Mackey's Symbolism of freemasonry : its science, philosophy, legends, myths and symbols (1921)
Mackey, Albert Gallatin, 1807-1881, Clegg, Robert Ingham, 1866-1931 · Chicago, Ill. : The Masonic history company · leaf 100
for so many years,the sole conservator. And it is for this reason thatwe have already remarked that any inquiry into thesymbolic character of Freemasonry must be precededby an investigation of the nature of symbolism ingeneral, if we would properly appreciate its particularuse in the organization… … CHAPTER TWELVESpeculative Science and the Operative Art AND now, let us apply this doctrine of symbolismto an investigation of the nature of a speculativescience, as derived from an operative art; forthe fact is familiar to every one that Freemasonry isof two kinds. We work, it is true, in…
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