The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

VII
ORIGINS OF FREEMASONRY
A Lecture delivered before the Dorset Masters Lodge No. 3366, at
the Masonic Hall, Dorchester, on the 12th June, 1912.
As a Masonic student who has studied the history
of the past ages more than, I believe, any other
Mason living, I felt it would not only be a pleasure
but a duty to try and assist in that great work for
which this Lodge was founded. The difficulty on
such an occasion as this is in selecting that subject,
or subjects, which would be the most interesting
and instructive, and as there are so many
Brothers who write and lecture on the modern
aspect of Freemasonry, I have thought
it wiser
to try and give a little more light upon the history
of the past, so that you may be able to penetrate
through that gloom of the darker ages, and be
better enabled to appreciate what Freemasonry
really is, in all its symbolisms, and to understand
some of the workings of the Divine Creator's laws
of evolution, and how we Freemasons are the
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