The Secret Tradition in Freemasonry and an Analysis of the Inter-relation Between the Craft and the High Grades in Respect of Their Term of Research, Expressed by the Way of Symbolism, Volumen1

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Página 301 - As a fact, the house was in the neighbourhood of that spot where the -armed emissaries of the Eastern patriarch intended to rebuild the Temple. The Knights took as their model the military masons of Zerubbabel, who worked with the sword in one hand and the trowel in the other. Their
Página 30 - is a beautiful system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols. I suppose that in the whole wide world there is no system which, confessing as does this to allegory, has less in the allegorical portion to do with simple
Página 237 - this hypothesis, it looks to see the good things of the Lord in the Land of the Living ; its watchwords are development, progress, the higher life ; it is identical in its aim with those forces, within and without
Página 70 - exegesis, it may be mentioned that even the story of the Garden of Eden and the Fall of Man is held to have been written, as it was also enacted, with conscious reference to Israel during the dispensation of the First Covenant.
Página 79 - at the time of the Captivity concealed the Tabernacle, the Ark and the Altar of Incense in a cave on Mount Nebo. This is cited by the Talmudists, though they appear to have rejected the book. But one of the Midrashim affirms
Página 334 - THE STRICT OBSERVANCE, the last recognised Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, created on the eve of his sacrifice four Metropolitan Lodges—at Naples for the East, Edinburgh for the West, Stockholm for the North, and Paris for the South. This claim is so far purely Masonic that it
Página 408 - by angels carrying flaming swords. It is obviously the Church Catholic, or universal, visible and transcendent, its length from East to West, its breadth from North to South, its height immeasurable and its depth, in fine, unfathomable. It
Página 301 - Their own inward design was not exactly one of ministration to the ambition of the patriarchs of Constantinople. There existed at that period an Oriental sect of
Página 286 - The dedication distinguishes between those in the ranks of the Brotherhood " who are not far illuminated," who stand in the outward place, and those who have " greater light" are of " the higher class,

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