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Een interessante aankondiging van de gerenommeerde Maçonnieke uitgever Lewis Masonic: Freemasonry: Quest for Immortality door Christopher Earnshaw.

After the Premier Grand Lodge was established in 1717, which later became the Grand Lodge of England, the first three Grand Masters were urged on by a moral imperative to rewrite and expand the existing two degrees of Operative Masons, and then add another, the Third Degree. However, their reasons have, until now, remained obscure, for example:

• How does the Hiramic Tragedy relate to the Kabbalistic  Tree of Life and why?
• What important aspects suggest that Sir Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis might have been a template for Freemasonry?
• Were medieval mystery plays, that had been performed by guilds, the origin of Freemasonry’s Third Degree?
• Why did George Washington’s apron have a skull and crossed-bones depicted inside the Square and Compasses?
• What does the Scarlet Pimpernel have to do with the Masonic emblem of the forget-me-not?
• What perfidy were Freemasons addressing, when they  rewrote the degrees of Operative Masons to add a Third Degree, that was a cause célèbre at the time and even debated in Parliament? 
• Why did Masons despise atheists, though Catholics were welcome in Lodge, whereas in England generally at the time it was the Catholics that were reviled, not atheists.

This book answers these questions and more!

Die Middeleeuwse mysteriespelen worden ook genoemd door Koenraad Logghe. Ze vormen een interessante brug tussen oude gilden en de “operatieven” van vlak voor de vorming van de “premier Grand Lodge”.

Dat klinkt als een boek dat ik wil lezen! Lewis Masonic heeft nog een boek van dezelfde schrijver: Freemasonry: Spiritual Alchemy.