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 253
the stock of our ideas ateach step, until, in the middle chamber of life—in thefull fruition of manhood—the reward is attained, andthe purified and elevated intellect is invested with thereward in the direction how to seek God and Godstruth,—to believe this is to believe and to know thetrue design… … CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHTLegend of the Third Degree THE most important and significant of the legen-dary symbols of Freemasonry is, undoubtedly,that which relates to the fate of Hiram Abif,commonly called, by way of excellence,* the Legendof the Third Degree. The first written record that we have been…
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