3. The Mysteries of the Druids and the ‘Drottes’
GA 93/1904-09-30/p020
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Unlike our present practice, not one stone was laid upon another in the building of a Druid temple without the use of exact astronomical measurement. Doorways were built according to astronomical measurement. The Druid priests were the builders of humanity. A faint reflection of this is preserved today in the views which the Freemasons hold.
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