By: Peter Feuerherd. August 3, June 8, Share Tweet Email Print. The Masons have been both criticized and praised for their influential role in U. Have a correction or comment about this article? Please contact us. Filibusters and Freemasons: The Sworn Obligation. Journal of the Early Republic, Vol. Review of Religion Research, Vol.
Join Our Newsletter. More Stories. Social History. Quirky History. When humans stopped being nomadic, we could no longer walk away from our waste. A collection of our recent stories in celebration of American Indian Heritage Month. Its seems that even if masonry did not have a set standard of political views and agenda all the men that chose to be a part of it shared some common values and views.
Like most of Founding Fathers the freemasons from this time period were men way before their time. Sharing views that many others during this time would not have shared or even understood. The bottom line of being a mason is to create a better man and a better world. They did this in America by pushing to separate from Great Britain, which was the only way they thought they could truly create religious freedom for their country.
Often pushing for equality in both categories. Many believe that George Washington knew that slavery was wrong and that it had no place in a free nation like America but that he knew the US was not ready to undergo such a change.
All of this is speculation and some rooted in very shallow facts. And second, rebellion against the state, whether justified or unjustified, is not a Masonic offense. While he had led the American troops during that battle, his lodge brother, Dr. John Jeffries assisted the British troops. Nearly a year later, his body was exhumed and identified by another Lodge brother, Paul Revere.
Even before the Declaration of Independence, colonial Masonry suffered from the disruptions of the war, and the division of loyalties among its members. Many lodges found it difficult to meet regularly, and others ceased to meet at all. Many lodges were disbanded as occupying British forces prohibited private assemblies, and loyalist Masons fled the country or joined the British forces.
Although the Masonic fraternity played no part in the Revolutionary War, it can easily be shown that in many ways the revolutionary ideals of equality, freedom, and democracy were espoused by the Masonic fraternity long before the American colonies began to complain about the injustices of British taxation.
The revolutionary ideals expressed in the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the writings of Thomas Paine, were ideals that had come to fruition over a century before in the early speculative lodges of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, where men sat as equals, governed themselves by a Constitution, and elected their own leaders from their midst.
In many ways, the self-governing Masonic lodges of the previous centuries had been learning laboratories for the concept of self-government. On September 18, , President George Washington, dressed in his Masonic apron, leveled the cornerstone of the United States Capitol with the traditional Masonic ceremony.
Historian Stephen Bullock in his book Revolutionary Brotherhood carefully notes the historic and symbolic significance of that ceremony. All Posts. Gila Valley 9 Masonic Lodge. Recent Posts See All. The underlying principles of analytical Jungian Psychoanalysis are similar to those of Freemasonry. Post not marked as liked 2. Post not marked as liked 1.
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