Description
In 1450, a group of English stonemasons wrote down where their craft came from — and they didn't start with Egypt, or Greece, or Solomon.
They started before the Flood.
In their history, the first city that ever existed had a master mason. One of theirs. And when the old world learned it was going to end, they sent for him again — to build two pillars that would carry everything mankind knew across the water.
One of marble, because marble won't burn. One of brick, because brick won't sink.
Whichever way the world ended, one of them would survive.
This is a real document, and three centuries later the Freemasons built their entire official history on it. Here's where to read it yourself.
SOURCES
The Cooke Manuscript, c.1450
British Library, Additional MS 23,198
Full text (Middle English), Wikisource:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Matthew_Cooke_Manuscript
Matthew Cooke's 1861 edition, free on Archive.org:
https://archive.org/stream/The_Cooke_Manuscript_1450/The_Cooke_Manuscript_1450_djvu.txt
Modernised English rendering:
https://www.thesquaremagazine.com/mag/article/202009cooke-manuscript/
Anderson's Constitutions, 1723 — where the Freemasons carried this history forward:
http://albalodge.org/resources/Constitutions(Anderson-1723).pdf
NOTES
The pillars are marble and a stone the manuscript calls "Lacerus" — a scribal mangling of Latin laterus, brick. Later copies garble it further into "wood."
The master mason is named Jabal, and the Cooke MS makes him "Cain's master mason and governor of the works" when Cain built the city of Enoch. That job title is medieval English guild language, applied to the world before the Flood.
Two different men named Enoch turn up in Genesis — Cain's son, who gets the city (ch. 4), and the one who walked with God and never died (ch. 5). Anderson credits him with the pillars in 1723, quietly moving them out of Cain's line. Cooke doesn't.
The Cooke MS is not the oldest Masonic document. The Regius Poem (c.1390) is older, and it has none of this — no Cain, no pillars, no lost world. The lineage grew backwards over sixty years.
Modern Freemasonry does not teach this history. Masonic scholars themselves discarded it in the 1880s. This is a medieval claim, not a modern one.
Dr Charles Kos, PhD — Time Detective
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