An encyclopædia of freemasonry and its kindred sciences .. (1894)
Mackey, Albert Gallatin, 1807-1881, McClenachan, Charles T. (Charles Thompson) · Philadelphia, L. H. Everts · leaf 842
riangles meeting at their bases.In short, the equilateral triangle may beconsidered as one of the most constantforms of Masonic symbolism. The right-angled triangle is another formof this figure which is deserving of atten- 830 TRIANGLE TRIANGLE tion. Among the Egyptians, it was thesymbol of… … Osiris-male. This symbol was received by Pythagorasfrom the Egyptians during his long sojournin that country, and with it he also learnedthe peculiar property it possessed, namely,that the sum of the squares of the two shortersides is equal to the square of the longestside — symbolically expressed…
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