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THE



SYMBOLISM OF FREEMASONRY:


ILLUSTRATING AND EXPLAINING


Its Science and Philosophy, its Legends, Myths, and Symbols.




BY

ALBERT G. MACKEY, M. D.,

AUTHOR OF "LEXICON OF FREEMASONRY," "TEXT-BOOK OF MASONIC
JURISPRUDENCE;" "CRYPTIC MASONRY;"
ETC:; ETC.



"Ea enim quae scribuntur tria habere decent, utilitatem praesentem,
certum finem, inexpugnabile fundamentum."
CARDANUS.



NEW YORK:
CLARK AND MAYNARD,
734 BROADWAY.


Editon 1882.









TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Chapter Content Page
- Preface. 1
I. Preliminary. 9
II. The Noachidae. 22
III. The Primitive Freemasonry of Antiquity. 26
IV. The Spurious Freemasonry of Antiquity 32
V. The Ancient Mysteries. 39
VI. The Dionysiac Artificers 45
VII. The Union of Speculative and Operative
Masonry at the Temple of Solomon
58
VIII. The Travelling Freemasons of the Middle Ages. 62
IX. Disseverance of the Operative Element. 66
X. The System of Symbolic Instruction. 71
XI. The Speculative Science and the Operative Art. 77
XII. The Symbolism of Solomon's Temple. 85
XIII. The Form of the Lodge. 100
XIV. The Officers of a Lodge. 106
XV. The Point within a Circle. 111
XVI. The Covering of the Lodge. 117
XVII. Ritualistic Symbolism. 123
XVIII. The Rite of Discalceation 125
XIX. The Rite of Invtestiture. 130
XX. The Symbolism of the Gloves. 136
XXI. The Rite of Circumambulation. 142
XXII. The Rite of Intrusting, and the Symbol Light. 147
XXIII. Symbolism of the Corner-stone. 159
XXIV. The Inefable Name. 176
XXV. The Legends of Freemasonry. 198
XXVI. The Legend of the Winding Stairs. 215
XXVII. The Legend of the Third Degree. 228
XXVIII. The Sprig of Acacia. 247
XXIX. The Symbolism of Labor. 263
XXX. The Stone of Foundation. 281
XXXI. The Lost Word. 300
--- SYNOPTICAL INDEX. 313




Author: Albert Gallatin Mackey M. D.

(M. D. = doctor medicinae) 1807- 1881, a physican in Charleston, South Caroline, was author of many masonic publication. 1845 he published a "Lexicon of Freemasonry", and 1874 an "Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry" which saw several revised editions.