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Freemasons often say that they "are not a secret society, but rather a society with secrets". The secrets of Freemasonry are the various modes of recognition – grips (handshakes), words (akin to modern passwords), and signs (hand gestures) that indicate one is a Freemason.
Freemasonry was an important catalyst in the founding of the Knights of Columbus and the Knights of Peter Claver in the United States [131] and the Knights of the Southern Cross in Australia, because one of the attractions of Freemasonry was that it provided a number of social services unavailable to non-members (e.g., devout Catholics).
Roberts believed Freemasonry was a "mystery" or "alternate" religion and encouraged his church not to support ministers who were Freemasons. Freedom from secret societies is one of the "frees" upon which the Free Methodist Church was founded. [189]
Adolf Hitler believed that Freemasonry was a tool of Jewish influence, [12] and outlawed Freemasonry and persecuted Freemasons partially for this reason. [13] The covenant of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas claims that Freemasonry is a "secret society" founded as part of a Zionist plot to control the world. [14]
Freemasonry in the United States is the history of Freemasonry as it was introduced from Britain and continues as a major secret society to the present day. It is a fraternal order that brings men together (and women through its auxiliaries) to gain friendship and opportunity for advancement and community progress.
The Isaac Newton University Lodge (INUL) is a Freemasons Lodge primarily for past and present members of Cambridge University. Full Documentary – Secret Life of Isaac Newton. 18 February 2015. Archived from the original on 26 October 2017 – via YouTube. An archive of Newton's texts. Choice, H (2007).
In the Papal constitution Ecclesiam a Jesu Christo (1821) Pope Pius VII linked the anticlerical Italian secret society, the Carbonari to Freemasonry. [15] In the period between Italian unification (1870) and the Lateran Treaties (1929) there was a cold war between the Papacy and the Kingdom of Italy (see Prisoner in the Vatican).
Faramosh Khaneh was the name and equivalent that Mirza Malkam Khan used for Masonic lodges. Mirza Malkam Khan had declared the establishment of the Faramosh Khaneh to nurture and strengthen the brotherhood among its members and the progress of Iran, and according to the principles of authoritarianism that prevailed in Iran at that time, Malkam Khan thought the Masonic Lodge could be the best ...