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Broken column Source: Mackey’s Encyclopedia of Freemasonry Among the Hebrews, columns, or pillars, were used metaphorically to signify princes or nobles, as if they were the pillars of a state. Thus (in Psalm xi, 3), the passage, reading in our translation, «If the foundations be destroyed…