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Horace Chase Lodge #72 F. & A.M., Penacook, New Hampshire
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Freemasonry is one of the world's oldest and largest fraternal organizations but where did it come from? Its history is most interesting and romantic.
Speculation that Freemasonry originated with the very beginning of civilization is interesting, but there is no basis for such a belief. The word "Mason" means "Builder," and Freemasonry, as we know it today came into being some 800 years ago. In its operative form it lasted nearly 400 years while Masons built the hundreds of Gothic structures in western Europe. Many of these structures still stand today as a memorial to the past.
During the Cathedral Age the Masons formed themselves in workmen's Guilds; each Guild forming a Lodge with regular officers and with three degrees of Membership. The first group were apprentices or bearers of burdens, the second were craftsmen or skilled workmen on the Temples and the third were Masters or superintendents of the structures being built.
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- Concord New Hampshire
- United States 03301
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- +1.6032256748
