Freemasonry

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Temptingly, he explained that “the theater, behind the scenes, has an emotional freemasonry of its own, certainly franker and arguably wholesomer than the stiffness of suburban society outside.”

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2023

A retired prosecutor who chased him for years blames unspecified freemasonry circles.

From Reuters • Jan. 18, 2023

Now research from the University of Edinburgh has revealed the origins of the Hogmanay tradition are connected to freemasonry.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2021

The mysterious tenets of freemasonry include gnostic texts, references to ancient Egypt and alternative interpretations of the Bible.

From The Guardian • Jul. 2, 2014

Secret societies however are anything but forbidden under Dutch rule in Java,—on the contrary, it is rather bon ton to belong to some one of the lodges of freemasonry existent out there.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von