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Can the ancestry of freemasonry really be followed back again to the Knights Templar? May be the image of the attention in a triangle on the back of the buck charge one of its cryptic signals? Is there a conspiracy that exercises through ages and years to align this shadow organization and its own key rituals to world government authorities and religions? Myths persist and abound about the freemasons, Margaret C. Jacob notes. But what exactly are their origins? How has an early modern company of bricklayers and stonemasons aroused a whole lot public interest? In The Roots of Freemasonry, Jacob throws back again the veil from a key society that works out not to have been very key at all. What factors contributed to the extraordinarily quick spread of freemasonry during the period of the 18th hundred years, and just why were so many of the era's most important figures attracted to it? Using materials from the archives of leading masonic libraries in Europe, Jacob examines masonic almanacs and pocket diaries to get nearer to what living as a freemason might have meant on a regular basis. She explores the continual contacts between masons and nascent democratic moves, as each lodge setup a polity where a person's standing was meant to be based on merit, somewhat than on delivery or prosperity, and she demonstrates, beyond any question, how active a role women played in the masonic motion. The book is published by University of Pennsylvania Press.
