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Freemasons based their rituals on medieval guilds

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People love to imagine Masons are worshipping ancient Egyptian demons, but their secret rituals are literally just cosplay based on medieval stone-cutting unions. Their great mystic symbols are a square and a compass, the boring, everyday tools of fourteenth-century construction workers.

Freemasons based their rituals on medieval guilds
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