Nor would there have been any problem in finding new recruits over the years ahead.

There were to be plenty of protesters and dissidents against the church among future generations.

The rebels of the peasants' revolt proved that when they attacked abbeys and monasteries,

and when they cut the head off the Archbishop of Canterbury, the leading Catholic prelate in England.

The fugitive Templars would have needed a code such as the old charges of masonry,

but the working stone maces clearly did not.

It had become obvious that I needed to know more about the ancient order of free

and accepted masons the extent of the masonic material available at large public libraries

surprised me as did the fact that it was housed in the department of education and

religion not content with just what was generally available to the public

i asked to use the library in the masonic temple in cincinnati ohio

by the way folks cincinnati ohio is an extremely important location

in this country

the united states

i told the gentleman there that i was not a Freemason, but wanted to use the library as part of my

research for a book that would probably include a new examination of the Masonic order.

His only question to me was, quote, will it be fair?

Unquote.

I assured him that I had no desire or intention to be anything other than fair, to which he replied, quote, good enough, unquote.

I was left alone with the catalog in the hundreds of Masonic books that lined the walls.

I also took advantage of the publications of the Masonic Service Association at Silver Springs, Maryland.

Later, as my growing knowledge of masonry enabled me to sustain a conversation on the subject,

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