Freemasonry was born in a multifaceted context. After we begin with (1) Survey Histories, Parts 2-8 give context for the emergence of Freemasonry: (2) Knights Templar, (3) Medieval Stonemasons, (4) Renaissance, (5) Esotericism, (6) Rosicrucianism, (7) Scientific Revolution, (8) Enlightenment. Next: (9) Legendary Origins; (10) True Beginnings; (11) The Scottish Rite; (12) America: Founding Fathers; (13) America: Illuminati Scare; (14) America: Morgan; (15) Split-Off Rites; (16) "The Sensational."
Robert Freke Gould; revised by Frederick J. W. Crowe
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Barbara Frale (staff historian at the Vatican Secret Archives)
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Joscelyn Godwin, Christopher McIntosh, & Donate Pahnke McIntosh (translators)
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Albert Gallatin Mackey
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Albert Gallatin Mackey
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Albert G. Mackey & Manly P. Hall (Included: Mackey, "The Influence of Pythagoras on Freemasonry"; "The Golden Verses of Pythagoras," traditionally attributed to Pythagoras; and Hall, "The Life and Philosophy of Pythagoras". )
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Christopher B. Murphy, editor, and Shawn Eyer, executive editor. Subtitle: Studies in Honor of the Tricentennial of the Establishment of the Grand Lodge of England
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James Anderson (1723), as edited and published by Benjamin Franklin (1734)
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Note: The first three books here (Robison, Barruel, and Payson) are classic "sensational" books that created and fed the panic that the Masons were actually Illuminati who sought to take over the fledgling American republic. Only the fourth book (Stauffer) is actual history.
Vernon Stauffer (Note: This book is real history, originally published in 1918 as "New England and the Bavarian Illuminati.)
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Josef Wages & Reinhard Markner, editors; Jeva Singh-Anand, translator
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Philippa Faulks & Robert L. D. Cooper
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Anonymous. (Note: This book refers to the 4th through 33rd Degrees of the Order of the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Mizraim, first popularized by John Yarker.)
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Stewart Clelland, Josef Wages, Steve Adams. (Note: This book refers to the Manuscript d'Alger (c.1772) of The Order of Knight-Mason Elect-Cohens of the Universe.)
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Mathieu G. Ravignat. (Note: This book refers to the Martinès de Pasqually Élus Coëns Order high degrees and theurgical system.)
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Papus (pseudonym of Gérard Encausse, founder of the Ordre Martiniste in France), translated by Piers A. Vaughan
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Arturo de Hoyos & S. Brent Morris
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Many books have become highly popular among the general public, and among some Masons, even though what these books have to say about Masonic history is on shaky ground. We include some of these below.
Manly P. Hall ("Rosicrucian and Masonic Origins") and Harold Voorhis ("Rosicrucianism is Freemasonry")
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Michael Baigent & Richard Leigh
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Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, & Henry Lincoln
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