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Anno Lucis
Anno Lucis (“in the Year of Light”) is a dating Examples of use
system used in Masonic ceremonial or
commemorative proceedings, which is equivalent to
the Gregorian year plus 4000. It is similar to Anno
Mundi.

Description Detail from the 1916 cornerstone of a Masonic

lodge in Rochester, Minnesota
For example, a date Anno Domini (AD) 2023 becomes
Anno Lucis (AL) 6023.[1] This calendar era, which
would designate 4001 BC as 'year zero', was adopted
in the 18th century as a simplification of the Anno
Mundi era dating system used in the Hebrew calendar
and borrowing from other ideas of that time regarding
the year of creation.
October 2003 plaque on the wall of the city
After the Masoretic text was published, dating hall in South Sioux City, Nebraska
creation around 4000 BC became common, and it was
received with wide support.[2] Proposed calculations
of the date of creation, using the Masoretic from the 10th century to the 18th century, were
numerous and fluctuated by many decades.[3] Notably, Isaac Newton's calculation pointed at the
year 4000 BC.[3]

Among the Masoretic creation estimates or calculations for the date of creation, Archbishop
Ussher's specific chronology dating the creation to 4004 BC became the most accepted and
popular in Protestant Christendom, mainly because this specific date was attached to the King
James Bible.[4] The Hebrew Calendar has traditionally, since the 4th century AD by Hillel II, dated
the creation to 3761 BC,[5][6] in accordance with the Seder Olam Rabbah compiled by Jose ben
Halafta in AD 160, and in agreement with The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries, in which the
Muslim chronologist al-Biruni identifies anno mundi as 3448 years before the Seleucid era, but
not with Seder Olam Zutta, which dates it to 4339 BC and was compiled in AD 804.[7]

See also
40th century BC
Holocene calendar - system that adds 10,000 years to the common era.

References
1. "What is the Masonic Calendar?" (https://web.archive.org/web/20160726081821/http://www.fre
emasonry.london.museum/resources/your-questions-answered/). Library and Museum
Charitable Trust of the United Grand Lodge of England. Archived from the original (http://www.f
reemasonry.london.museum/resources/your-questions-answered/#) on 2016-07-26. Retrieved
2006-07-06.

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2. A Collation of the Sacred Scriptures, Charles Roger Dundee, 1847, pp. 10-24.
3. Floyd Nolen Jones (2004). Chronology of the Old Testament: Solving the Bible's Most
Intriguing Mysteries (https://books.google.com/books?id=wsITeHwP9K0C&q=%22date+of+cre
ation%22+%22no+dispute%22&pg=PA26). New Leaf Publishing Group. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-
89051-416-0. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
4. "Bishop James Ussher Sets the Date for Creation: October 23, 4004 B.C" (http://law2.umkc.ed
u/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/ussher.html). Law2.umkc.edu. Retrieved 2012-11-30.
5. "Definition of Jewish Calendar from" (https://web.archive.org/web/20110119080838/http://www.
dictionary.net/jewish+calendar). dictionary.net. Archived from the original (http://www.dictionary.
net/jewish+calendar) on 2011-01-19. Retrieved 2012-11-30.
6. "The Jewish Calendar and Biblical Authority" (https://web.archive.org/web/20130117074827/htt
p://askelm.com/doctrine/d911001.htm). Askelm.com. Archived from the original (http://www.ask
elm.com/doctrine/d911001.htm) on 2013-01-17. Retrieved 2012-11-30.
7. Young's Analytical Concordance of the Holy Bible, 1879, 8th Edition, 1939—entry under
'Creation', quoting Dr. William Hales New Analysis of Chronology and Geography, History and
Prophecy, Vol. 1, 1830, p. 210.

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