Memory Palaces and Masonic LodgesReveals how the art of memory is the origin of the Masonic method. Memory Palaces and Masonic Lodges explains the classical techniques of the art of memory, how they were reworked by hermetic thinkers during the Renaissance, and how they contributed to the transformation of operative Freemasonry into speculative Freemasonry. Traces the creation of speculative Freemasonry to 1637, one hundred years earlier than previously thought. Explores how the