For my mother, who loved “the mysteries of the Gospel” more than life itself

FIGURE 2  Prostyle Temple Memorializing De Witt Clinton

Jeremy Cross, The True Masonic Chart (1819), reproduced in Steven C. Bullock, Revolutionary Brotherhood: Freemasonry and the Transformation of the American Social Order, 1730–1840 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), p. 144.