What about secret handshakes, ritual, and passwords?
What about secret handshakes, ritual, and passwords? Freemasonry, often called the “Craft” by its members, employs metaphors of architecture. Following the practice of the ancient stonemason guilds, Freemasons use special handshakes, words, and symbols to not only to identify each other, but to help, as William Preston said in 1772, “imprint upon the memory […]
Famous Masons Voltaire
Yesterday on April 4 in 1778, Voltaire was initiated in “Les Neuf Soeurs” Lodge in Paris. His conductors were Benjamin Franklin and Count Gebelin Freemasonry Voltaire was initiated into Freemasonry the month before his death. On 4 April 1778 Voltaire accompanied his close friend Benjamin Franklin into Loge des Neuf Soeurs in Paris, France and became an Entered Apprentice Freemason.[51][52][53] François-Marie Arouet (French: [fʁɑ̃.swa […]
The Lamb Skin
THE LAMB SKIN It is not ornamental, the cost is not great, There are other things far more useful, yet truly I state, Tho of all my possesions, there’s none can compare, With that white leather apron, which all Masons wear. As a young lad I wondered just what it all meant, When Dad […]
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