If you're only interested in saying "it's the jews", I don't care. But I'm here for actual discussion with arguments rather than memes. I already have those very same pics on my computer. So if you're going to answer at least do something better than posting "No." without anything to back it up.
I'm going to use your Fritz Springemeier source to prove my point. Like it says, freemasonry descends from societies like the Roshaniya, the assassins, the Rosicrucians, the sufis and THE MYSTERY SCHOOLS. I emphasize this because that is the origin of all secret societies. Mystery schools were the first secret societies and they taught an esoteric doctrine, from which derived other disciplines like alchemy, hermetism, kabbalah, gnosticism and even yoga, buddhism and taoism. I recommend you read the book you cited; Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, which links freemasonry to the mysteries. In it, you'll find that there are references to other cultures. Add to that Morals & Dogma. They're both archived online and they're free.
Freemasonry is based upon the mystery schools of antiquity and their teachings. They can be considered their spiritual successors.
I didn't mean the successor of the jews. I meant the successor of the mystery schools (Greece, Egypt, Rome).
Freemasonry is "the successor of the mysteries", according to Albert Pike in his book Morals & Dogma. They are the widow's sons (Isis), they represent the story of an architect who died and resurrected, losing the "word" (a reference to Osiris, who died and resurrected and lost his phallus; his creative principle, represented by the masonic obelisk), the apron and the egyptian hall are also taken from Egyptian culture, they include references to mathematical postulates of pythagoreanism, the handshake and the phrigian cap were taken straight from the mythraic mysteries, the word VITRIOL was taken from alchemy, the names of some degrees are references to the Knights templar (as your own source, Manual of Freemasonry by Carlile mentions. Some believed Templars were the founders of Freemasonry, including Albert Pike) and the Rosicrucians, while shriners wear islamic regalia. They also feature references to astrology and hermeticism
and to the old testament, judaism and kabbalah. The thirty-three degrees are not just a reference to the 33 elements in the kabbalistic tree of life, but also to the 33 vertebrae which the "holy spirit" or Hiram must climb to open the third eye. It is also the age of Christ and the number of Vedic gods.
While the masses were given the exoteric, literal teachings, the esoteric were reserved for the initiated few, who understood the true philosophical messages behind judaism. In fact, some kabbalistic practices can be compared to yoga; they include breathing excercises, union with the divine absolute, reciting the names of God as mantras, meditating (see Abulafia's practices). In fact, most jewish scholars think kabbalah is older than judaism; a clear example is Gershom Scholem. I could go on about how kabbalah isn't an original jewish invention, but I don't think this would be of much interest to you anyway.
Like I said in my previous post; it isn't that the freemasonry is founded on judaism. They both share the same source, which is the mysteries. Albert Pike stated in M&D that Moses was an initiate of the Egyptian mysteries, who taught it to the jews, founding judaism and kabbalah; if you read the quote I posted, it says quite clearly that there were Greek and Egyptian kabbalists, implying the jews didn't invent it.
Saying that freemasonry is judaism because of this is like saying that islam is, because they both share the old testament, they both believe in certain patriarchs and prophets, they're both semitic, they both share similar views on women, food prohibitions, dressing codes, etc.
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By the way, masonry did ban jews from entering for quite some time.
To the objection of the Churches and other conservative elements in society, the Masons reacted by an apology which, in the main, tried to prove that Freemasonry was not an un-Christian institution, an argument supported by the fact that the Masonic fraternity consisted exclusively of Christians: Jews, Muslims, and pagans were not and should not be accepted. However, in England and Holland no objection in principle to Jewish applicants existed and in France the objections were swept away with the Revolution. Here Freemasonry became a kind of secular church in which Jews could participate freely.
In Germany objection to Jewish membership persisted, remaining a matter of controversy for generations. Until the 1780s only a few German Jews were admitted to Masonry. About this time Jewish applications for admission to the Masonic lodges became frequent. Though there were some attempts to open the lodges to Jews, no German Freemason of any standing at that time advocated Jewish admittance. Some German Jews became Freemasons when traveling abroad in England, Holland, and, particularly, in post-revolutionary France. In Germany itself French or French-initiated lodges were established during the Napoleonic occupation. A Jewish lodge, L'Aurore Naissante, was founded in Frankfurt, authorized in 1808 by the Grand Orient in Paris. These ventures, however, hardened the resistance of the indigenous lodges in Frankfurt and in other German towns, and some Masonic fraternities introduced amended constitutions specifically excluding Jews.
In the 1830s German intellectuals who were Freemasons protested against this exclusion, joined by Masons from Holland, England, France, and even by a lodge in New York, who resented the fact that their Jewish members were refused entrance to German lodges. By 1848 some lodges admitted Jews, if not as full members at least as visitors. The years of the 1848 Revolution swept away some of the paragraphs excluding Jews, and the Frankfurt Jewish lodges were now acknowledged by their Christian counterparts. The exceptions were the Prussian lodges, controlled by law from 1798 by the mother lodges from Berlin.
Source:
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/freemasons
Whether this was a smokescreen is up to you to prove. It may be, though.
So that leaves a few questions:
1) Why would overwhelmingly non-jewish institutions serve jewish interests? What evidence is there that it was jews all along controlling them from the shadows?
2) Why is freemasonry jewish because it has some elements of judaism, but not egyptian, templar, islamic or greek, even though those symbols can be even more apparent?
3) If Jewish-Freemasonry was strong enough to carry out both the American and the French revolution (and the Latin American independences a few decades later)... What took them so long? Why not just found the country of Israel? Save for France, they brought about republics which were overwhelmingly christian.
4) If a scrap from a jewish newspaper and an unsourced quote by Fritz Springmeier are evidence good enough to prove absolute jewish dominion... Why not believe the writings of masonic authors and scholars which link the origins of freemasonry to other sources like King Nimrod, Adam, the knights templar, the ancient mysteries, the medieval stonemasons, etc.?
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Whether freemasonry was coopted by jews, that's an entirely different thing which may very well be true. But to say that masonry was founded by jews, based on judaism is simply wrong. There is more than enough evidence of its links to other cultures, some of which predate judaism and kabbalah
