The Secret History of Freemasonry- Knights Templar 2005

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1、ContentsPrefaceviiIntroduction1Part1:TheOriginsofFreemasonryfromAncientTimestotheMiddleAges1TheAncientCorporations:CollegesofBuildersinRome42TheCollegiaandtheBarbarianInvasions183EcclesiasticalandMonasticAssociations344SecularBrotherhoods:TheGermanicandAnglo-SaxonGuilds515TheCrusadesandtheTemp

2、lars626TheTemplars,theFrancsMetiers,andFreemasonry817TheTemplarsandtheParisianBuilders102Part2.FromtheArtofBuildingtotheArtofThinking8MasonCorporationsinFrance1469BuildersCorporationsinItaly,Germany,andSwitzerland16810TheCorporativeMasonryofGreatBritain18011UniversalFreemasonry20512Speculative

3、Freemasonry22113TheGrandLodgesandModernFreemasonry247Conclusion270Notes278Index293PrefaceIstatewithallmodesty,andwithoutpresumingtounderestimatethevalueofprecedingworksonthesubject,thattodatetherehasbeennotrulyscientifichistoryoftheoriginsofFreemasonryandthatsuchastudyistotallyjustified.Anumbe

4、rofvaluableworksonthehistoryofFreemasonryhaveinfactbeenpublishedsincetheappearanceofthegrandlodgesatthebeginningoftheseventeenthcentury.Indeed,theyhaveflourishedinsuchnumbersincetheendoftheSecondWorldWarthatwecannowhailthebirthofanewdiscipline,whichwemightcallmasonology.Nevertheless,operativef

5、reemasonry,whichprecededthismodernFreemasonry*andwhichisitssource,hasnotbeenthebeneficiaryofsuchextensiveexamination.Thosewhohavedealtwiththeoriginsof*[Thetermoperativefreemasonryasusedthroughoutthisbookreferstofreemasonryinitsoriginalform,asrepresentedbybrotherhoodsofbuilders.Itisopposedinthi

6、sstudybythetermspeculativeFreemasonry,havingtodowiththoseorganizationsthatemergedintheseventeenthcenturydivorcedfromtheworkerandthemeaningofhistra-ditionandmadeupof"accepted"Masons.Throughoutthisbookandespeciallyinpart2,theauthorstrivestomakeastrongdistinctionbetweenspeculativeFreemasonryandth

7、eoperativefreemasonrythatisitsoriginandbetweenmoreorless"accepted"Masonsandthosecraftsmen—masons—whoactuallypracticedthebuildingcrafts.Tomakethesedistinctionsclearer,anuppercaseFandMareusedtodistinguishspeculativeandmodernFreemasonryand