your hand would be with us, and that you would keep the Nobility from evil, and that we might not cause pain......( I Chron 4:10 ).
To the Nobility we must remember the charge we so often hear..."be diligent, prudent, temperate and discrete"....and yes we are our brothers keeper.
Let us go forward to accomplish great things!
Fraternally submitted,
James R. Battey, 330
Illustrious Potentate
