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CURIOUS FACTS ABOUT FREEMASONRY

Added on: 6th Aug 2016

 

FREEMASONRY EXISTS IN VARIOUS FORMS ALL

OVER THE WORLD, WITH A MEMBERSHIP

ESTIMATED AT AROUND FIVE MILLION (INCLUDING

APPROXIMATELY 480,000 IN GREAT BRITAIN AND

OVER TWO MILLION IN THE UNITED STATES)

Freemasons

 

 

CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, THE FREEMASONS

ARE NOT A SECRET SOCIETY. A MASON CAN FREELY

TELL PEOPLE THEY ARE A MASON. THEY JUST CAN’T

REVEAL THE SECRETS OF THE ORDER

Freemasons

 

 

THE CONVENTIONAL ESTABLISHMENT OF

FREEMASONRY IS USUALLY DATED TO 1717,

WHEN THE GRAND LODGE OF LONDON EMERGED

ON JUNE 24. THE EMERGENCE OF THIS GRAND

LODGE MARKED THE BEGINNING OF GRAND

LODGES GOVERNING OTHER LODGES

Grand Lodge of London

 

 

FREEMASONRY EMPLOYS THE TOOLS AND

INSTRUMENTS OF STONEMASONRY TO TEACH

A SYSTEM OF MORALITY, FRIENDSHIP, AND

BROTHERLY LOVE, HENCE, THE STANDARD

EMBLEM OF FREEMASONRY IS THE SQUARE

AND COMPASS

freemasonry

 

 

MASONIC SYMBOLS ARE USUALLY REGARDED AS

EXISTING BECAUSE OF THE FRATERNITY’S

SECRECY. HOWEVER, IN REALITY, FREEMASONRY

STARTED BEING ILLUSTRATED BY SYMBOLS

BECAUSE AT THE VERY BEGINNING MOST

FREEMASONS COULD NOT READ, SO THE

SYMBOLS SERVED TO REMIND MEMBERS OF

THE FRATERNITY’S TEACHINGS

books

 

 

THE OLDEST MASONIC SYMBOL IS THE SQUARE

AND COMPASS. IT IS ALSO THE MOST UNIVERSALLY

RECOGNIZED SYMBOL OF FREEMASONRY, THOUGH

ITS EXACT SIGNIFICANCE VARIES FROM COUNTRY

TO COUNTRY

square and compasses

 

 

A MASONIC “LODGE” REFERS TO THE CONGREGATION

OF PEOPLE WHO MEET THERE, IT’S NOT JUST THE

NAME OF A BUILDING. EACH LODGE GETS A

CHARTER FROM A “GRAND LODGE” BUT THEY

BASICALLY RUN THEMSELVES. THERE’S NO

OVERARCHING RITUAL FOR RUNNING A MEETING;

IT VARIES WITH EACH INDIVIDUAL GROUP

Masonic Lodge

 

 

IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO BECOME A FREEMASON IF YOU’RE

AN ATHEIST. THE FIRST REQUIREMENT IS THAT

POTENTIAL MEMBERS MUST BELIEVE IN A HIGHER

POWER OF SOME KIND

Atheism symbol

 

 

THERE ARE TWO KNOWN BRANCHES OF

FREEMASONRY. THE REGULAR, GUIDED BY THE

UNITED GRAND LODGE OF ENGLAND, AND THE

LIBERAL, REPRESENTED BY THE GRAND

ORIENT OF FRANCE

branches of Freemasonry

 


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