2020, but also 1442, 5781, 2563, 4717. Not random numbers, but the dating of the new year that has just begun: 2020 for those who follow the Gregorian calendar, but for Muslims we are instead at 1442 (counting begins from the conclusion of Muhammad's transfer from Mecca to Medina, in 622 AD), for the Jews we are at 5781 (it starts from 3761 BC. date of the alleged creation, for the Buddhists we are at 2563 (the reference is the Buddha's death in 543 BC), per the Chinese arrived on 4719 (we start from 2637 BC, the date of the presumed invention of the calendar). And so on.
But there is another date, unknown to the vast majority: the Masonic New Year. Yeah, why for Freemasons we are no less than 6020. That is 4 thousand years later. In reality for the Freemasons even the new year has yet to begin the beginning being in fact set on the first day of March. The 4 years more refer to a biblical chronology of an Anglican prelate of 1500, James Usher, who dates back to 4000 BC. C. the creation of the world.
To this date therefore, conventionally, reference is made to understand the era in which the history of our world begins, and certainly the creators and founders of English speculative Freemasonry adopted this date as the year of creation, and the obediences born later did nothing but imitate the United Grand Lodge of England.
For this year the Sovereign Masonic Order of Italy, in collaboration with the Prometheus Universal Academy, has published a calendar in which each month is dedicated to an illustrious Freemason (few know that many of our Fathers of the Homeland and heroes of the Risorgimento were Freemasons, starting with Giuseppe Garibaldi, as well as writers, musicians, artists, politicians): brief notes on their figure fruit of the work of Maria Grazia Pedinotti for the esoteric part, Giordano Bonini for the historical one and Federico Paradiso (cabala).
