Many of these operative lodges So grew to become “speculative” lodges, giving increase to symbolic Freemasonry. During the 17th and 18th generations these lodges adopted the trappings of historical spiritual orders and chivalric brotherhoods. Freemasons on their own, over the hundreds of years, have created a mythologized record for their https://www.whofish.org/Default.aspx?tabid=45&modid=379&action=detail&itemid=284671&rCode=33