The symbolism of freemasonry : illustrating and explaining its science and philosophy, its legends, myths, and symbols (1869)
Mackey, Albert Gallatin, 1807-1881 · New York : Clark and Maynard · leaf 110
length of the parallelogram beingabout sixty degrees from east to west, and its breadthbeing about twenty degrees from north to south. Thisoblong square, thus enclosing the whole of what was thensupposed to be the habitable globe,* would preciselyrepresent what is symbolically said to be the form… … SOUTH. * The quadrangular form of the earth is preserved in almost allthe scriptural allusions that are made to it. Thus Isaiah (xi. 12) 104 THE FORM OF THE LODGE. A masonic lodge is, therefore, a symbol of the world. This symbol is sometimes, by a very usual figure ofspeech, extended, in its…
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