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  • adjective Of, or pertaining to, Hiram Abiff, the chief character in an allegorical legend connected with the initiation into the third degree of Freemasonry.

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  • Dionysiacs for the principle which led to the involuntary formation of this Hiramic myth; and then we arrive at the same result, which has been already indicated, namely, that the necessity of the religious sentiment in the Jewish mind, to which the introduction of the legend of Dionysus would have been abhorrent, led to the substitution for it of that of

    The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey

  • He is the analogue of the Builder in the Hiramic legend of

    The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey

  • Take, for instance, the Hiramic legend of the third degree.

    The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey

  • Moreover, modern Freemasonry is entirely built up on the Solomonic, or rather the Hiramic legend.

    Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918

  • Hiramic legend was adopted by the Templars as symbolic of the destruction of their Order.

    Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918

  • Lionel Vibert, I.C.S., p. 135, where it is suggested that the Hiramic legend dates from an incident in one of the French building guilds in

    Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918

  • The secret doctrine concealed in the teaching of Christ was handed down by initiates who "hid themselves and their doctrine under the cover of Freemasonry," [547] and in a long explanation of Masonic hieroglyphics he indicates the analogies between the Hiramic legend and the story of Christ.

    Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918

  • If we accept the possibility that the Hiramic legend existed amongst the masons before the Crusades, how are we to explain this extraordinary coincidence?

    Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918

  • But we are told that there is no hint of the Hiramic legend, still less any intimation of a tragedy associated with the building of the

    The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry Joseph Fort Newton 1913

  • Hiramic legend represents a murder, restoration, and teaches --, 435-l.

    Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850

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