the point is that rosicrucianism emerged around frankfurt and as a basis of esoteric power was independant from the scottish claim and so they fought and competed for money, power and land, but both traditions were from the same source. 18th century masonry was largely criticized from a protestant perspective and the 1717 grand lodge was founded to counter the former catholic tradition as an alternative, the catholic church then disavowing free masonry.   udscots_judaized_scots_jacobite_jew s_and_the_development_of_cabalistic _freemasonry > the government increased its pressure on the former jacobite lodges in scotland, and after the french-jacobite invasion scare of 1759, the lodge at holyrood cautiously moved from jacobitism to whiggism in the 1760's--a shift that did not imply admiration for king george iii. during the same period, the "ancients" recruited aggressively in the american colonies, where they emerged as the dominant system of masonry and significant contributors to the independence movement. among the "ancient" recruits were many jews, who shared the resentment against english encroachments on american rights. as the jewish-american freemason dr. isaac wise affirmed in the israelite (1855), "masonry is a jewish institution whose history, degrees, charges, passwords, and explanations are jewish from beginning to end, with the exception of only one by degree and a few words in the obligation. " moreover, he adds, jews in the american colonies in the mid-eighteenth century were most attracted to the ancient or "scottish rite," in which they became not only knights of the temple but scottish masters
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