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 57
doctrines of Romeand the influence of the priesthood, it retained its Christian char-acter, but became Protestant in its peculiar views. Lastly, at the time of the so-called Revival, in the beginning ofthe 18th century, when Speculative Masonry assumed that formwhich it has ever since retained, it… … CHAPTER VI THE ORIGIN OF THE HALLIWELL POEM LL these facts concerning the gradual changes inthe religious character of the Institution, whichby a collation of the old manuscripts we are en-abled to derive from the Legend of the Craft,are corroborated by contemporaneous historicaldocuments, as will…
