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.
- Rev. G. Oliver, The Historical Landmarks of Freemasonry, pp. 55, 57 (1845).
- The Jewish Encyclopaædia (article on Freemasonry) characterizes the name Hiram Abifi as a misunderstanding of 2 Chron. ii. 13
- Clavel, Histoire pittoresque de la Franc-Maçonnerie, p. 340; Matter, Histoire du Gnosticisme, I. 145.
- Quoted in A.Q.C., XXXII. Part I. p. 36.
- Article on Freemasonry, giving reference to Pesik, R.V. 25a (ed. Friedmann).
- Clavel, op. cit., 364, 365; Lecouteulx de Canteleu, Les Sectes et Sociétés Secrétes, p. 120.
- Clavel, op. cit., p. 82.
- Yarker, The Arcane Schools, p. 257.
- Ibid., p. 242.
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