Architectural illustrations and account of the Temple church, London. [With] Essay on the symbolic evidences of the Temple church, by E. Clarkson1838 - 40 pages |
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... represented in this dress . Between this and the order of the Assassins there is no difference . The only dif- ference between the latter and the dress of the Templars was , that the red girdle was exchanged for the red badge . There ...
... represented in this dress . Between this and the order of the Assassins there is no difference . The only dif- ference between the latter and the dress of the Templars was , that the red girdle was exchanged for the red badge . There ...
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... represented as Bætylia or divine stones , -and finally that the sepulchral King of the Egyptian mysteries and initiations , Osiris , was represented as a four - fold column , * like the six interior columns of the Temple Church ...
... represented as Bætylia or divine stones , -and finally that the sepulchral King of the Egyptian mysteries and initiations , Osiris , was represented as a four - fold column , * like the six interior columns of the Temple Church ...
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... represented on the planispheres as guarding the sacred apple * 66 Magnum Jovis incrementum ; " Virgil's 4th Eclogue . + See Æschylus . tree ; and it is a singular corroboration and illustration See the Modern Celestial Sphere . 13.
... represented on the planispheres as guarding the sacred apple * 66 Magnum Jovis incrementum ; " Virgil's 4th Eclogue . + See Æschylus . tree ; and it is a singular corroboration and illustration See the Modern Celestial Sphere . 13.
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... represented by cubes ; hence the altar in the court yard of the temple of Solomon consisted of two cubes ; hence the oracle , or holy of holies , both of the ark and the temple constituted perfect cubes ; 1 Kings , chap . vi . ver . 20 ...
... represented by cubes ; hence the altar in the court yard of the temple of Solomon consisted of two cubes ; hence the oracle , or holy of holies , both of the ark and the temple constituted perfect cubes ; 1 Kings , chap . vi . ver . 20 ...
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... represented by the various triangles it contains , was conveyed from , or shared with , the Egyptians by the Persian Magi , and from them was handed down to the Mani- chees , the Gnostics , the Templars , and the Rosicrusians or Fire ...
... represented by the various triangles it contains , was conveyed from , or shared with , the Egyptians by the Persian Magi , and from them was handed down to the Mani- chees , the Gnostics , the Templars , and the Rosicrusians or Fire ...
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Page 16 - And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length, and the breadth, and the height of it are equal.
Page 31 - I. in the year 1283, taking with him Robert Waleran, and other, came to the Temple, where calling for the keeper of the treasure-house, as if he meant to see his mother's jewels, that were laid up there to be safely kept, he entered into the house, breaking the coffers of certain persons that had likewise brought their money thither, and he took away from thence to the value of a thousand pounds.
Page 32 - We may believe that king Philip would never have taken away their lives if he might have taken their lands without putting them to death, but the mischief was, he could not get the honey unless he burnt the bees.
Page 33 - Knights o' th' Posts, About the cross-legg'd knights, their hosts; Or wait for customers between The pillar-rows in Lincoln's Inn ; Where vouchers, forgers, common-bail.
Page 16 - And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD. 20 And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold ; and* so covered the altar which was of cedar.