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 136
s its denial ofthe dogma of the Trinity, the manuscript constitutions of theMasons were beginning their Legend of the Craft, with an in-vocation to the Might of the Father, the Wisdom of the GloriousSon, and the Goodness of the Holy Ghost, three Persons and oneGod. The idea of any such connection… … CHAPTER XL FREEMASONRY AND THE ESSENES [AWRIE—or I should rather say Brewster—wasthe first to discover a connection between theFreemasons and the Jewish sect of the Essenes,a doctrine which is announced in his History ofFreemasonry, He does not indeed trace theorigin of the Masonic Institution to…