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Freemasonry -- Its Origins, Its Myths, and Its Rituals

Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong

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The History of the Craft of Geometry

Egypt and euclid are still usually mentioned in most of the old charges, but other a stages, particularly biblical, become much more prominent. The next oldest set of old charges after the regis poem is the so called cook manuscript, which comes from the mid 14 hundreds,. It's written on vellum, which is bound together in a book. And it traces masonry, the origins of masonry, which it usually calls geometry. This art of geometry was first invented by jabal - an obscure chara mentioned in the book of genesis.

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