Whilst searching for a museum to observe......

[kookomula]

Whilst searching for a museum to observe for a 'Arts and Heritage' class, I came across the Freemasons Museum in Covent Garden. I just wanted to point out their three great principles.

For many years Freemasons have followed three great principles:

Brotherly Love - Every true Freemason will show tolerance and respect for the opinions of others and behave with kindness and understanding to his fellow creatures.

Relief - Freemasons are taught to practise charity and to care, not only for their own, but also for the community as a whole, both by charitable giving, and by voluntary efforts and works as individuals.

Truth - Freemasons strive for truth, requiring high moral standards and aiming to achieve them in their own lives.

Freemasons believe that these principles represent a way of achieving higher standards in life.

(http://www.grandlodge-england.org/masonry/what-is-freemasonry.htm)

So be careful who you point the finger at in future.

Also while browsing, found this interesting:

The Masonic calendar traditionally dated from 4004 BCE; the creation of the universe, Anno Mundi, as computed by Archbishop James Ussher in 1650-54 and inserted by Bishop William Lloyd of Winchester as a marginal note in the Great (1701) Edition of the English Bible, where it remained without explanation until 1900 when Cambridge University Press removed it from further editions. By the mid eighteenth century, masonic usage had shifted to the year of light, Anno Lucis, which dates from 4000 BCE.

Sorry to lower the tone people.