The Origin and Evolution of Freemasonry

About this book

Did Freemasonry inherit its ceremonies from an ancient religious world? Albert Churchward searches Egyptian images, symbols and proposed correspondences for the answer.

The Origin and Evolution of Freemasonry belongs to the period when speculative histories sought very long ancestries for modern fraternities. Churchward treats shared motifs as traces of direct transmission, a method that often exceeds the evidence. His diagrams and comparisons reveal how Egypt was turned into a source for imagined universal wisdom. The history of that fascination remains clearer than the lineages he claims to have uncovered.