Official history records the first Freemasonic lodge was
founded on the 24th June 1717 at the Goose and Gridiron alehouse in London but
there has been a presence of Freemasonry prior to this date for several hundred
years, perhaps it is only in 1717 that Freemasonry effectively began its slow
emergence from the subterranean underground it had hitherto inhabited and
commenced the next stage of its long term, millennial plan.
In his book about ‘The Hiram Key’ Freemason Christopher
Knight states plainly that: “there appears to have been a significant
Freemasonic infrastructure in place in London, well before 1646.”
1646 is a significant date because it is on this date
that the first documented record of someone being initiated into Freemasonry
was made. On 16th October 1646, antiquarian and member of the Royal Society and
later founder of the Oxford Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology at Oxford, Elias
Ashmole in his dairy records:
"I was made a Free Mason at Warrington in
Lancashire, with Coll: Henry Mainwaring of Karincham in Cheshire.”
At this date during the English Civil War Warrington was
a stronghold of the Parliamentarians and Colonel Henry Mainwaring was a
Roundhead Parliamentarian friend of Ashmole’s father-in-law. Ashmole was
interested in Hermetic studies and Alchemy and published several books on the
subject.
The following is from the website of the Societas
Rosicruciana in Anglia which seems to be some kind of international rival to
the largest Rosicrucian organisation in the word, the mighty AMORC founded in
1915 and preceded by the Societas Rosicruciana which was founded in 1865 by
Robert Wentworth Little and recruits from among Master Masons while AMORC is a
group which seems to require little more than the completion of an online
application from and the payment of annual dues of £246. They seem to organise
open-evenings at UK Friends House, UK headquarters of the Quakers opposite
Euston Station in London and as a Quaker myself I am surprised that they are
happy to throw their lot in with a quasi-Satanic Kabbalistic organisations like
this one, but I also saw Benjamin Crème at Friends House going on about his
daft Maitreya but I suppose he had to pay the Quakers for the use of the room
and presumably they put the money to good use.
Quoting from the Societas Rosicruciana website:
“Some Masonic historians believe that modern Speculative
Freemasonry owes much to the Rosicrucian movement. Certainly, the earliest
recorded speculative Freemasons in England, Sir Robert Moray and Elias Ashmole,
if not themselves Rosicrucians, were deeply interested in Rosicrucian
philosophy and ideals – ideals that perhaps provided their motive for
establishing The Royal Society. The Rosicrucian Society of England was founded
in 1867 by the freemason Robert Wentworth Little and six other brethren
following the discovery of certain manuscripts in the archives of Grand Lodge.
Many eminent and scholarly masons have been members of the Order.”
Initiated into Freemasonry in 1771 the German poet
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in 1778 wrote five dialogues on Freemasonry entitled:
"Ernst und Falk: Conversations for Freemasons."
From Secret Societies and Subversive Movements:
“The dialogues between Ernst and Falk throw a curious
light on the influences at work behind Freemasonry at this period and gain
immensely in interest when the identity of the two men in question is
understood. Thus Ernst, by whom Lessing evidently represents himself, is at the
beginning not a Freemason, and, whilst sitting with Falk in a wood, questions
the high initiate on the aims of the Order. Falk explains that Freemasonry has
always existed, but not under this name. Its real purpose has never been
revealed. On the surface it appears to be a purely philanthropic association,
but in reality philanthropy forms no part of its scheme, its object being to
bring about a state of things which will render philanthropy unnecessary…As an
illustration Falk points to an ant-heap at the foot of the tree beneath which
the two men are seated. ‘Why,’ he asks, ‘should not human beings exist without
government like the ants or bees?’ Falk then goes on to describe his idea of a
Universal State, or rather a federation of States, in which men will no longer
be divided by national, social, or religious prejudices, and where greater
equality will exist.”
What is interesting again is that same refrain, the same
tune and the same words, whether it be spoken by elite Chewish Freemasons or
messages apparently beamed into people’s heads by aliens.
In the dialogues is the hint that Freemasonry is
controlled by something far older and most Freemasons have no idea what is
really happening or what they are involved with. And that as Falk himself as a Chew, does not attend Masonic lodges and that Freemasonry does not exist in an
‘outward form’ and he says:
“A lodge bears the same relation to Freemasonry as a
church to belief."
And Webster Nesta’s comments:
“In other words, the real initiates do not appear upon
the scene. Here then we see the role of the "Concealed Superiors."
It seems clear then that it is made explicit that Falk,
as a Kabbalist Chew, is one of the elect ‘concealed superiors’ of Freemasonry,
however he does not attend the lodges and exist as a ‘hidden master’.
The Freemason Andrew Michael Ramsey states that
Freemasonry was created by the Crusader knights, stating that medieval
crusaders, likely the Knights Templar, founded Freemasonry. But there is a myth
of an even earlier foundation according to Freemason Henrik Bogdan in his paper
entitled An Introduction to the High Degrees of Freemasonry:
“The name Heredon, more commonly spelled as Heredom (and
sometimes as Harodim), is the name given to a mythical mountain supposed to
exist north of Kilwinning, Scotland. According to a Masonic myth, associated
particularly with Ecossais Masonry, the Masons were driven away from Jerusalem
after the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem and subsequently found their
way to this mountain in Scotland. They remained on this mountain until the time
of the Crusades.”
Lodge Mother Kilwinning is generally held to be the
oldest Masonic lodge in the world and has its origins in the 12th Century,
almost 500 years prior to Freemasonry’s supposed creation in London at the
Apple Tree Tavern in 1716. Freemasonry in Scotland supposedly developed under
the reign of King David I and the Heredom degree with a Rosy Cross degree
originating in 1314 following the Battle of Bannockburn which has long been
rumoured to have been decisively won in Scotland’s favour due to the
intercession of a band of mysterious knights who may have been the Knights
Templar.
One of the earliest known reference to the Rosicrucians
was in a poem The Muses Threnodie from 1638 by Scotsman Henry Adamson:
“For we be brethren of the Rosie Crosse,
We have the Mason
word, and second sight,
Things for to come we can foretell aright..”