An encyclopædia of freemasonry and its kindred sciences .. (1894)
Mackey, Albert Gallatin, 1807-1881, McClenachan, Charles T. (Charles Thompson) · Philadelphia, L. H. Everts · leaf 207
inalpoints, the four winds of heaven. This willluminously appear by a study of its useand meaning in America. (P. 95.) AndMr. Brinton gives many instances of thereligious use of the cross by several of theaboriginal tribes of this continent, wherethe allusion, it must be confessed, seemsevidently… … eight would have in the cruciform temple asmuch a symbolism of the world, of whichthe four cardinal points constitute theboundaries, as we have in the square, thecubical, and the circular. Cross, Double. See Cross, Patri-archal. Cross, Jerusalem. A Greek crossbetween four crosslets. It was adopted…
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