d all the ancient thinkers, whether in
Egypt or India. Pythagoras, Proclus tells us, was concerned only with
number and magnitude: number absolute, in arithmetic; number applied,
in music; and so forth--whereof we read in the _Old Charges_ (see "The
Great Symbol," by Klein, _A. Q. C._, x, 82).

[101] Faerie Queene, bk. ii, canto ix, 22.

[102] _Lost Language of Symbolism_, by Bayley, also _A New Light on the
Renaissance_, by the same author; _Architecture of the Renaissance in
England_, by J.A. Gotch; and "Notes on Some Masonic Symbols," by W.H.
Rylands, _A. Q. C._, viii, 84. Indeed, the literature is as prolific as
the facts.

[103] J.V. Andreae, _Ehreneich Hohenfelder von Aister Haimb_. A
verbatim translation of the second line quoted would read, "Unless in
God he has his building."

[104] When, for example, Albert Pike, in his letter, "Touching Masonic
Symbolism," speaks of the "poor, rude, unlettered, uncultivated working
Stone-masons," who attended the Assemblies, he is obviously confounding
Free-masons with the rough Stone-masons of the Guilds. Over against
these words, read a brilliant article in the _Contemporary Review_,
October, 1913, by L.M. Phillips, entitled, "The Two Ways of Building,"
showing how the Free-masons, instead of working under architects
outside the order, chose the finer minds among them as leaders and
created the different styles of architecture in Europe. "Such," he
adds, "was the high limit of talent and intelligence which the creative
spirit fostered among workmen.... The entire body being trained and
educated in the same principles and ideas, the most backward and
inefficient, as they worked at the vaults which their own skillful
brethren had planned, might feel the glow of satisfaction arising from
the conscious realization of their own aspirations. Thus the whole body
of constructive knowledge maintained its unity.... Thus it was by free
associations of workmen training their own leaders that the great
Gothic edifices of the medieval ages were constructed.... A style so
imaginative and so spiritual might almost be the dream of a poet or the
vision of a saint. Really it is the creation of the sweat and labor of
workingmen, and every iota of the boldness, dexterity and knowledge
which it embodies was drawn out of the practical experience and
experiments of manual labor." This describes the Comacine Masters, but
not the poor, rude, unlettered Stone-masons whom Pike had in mind.

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