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 107
the pure Masonic system ; and, with the few excep-tions which I have mentioned, even these degrees have ceased toexist. Especially was it not connected with one of the most impor-tant and most popular of those degrees. From the beginning of the 19th century Rosicrucianism has beendead to Masonry,… … CHAPTER XXXVII THE PYTHAGOREANS AND FREEMASONRY HE theory which ascribes, if not the actual originof Freemasonry to Pythagoras, at least its intro*duction into Europe by him, through the schoolwhich he established at Crotona, in Italy, whichwas a favorite one among our early writers, mayvery…
