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The guild constituted a legal form of association that allowed manual laborers to. Popular among members of the order, this history also includes a detailed chronicle of how freemasonry evolved in the medieval period from craftsmens guilds. Freemason books help freemasons acquire the light of knowledge that they seek. The decreased visibility of freemasonry has to do, directly, with there being very few scholarly resources on the subject. Freemasonry is not a religion, and it has no religious dogma that it forces its members to accept.
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Freemasons for dummies is the internationally bestselling introduction to the masons, the oldest and largest secret society in the world. Radical enlightenment pantheists, freemasons and republicans by jacob, margaret c. Hall publishers foreword the steady demand and increasing popularity of this volume, of which eighteen thousand copies have been printed since it first appeared a few years ago, have brought the present revised and rearranged edition into being. In the history of the united states, reaction to freemasonry led to americas first third party, the antimasonic party. Maine masonic text book for use of lodges originally drummonds monitor sixteenth edition copyrighted 1923 maine printing exchange, inc. The holy bible is a part of the lodge, and is known as the great light in freemasonry which reveals the ancient mysteries of all ages.