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 MM EP. 64 Another Thought About the Origins of Freemasonry

I read another article form the Philalethes Magazine called “Another Thought About the Origins of Freemasonry. It was published in 2003 and continues some of the themes that I have been following about Catholic monks being intimately involved in the activities of what we now know as Freemasonry. This happened from about 1100 to the dissolution of the Orders in about the 1500’s.

We go all the wat back to the last days of the Roman Empire in 473 to 474 AD. The Romans were finally recalled from England, and this left the country with no one to build stone monuments as the English did not have this technology.

Enter a Monk named Benedict Biskop who lived in England and left back to Rome to petition Pope Boniface V, 619-625 AD to permit him to establish a monastery at the mouth of the Wyresmith River.

Pope Boniface died never having granted this monk permission and the new Pope Honorius was no different. But in 626 AD Pope Honorius finally granted Benedict permission to establish his Abbey.

Benedict and his followers fancied themselves as builders and architects. Benedict learned much about stone building and different techniques from France and Rome during his travels.

Listen to the rest and find out what happened next.

I share some thoughts on what lodges should focus on so that the Fraternity can get stronger. The members have to get educated on the different aspects of the origins of Freemasonry.

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