Freemasonry

Freemasonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients. The degrees of freemasonry retain the three grades of medieval craft guilds, those of Apprentice, Journeyman or fellow (now called Fellowcraft), and Master Mason. These are the degrees offered by Craft (or Blue Lodge) Freemasonry. Members of these organisations are known as Freemasons or Masons. There are additional degrees, which vary with l ...more

Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
The Hiram Key
Born in Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry
The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
The Meaning of Masonry
Freemasons For Dummies
The Lost Keys of Freemasonry (Also Includes: Freemasonry of the Ancient Egyptians / Masonic Orders of Fraternity)
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
A Pilgrim's Path: Freemasonry and the Religious Right
The Builders: A Story and Study of Masonry
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Freemasonry
Solomon's Builders: Freemasons, Founding Fathers and the Secrets of Washington D.C.
The Temple and the Lodge
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
The Freemasons: A History of the World's Most Powerful Secret Society
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques RousseauAn Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam SmithCandide and Philosophical Letters by VoltaireCritique of Pure Reason by Immanuel KantThe Enlightenment, Volume 1 by Peter Gay
The Enlightenment and its Impact
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Free Radicals by Lila RiesenFree Me by Ashley N. RostekOf Human Freedom by EpictetusHuman, All Too Human by Friedrich NietzscheBreak Free by R.A. Smyth
'Free' Dumb
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The Orphan Conspiracies by James MorcanA Pilgrim's Path by John J. RobinsonSymbolism in craft freemasonry by Colin F.W. DyerThe Craft and Its Symbols by Allen E. RobertsThe Way of the Craftsman by W. Kirk MacNulty
Good books on Freemasonry
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Thomas Paine
The christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun. [An Essay on the Origin of Free-Masonry]
Thomas Paine

Thomas Pynchon
There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of the group known as the Illuminati. It is difficult to look for long at the strange single eye crowning the pyramid which is found on every dollar bill and not begin to believe the story, a little. Too many anarchists in 19th-century Europe—Bakunin, Proudhon, Salverio Friscia—were Masons for it to be pure chance. Lovers of global conspiracy, not all of them Catholic, can count on ...more
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

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