Learning and Development

Fostering Curiosity, Developing Understanding

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 Learning and Development
Fostering Curiosity, Developing Understanding

A not so brief
History of
Freemasonry

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Freemasonry

O Wonderful Masons – Unknown artist

Museum of Freemasonry, London

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The Regius Poem 1390

Also called the Halliwell Manuscript, 1840.

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From Operative Masonry

to
Speculative Freemasonry

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The Stonemason
Lapicida DerSteinmetz.British Museum

Lodges of Instruction
Learning catechism by rote

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An early Indenture
Museum of Freemasonry, London

James VI and the Schaw Statutes

In December 1583, King James 6th of
Scotland appointed William Schaw as
his Master of Works.
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Initiation Paris 1745

Retinted to resemble Moderns Lodge 1805, Public Domain

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Revd James Anderson’s

Book of Constitutions, circa 1723

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From Operative Masonry

to Speculative Freemasonry
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Elias Ashmole
(1617-1692) was
initiated at a
Lodge in
Warrington, on
16th October
1646 which was
wholly or mostly
composed of
Speculative
Masons.

Elias Ashmole
Museum of Freemasonry, London

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24th June 1717,

four London
lodges met at
the Goose and
Gridiron,
Ale-house,
St. Paul’s
church-yard’.
They
constituted
themselves a
Grand Lodge.
The first in
England.

The Goose & Gridiron

Museum of Freemasonry, London

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Anthony Sayer
(1672-1741)
Anthony Sayer was
elected and
installed
as the first Grand
Master of
The Premier Grand
Lodge in 1717.

Anthony Sayer
Museum of Freemasonry, London

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Revd John
Theophilus
Desaguliers
(1683-1744)
‘The Father of
Modern
Speculative
Freemasonry’
The third Grand
Master (1719).

John Theophilus Desaguliers

Museum of Freemasonry, London

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James Anderson
produced the Book
of Constitutions.
It was approved by
the
Grand Lodge
of England on 29th
September 1723.
He published a in
1738 and died in
1739.

James Anderson
Museum of Freemasonry, London

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The Arms of
the ‘Antients’.

The Arms of
the ‘Moderns’.

The Antients & The Moderns

The Moderns were formed in 1717 and the
Antients were formed much later, in 1751

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The Arms of the

United Grand Lodge of England
Constituted in 1813

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The United Grand Lodge of England

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The Grand Temple

Freemasons Hall, Great Queen Street,
London

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Fostering Curiosity, Developing Understanding

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