The Secret History of Freemasonry

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  1. Clavel, Histoire pittoresque de la Franc-Maconnerie, 85; B. E.
    Jones, 446.

  2. Gould, A Concise History of Freemasonry.

  3. S. Hutin, Les disciples de Jacob Boehme, 241 ff.

  4. Bord, La Franc-Maconneries en France, des origins a 1815, 53 ff.

  5. Ibid., 57.


Chapter 13—The Grand Lodges and Modern Freemasonry



  1. For more, see my books La Franc-Maconnerie (Paris: P.U.F., 1990)
    and Histoire Generate de la Franc-Maconnerie (Paris: P.U.F., 1987).

  2. M. Paillard, Les Trois Franc-Maconneries.

  3. Ars Quatour Coronatorum 56 (1943).

  4. Ars Quatour Coronatorum 78, (1965).

  5. Ars Quatour Coronatorum 80 (1967), 42.

  6. Ibid., 36 ff. On this question, more interesting reading can be found
    in Reverend N. Barjer Cryer's long study The De-Christianization of
    the Craft, in Ars Quatour Coronatorum 97 (1984), 34-60, and in
    the same journal, in the response by F. Christopher Haffner (65-68),
    who follows my own line of argument.

  7. The Old Constitutions belonging to the Ancient and Honourable
    Society of Free and Accepted Masons (London: J. Roberts, 1722).

  8. Annates Maconniques des Pays-Bas, vol. 4 (Brussels, 1822-1823),
    372.

  9. Berteloot, Les Franc-Macons devant l'Histoire, 43-44. Most of the
    historians of Freemasonry in France have always been in agreement
    on this point. See also N. de Bonneville, Thory, Rebold, and, from
    the present era, A. Lantoine. In English, see Chalmers I. Paton, The
    Origin of Freemasonry (London: 1871), 34-35.

  10. For more on Louise de Keroualle and her intrigues, see H.
    Forneron, Louise de Keroualle, duchesse de Portsmouth,
    1649-1734 (1866) and A. Lantoine, Le Rite Ecossais ancien et
    accepte.

  11. Letter discovered by Miss Franchise Weill and published by her in
    the Revue historique et litterraire de la France, no. 2 (April-June,
    1963), 276-78. Reprinted in P. Chevallier, Les Dues sous l'Acacia
    (Paris: J. Vrin, 1964), 215-26.

  12. Refers to a separate printing of the article "Franche-Maconnerie" in
    the Encyclopedia (1773).

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