Albert Gallatin Mackey
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols
e-artnow, 2020
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Table of Contents
III. The Primitive Freemasonry of Antiquity.
IV. The Spurious Freemasonry of Antiquity.
VII. The Union of Speculative and Operative Masonry at the Temple of Solomon.
VIII. The Travelling Freemasons of the Middle Ages.
IX. Disseverance of the Operative Element.
X. The System of Symbolic Instuction.
XI. The Speculative Science and the Operative Art.
XII. He Symbolism of Solomon'S Temple.
XV. The Point Within a Circle.
XVI. The Covering of the Lodge.
XVIII. The Rite of Discalceation.
XX. The Symbolism of the Gloves.
XXI. The Rite of Circumambulation.
XXII. The Rite of Intrusting, and the Symbolism of Light.
XXIII. Symbolism of the Corner-Stone.
XXV. The Legends of Freemasonry.
XXVI. The Legend of the Winding Stairs.
XXVII. The Legend of the Third Degree.
XXX. The Stone of Foundation.216
"Ea enim quae scribuntur tria habere decent, utilitatem praesentem, certum finem, inexpugnabile fundamentum."
Cardanus.
To General John C. Fremont.
My Dear Sir:
While any American might be proud of associating his name with that of one who has done so much to increase the renown of his country, and to enlarge the sum of human knowledge, this book is dedicated to you as a slight testimonial of regard for your personal character, and in grateful recollection of acts of friendship.
Yours very truly,
A. G. Mackey.
Preface.
Of the various modes of communicating instruction to the uninformed, the masonic student is particularly interested in two; namely, the instruction by legends and that by symbols. It is to these two, almost exclusively, that he is indebted for all that he knows, and for all that he can know, of the philosophic system which is taught in the institution. All its mysteries and its dogmas, which constitute its philosophy, are intrusted for communication to the neophyte, sometimes to one, sometimes to the other of these two methods of instruction, and sometimes to both of them combined. The Freemason has no way of reaching any of the esoteric teachings of the Order except through the medium of a legend or a symbol.
A legend differs from an historical narrative only in this—that it is without documentary evidence
