History of Freemasonry and Masonic Digest, Part 2
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: January 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 724
ISBN-13: 9780766132801
Subjects: Freemasonry & secret societies; Freemasonry; Sociology
First sentence: WE think it will be seen, when we come to detail the history of Modern Masonry, so called, that the Encampment degrees, called Orders of Knighthood, were invented and introduced into France about the middle of the last century; but as the generally received opinion is, that they are but a continuation, with slight modifications, of the Christian and military Orders of the eleventh century, it becomes our duty, in deference to said opinions, to present, at least, a historical sketch of the Hospitalers and Templars of the Crusades.