Traditions › Freemasonry › Sources Tradition · Freemasonry Sources Overview Origins Beliefs Symbols Figures Controversies Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite York Rite Sources Sources James Anderson. The Constitutions of the Free-Masons London , 1723 David Stevenson. The Origins of Freemasonry: Scotland's Century, 1590–1710 Cambridge University Press , 1988 Pope Clement XII. In Eminenti Apostolatus Specula Vatican , 1738 John J. Robinson. Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry M. Evans , 1989 Previous York Rite