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 87
el or Babylon the symbol of intellectual dark-ness, and suppose that there the light of Masonry was for a time ex-tinguished, to be re-illumined only at the Temple of Solomon. And, again, the Legend of the Craft vindicates its character,and correctly clothes an historical fact in symbolic language,… … CHAPTER XII THE LEGEND OF NIMROD |HE universal sentiment of the Masons of thepresent day is to confer upon Solomon, King ofIsrael, the honor of being their first GrandMaster. But the Lege7id of the Craft hadlong before, though there was a tradition of thetemple extant, bestowed, at least by…
