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 427
stersof the Temples of Thebes or of Memphis; he ad-vanced resolutely amid innumerable terrors, thatmight well lead him to suppose that it was intendedto take fife. He passed through fire, swam torrentsof dark and foaming water, was suspended by frailropes over bottomless gulfs. Was this not… … KNIGHT OF THE SUN. 415 have had to do, what those have always done, whohave aspired to the Holy Empire of magical omnipo-tence. The disciples of Pythagoras imposed onthemselves a complete sjDeechlessness for many years;and even the followers of Epicurus only learned thesovereignty of pleasure, by a…
