Ars Quatuor Coronatorum: Being the Transactions of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, London, Volume 3W. J. Parre H, Limited, 1840 |
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... character is investigated and brought to light . In the same way , I conceive that there is ground for reasonable conjecture , whether the Symbolism of Masonry , to a considerable portion of which , even at this day , no meaning can be ...
... character is investigated and brought to light . In the same way , I conceive that there is ground for reasonable conjecture , whether the Symbolism of Masonry , to a considerable portion of which , even at this day , no meaning can be ...
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... character- istic of the builders of the Middle Ages . Gothic , however , never quite died out , and I shall now suggest to you , that the same thing may be predicated with regard to the Symbolism of the Craft - if it existed at all ...
... character- istic of the builders of the Middle Ages . Gothic , however , never quite died out , and I shall now suggest to you , that the same thing may be predicated with regard to the Symbolism of the Craft - if it existed at all ...
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... character , and distinct ceremonies , - -are to my mind wholly modern . That there was a Masonic Ceremonial as Bro . Gould puts it - prior " to the era of Grand Lodges , " is equally clear and has emphatically been proved over and over ...
... character , and distinct ceremonies , - -are to my mind wholly modern . That there was a Masonic Ceremonial as Bro . Gould puts it - prior " to the era of Grand Lodges , " is equally clear and has emphatically been proved over and over ...
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... character . There is nothing impossible in the thought that our medieval brethren knew this explanation of their symbol . Certain it is , we do not know it . I have seen one explanation , upon which I will not enter now and curiously ...
... character . There is nothing impossible in the thought that our medieval brethren knew this explanation of their symbol . Certain it is , we do not know it . I have seen one explanation , upon which I will not enter now and curiously ...
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... character if it can be shewn that its forms were a survival of those of the old times wherein arose the exquisitely beautiful buildings of the 12th and 13th centuries . Much of our Ritual seems absurd now , but I believe it to be ...
... character if it can be shewn that its forms were a survival of those of the old times wherein arose the exquisitely beautiful buildings of the 12th and 13th centuries . Much of our Ritual seems absurd now , but I believe it to be ...
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