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 89
uncontaminated the moral precepts of that religionwhich is implanted in the mind of man. We thus, then, have before us an aspect of Free-masonry as it existed in the middle ages, when itpresents itself to our view as both operative and specu-lative in its character. The operative element thathad… … CHAPTER TENDisseverance of the Operative Element THE next point to which our attention is to bedirected is when, a few centuries later than theperiod just considered, the operative characterof the institution began to be less prominent, and thespeculative to assume a preeminence which…
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