Instead of commonplace designs like flowers or snowflakes, seamstress Celestia A. Milliken decorated her colorful quilt in 1908 with the square and compass and 70 other secret symbols of Freemasonry.

The Symbolism of Freemasonry is a book about the teachings and practices of the secret fraternal order of Free and Accepted Masons, the largest worldwide secret society. Freemasonry evolved from the ...

Members of Italian Masonic lodges, esoteric organizations widely perceived as secret societies, prefer to explain their elaborate practices of concealment and disclosure in terms of discretion.

Myths tend to grow up around things we don’t know anything about. And organizations have their fair share of misinformation. The Masonic lodges are known for their rituals, their symbols and their ...

A SERIES of Masonic signs have been found ‘hidden’ in paintings made of Scotland’s bard Robert Burns by one of the nation’s leading painters. Tiny letters and symbols - such as a comet and hooded ...