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The Historical Landmarks and Other Evidences of Freemasonry, Explained, a Series of Practical Lectures, With Notes
The Historical Landmarks and Other Evidences of Freemasonry Explained a Series of Practical Lectures With Notes Author:George Oliver General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1846 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: It has already been said that the form of the Lodge is an oblong square, or parallelogram,2 or, more cor- 6 In Bro. Rosenberg's Chart, Le MJroir de la Sagesse, he has presented us with an allegorieal diagram of the form of a Lodge, accompanied with names of the ten Sephiroth applied to the chief officers; thus, -- To the above diagram our ingenious Brother adds, " dans le temple de Salomon a Jerusalem, dix colonnes avaient etc clevees portant ces dix inseriptions, et placees sous 1'invoeation des choeurs d'anges resumes dans ces hierarchies celestes." I give the figure as I find it, without any remark on the propriety of assigning Wisdom to the Orator instead of the A . M., and plaeing the S. W. in the south, and the J. W. in the north. The Helvetian ritual directs that the Treasurer shall be placed " in the corner ofthe Amorites," but here he is situated in the north along with the Secretary, who occupies his legitimate situation. The arrangement may be in accordance with the French system; but if so, it differs materially from our own. rectly speaking, a double cube. Now, a square is esteemed by Masons as one of its Greater Lights," and a compound part of the furniture of the Lodge. The square was the first geometrieal figure which was brought into practieal use by operative Masons." In the construction of eities, and private dwellings, eamps and fastnesses, right angles were generally used;" as i6 An old system of lecturing, now before me, taught that " every duty in practice, if perfect and complete, is of a square surface; for every part of the practice of that duty should be supported by a l...« less