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324<br />

Chapter 5 - Technical Terminology<br />

the teachings <strong>of</strong> Pagan priests into mystery societies. Although this fanciful<br />

explanation is no longer believed, Masons still use the term "spurious bodies" to<br />

designate illegal congregations <strong>of</strong> Masons.<br />

Spurious <strong>Freemasonry</strong> (engl.), unechte Freimaurerei, ein Ausdruck, der<br />

auf den sehr gelehrten, aber etwas zu phantasiereichen Doktor Oliver<br />

[...] zurückgeht. Nach seiner <strong>The</strong>orie gab es seit Adams Zeiten zwei<br />

Arten von Freimaurerei: die echte Urmaurerei, die von der kräftigen<br />

Rasse des Adamssohnes Seth vererbt wurde, und die falsche, die auf<br />

den mit allen Lastern beladenen Kain zurückführt. Seth, Enoch, Noah<br />

leiten die echte Maurerei weiter, dagegen ging die S. F. über Kain, den<br />

Turmbau von Babel und die heidnischen Priester in die Mysterienbünde<br />

über.<br />

Heute ist diese <strong>The</strong>orie Dr. Olivers verlassen [...], aber die von ihm<br />

erfundene Bezeichnung wird zur Charakterisierung von unregelmäßigen<br />

Freimaurervereinigungen (spurious bodies) <strong>of</strong>t neben clandestine [...]<br />

synonym verwendet. 993<br />

26. Cross-Legged Mason<br />

This peculiar term is derived from the special way in which the Knights<br />

Templar were buried: "A name given to the Knights Templar, who, in the<br />

sixteenth century, united themselves with the Masonic Lodge at Sterling, in<br />

Scotland. <strong>The</strong> allusion is evidently to the funeral posture <strong>of</strong> the Templars, so that<br />

a "cross-legged Mason" must have been at the time synonymous with a Masonic<br />

Knights Templar." 994<br />

27. Gentlemen Masons<br />

Q: What do you learn by being a Gentleman Mason?<br />

A: Secrecy, Morality, and Good-Fellowship.<br />

Q: What do you learn by being an Operative Mason?<br />

A: Hew, Square, Mould stone, lay a Level, and raise a<br />

Perependicuar. 995<br />

<strong>The</strong> expression "Gentleman Mason" is a synonym <strong>of</strong> "speculative<br />

Freemason" and an antonym <strong>of</strong> operative stonemason. This becomes evident<br />

from the short question-and-answer dialogue cited above. When the operative<br />

993 IFL, p. 1497.<br />

994 EOF, p. 189.<br />

995 Quoted from an old catechism in MD, p. 247.

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