Speculative Masonry Its Mission Its Evolution And Its Landmarks
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(3) Later on, missionaries from the Romish Church succeeded the Celtic missionaries and extended the art of building throughout Germany up to the twelfth century. {4) Whenever and wherever cities arose and developed, Craft guilds were formed and fostered. ^5) In the course of time, the Masters in the Craft guilds with the single exception of the masons gradually excluded workmen from their meetings, and the workmen thus excluded formed guilds of their own. (6) In, or about, the twelfth century,... the Church had become rich and consequently indolent and vicious. It preferred to spend its wealth in luxurious living than in missionary enterprise and in building new stations and churches. This, and perhaps other causes, forced the skilled ecclesias- tical masons to leave the employment of the monks and amalgamate with the Craft guilds in the towns. (7) From this amalgamation sprang the organisation known as the Fraternity of Stein-Metzen. THE GERMAN STEIN-METZEN 153 (2) The Culdees. It is generally admitted that Roman civilisation in Germany was obliterated in the early centuries of the Christian era, and that the art of building, prior to the arrival of the Celtic missionaries, extended to little more than the erection of rude huts.
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