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 116
there any allusion tothis as a received theory of the Craft. Drake, in his speech before the Grand Lodge of York, deliveredin I 726, does, indeed, speak of Pythagoras, not as the founder ofMasonry, but only in connection with Euclid and Archimedes asgreat proficients in Geometry, whose works have… … THE PYTHAGOREANS AND FREEMASONRY 369 Masonry, an assertion which, to use the old chorus of the Masons^nobody will deny. But to say that Geometry is closely connected with OperativeMasonry, and that Pythagoras was a great geometrician, is very dif-ferent from saying that he was a Mason and…
