Read between the lines

Borrowed from A Life in the Day:
1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open the book to page 123. Find the fifth sentence
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences (#5,6,7) on your blog, along with these instructions.
5. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it. Just grab what is closest. No cheating.

Well, since I am working at library at this moment, it was very interesting to walk up to a shelf and just grab a book. Here is what I found at the above location:

"This coat," says Mr. Lucien Wolf, "is entirely made up of Jewish symbols," and is "an attempt to display heraldically the various forms of the Cherubim pictured to us in the second vision of Ezekiel--an Ox, a Man, a Lion, and an Eagle--and this belongs to the highest and most mystical domain of Hebrew symbolism."
In other words, this vision, known to the Jews as the "Mercaba," belongs to the Cabala, where a particular interpretation is placed on each figure so as to provide an esoteric meaning not perceptible to the uninitiated. The masonic coat-of-arms is thus entirely Cabalistic; as is also the seal on the diplomas of Craft Masonry, where another Cabalistic figure, that of a man and woman combined, is reproduced.

From--Secret Societies and Subversive Movements by Nesta H. Webster. London, Britons Publishing, 1924.