Masonic Constitutions Or Illustrations Of Masonry

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Excerpt from Masonic Constitutions, or Illustrations of Masonry: Compiled by the Direction of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky, and Adopted by Them for the Regulation and Government of the Subordinate Lodges Under Their Jurisdiction; With an Appendix, Containing Remarks on the Degrees of Master Mark Masons At last when the world's destruction drew nigh, God command ed Noah to build the great Ark or floating Castle, and his three sons assisted as deputy and two wardens that edifice though of wood only, was fabricated by Geometry, a curious and large piece of Architecture, and finished when N oah entered into his six hundredth year - ou board of which he and his three sons and their fear wives passed, and having received their cargo of animals by God's direction, they were saved in the Ark. Thus from these four grand officers the whole race of mankind are de scended. After the flood, N cab and his three sons having preserved the knowledge of the arts and sciences, communicated them to their growing offspring, who were all of one language or speech; and it came to pass as they journeyed from the east towards the west, they'found a plain in the land of Shinai and dwelt there as N oacides or sons of N oah. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.