“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge” Stephen Hawking. Mister Hawking is quite right, ignorance isn’t the greatest enemy of knowledge, but rather the fact that sometimes people try to explain a subject they have no clue about. Then others believe what they say is a fact. For example, when I say Freemasonry people instantly connect it with the notorious but infamous Illuminate and, their oh so scheme to rule the world with total domination, in which society knows it as, “The New World Order”. Now let’s slow down the tracks their,we will get to it, but first let’s take baby steps as to understanding what Freemasonry is, and a quick crash course of its history. Freemasonry, according …show more content…
Freemasons meet in something called a lodge (it is called a lodge due to the fact that they were stone cutters before the Knight Templars and stone cutters would meet in a modern day Inn, in which was called a lodge back in the time of the Temple of Solomon).Every lodge follows the same criteria as to whom is able to join. In Jay Tolson article, Into The Mason he explains that, “In order to join you must believe in a divine all powerful supreme being, of good heart, at least older then the age of twenty-one, and you must be a freeman. “In addition towards the acceptance into this secret society is that every lodge has a correspondence of degrees. For example, “The York Rite is one of the two largest branches of Freemasonry in which it was formed in the 18th century and is also called the Calpitular and its members of the Royal Arch Masons (4 degrees) the next step is the Cryptic (3 degrees) and the final rank are the Chivalac and the members of the Knight Templars (3 orders)” according to the Funk and, Wagnall’s New World …show more content…
Which isn’t crazy to believe. As it is declared in the article by the Masonic Service Throughout North Americas, “Freemasonry had been one of the organization most responsible for spreading the ideals of Enlightenment…”.As one knows are founding fathers had been influenced by the commonly known Enlightened thinkers of The Age of Reason whom are; Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Baron de Montesquia,and Voltaire. At the time Freemasonries ideal attributes were , “…The dignity of man and, the liberty of the individual, the right of all person to worship whom they choose, and the formation of a democratic government, and they valued the importance of public education. “Which had been a lingering factor to oppose the British government and, that had added the fuel to the upheaval spark that ignited the flame of the American Revolution commonly known as,”Taxation without Representation. In which we all know many rebellious acts had been done such as the Tea act and many others. After a successful separation and gratified independence from the British as, I quote Richard Henry Lees adaption towards the document signifying so, “absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved. “ .Our founding fathers, specifically Benjamin Franklin and, John Quincy Adam had added many small adaptions and