An encyclopædia of freemasonry and its kindred sciences .. (1894)
Mackey, Albert Gallatin, 1807-1881, McClenachan, Charles T. (Charles Thompson) · Philadelphia, L. H. Everts · leaf 100
Councilof Select Masters according to the Ameri-can system, is called by Masons the Substi-tute Ark, to distinguish it from the otherark, that which was constructed in thewilderness under the direction of Moses,and which is known as the Ark of theCovenant. This the Substitute Ark wasmade to… … Prideaux, on the authority of Lightfoot,contends that, as an ark was indispensableto the Israelitish worship, there was in thesecond Temple an ark which had been ex-pressly made for the purpose of supplyingthe place of the first or original ark, andwhich, without possessing any of its pre-rogatives…
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