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 443
ut possitquicunque videre vel audi re de factis veldictis eorum; i. e., that when they Mdtheir Chapters, they shut all the doors of thehouse or church in which they met so closelythat no one could approach near enough tosee or hear v>hat they were doing and saying.And the next article is more… … tectum, who could give the necessarywarning. Of course it is impossible to obtain anaccurate knowledge of all the details of thissecret reception of the ancient Templars,since it must have been generally oral; butI have always been inclined to think, fromallusions here and there scattered…
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