Sayer, A.

Japanese: Sayer,A.(英語表記)SayerA
Sayer, A.

...In any case, the professional guild of church architects who "built God's house on earth" was finally being forced to transform itself into a spiritual building, an "invisible heavenly house," that is, a Freemason.
[The birth of modern Freemasonry and the expansion of its activities]
It was on the feast day of John the Baptist (June 24th) in 1717 that four lodges (originally meaning "workhouses" for craftsmen at large construction sites) in London and Westminster were united under the leadership of Anthony Sayer into one great lodge as the "center of unity and harmony". Six years later, in 1723, Protestant pastor James Anderson compiled the "Constitution" and established the "Ancient Obligations", the moral code that Freemasons should observe.

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Japanese:

…いずれにせよ“地上に神の家を造る”教会建築家の同職組合は,このころようやく,〈見えざる天上の家〉としての精神の建築物,すなわちフリーメーソンの構築へと脱皮を迫られていた。
[近代フリーメーソンの誕生と活動の拡大]
 ロンドンとウェストミンスターにあった四つのロッジ(本来は大建築現場の職人たちの〈普請小屋〉の意)が,セーヤーAnthony Sayerの音頭で〈団結と調和の中心〉たる一つの大ロッジに大同団結したのは,1717年洗礼者ヨハネの祝日(6月24日)であった。6年後の23年,プロテスタント牧師アンダーソンJames Andersonによって〈憲章〉が編纂され,フリーメーソン会員が遵守すべき道徳律たる〈古き諸義務〉が制定された。…

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