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"To the vulgar and untaught eye," says Dudley, "the heaven or sky above the earth appears to be co-extensive with the earth, and to take the same form, enclosing a cubical space, of which the earth was the base, the heaven or sky the upper surface." Naology, 7. And it is to this notion of the universe that the masonic symbol of the lodge refers. "These rocky shrines, the formation of which Mr.
"The idea," says Dudley, "that the earth is a level surface, and of a square form, is so likely to have been entertained by persons of little experience and limited observation, that it may be justly supposed to have prevailed generally in the early ages of the world." Naology, p. 7. The quadrangular form of the earth is preserved in almost all the scriptural allusions that are made to it.
This remained untouched, and was enclosed within the temple, to show, says Dudley, "that the stone, having been a personification of the God Supreme, could not be reasonably required to yield to Jupiter himself in dignity and power." DUDLEY'S Naology, p 145. Dudley's Naology, p. 476. Masonic Discourses, Dis. iv. p. 81.
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