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 224
only connection with architecture or building was that theypreserved much of its technical language and implements, but con-secrated them to symbolical purposes. Having thus abandoned the professional practice of the craft ofbuilding, and assumed a merely ethical character, they became… … CHAPTER II THE ROMAN COLLEGES OF ARTIFICERS \T will be evident, from what has been said in the preceding chapter, that the plan upon which it is intended to write the history of Freemasonry in the present work will utterly preclude any search for the origin of the Institution among the purely…
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