Brother Cyril M. Bathams theory that Freemasonry may have evolved from monks secret cells surviving persecution from the King of England. You were not allowed to practice Catholicism and anyone who was found out would be imprisoned and executed. There was therefore a need for the utmost secrecy,  secret code words, signs and hand shakes. 

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