For many years now, I have heard Freemasons rubbish the intrusion of the name of Pythagoras into our ritual, especially in the first degree tracing board lecture and (in the Victorian ritual) in the extensions to the charge by the newly installed Worshipful Master to the Immediate Past Master, when presenting him with his jewel.
The mention of ‘the learned Brother Pythagoras’ usually raises a scoffing snigger by some Masons present, because they believe that Pythagoras could have very little, or even nothing, to do with Freemasonry.
How wrong they are!
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1996 - FREEMASONRY IS CLOSER TO PYTHAGORAS THAN MODERNS ACCEPT - Keith Hollingsworth.
