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THE ancient Cosmic Science, of which Freemasonry is the modern survival, gives the date of its inception, as that at which the above Cardinal Signs commenced their reign, viz. 3995 BCE, commonly reckoned as 4000 BCE, which, added to the current year, gives us our Masonic date.

Contents

Avant Propos

First Books of Masonry

Beginning of Masonry

Theosophy and Masonry

The Ancient Mysteries

The Secret Doctrine

The Hermetic Philosophy

Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry

God and Masonry

Masonry’s Real Secret

Pythagoras and Freemasonry

The Forty-seventh Problem

The Number-Letter System

Three Times Three

The Number Seven

The Pi Proportion and Genesis

Masonry in a Snowflake

King Solomon’s Temple

The Working Tools of EA

The Middle Chamber

Dedication of the Lodge

Pillars of the Porch

The Lodge Room Floor

The Candidate

Whom Does the Candidate Represent

The Widow’s Son

The Lodge Heads

Our Three Grand Masters

The Twelve Fellowcrafts

The Cable Tow

Angles

Signs

Circumambulation

Origin of the Sabbath

The Letter “G”

The East

The Lodge on High

Clothing of a Master Mason

The Symbolic Trowel

The Lion in Freemasonry

The Acacia

Color in Masonry

Light in Masonry