God appears as the architect of the world, shaping the universe with the aid of a compass. Within the perfect circle already created are the spherical sun and moon and the unformed matter that will become the earth once God...
Source: Gardner’s Art Through The Ages by Kleiner, Mamiya, Tansey
In his chapter of the antiquity of Masonry, [Captain George Smith] makes it to be coeval with creation, 'when,' says he, 'the sovereign architect raised on Masonic principles the beauteous globe, and commanded the master science, Geometry, to lay the...
Source: On the Origin of Free-Masonry by Thomas Paine
The Square is a right angle, formed by two right lines. It is adapted only to a plane surface, and belongs only to geometry, earth-measurement, that trigonometry which deals only with planes, and with the earth, which the ancients supposed...
Source: Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike
High Time We Made a Stand
Read it in the books, in the crannies and the nooks, there are books to read.
