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Seite 16 - It ain't the guns nor armament, nor funds that they can pay, But the close cooperation that makes them win the day; It ain't the individual, nor the army as a whole, But the everlastin' teamwork of every bloomin
Seite 4 - Royal Arch Masons date from the year the second temple was commenced by Zerubbabel, Anno Inventionis (AI), "in the year of discovery.
Seite B-52 - Godwin, speaking of buildings of more modern construction than the Temple of Solomon, says : " The marks, it can hardly be doubted, were made to distinguish the work of different individuals. At the present time, the man who works a stone (being different from the man who sets it) makes his mark on the bed or other internal face of it, so that it may be identified.
Seite B-45 - A view which has been very generally received is, that the short-hand signatures or markings which masons have for centuries been in the habit of cutting on the stones wrought or hewn by them, may be all included in two classes : the false or blind mark of the apprentice, displaying an equal number of points, and the true mark of the fellow-craft or passed mason, consisting of an unequal number of points.3 Indeed, the late Mr EW Shaw, who had made a collection of 11,000 marks, professed his ability...
Seite B-59 - IF thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray.
Seite 97 - Masons duly chartered by and installed according to the general rules and regulations of the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of the state of New York ; 4.
Seite B-37 - To him that overcometh will I give a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Seite B-52 - ... marks found in different countries (although the variety is great) are in many cases identical, and in all have a singular accordance in character — seems to show that the men who employed them did so by system, and that the system, if not the same in England, Germany, and France, was closely analogous in one country to that of the others.
Seite 4 - Knights Templar commence their era with the organization of their Order, Anno Ordinis (AO), "in the year of the Order.
Seite B-44 - To the inquiry, on what principle, or according to what rule, these marks were formed, Scottish masons generally replied, "That they probably had in early times a meaning now unknown, and are still regarded with a sort of reverence ; that the only rule for their formation is, that they shall have at least one angle ; that the circle must be avoided, and cannot be a true mason's mark unless in combination with some line that shall form an angle with...

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