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Thus none of these Orders or degrees are entitled to be regarded in
any other light than as excrescences, which have grown out of the
Masonic system of the three blue degrees, but as none can be
admitted to them without having passed. through the three blue
degrees, all who aspire to membership must have at least that
qualification, and are, therefore, properly described as " Masons who
belong to other secret societies professing similar principles."
Hence the following propositions become clear:
1. That Freemasonry had its origin in the operative Guild of
Freemasons and Masons.
2. That symbolical masonry, as such, took its rise in England.
3. That all foreign lodges of speculative masons emanated from
England at about the same epoch-viz.,
o England in 1717.
o France in 1725.
o Scotland in 1728.
o Sweden in 1731.
o Germany in 1733.
4. That anterior to 1717 speculative Masonry was unknown, except
in so far as it was mixed up and formed a part of operative
Masonry.
5. That an antiquity of 158 years is the greatest that can possibly
be attributed to speculative or purely symbolical Masonry.
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