An encyclopædia of freemasonry and its kindred sciences .. (1894)
Mackey, Albert Gallatin, 1807-1881, McClenachan, Charles T. (Charles Thompson) · Philadelphia, L. H. Everts · leaf 1028
given,by referring to one of the oldest symbolsamong the Egyptians, and found upontheir monuments, which was a circle cen-tred by an A U M, supported by twoerect parallel serpents; the circle beingexpressive of the collective people of theworld, protected by the parallel attributes,the Power and… … may come within his boundless scope, hisWisdom and Power. At times this circleis represented by the Ananta (Sanskrit,eternity), a serpent with its tail in its mouth.The parallel serpents were of the cobraspecies. It has been suggestively said that theMasonic symbol refers to the circuits…
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