It was penned by , a French-born naturalist and Mason who served as the Inspector General of the French West Indies. Francken was a traveling ritualist—a man who moved between Europe and the New World, planting the seeds for what would eventually become the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite.
But that is precisely its magic.
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