Freemasonry -- Its Origins, Its Myths, and Its Rituals
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
What Is the Mason Word?
What we know about the development and evolution of these rituals mainly comes from a series of documents called masonic catechisms. These are hand written documents, most of them probably written as notes or aid memoir to help people remember the words and stages of these rituals when they had to perform them. It seems that it started with one initiation ritual that then were split into two somewhere around 16 hundred. So and then, and then a third degree was created of master master mason. And if you knew this word, then you could demonstrate that you were a real initiated mason. We can't say exactly what this word was, because different documents record it differently but it seems like it was something
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