"If legend is beautiful, work of men who shape history is remarkable" says Roger Dachez. This round table (2 x 50 min) talks about the following questions: - is there a filiation between cathedral builders, companions, profession fraternities and current freemasonry?
- Does freemasonry date back from the Templars and Jacques Molay would he have been the Grand Master of this order? - what happened in the past in the Goos inn and the Grill in London on June 24th 1717? - did a transmission happen between the 1660's Royal Society and the first Grand Lodge of London in 1717? - the rush of a great number of stone cutters, in London, further to the fire which ravaged the city in 1666, was it the beginnings of modern freemasonry?
- what political recuperation experienced freemasonry, especially by Jacobites, from then it institutionalized itself in 1723? - how did these "operative" profession fraternities become "speculative" intellectual: who could join them and what were the required conditions?
So many fascinating interrogations that remind us that all the spiritual groups, all the religions suffer inevitably an "evolution law". Between an initial goal, prophetic or not, and its future: there is a gap of which God of Time Chronos - and men! - are the workers.