Download or read book The Story of the Guilds and Their Relationship to Freemasonry written by Robert Freke Gould and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book The Early History and Antiquities of Freemasonry written by George Franklin Fort and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Cathedral Builders written by Leader Scott and published by London : Sampson Low, Marston and Company. This book was released on 1899 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cathedral Builders The Story of a Great Masonic Guild written by Leader Scott and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Secret History of Freemasonry written by Paul Naudon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-03-28 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the hidden history of Freemasonry from ancient Rome, through the Middle Ages, to the present • Shows the close connection between medieval masons and the Knights Templar • Illustrates the sacred nature of Roman and medieval trade associations • Reveals the missing link that connects the lodges of modern Freemasonry to the medieval brotherhoods of builders Historians often make a sharp distinction between the operative Masonry of the Middle Ages and the speculative Masonry of modern times, emphasizing that there is no direct bridge connecting the two. Modern historians also have scoffed at Masonic claims concerning the close relationship between the Lodge and the Temple. Using medieval archives housed throughout Europe, historian Paul Naudon reveals that there was in fact a very intimate connection between the Masons and the Knights Templar. Church records of medieval Paris show that most, if not all, the Masons of that time were residents of the Templar censive, which allowed them to enjoy great exemptions and liberties from both church and state as a result of the protection afforded them by this powerful order. Naudon shows that the origins of Freemasonry can be traced back to the collegia of ancient Rome. He traces the evolution of organizations such as the Comacine Masters, the Arab turuqs, and the brotherhoods of builders created under the aegis of the Benedictines and the Knights Templar, all of which provide the vehicle for the transmission of a sacred tradition from pre-Christian times to the modern era. This tradition is the source of Masonic ritual and symbolism, and it provides the missing link in the transformation of the operative Masonry of the medieval cathedral builders to the spiritual principles of modern speculative Masonry.
Download or read book The Cathedral Builders The Story of a Great Masonic Guild The Original Classic Edition written by Leader Scott and published by Emereo Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-10 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of The Cathedral Builders The Story of a Great Masonic Guild. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print. This is a new and freshly published edition of this culturally important work by Leader Scott, which is now, at last, again available to you. Get the PDF and EPUB NOW as well. Included in your purchase you have The Cathedral Builders The Story of a Great Masonic Guild in EPUB AND PDF format to read on any tablet, eReader, desktop, laptop or smartphone simultaneous - Get it NOW. Enjoy this classic work today. These selected paragraphs distill the contents and give you a quick look inside The Cathedral Builders The Story of a Great Masonic Guild: Look inside the book: Müller (Archaeologie der Kunst, p. 224) says that: 'From Constantinople as the centre of mechanical skill, a knowledge of art radiated to distant countries, corporations of builders of Grecian birth were permitted to exercise a judicial government among themselves according to the laws of the country to which they owed allegiance;' and Stieglitz, in his History of Architecture, records a tradition that at the time the Lombards were in possession of Northern Italy, i.e. from the sixth to the eighth century, the Byzantine builders 8 formed themselves into guilds and associations, and that on account of having received from the Popes the privilege of living according to their own laws and ordinances, they were called Freemasons. ...Therefore it may be inferred: (1) That architects of the same guild worked in Rome and in Ravenna in the early centuries after Christ; (2) that though the architects were Roman, the decorators up to the fourth century were chiefly Byzantine, or had imbibed that style as their paintings show; (3) that in the time when Rome lay a heap of ruins under the barbarians, the Collegium, or a Collegium, I know not which, fled to independent Como; and there in after centuries they were employed by the Longobards, and ended in again becoming a powerful guild. About Leader Scott, the Author: though necessarily based on Merzario’s I Maestri Comacini, the book shows much original observation and research and, if its arguments are not always conclusive, the international scope of the work and its wealth of illustration render it a storehouse of information and a useful introduction to an unfrequented field of speculation. ...The initial version of this article was very closely based on Baxter’s entry in the Second Supplement to the DNB, a work published in 1901 and now in the public domain.
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Download or read book The Cathedral Builders written by Leader Scott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Cathedral Builders: The Story of a Great Masonic Guild No one could be more surprised than myself at the early call for a second edition of the Cathedral Builders, for I had feared that a discovery in the history of art, hitherto unnoticed, would have found fewer readers ready to accept it I knew that though I could show many evidences of the after development of the Masonic Guild, yet absolute proofs of its earlier history were few, it being an age of which no documentary records survive, and even its inscriptions are in these days far from legible. However, since the book went to press, several facts, and some documentary evidences have come to hand, which tend greatly to confirm the hypothesis, especially as regards the connection of Italy with the early English Masonic Lodges, as they are revealed in the Masonic Records and Fabric Rolls of the Cathedrals. I hope the result will lead to a similar search into the mediæval origin of Architecture and Art, in both France and Germany. One of my critics who does not appear to have studied the history of Art, has thought to ridicule the theory of a guild by saying, "We would humbly suggest on the same line of argument that in England, Australia, Canada and the United States just now people are speaking one and the same language, therefore there must be some mysterious guild - and why not the Comacine Guild or the Freemasons, regulating unbeknown to everybody the grammar and literary style of every English-speaking country? The supposition seems to us quite as reasonable as that of the Cathedral Builders." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Early History and Antiquities of Freemasonry written by George Franklin Fort and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Freemasonry written by Albert Gallatin Mackey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The History of Freemasonry, Vol. 3 Brother William James Hughan are we indebted, more than to any other person, for the collection and publication of all the Masonic Guild ordinances that have been preserved in the British Museum, in the archives of old Lodges, or in private hands. In the beginning of his work on The Old Charges of the British Freemasons (a book so valuable and so necessary that it should be in the library of every Masonic archaeologist), Brother Hughan says: "Believing as we do that the present Association of Freemasons is an outgrowth of the Building Corporations and Guilds of the Middle Ages, as also a lineal descendant and sole representative of the early, secret Masonic sodalities, it appears to us that their ancient Laws and Charges are specially worthy of preservation, study and reproduction. No collection of these having hitherto been published we have undertaken to introduce several of the most important to the notice of the Fraternity." As Brother Hughan is distinguished for the accuracy and fidelity with which he has himself made, or caused to be made by competent scribes, copies of these Constitutions from the originals, I shall select from one of the earliest of them the ordinances or regulations, which shall be collated with those of the early Saxon Guilds, specimens of which have been given in the preceding chapter. An account of these Old Records, as they are sometimes called, will be found in the first part of this work, where the subject of the Legend of the Craft, which they all contain, is treated. It will be unnecessary therefore to repeat here that account. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book CATHEDRAL BUILDERS written by LEADER. SCOTT and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Freemasonry Its Antiquities Symbols Constitutions Customs etc Vol I written by Robert Freke Gould and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters written by Lilith Mahmud and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “stupendous ethnography of female Freemasonry in Italy” reveals the fascinating paradox of elitism and exclusion experienced by “female brothers” (Michael Herzfeld, author of Evicted from Eternity). From its cryptic images on the dollar bill to Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, the Freemasons have long been one of the most romanticized secret societies in the world. But a simple fact escapes most depictions of this elite brotherhood: there are also female members. In this groundbreaking ethnography, Lilith Mahmud takes readers inside Masonic lodges of contemporary Italy, where she observes the ritualistic and fraternal bonds forged among Freemason women. Offering a tantalizing look behind lodge doors, The Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters unveils a complex culture of discretion in which Freemasons reveal some truths and hide others. Female initiates—one of Freemasonry’s best-kept secrets—are often upper class and highly educated, yet avowedly antifeminist. Their self-cultivation through the Masonic path is an effort to embrace the deeply gendered ideals of fraternity. In this lively investigation, Mahmud unravels the contradictions at the heart of Freemasonry: an organization responsible for many of the egalitarian concepts of the Enlightenment and yet one that has always been, and in Italy still remains, extremely exclusive. The result is not only a thrilling look at a surprisingly influential world, but a reevaluation of the modern values we now take for granted
