Rituals of freemasonry: comprising the degrees of Entered apprentice, Fellow craft, and Master mason, in the lodge; (1870)
Sickels, Daniel. [from old catalog], Gould, James L. [from old catalog], Sheville, John W. [from old catalog], Simons, John. [from old catalog], Chase, Jackson H. [from old catalog] · New York, Masonic publishing company · leaf 575
at God has made all things square, upright,and perfect. The Compass is an instrumentused by operative Masons to describe circles,every part of the circumference of which isequally near and equally distant from thecenter. The circle is, therefore, a strikingemblem of the relation in which the… … 188 GUIDE TO THE R A. CHAPTER. THE EQUILATERAL OR PERFECT TRIANGLE, ^rfMttfft. * * * * Is emblematical of the three iVl essential attributes of Deity— fj namely, Omnipresence, Om- ^ niscience, and Omnipotence; /( /n ii#^ and as the three equal sides or equal angles form but one Triangle, so these…
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