This is particularly true in Anglo-Saxon countries, where the various Masonic “obediences” are more deist in essence than in most European countries, where a more political Freemasonry has ...

Read on to learn more. 18th century Italian-Austrian artist Ignaz Unterberger painted this initiation ceremony in a Viennese masonic lodge in 1789. Though the Freemasonry movement has roots in ...

Symbols have long been crucial to Freemasonry. They’re used to codify and communicate important Masonic ideas and values, and some, like the Eye of Providence—a disembodied eye enclosed in a ...

It's true that Masonic symbols are anything but lost, said Freemason and historian Jay Kinney, author of the newly released Masonic Myth. (See "LOST SYMBOL PICTURES: Masonic Symbols Decoded.") ...