Symbols and Legends of FreemasonryFreemasonry is a secret mystical brotherhood that dates back many centuries. According to the author it teaches that a Great Architect of the Universe exists, and of the possibility that an inner principle of life is found within us and survives bodily death. These important teachings are laid out clearly in this book -- starting from remote history and up through the ages, revealing the secrets as it goes. It covers such subjects as the all-seeing eye, immortality of the soul, the mystery of death, Solomon's temple, the Greater Mysteries, Sun worship, symbolic architecture, Hiran Abif, and much more. |
Contents
Splendour | 2 |
INDIA Our Aryan Forefathers The Triune | 9 |
GREECE The Immortality of the Soul The Eleusinian | 17 |
to | 37 |
to | 72 |
ENGLAND The Legacy of the Roman Masons | 100 |
MODERN FREEMASONRY The Last Great Link welded | 145 |
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