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An encyclopædia of freemasonry and its kindred sciences .. (1894)

Mackey, Albert Gallatin, 1807-1881, McClenachan, Charles T. (Charles Thompson) · Philadelphia, L. H. Everts · leaf 72

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religious worship. The situation of the altar in the Frenchand Scottish Rites is in front of the Wor-shipful Master, and, therefore, in the East.In the York Rite, the altar is placed in thecentre of the room, or more properly alittle to the East of the centre. The form of a Masonic altar should bea… … should be spread open upon it, while aroundit are-to be placed three lights. Theselights are to be in the East, West, andSouth, and should be arranged as in theannexed diagram. The stars show theposition of the light in the East, West,and South. The black dot represents theposition North of the…

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