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1. A Free Mason's answer to the Suspected Author of a Pamphlet entitled " Jachin and Boaz," or an authentic
Key to Freemasonry, p. 10 (1762).
2. Quoted by R.F. Gould, History of Freemasonry, I. 5, 6.
3. Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man, p. 1 (1910).
4. Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, XXXII. Part I. p. 47.
5. Preston's Illustrations of Masonry. pp. 143, 147, 153 (1804).
6. John Yarker, The Arcane Schools, pp. 269, 327, 329.
7. Published in the Essai sur la Secte des Illuminés by the Marquis de Luchet p. 236 (1792 edition).
8. Brother Chalmers Paton, The Origin of Freemasonry: the 1717 Theory Exploded, quoting ancient charges
preserved in a MS. in possession of the Lodge of Antiquity in London, written in the reign of James II, but "
supposed to be really of much more ancient date."
9. Ars Quatuor Coronatorum, XXV. p. 240, paper by J. E. S. Tuckett on Dr. Rawlinson and the Masonic
Entries in Elias Ashmole's Diary, with facsimile of entry in Diary which is preserved in the Bodleian Library
(Ashmole MS. 1136. fol. 19).
10. Yarker, The Arcane Schools, p. 383.
11. Preston's Illustration of Masonry, p. 208 (1804).
12. The Origins of Freemasonry: the 1717 Theory Exploded.
13. The Rev. G. Oliver, The Historical Landmarks of Freemasonry, pp, 55, 57, 62, 318 (1845).
14. Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man, p. 185 (1910).
15. Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man, p. 8 (1910).
16. Ibid., p. 7. The German Freemason Findel disagrees with both the Roman Collegia and the Egypt theory,
and, like the Abbé Grandidier, indicates the Steinmetzen of the fifteenth century as the real progenitors of
the Order: " All attempts to trace the history of Freemasonry farther back than the Middle Ages have been...
failures, and plating the origin of the Fraternity in the mysteries of Egypt... must be rejected as a wild and
untenable hypothesis."-History of Freemasonry (Eng. trans.), p. 25.
17. Dr. Oliver and Dr. Mackey thus refer to true and spurious Masonry, the former descending from Noah,
through Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Moses to Solomon-hence the appellation of Noachites sometimes
applied to Freemasons-the latter from Cain and the Gymnosophists of India to Egypt and Greece. They add
that a union between the two took place at the time of the building of the Temple of Solomon through Hiram
Abiff, who was a member of both, being by birth a Jew and artificer of Tyre, and from this union Freemasonry
descends. According to Mackey, therefore Jewish Masonry is the true form.-A Lexicon of Freemasonry,
pp. 323-5; Oliver's Historical Landmarks of Freemasonry, I. 60.
18. Rev. G. Oliver, The Historical Landmarks of Freemasonry, pp. 55, (1845)
19. The Jewish Encyclopædia (article on Freemasonry) characterizes the name Hiram Abiff as a misunderstanding
of 2 Chron. ii. 13.
20. Clavel, Histoire pittoresque de la Franc-Maçonnerie, p. 340; Matter, Histoire du Gnosticisme, I. 145.
21. Article on Freemasonry, giving reference to Pesik, R.V. 25a (ed. Friedmann).
22. Clavel, op. cit., 364, 365; Lecouteulx de Canteleu, Les Sectes et Sociétés Secrètes, p. 120.
23. Clavel, op. cit., p. 82.
24. Yarker, The Arcane Schools, p. 257.
25. Ibid., p. 242.
26. " According to Prof. Marks and Prof. Hayter Lewis, the story of Hiram Abiff is at least as old as the
fourteenth century."-J.E.S. Tuckett in The Origin of Additional Degrees, A.Q.C. XXXII. Part I. p. 14. It
should be noted that no Mason who took part in the discussion brought evidence to show that it dated from
before this period. Cf. Freemasonry Before the Existence of Grand Lodges (1923), by Wor. Bro. Lionel Vibert,
I.C.S., p. 135, where it is suggested that the Hiramic legend dates from an incident in one of the French
building guilds in 1401.
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