Léo Taxil ( 1854 – 1907 ) claimed that Freemasonry is associated with worshipping Lucifer.

* John J. Robinson ( 1990 ), Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry, ISBN 0-87131-602-1 ; Chapters 1 – 5 concern the Peasants ' Revolt.

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* The construction of the Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland ( 1440 – 1490 ) provided the interface between the Knights Templar and Freemasonry.

As to religious requirements, the oldest constitution found in Freemasonry – Anderson's Constitutions of the Free-Masons, 1723 – says that a Mason " will never be a stupid Atheist nor an irreligious Libertine " if he " rightly understands the Art ".

* Harland-Jacobs, Jessica L. Builders of Empire: Freemasonry and British Imperialism, 1717 – 1927 ( 2009 )

* Hoffman, Stefan-Ludwig The Politics of Sociability: Freemasonry and German Civil Society, 1840 – 1918 ( 2008 )

According to the 1917 Catholic Encyclopedia, Freemasonry was historically viewed by the Catholic Church as a principal source of anti-Clericalism, – especially in, but not limited to, historically Catholic countries.

The grocery store went bankrupt in 1923, and David Mirvish moved his family to Toronto where he worked as a door-to-door salesman – peddling, among other things, Fuller Brushes and the Encyclopedia of Freemasonry – until he opened a grocery in the Toronto Jewish community, on Dundas Street.

* Parchment, Samuel Richard ( 1881 – 1946 ), Freemasonry at the Rosicrucian Fellowship, ISBN 978-1-4253-2214-4, 48 pages

Because of the secrecy in Freemasonry, it was believed by the Church to have an enormous amount of secret discipline of its members – which was seen by the Pope as enslavement.

The date of her initiation into Freemasonry is uncertain, but the Memoir of a Lady Freemason indicates that it was between 1710 – 1712, before her marriage.

As a compromise, at the union of two rival Grand Lodges in 1813 ( one of which considered the Royal Arch a ' Fourth Degree ', whilst the other almost totally ignored it ) English Freemasonry recognised the Royal Arch as part of " pure, ancient masonry ", but stated that it was not an additional degree, but merely the " completion of the third degree ".

The Knights Templar of the Middle East: The Hidden History of the Islamic Origins of Freemasonry.

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The Knights Templar of the Middle East: The Hidden History of the Islamic Origins of Freemasonry.

* Waite, Arthur Edward, A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry ( Ars Magna Latomorum ) and of Cognate Instituted Mysteries: Their Rites, Literature, and History, New York: Wings Books, 1994.

Findel's History of Freemasonry was translated from German to English, and published in 1865.

See History of Freemasonry in Russia for further details.

His latest book, co-authored with Walid Amine Salhab, is The Knights Templar of the Middle East: The Hidden History of the Islamic Origins of Freemasonry ( 2006 ).

William Grimshaw ’ s 1903 " Official History of Freemasonry Among the Colored People of North America " began the story that Prince Hall was born in Barbados to a European father and an African-European mother who fled to the British colony of Massachusetts where Hall became a Methodist minister.

* Mackey, Albert G. ( 1966 ), An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry, reprint edition, ( Chicago :, The Masonic History Company ).

* Robert Ingham Clegg, Masons ’ and Freemasons ’ Marks, Mackey's History of Freemasonry, 1921

Many Masonic conspiracy theories have pictured Freemasonry as an internationalist secret cabal.

Since at least the 18th century Freemasonry has incorporated Templar symbols and rituals in a number of Masonic bodies, most notably, the " Order of the Temple " the final order joined in " The United Religious, Military and Masonic Orders of the Temple and of St John of Jerusalem, Palestine, Rhodes and Malta " commonly known as the Knights Templar.

Apologists of Freemasonry contend that, when Albert Pike and other Masonic scholars spoke about the " Luciferian path ," or the " energies of Lucifer ," they were referring to the Morning Star, the light bearer, the search for light ; the very antithesis of dark, satanic evil.

The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry ( the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction in the United States often omits the and ), commonly known as simply the Scottish Rite, is one of several Rites of the worldwide fraternity known as Freemasonry.

The Magic Flute is noted for its prominent Masonic elements ; Schikaneder and Mozart were Masons and lodge brothers ( see: Mozart and Freemasonry ).

* Different branches of Freemasonry have selected different years to date their documents according to a Masonic era, such as the Anno Lucis ( A. L.

A Masonic Lodge, often termed a Private Lodge or Constituent Lodge, is the basic organisational unit of Freemasonry.

In some jurisdictions in the United States, the Lodge of Instruction serves as a warranted lodge for candidate instruction in other aspects of Freemasonry besides ritual rehearsal, as well as hosting a speaker on topics both Masonic and non-Masonic.

A Mason may be expelled from his Lodge and Freemasonry in general if convicted of particularly serious violations of Civil or Masonic law.

Though he is not mentioned in Craft Freemasonry, Zerubbabel is considered to be of great importance to a number of Masonic bodies.

Joe Nickell identifies parallels between the accounts of Oak Island and the allegory of the " Secret Vault " in York Rite Freemasonry, similar to the Chase Vault, identifies many prominent excavators as Freemasons, and suggests that the accounts explicitly include Masonic imagery.

Martínez related Hunab Ku to concepts and symbols in Freemasonry, particularly the idea of a Great Architect of the Universe and the Masonic square and compass.

The Orangeville Masonic Lodge was built by the Freemasonry | AF and AM in 1876, but is used by all of Orangeville's fraternal organization s.

Chiswick House has also been linked with Freemasonry, and is believed by some scholars to have functioned as a Masonic Lodge or Temple, given that some of the ceiling paintings by William Kent in the Gallery and the Red, Blue and Summer Parlour Rooms contain iconography of a strong Masonic, Hermetic, and possible Jacobite character.

An additional interpretation of this ceiling and its iconography relates to Freemasonry and its legendary history, and that this space could have functioned as a Masonic Lodge.

* Harrison, David, The Genesis of Freemasonry, ( Surrey: Lewis Masonic, 2009 )

Many of them had persuaded themselves that Freemasonry was, in alliance with the Jews, part and parcel of the Bolshevik machine, and that what they had called the diabolical schemes for Russia's downfall had been hatched in the Petrograd and Moscow Masonic lodges.

It has been alleged by Masonic scholars that the language used by the totalitarian regimes is similar to that used by some modern critics of Freemasonry.

Speculative Freemasonry is another possible source of Blake's imagery for Urizen ; Blake was attracted to the Masonic and Druidic speculations of William Stukeley.

* The Lewis Cass Legacy Society which supports The Michigan Masonic Charitable Foundation was named for his support of Michigan Freemasonry.

* Order of Malta ( Freemasonry ), a Masonic order closely associated with the Masonic Knights Templar.