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 60
ferent in its construction and its objects. The theory,therefore, that Freemasonry is indebted for its origin to the Royal 314 PREHISTORIC MASONRY Society of London must be rejected as wholly without authenticityor even plausibility. But the theory of Nicolai, which attributes its origin to… … CHAPTER XXXIV THE ASTROLOGERS AND THE FREEMASOISS ^E have seen, in the preceding chapter, thatNicolai had sought to trace the origin of Free-masonry to a society organized in 1646 by a sectof philosophers who were contemporary with,but entirely distinct from, those who foundedthe Royal Society.…
