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The Site Of Solomon's Temple Discovered.

years , at length formed a conception of the exact site of the Old Temple of Solomon and Herod . To verify that conception , he visited the Haram for the purpose of making a reconnaissance survey and fixing upon two sites : 1 st . A base Hue of verification Avhich everybody would admit ,

from which offsets or perpendicular distances could be made to the given stations . 2 nd . A central station , from which a standard offset could be made , ancl conveniently joined to the base of verification ,

first standard offset by which all others Avere determined , The sides of the Court of Gentiles ( Herod's Court ) , Court of Israel , and Court of the Priests , and even ° f the Holy House itself , were then taken and treated as a series of offsets and

persuch central station to be a natural formation , and not a work of art ; all other sites and distances to be determined by these . The two standard sites were satisfactorily determined by that reconnaissance . The

western Avail of the Haram ash Sharif , or so much of it as was left standing by Titus when Jerusalem was destroyed , was selected as the base of verification ; the Sakhra was taken as the central station , and the line which joined the two together was the

pendiculars , and referred to the western walls as the base line for their verification as to length and breadth . The Sakhra was in fact a central station to the whole Temple Area . These two things—the western wall ,

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Untitled Article 1
Monthly Masonic Summary. Article 2
THE HONBLE MRS. ALDWORTH. Article 3
THE ORIGIN AND REFERENCES OF THE HERMESIAN SPURIOUS FREEMASONRY. Article 4
THE MASONIC SIGN. Article 6
AN INDIAN MASONIC WELCOME TO OUR GRAND MASTER. Article 7
LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF SCOTTISH FREEMASONRY. Article 8
BYE-LAWS OF THE YORK LODGE: No. 236. Article 10
EARLY MEETINGS OF THE GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND. Article 14
CURFEW MUST NOT RING TO-NIGHT. Article 16
THE FREEMASONS AND ARCHTECTURE IN ENGLAND. Article 17
WOMAN'S CHOICE —THE STORY OF A HERO. Article 18
UNDER CURRENTS. Article 23
THE LAST WISH. Article 25
NOTES ON THE OLD MINUTE BOOKS OF THE BRITISH UNION LODGE, NO. 114, IPSWICH. AD. 1762. Article 25
AN ORIGINAL TOAST, Article 30
SONNET. Article 30
A WORD TO THE WISE. Article 31
CONTEMPORARY LETTERS ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. Article 32
THE NEW YEAR. Article 35
THE WIDOW'S STRATAGEM. Article 36
NOTES ON LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART. Article 39
ADDRESS OF THE V. H. AND E. SIR KT. COL. W. J. B. MACLEOD MOORE, Article 43
THE SITE OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE DISCOVERED. Article 45
Review. Article 48
SONNET. Article 49
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The Site Of Solomon's Temple Discovered.

years , at length formed a conception of the exact site of the Old Temple of Solomon and Herod . To verify that conception , he visited the Haram for the purpose of making a reconnaissance survey and fixing upon two sites : 1 st . A base Hue of verification Avhich everybody would admit ,

from which offsets or perpendicular distances could be made to the given stations . 2 nd . A central station , from which a standard offset could be made , ancl conveniently joined to the base of verification ,

first standard offset by which all others Avere determined , The sides of the Court of Gentiles ( Herod's Court ) , Court of Israel , and Court of the Priests , and even ° f the Holy House itself , were then taken and treated as a series of offsets and

persuch central station to be a natural formation , and not a work of art ; all other sites and distances to be determined by these . The two standard sites were satisfactorily determined by that reconnaissance . The

western Avail of the Haram ash Sharif , or so much of it as was left standing by Titus when Jerusalem was destroyed , was selected as the base of verification ; the Sakhra was taken as the central station , and the line which joined the two together was the

pendiculars , and referred to the western walls as the base line for their verification as to length and breadth . The Sakhra was in fact a central station to the whole Temple Area . These two things—the western wall ,

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