A lexicon of freemasonry: containing a definition of all its communicable terms, notices of its history, traditions, and antiquities, and an account of all the rites and mysteries of the ancient world (1872)
Mackey, Albert Gallatin, 1807-1881 · Philadelphia, Moss · leaf 37
e the grateful incense of Brotherly Love,Relief, and Truth, is ever rising to the Great I AM; while on it,the unruly passu ns and the worldly appetites of the brethrenare laid, as a fitting sacrifice to the genius of our order. The proper form of a masonic altar is that of a cube, aboutthree feet… … This diagram will ex-hibit the correct positionin which the lights shouldbe placed around the al-tar, the stars designatingthe places of the lights inthe East, West, and South,and the black dot the va-cancy in the North wherethere is no light. Placing the lights all in the east at the head of the…
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