TisILeclerc wrote:Have a look at the link between Mithraic beliefs and Christianity and you will be truly amazed.
I have been asking several people who are fit members of a regularly organised society how all this might be. Even for the ones in charge of research and lectures, it's all a mystery. The one thing that masonic historians (in England) do seem to agree on is that the UGLE (when it was founded) was pretty damn desperate to make sure that Freemasonry in England did not appear to contain anything revolutionary or republican (as in French revolution etc). So any origins of Freemasonry that hinted at any involvement with anti-establishment behaviour was disappeared.
Freemasonry in Scotland is a different issue.