From the Quarries

Good evening Quarrymen

Was Freemasonry founded by King Solomon—or by Noah himself?

In 1723, the Reverend James Anderson published The Constitutions of the Free-Masons and made a startling claim: that the Craft began long before Abraham, when Noah and his sons built the Ark “according to the Rules of Masonry.” In Anderson’s vision, all humanity became the Children of Noah—heirs to a universal moral law given before the rise of nations, churches, and creeds.

This lecture traces Anderson’s extraordinary thesis from its 18th-century origins through its Enlightenment context and into its echoes in Hermetic, Kabbalistic, and Rosicrucian thought. It explores how the “Noachide” ideal helped define Freemasonry as a universal fraternity grounded in reason, geometry, and the moral law shared by all mankind. Join us as we return to the symbolic Ark—the first lodge of humanity—and rediscover one of the most profound and least remembered ideas in the Masonic tradition: that before we were divided by belief, we were united by conscience.

On YouTube 22 November.