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Ingenui or ingenuitas (singular ingenuus), was a legal term of ancient Rome indicating those freemen who were born free, as distinct from, for example, freedmen, who were freemen who had once been slaves.
In ancient Rome, free men were either ingenui or libertini. Ingenui indicated those free men who were born free.[2] Libertini were those men who were manumitted from legal slavery. Although freedmen were not ingenui, the sons of libertini were ingenui.
According to Cincius, in his work on Comitia, quoted by Festus,[8] those who in his time were called ingenui, were originally called patricii
Collegia could function as guilds, social clubs, or burial societies; in practice, in ancient Rome, they sometimes became organized bodies of local businessmen and even criminals, who ran the mercantile/criminal activities in a given urban region, or rione.
By law, only three persons were required to create a legal collegium; the only exception was the college of consuls, which included only the two consuls.
The Ancient Greek term for collegium is hetaireia and such organizations existed, from as early as the 6th century BCE in Athens.
A requirement of membership in Freemasonry is being free born.
Originally posted by jinni73
Are all Freemasons Collegia or are you condemned men as well?
Originally posted by jinni73
reply to post by JoshNorton
But anybody is allowed to join the masons so how can your statement be true?
Not anybody. They have to meet certain criteria, again, one of them being free born. We do investigations and background checks on candidates. It's rare that someone gets in who isn't fully vetted. And when someone does, if they're found out, they're kicked out rather swiftly.
Originally posted by jinni73
But anybody is allowed to join the masons so how can your statement be true?
No. I'm pretty sure everyone else thinks you're a raving loon, but since you asked…
Originally posted by jinni73
Does anyone see the logic in this?
But likewise anybody can become a lawyer or a notary. In fact, it's damned easy to become a notary. I know a handful. They don't get some super-sekret special power to confer collegia or corporati status on someone willy-nilly. That's crazy talk.
I would love the author of this book to come on here and explain it or maybe even a Notary
Originally posted by JoshNorton
A requirement of membership in Freemasonry is being free born.
Originally posted by jinni73
Are all Freemasons Collegia or are you condemned men as well?
Originally posted by JoshNorton
No. I'm pretty sure everyone else thinks you're a raving loon, but since you asked…
Originally posted by jinni73
Does anyone see the logic in this?
But likewise anybody can become a lawyer or a notary. In fact, it's damned easy to become a notary. I know a handful. They don't get some super-sekret special power to confer collegia or corporati status on someone willy-nilly. That's crazy talk.
I would love the author of this book to come on here and explain it or maybe even a Notary