Some of these operative lodges So grew to become “speculative” lodges, supplying rise to symbolic Freemasonry. In the 17th and 18th generations these lodges adopted the trappings of historical spiritual orders and chivalric brotherhoods. Freemasons themselves, around the hundreds of years, have developed a mythologized heritage for their society, tracing https://www.whofish.org/Default.aspx?tabid=45&modid=379&action=detail&itemid=284671&rCode=33