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In a capstone to a remarkable life and career in Freemasonry, R. Stephen Doan is the 2024 Recipient of the Grand Master’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Cicero Research Lodge is comprised entirely of past grand orators—meaning this is a lodge with the gift of gab.

For generations, the world’s greatest magicians have found a second home in Masonry. Why have Masonry and magic shared such a close connection?

Author and “manliness” expert Brett McKay explains how ritual helps us make sense of life’s progressions.

At the 11th International Conference on Freemasonry, expert historians train their sights on the lodge attic.

From Mexico to Argentina, Latin American countries embody a wide range of Masonic rituals, from the familiar to the highly esoteric.

In rural Tuolumne County, a new effort to bring a pair of Gold Rush era Masonic cemeteries back to life.

As Gmail retires its Masonic apron-like logo, we look behind some of the world’s most iconic brand designs and find Masonic inspiration.

For more than 150 years, the Folger cipher had Masonic experts stumped—until Dr. Brent Morris and his team at the NSA took their turn.

A historian probes the enduring appeal of Masonic secrets.

A planned degree ceremony in multiple languages underscores the universality of Freemasonry.

At the International Conference on Freemasonry at UCLA a study of Mormon undergarments shines light on fraternal esotericism.

Ninth annual International Conference on Freemasonry at UCLA will explore the Masonic quest for secret knowledge.

Ceremony gives lodges an opportunity to reengage longtime Master Masons.

We are excited to announce that in 2020 we will again hold a Ritual Competition recognizing the importance of ritual excellence within our jurisdiction.

The hunt for gold is—metaphorically, anyway—central to Freemasonry.

Lunar imagery has long shined in the Masonic lodge room, literally and symbolically.

Masonic wall charts and floor cloths were once banned as too revealing. Now, they’re central parts of modern lodges.

What a curious passage tells us about Masonry’s relationship to the world.

On aprons and teapots, in the first degrees and the virtues and lessons of Freemasonry, feminine symbols are threaded into the very fabric of Freemasonry.

While the women’s movement offered women more political power, Eastern Star
broadened opportunities for women across the country.

It was the late 1970s when Brett Welch, Garrett Chan, and Albert Lawson’s paths crossed for the first time.

The initiatic process of becoming a Freemason is one filled with symbols, some of which are easier to interpret than others.

The historic namesake of the order of DeMolay carries with it a fascinating history that has long piqued curiosity and study.