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Project Gutenberg's The Symbolism of Freemasonry, by Albert G. Mackey This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Symbolism of Freemasonry Author: Albert G. Mackey Release Date: April 7, 2004 [EBook #11937] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SYMBOLISM OF FREEMASONRY *** Produced by Distributed Proofreaders [Transcriber's Notes: Footnotes have been renumbered and moved to the end of the work. This book contains words and phrases in both Greek and Hebrew. Greek characters have been transliterated using Beta-code. Most of the Hebrew words and characters are transliterated in the text by the author; those that were not transliterated by the author have been transliterate in the ASCII version.] The Symbolism of Freemasonry: Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, its Legends, Myths and Symbols. By Albert G. Mackey, M.D., "_Ea enim quae scribuntur tria habere decent, utilitatem praesentem, certum finem, inexpugnabile fundamentum._" Cardanus. 1882. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by ALBERT G. MACKEY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of South Carolina. 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 inst
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