An encyclopaedia of freemasonry and its kindred sciences : comprising the whole range of arts, sciences and literature as connected with the institution (1887)
Mackey, Albert Gallatin, 1807-1881, McClenachan, Charles T. (Charles Thompson) · Philadelphia : L.H. Everts · leaf 299
allusion that hasnot been adverted to by any other writer. If, on a map of the world, we draw lineswhich shall circumscribe just that portionwhich was known and inhabited at thetime of the building of Solomons Temple,these lines, running a short distance northand south of the Mediterranean Sea,… … There is a peculiar fitness in this theory,which is really only making the MasonicLodge a symbol of the world. It must beremembered that, at the era of the Temple,the earth was supposed to have the form ofa parallelogram, or oblong square. Sucha figure inscribed upon a map of the world,and…
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