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| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Combat | ATK 40 DEF 65 SPR 75 SPD 50 INT 90 |
| Rank | Scottish Presbyterian minister / Compiler of the Constitutions (1723) |
| Domain | Codification, Religious Tolerance, Mythological History |
| Alignment | Masonic Sacred |
| Weakness | His "history" of Masonry from Adam through Solomon is largely invented; later editions contradict the first |
| Counter | Historians (his fabricated genealogy has been demolished by serious Masonic scholarship since the 19th century) |
| Key Act | Compiled and published the *Constitutions of the Free-Masons* (1723), establishing the Supreme Being requirement and the non-sectarian charge |
| Source | *The Constitutions of the Free-Masons* (1723, revised 1738) |
Lore: Anderson was a pragmatist. He knew the Premier Grand Lodge needed a foundational text, that such texts needed ancient pedigrees, and that ancient pedigrees in 1723 were largely self-invented. So he wrote one: Masonry descended from Adam through Noah, Nimrod, Moses, Solomon, Pythagoras, Vitruvius, the Roman collegia, medieval cathedral guilds, to the Premier Grand Lodge. None is true as history. All is true as ritual orientation. His durable gift: the religious clause—belief in a Supreme Being required, the Supreme Being’s identity unspecified. This clause grounds every regular Masonic jurisdiction worldwide.
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