And the founders were suposedly based in the operative stonemasons who built the great cathedrals and castles had lodges in which they discussed trade affairs. They had simple initiation ceremonies and, as there were no City and Guilds certificates, dues cards or trade union membership cards, they adopted secret signs and words to demonstrate that they were trained masons when they moved from site to site. In the 1600s, these operative lodges began to accept non-operatives as “gentlemen masons”. Gradually these non-operatives took over the lodges and turned them from operative to ‘free and accepted’ or ‘speculative’ lodges.

But even after became speculative the freemasons are all founders are europeans.

The first recorded freemason was Elias Ashmole in 1646 son of an english baronet .
And the first Grand Lodge of England was founded in 24 June 1717 by another protestant english james anderson .


Even the foundational myth of freemasonery is based as a continuation of khight templars

The mayority of analogues seem to be from the bible too the most common book at that time.


So im a little puzzled what paper played the jews in all of this?