the Masonic ritual of the 30th Degree, published secretly in Naples, in 1869. About the sacred words of the 1st and 2nd Degree, says in the note on p. 15 that "out of curiosity of our readers, we do not want to deprive them of our observation made by us (Domenico Angerà) on the island of Malta in time of our thirteen year old exile. By attending to us the Masonic works that were celebrated on that island, and seeing the initials "B" and "J" of the
sacred words of the first two Symbolic Degrees ie "Booz" and "Jackin", reading for said words, that is, reading them on the reverse side from right to left, there were the words "Zoob" and "Nikai". Among the Maltese, who speak a corrupt Arabic language, these two words are those for which they express themselves [...], that is, two ugly words
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