Gould, Robert Freke, 1836-1915 · New York : Macoy Publishing and Masonic Supply Co. · leaf 74
rom themonastic builders, a secret architectural doctrine andmystical science of numbers, which they employed in theirart and afterwards developed to a greater extent. It isalso stated that their most expressive and peculiar sym-bols, the compasses, square, stone-hammer or gavel,and foot-rule, had… … JACHIN AND BOAZ. POMEGRANATES. speculative science, though it undoubtedly took highrank as an operative art. Up to this point the history of the Steinmetzen has beenderived from the evidence supplied by their own docu-ments. On turning to other sources of information,however, it will at once appear…
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