In this episode, I go over a list of 12 Origin Theories of Freemasonry and ask the Curmudgeon Supreme how much he knows about any of these theories. This list was found in a book called the Royal Masonic Cyclopedia.

Has he ever heard of any of these?

Does he have a favorite?

Will any of these pique his curiosity?

Will his giant head blow up from too many theories?

What are these twelve theories, and do any of these have any merit?

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We read an article by the AQC. The article comes from a website created by the AQC dedicated to Anderson's Constitutions.

1723constituions.com

What did they have to say about this document?

Let's read it and find out.

The Curmudgeon Supreme takes over as host of Masonic Muscle and has a list of questions and topics he has been wanting to discuss. They are:

• What is the significance of the Holy Saints John the Baptist Day?
• What is the summer solstice?
• Are lodges observing this day?
• The Curmudgeons' growing masonic knowledge.
• We need to focus more
• Masonic Education
• social conditioning to authority
• Socratic discussion group during the stated meeting
• The True meaning of the 24-inch gauge

• Dwight L. Smith
• James Anderson
• Masonic Education

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  And so much more.

  
  

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I go solo and discuss the Summer Solstice, the Feast of St. John the Baptist, health, aging, the cycles of Freemasonry, and Roxy the English Bulldog. She's a fatty.

What is your lodge doing to celebrate the Holy Saints John the Baptist Day?

How are you staying in tune with the Masonic Cycles of the year?

Why should a lodge celebrate this day?

Why is Roxy so fat even though she is just a baby?

All these topics and more will be discussed.

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In our last episode, we read the Cook Manuscript of 1450.

In this episode, The Curmudgeon Supreme and I share our observations on the Cook Manuscript of 1450.

Why does it seem like this masonic manuscript is far more interesting than Anderson's 1723 Constitutions of the Free-Masons?

Why are the Liberal Arts and Sciences taking such a prominent role in a document held by illiterate stone masons?

Where did these stone masons get all of these stories?

When was the original manuscript written/

Who wrote it?

And why is the Curmudgeon breathing so hard into the mic.....Again?

These are all mysteries we must unravel.

Let's continue to explore this together.

Doctor Anderson drew from many sources to enable him to revise the older Gothic Masonic Constitutions. He never names them, so we don't know how many of these older documents he had available.

Did Anderson use the Cook Manuscript of 1450? Let's see what Google search says about this:

"Doctor Anderson Cooke Manuscript Use

There is no direct evidence that Doctor Anderson used the Cooke Manuscript of 1450. However, the Cooke Manuscript was used by Anderson in his own version of the "Constitutions" published in 1723, specifically lines 901-960 of the manuscript.5

The Cooke Manuscript, also known as the Matthew Cooke Manuscript (British Museum: “Additional M.S. 23,198”), was written around 1450 and was in the possession of Mr. George Payne when he compiled the "General Regulations" during his second term as Grand Master in 1720.5 Anderson included these regulations in his version of the "Constitutions" published in 1723.5

Therefore, while Doctor Anderson did not directly use the Cooke Manuscript, he incorporated parts of it into his work."

What will we learn?

Why was this manuscript dated to about 1450?

Where did they write this document?

Will it have the Legend of the Craft?

Why does the Curmudgeon Supreme keep breathing so heavily into the mic, and why does he not mute it?

We will get into all of these questions and more.

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We finish up Brother David Stevenson's article, "James Anderson, Man & Masons".

What can we learn about the man who helped to bring the Constitutions of the Freemasons to the public's attention?

Did it have the impact he was hoping for/

Was it meant for the public or someone else?

Why did it not receive the fanfare that maybe he was hoping for? Or did he even care?

We have to keep digging.

We continue to read the article, James Anderson, Man & Mason. This article is found in the Scottish Rite Journal, Heredom, Volume 10, 2002, written by Brother David Stevenson.

The Grand Lodge of England is trying to establish legitimacy by appointing a person of royal bloodline as its Grand Master of the Order.

What will happen? Will it be a smooth ride? Will everyone agree?

Let's find out.