Gould, Robert Freke, 1836-1915 · New York : Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Co. · leaf 368
pted by Masons in all countries (Fig. 9). Upon the whole we may confidently assume that mostof the characteristic signs now called Masons Marks,were originally developed at a very early period in theEast, and have been used as distinguishing emblems ofsome kind throughout the Middle Ages in Persia,… … CHAPTER VI. THE EARLY SCOTTISH CRAFT GRAND LODGES THE EPOCH OF TRANSITION—A DIGRESSION—FREEMASONRY IN THEBRITISH ISLES. As in the transformation scene of some great Mas-que, so here the waning and waxing shapes are mingled,the new forms, at first shadowy and filmy, gain uponthe old; and now both…
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