INTRODUCTION As many Brothers have requested me to publish in an enlarged and more permanent form my Lectures on the ancient sources of Masonry (some of which have appeared in The Freemason), I have felt it my duty as well as a pleasure to comply with their request, in order that it may enable every Brother who is interested in the past origin of the Craft to gain at least a superficial knowledge of its antiquity, which will be outside the present dogmas of the Order. Some readers of The Freemason have taken objection to my statements, and I take this oppor- tunity, for the sake of Brothers throughout the world, of replying to those of my critics. As regards my chronology, it is something ne…
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