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 73
uncontaminated the moral precepts of thatreligion which is implanted in the mind of man. We thus, then, have before us an aspect of Free-masonry as it existed in the middle ages, when it presentsitself to our view as both operative and speculative in itscharacter. The operative element that had… … IX. DISSEVERANCE OF THE OPERATIVE ELEMENT. /^fc^HE next point to which our attention is to bem\ directed is when, a few centuries later, the^^ly operative character of the institution began tobe less prominent, and the speculative to assume a pre-eminence which eventually ended in the total…
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