The Symbolism of Freemasonry: Illustrating and Illustrating Its Explaining, and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths (Classic Reprint)

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 dog mas, which constitute its philosophy, are intrusted for communi cation to the neophyte, sometimes to one, sometimes to the other of these two methods of instruction, and sometimes to both of them combined. The Freemason has no way of reaching any of the esoteric teachings of theO rder except through the medium of a legend or a symbol. A legend differs from an historical narrative only in this that it is without documentary evidence of authenticity. It is the off spring solely of tradition. I ts details may be true in part or in whole. There may be no internal evidence to the contrary, or there may be internal evidence that they are altogether false.
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