Masonic History

On a recent trip to Lebanon (August 2022) I had the opportunity to meet with a newly initiated Freemason whose named Lodge I was unable to find on the Internet – not all Lodges have web sites – but Freemasonry comes in many forms, regular – UGLE and those in …

In short, the answer is yes, but there are also clandestine and probably pseudo Freemasonry too. Freemasonry is an international fraternity of men and women, although meeting separately as well as combined, and not all recognised by one another. There are many, and some quite ridiculous, stories from those that …

In the 1980’s, a clandestine Italian Masonic lodge named Propaganda Due (P2) became the centre of a scandal, involving Italy’s second largest private bank (Banco Ambrosiano), the Mafia, the Vatican and a murder. P2 lodge was once a warranted lodge under the Grand Orient of Italy, which itself endured an …