Teachings of Freemasonry
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: May 20, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780766157675
Subjects: Freemasonry & secret societies; Freemasonry; Social Science / Freemasonry; Sociology
First sentence: FROM those days, early in the eighteenth century, when operative masons found their guild-customs and ritual falling into disuse, and decided to "accept" worthy men, not necessarily stone-workers, to a participation in their trade mystery, few movements have shown such vigour as that which, adopting for its keynote an ancient guild-ritual, wove around and into it a system of moral philosophy acceptable to all men who believed that humanity moved within the compass of some vast scheme, and that mortal life was but the prelude to greater possibilities.