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 150
mes, and he was the first who before the Flood hadany knowledge of astronomy and geometry. But the authors ofthQ Legend of the Craft were hardly likely to be acquainted withthis piece of archaeology, and the Hermes to whom, with a very cor-rupt spelling, they refer as the son of Cush, was the… … GEORGE WASHINGTON THE LEGEND OF ENOCH 401 Geometry and Masonry, by Anderson, in the year 1723, who, in theConstitutions printed in that year, has the following passage : * By some vestiges of antiquity we find one of them (the off-spring of Seth) prophesying of the final conflagration at the day…