The history of freemasonry : its legends and traditions, its chronological history (1906)
Mackey, Albert Gallatin, 1807-1881, Hughan, William James, 1841-1911, Singleton, William Reynolds, 1819-1901. History of the symbolism of freemasonry, the Ancient and Accepted Scottish rite and the Royal Order of Scotland · New York : Masonic History Co. · leaf 233
s, or Altar-Ser\er, the title and duties of a Deacon. That there are : s and that many of them are very curi- ous, can not be «^ >ia I s! ^ ^* mpt, before leaving this sub- ject, to explain i: >n of tit tence in a more rational way 1 han by tracing: the modern as a succession from the ancient… … FREEMASONRY AND THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES 193 both made use of symbols and allegories and a dramatic form of in-struction. But these analogies do not necessarily support the doc-trine of descent, but may be otherwise satisfactorily explained. Whether the belief in a personal immortality was…
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