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 127
rica, 1 The idea, says Dudley, that the earth is a level surface,and of a square form, is so likely to have been entertained by per-sons of little experience and limited observation, that it may bejustly supposed to have prevailed generally in the early ages of theworld.—Naology, p. 7. 104… … SOUTH. This oblong square, thus enclosing the whole of whatwas then supposed to be the habitable globe, ^ wouldprecisely represent what is symbolically said to be theform of the lodge, while the Pillars of Hercules in thewest, on each side of the straits of Gades or Gibraltar,might appropriately be…
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