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 64
for comparison or ex-planation. This is done because the Legend of the later manuscriptsis undoubtedly the one which was adopted by the English Masons,while that of the Halliwell MS. appears to have been of exoticgrowth, which never took any extensive root in the soil of EnglishMasonry. In the… … CHAPTER VIII THE ORIGIN OF GEOMETRY HE manuscript begins with an invocation to theTrinity. This invocation is almost identical withthat which prefaces the Harleian, the Sloane, theLandsdowne, and, indeed, all the other manu-scripts, except the Halliwell and the Cooke.From this fact we may justly…
