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 39
diminution, tothe time of Solomon, and the building of the temple atJerusalem. Leaving it, then, to pursue this even course of descent, § THE PRIMITIVE FREEMASONRY OF ANTIQUITY. 31 let us refer once more to that other line of religioushistory, the one passing through the idolatrous andpolytheistic… … IV. THE SPURIOUS FREEMASONRY OF ANTIQUITY. (Y^N the vast but barren desert of polytheism — dark£ftl and dreary as were its gloomy domains—there\f) were still, however, to be found some few oasesof truth. The philosophers and sages of antiquityhad, in the course of their learned researches, aided by…
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