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 129
ding solar systems upon solar systems, rolling in illimitablespace, but in the more contracted view of the ancients, where theearth formed the floor, and the sky the ceiling. To the vulgarand untaught eye, says Dudley, the heaven or sky above theearth appears to be co-extensive with the earth, and… … CHAPTER FIFTEENOfficers of a Lodge THE three principal officers of a Lodge are, it isneedless to say, situated in the east, the west,and the south. Now, bearing in mind that theLodge is a symbol of the world, or the universe, thereference of these three officers to the sun at its rising,its…
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