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Free and Accepted Masons: New Age Spirituality Dictionary on Free and Accepted Masons

Free and Accepted Masons:

See: Freemasonry

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Free and Accepted Masons: New Age Spirituality Dictionary on Freemasonry

Freemasonry

The world's largest and best-known secret society, with its greatest numbers in Britain and North America. The first formal organization was the chartering of the Grand Lodge (London) in 1714, The organization is loosely based on associations or guilds of stone cutters ( masons).

To become a Mason one does not have to be a Christian but must acknowledge belief in a supreme being and in the immortal soul. Masons advance through a complex system of degrees correlated to a symbolic spiritual initiation advancing from darkness to full consciousness.

Since 1738, Roman Catholicism has officially condemned Freemasonry as do many Protestant denominations. It is outlawed in several countries, and anti-Masonic sentiments have played an important role in American religious history. Freemasonry claims to have its roots in the builders of Solomon's Temple.

(1000BC) Freemasonry (�speculative� masons) sought to give philosophical, moral, or spiritual meaning to the lodge, tools, and oaths of the stone cutters. Most modern adherents maintain that the organization is not a religion but a fraternity.

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Free and Accepted Masons: The roots of the New Age Movement � Part I

The New Age movement is hardly novel! Its philosophy is rooted in ancient traditions, often based on mystical experiences, each within a different context.

Part I of II, written by Michael Rogge

Free and Accepted Masons: New Age Spirituality Dictionary on Free and Accepted Masons

Free and Accepted Masons:

See: Freemasonry

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Free and Accepted Masons: Encyclopedia - Bunker Hill Monument

The Bunker Hill Monument is the first public obelisk erected in the United States. The 221 foot (67 m) granite obelisk erected between 1827 and 1843 in Charlestown, Massachusetts with granite quarried in Quincy, Massachusetts and conveyed to the site by the first railway in the United States, built specially for that purpose. Interestingly, the Bunker Hill Monument is not on Bunker Hill but instead on Breed's Hill, where most of the fighting actually took place. The Monument Association, which had purchased the battlefield site, was forced to seal off a ...

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Bunker Hill Monument - Construction of the monument

Free and Accepted Masons: Encyclopedia II - Bunker Hill Monument - Construction of the monument

William Ticknor, a well-known Boston lawyer and antiquarian, first suggested the memorial and an interested group of men met for breakfast at the home of Colonel Thomas Handasyd Perkins. Among them were William Tudor, Daniel Webster, Professor George Ticknor, Doctor John C. Warren, William Sullivan, and George Blake. On May 10, 1823, the first public meeting was called. Each member subscribed five dollars, and on June 7, 1823, the Bunker Hill Monument Association was established and the work of raising money was begun. Famed nineteenth-century p ...