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 288
thus, too, at last, we can understand the sayingof the old monks that labor is worship ; and as Masonswe labor in our lodge, labor to make ourselves a perfectbuilding, without blemish, working hopefully for the con-summation, when the house of our earthly tabernacle shallbe finished, when the lost… … XXX. THE STONE OF FOUNDATION.* y^WHE Stone of Foundation constitutes one of the4\ most important and abstruse of all the symbols\£|y °f Freemasonry. It is referred to in numerouslegends and traditions, not only of the Freemasons, butalso of the Jewish Rabbins, the Talmudic writers, andeven the…
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