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 55
kings, without alteration, increase, ordiminution, to the time of Solomon, and the building ofthe temple at Jerusalem. Leaving it, therefore, to pursue this even course ofdescent, let us refer once more to that other line of re-ligious history, the one passing through the idolatrousand polytheistic… … CHAPTER FIVESpurious Freemasonry of Antiquity IN the vast but barren desert of polytheism—darkand dreary as were its gloomy domains—therewere still to be found some few oases of truth.The philosophers and sages of antiquity had, in thecourse of their learned researches, aided by the light ofnature,…
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