The History of Masonry - From the Building of the House of the Lord, and Its Progress Throughout the Civilized World, Down to the Present Time #252490

First, those who, in the main, agree with Anderson as to the origin of Masonry, but who undertake to fix the precise 'date — some at the Garden of Eden, some in the days of Enoch, some in the days of Noah, and last, though not least, a celebrated divine of the present day fixes its existence in the great empyrean of space, before this world was created.