Free Masonry, Its Growth and Spread before 1789

Published 15 jul 2021

Historiansplaining

How did Free Masonry Expand in the 1700’s from A Small, Secretive Fraternity in Lowland Scotland to A Massive Global Network, with Lodges from the Caribbean to Russia to India? Who became Free Masons in the 1700‘s, and What Sort of Opposition and Persecution did They Face? What was Their Relationship to Radical Groups like the iLLUMiNATi? We Examine to the Growth, Expansion, and Divides in Free Masonry in the Eighteenth Century, All of Which Laid the Groundwork for the Craft to Influence the Course of the Age of Revolutions.

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Image Depiction of Procession of the Grand Lodge of England, London, 1742

Suggested Further Reading

David Stevenson – Origins of Free Masonry, Scotland’s Century
Margaret Jacob – Living the Enlightenment
Jessica Harland Jacobs – Builders of Empire
Ric Berman – The Foundations of Modern Free Masonry
Steven Bullock – Revolutionary Brotherhood
Jasper Ridley – The Free Masons
Andre Kervella – L Effet Mori, Prestige D un Homme, Genese D un Systeme

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