U.S. President Freemasons Masonic Astronauts Five Famous (or Infamous) Masons Founding Fathers A Abbott, Sir John, J. C. Canadian Prime Minister 1891-1892. St. Paul’s, No. 374, E.R., Montreal, 1847. Augustus, Edward Duke of Kent Father of Queen Victoria and last Grand Master of the...
Cathedral builders, by nature of their profession, had to travel from city to city. They identified one another via signs of their trade, like the builder’s square and compass in Freemasonry’s now-iconic symbol. HISTORY Vault: Mysteries of the Freemasons: America Freemasons led the ...
Many of America's greatest leaders such as George Washington, wereFreemasons.Baptists, Quakers, and Catholics were all suffering persecution at the hands of fellow Christians in Virginia and New England and wanted an assurance of religious freedom for all, they got it. The Bill of Rights would...
The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World by John Dickie "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...
“Antients”, neither of which allowed political involvement by lodges, Portuguese freemasonry becamefrenchionizedorjacobinizedlater in the 19thcentury. Although this involvement contravenes one of the mandates of our Obedience, which forbids any political or religious discussion between freemasons in ...
As a result of his plan, the local Masons began harassing Morgan, hoping to stop the publication of the exposé. The Rise and Fall of Freemasons in the U.S. After being held in prison on trumped up charges, Morgan was bailed out by a group of Masons and carried away, never to be...
During World War One, soldiers sang “We are here because we are here” in the trenches,the bittersweet melody taking on a sardonic tone. Credit: Ros Gasson, CC BY-NC 2.0, via Flickr. The tradition of formin...
"You realize the power which Freemasonry has at its disposal. We can say that we hold France. It is not because of our numbers, since there are only 25,000 Freemasons in this country (in 1889). Nor is it because we are the brains, for you have been able to judge of the intellectua...
7. Famous Freemasons Are Everywhere Famous Freemasons can be found throughout history:George Washingtonwas aMaster Mason, andBenjamin Franklinwas a founding member of the first Masonic Lodge in America. PresidentsFranklin D. RooseveltandGerald Fordwere Masons, as was Prime Minister of Great BritainWin...
In 1826, William Morgan, a disenchanted mason originally from Canada, threatened to publish a book exposing details of the Freemasons closely guarded secret rites. This caused a great furor and added to dissension which had already been brewing among members. ...