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The Begining of organised Freemasonry as we know it in the
present day started in june 1717. The origin of Freemasonary,
however, is hidden and lost in the mists of time. In fact
Freemasonary is itself profoundly uncertain of its origins.
In the four centuries of its formal existence,it has
endeavoured to trace its origin through historical research.
The general assumption about freemasonary is that it began
at the time time when King Solomon's Temple was built at
Jeerusalem. This is an accepted legand and freemasons
consider king soloman as the First Grand Master. Present day
Freemasonary bases its belief about Soloman's Temple on
information in very early documents such as Cooks
Manuscript, circa 1410, which contains earliest detaied
description of the libnk between King Solomon's Temple and
operative Freemasonary. Pehaps, it can be said that of all
the mysteries of Freemasonry, there is perhaps no mystry
more mysterious than the origin of Freemasonry!
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