The book of the ancient and accepted Scottish rite of freemasonry : containing instructions in all the degrees from the third to the thirty-third, and last degree of the rite : together with ceremonies of inauguration ... etc. (1914)
McClenachan, Charles Thompson · New York : Macoy Pub. & Masonic Supply Co. · leaf 348
ve accordingly a CHIEF OF THE TABERNACLE 33? greater or less number of poles to support them—fromthree to nine. And it is usual for one iarge tent to bedivided into two or more apartments by curtains, forthe different portions of the family. The tents of the Bedaweens are nut conical, as theyare… … Thus the Tabernacle in the Court-room should repre-sent a tent, oblong in shape, stretched upon a frame ofpoles and forks, one pole in the middle serving as aridge-pole. Over this, hanging to the floor, on theNorth and South sides, and the rear or West, andseaching on top, on each side, to and over…
