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THE ANCIENT SECRET

Michelet, in his History of France, says on the subject of the secret of the mediaeval Masons that it was geometrical, and consisted of an application of the science of numbers, used in a mystical sense, to the art of building according to the principles of Gothic architecture, which was the peculiar style of the Freemasons, says Dr. Mackey in his History of Freemasonry.

He says that this geometry of beauty, as he calls it, is conspicuous in the type of Gothic architecture, as exhibited in the cathedral of Cologne.

This is a regular body which has grown in its appropriate proportions with a regularity equal to that of the formation of crystals. The cross of this church is strictly deduced from the figure by which Euclid constructs the equilateral triangle.

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