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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions. *
Tau Cross is found amongst the symbols of many ancient nations , we have no certain evidence that , the Triple Tau , combined in this form , as a single symbol , existed till after the Crucifixion of Christ . And I am inclined to think , that it was adopted in some very early age of the church , as a monogram to represent the Great I A M , by whom the
gloomy and shapeless masses of chaos were changed into order , regularity , and beauty , and probably used as the sign or mark of some eminent ecclesiastical architect , and thence perpetuated in the system of Freemasonry as a Master's Mark ; for it is the precise form which was anciently termed the Greek Cross . And thus we find it represented on coins .
Of one of the coins on which this symbol appears , Dr . Walsh writes thus : " Justinian erected a statue iu the Augusteion , to which he gave the globe and cross which others had confined to their coins . He seemed ambitious of distinction in minor points . He modified the form of the cross into that which still continues in the eastern church to
be peculiarly called the Greek Cross ; and he bent down the tiara , so as to give it the shape of the modern crown surmounted by a cross , as used at present by Christian monarchs . These circumstances are commemorated on his coins . The above represents the Greek Cross standing on a pedestal of steps . "
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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions. *
Tau Cross is found amongst the symbols of many ancient nations , we have no certain evidence that , the Triple Tau , combined in this form , as a single symbol , existed till after the Crucifixion of Christ . And I am inclined to think , that it was adopted in some very early age of the church , as a monogram to represent the Great I A M , by whom the
gloomy and shapeless masses of chaos were changed into order , regularity , and beauty , and probably used as the sign or mark of some eminent ecclesiastical architect , and thence perpetuated in the system of Freemasonry as a Master's Mark ; for it is the precise form which was anciently termed the Greek Cross . And thus we find it represented on coins .
Of one of the coins on which this symbol appears , Dr . Walsh writes thus : " Justinian erected a statue iu the Augusteion , to which he gave the globe and cross which others had confined to their coins . He seemed ambitious of distinction in minor points . He modified the form of the cross into that which still continues in the eastern church to
be peculiarly called the Greek Cross ; and he bent down the tiara , so as to give it the shape of the modern crown surmounted by a cross , as used at present by Christian monarchs . These circumstances are commemorated on his coins . The above represents the Greek Cross standing on a pedestal of steps . "