THE ROYAL ARCH. 19 Christians used it to represent thefive wounds of Christ, thus; and henceit was formerly referred, in the oldlectures of Masonry, to the birth, life,death, resurrection, and ascension ofthe Saviour of mankind. And the for-mula which was used, even so recent-ly as the early part…
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