words or written in characters, to be carved or to be painted, or to be otherwise communicated, either directly or by parable and emblem." This formula, if accurate, would establish a further point of resemblance.
- Lombard de Langres, Les Sociétés Secrètes en Allemagne, p. 341 (1819); Lecouteulx de Canteleu, Les Sectes et Sociétès Secrètes, p. 99.
- A. le Plongeon, Sacred Mysteries among the Mayas and the Quichas (1886).
- Findel, History of Freemasonry (Eng. trans., 1866), pp. 131, 132.
- John Yarker, The Arcane Schools, p. 216, 431.
- Lexicon of Freemasonry, p. 298.
- Waite, The Real History of the Rosicrucians, p. 403.
- Ibid., p. 283.
- Yarker, The Arcane Schools, p. 430.
- "Yarker pronounces Elias Ashmole to have been circa 1686 'the leading spirit, both