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We are far from a secret underground movement

“The two things are very separate and I do not let them cross over. No mason has ever approached me and asked me to push things through for them. I wouldn’t be very happy if they did.

“The Freemasons is a charitable organisation and one which I get a lot of pleasure from being a member of. If however I was working as a councillor and was involved in any form of decision making on either a fellow mason, or the lodge, I would declare an interest and leave the room.

“Over the last ten years the Freemasons have become far more open. We are far from a secret underground movement.”

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Pfeiffer of Dracut Installed as District Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts

BOSTON — Kenneth W. Pfeiffer of Dracut was installed a District Deputy Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Massachusetts at the fraternity’s Boston headquarters and will preside over eight lodges in the 14th Masonic District for the year.

The 38,000 Freemasons and 232 lodges in the commonwealth are organized into 32 districts, each led by a district deputy grand master. Read more

Arrowtown Freemasons Find 124 Year Old Treasure

Arrowtown Freemasons are set to reveal to the public restored historic emblems discovered in their 124-year-old lodge.

Arrowtown Freemasons worshipful master Graeme Wilson said the 110-year-old emblems and symbols were uncovered four years ago when pinex board laid in the early 1950s was lifted. Read more

Freemason doctrine and U.S. foreign policy

Indeed, one can be fascinated by the striking similarities between Freemason doctrine and U.S. foreign policy. Out of the 5 million Freemasons around the world, approximately 2 million are from the United States. Who knows if they are secretly communicating using their clandestine symbols, dreaming of a better world where people can live in liberty, equality and fraternity? Professor Jin contends that even the French Revolution was inspired by Freemason principles of “Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth.” Read more

Secrets of Freemasonry Revealed

Editor’s note: The veil of secrecy surrounding Masonic lodges, their activities and the meaning of their square and compass logo was lifted recently for Times Staff Writer Ken Kosky. The Dunes Lodge in Portage was made available for a tour and the lodge’s outgoing Worshipful Master Erik Burkhart answered questions along with other Freemasons. Read more

Freemasons rebuilding ranks

For the first time in 149 years, members of the Masons in Colorado are gathered in Pueblo for their annual meeting.

No, members are not here to help pick global leaders, despite recent movies and novels that suggest the fraternity has had a major influence on governments throughout history.

Instead, the state chapter will go over its annual report and elect new officers, said Brian Cotter, the most worshipful grand master of the Grand Lodge of Accepted Free and Accepted Masons of Colorado.

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Living a more fulfilled life is the benefit of becoming a Freemason

Living a more fulfilled life is the benefit of becoming a Freemason, said Ontario’s Grand Master, Raymond Daniels.

“It’s basically a self-learning organization,” he said. “The men through our lectures, our charges associating with other good men, we learn more about ourselves.”

Freemasonry is the largest and oldest fraternal organization in the world, Daniels said.

Daniels, who was initiated at Orillia’s Masonic Temple more than 50 years ago, joined his mother lodge on Saturday for the annual ceremony of installation, which sees a new set of officers put in place.

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Freemason Music in Alberta

“You have a pre-set up network,” he said, referring to the benefits of moving to a new community with a lodge. “It’s a great group so you automatically have an affiliation with people.” Read more

America would become the New Atlantis and lead the world to the Golden Age of Osir

If you have read Apollyon Rising 2012: The Lost Symbol Found and the Final Mystery of the Great Seal Revealed, then by now you have learned an important secret concerning the capital city of the United States. According to the world’s foremost authorities—including Robert Hieronimus, United States official records, and even Freemason scholars—Washington DC was designed as a symbol of the Rosicrucian dream shared by its builders: that America would become the New Atlantis and eventually lead the world into a restored Golden Age of Osiris. Read more

Man says government has been run by Freemasons since the Civil War

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A tax-evading man convicted of amassing an arsenal of weapons that he and his wife held during a nine-month standoff with federal authorities was sentenced Monday to 37 years in federal prison in a hearing punctuated by him laughing and chiding the judge and prosecutors.

When it was Brown’s turn to address the court, he rambled on for 45 minutes about how it was his duty to protect the U.S. Constitution and how the government has been run by Freemasons and the U.S. attorney’s office since the Civil War.

”I didn’t realize the criminal element was them,” he said, saying more than once he wished he could’ve introduced evidence supporting his arguments.

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