"I realized there was a fantastic world of stories to tell, once you got past the only two narratives that seem to be in circulation about the Freemasons" —John Dickie In The Craft John Dickie, a leading expert on the Italian mafia, looks at the world of Freemasonry. Many of us associ...
He declared himself to be Jesus Christ. He used LSD and electric shock therapy on the group’s followers. Some were murdered. Shoko was also big on conspiracy theories involving the Freemasons, the British Royal Family and the Jewish people. Yep, they were crazy as batshit. But the group ...
Many Freemasons know that their society originated not only with the building of King Solomons temple, but also with the Africoid people of Africa and the Middle East. They avoid the subject of Ancient African Freemasons altogether. There was a time in America when Black Freemasons who received...
centuries, they have received little attention from Romantic scholars. And yet, information about the societies permeated all aspects of Romantic culture. Groups such as the Rosicrucians and the Freemasons fa 虽然秘密社团行使了极大的文化影响在晚十八个期间和及早第十九个世纪,他们从浪漫学者受到了一点注意...
Besides Jews, victims of the Holocaust included other races and groups deemed “inferior” by the Nazis. These included Roma Gypsies, Poles, homosexuals, Freemasons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Slovenes and disabled people. As mentioned already, persecution of these groups resulted in millions of additional...
Another idiosyncratic moment is in the story of Miss St. Leger and the Freemasons: In a small alcoved room in Doneraile Court, a Miss St. Leger became the only lady Free Mason. The popular story is that she hid in a clock, her family say she happened to fall asleep on a couch: an...
Clarkson presided over the opening session of the grand anti-slavery convention in the Freemasons Hall at Great Queen Street on 12 June 1840 (recorded in a painting by Benjamin Haydon). [More Dutch advertisements for slaves in the East Indies] The voice of English abolitionists was heard in...
The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco We featured Eco’s new novel in our fall book preview, and we’re excited to read about a spy thriller that includes real-life anti-Semites, Freemasons, and nefarious Jesuit plotters. When it was released in Italian last year, there was an outcry from ...
Drury whizzes through the Grail, the Kabbala, alchemy, astrology, Tarot cards and Freemasons in a brisk tour d'horizon, but most interesting are his final chapters on contemporary magic - Wicca, Satanism and cybermagic. There are biographies of Gerald Gardner and Alex Sanders, and a fair ...
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