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  2. Freemasonry - Wikipedia

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    In general, Continental Freemasonry is sympathetic to Freemasonry among women, dating from the 1890s when French lodges assisted the emergent co-masonic movement by promoting enough of their members to the 33rd degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite to allow them, in 1899, to form their own grand council, recognised by the other ...

  3. Order of the Eastern Star - Wikipedia

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    The Order of the Eastern Star is a Masonic appendant body open to both men and women. It was established in 1850 by lawyer and educator Rob Morris , a noted Freemason, and adopted and approved as an appendant body of the Masonic Fraternity in 1873.

  4. History of Freemasonry - Wikipedia

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    The history of Freemasonry encompasses the origins, evolution and defining events of the fraternal organisation known as Freemasonry.It covers three phases. Firstly, the emergence of organised lodges of operative masons during the Middle Ages, then the admission of lay members as "accepted" (a term reflecting the ceremonial "acception" process that made non-stone masons members of an operative ...

  5. Masonic bodies - Wikipedia

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    Co-Freemasonry; Masonic youth organizations. DeMolay; A.J.E.F. ... The Ancient Egyptian Order of Sciots is a fraternal organization that was founded in the United ...

  6. Freemasonry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Knights Templar (Freemasonry) - Wikipedia

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    The Knights Templar, full name The United Religious, Military and Masonic Orders of the Temple and of St John of Jerusalem, Israel, Rhodes and Malta, is a fraternal order affiliated with Freemasonry.

  8. Masonic lodge - Wikipedia

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    Villa Blye in Paola, Malta, is a Masonic Temple where lodges of British and Irish Freemasons meet Masonic lodge room in the Austrian Museum of Freemasonry, Schloss Rosenau, Austria Masonic lodge room in Dublin, Ireland. Technically, Freemasons meet as a lodge, not in a lodge. In this context, the word "lodge" refers to a local chapter of ...

  9. List of Freemasons (E–Z) - Wikipedia

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    Order of Mark Master Masons; Holy Royal Arch; Royal Arch Masonry ... This is a list of notable Freemasons. Freemasonry is a fraternal organisation that exists in a ...