The history of freemasonry : its legends and traditions, its chronological history . m of the Grand Lodge in the year 1753, and to the history ofwhich this chapter shall be dedicated, was far more important in itseffects, not only on the progress of Speculative Masonry in Eng-land, but also in other countries. The Grand Lodge, which in the above-mentioned year wasorganized as a successful rival and antagonist of the regular GrandLodge, has received in the course of its career various names. Styl-ing itself officially the Grand Lodge of England according to theOld Institutions, it was also call
The history of freemasonry : its legends and traditions, its chronological history . m of the Grand Lodge in the year 1753, and to the history ofwhich this chapter shall be dedicated, was far more important in itseffects, not only on the progress of Speculative Masonry in Eng-land, but also in other countries. The Grand Lodge, which in the above-mentioned year wasorganized as a successful rival and antagonist of the regular GrandLodge, has received in the course of its career various names. Styl-ing itself officially the Grand Lodge of England according to theOld Institutions, it was also called, colloquially, the Grand Lodgeof Ancients, both designations being intended to convey the vain-glorious boast that it was the exponent of a more ancient system ofFreemasonry than that which was practiced by the regular GrandLodge, which had been in existence only since 1717. Upon thatlater system, as it was asserted to be, the Schismatics bestowed thederogatory designation of the Grand Lodge of Moderns. And so the schismatic body having been formed by a secession from the 1104.
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