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From: VhUobqCKKTV
Date: 27 Apr 2012
Time: 04:37:26 -0700
Remote Name: 92.96.255.107
Well, actually, until that dark day in Masonic History (1717) Freemasons most cnaeritly did talk religion and politics in the Lodge. The problem for the London Freemasons, which is why they invented their history from broadcloth at the same time that they attempted to make the Craft politically and religiously inoffensive, was that up to then, Freemasonry, a decidedly Scottish phenomenon was associated both with Catholicism and the Stuart Royal Family. We see these changes take place in Hanoverian England. What would you expect? Scottish masonry got exported to the Continent and continued to engage in political discourse. In order to avoid the repression of the new order, the London masons created a new Grand Lodge and distanced themselves from the Jacobites. It pays to know a little history, as when you do it is easy to identify fiction when you read it.Eoghan (who still IS a Jacobite)