The Symbolism of Freemasonry [Illustrated & chapter & footnotes navigation]

Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols.
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 it...