Thanks to the work of David Stevenson concerning Scotland in the seventeenth century, and to those of the research Lodge of the Quatuor Coronati, relating to England in the early eighteenth century, we know a little better how speculative freemasonry originated. However, aside from the chain of events that led to the creation of the modern Lodges, then the Grand Lodges, we still need to understand the origin of the intellectual and legendary corpus that they employed and which forged the... 更多
