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Title: Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Redding, M. W. (Moses Wolcott) Guide to Mount Moriah, Author of
Subjects: Bible Middle East -- Antiquities
Publisher: New York, Temple Publishing Union
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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antiquarian researches, to discover the evidenceswhich preceded us in our particular calling. Although Free Masonry is now speculative, stillthere was a time when the Master Mason was the realdirector of the construction of Beautiful Edifices,of which the Magnificent Temple of Solomon, andlatterly the wonderful Cathedrals dotted all overEurope, are specimens; the evidences of whichwork in the written record has long been familiar onthe page of history, but the symbolic private marksof the builders, used by the master workman, for theguidance of the craft in laying the stones in theirplaces, liave escaped their proper notice. Many ofthese marks have been found on stones, in the founda-tion walls of the Temple enclosure, at Jerusalem.They are also found in other parts of Palestine, andin every country where the Craft have since left evi-dences of their skill and industry. These marks havebeen found on a large number of stones, in differentcourses in tlie Sanctuary Wall, and having been
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covered with earth, were protected from the action ofthe elements, and the busy hands of men. The few of which sketches are given, give a com-plete idea of the whole, as they are almost repetitionsof similar characters, found wherever edifices andother works have been constructed by the Craft, andwere doubtless put on by the Master workmen to in-dicate the position of the stones in the walls or struc-tures where found. These marks have been found onthe east of Jordan, on the stones of Palmyra,Bozrah, and other cities that were built since thetime of Solomon, and, wherever the characters arefound, they are of the same style and color, beingmade with red paint. The base of this paint is redchalk, which is a natural production and nearly inde-structible by time or the action of the elements. It isfound on the Egyptian monuments, where it hasstood fresh and bright for 35 centuries. Several of the groups of these characters were re-cently discovered by Captain Warren, K. E., whilecarrying

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