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Digging Up the Past at a Masonic Cemetery

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Researchers hope to uncover local history within the small Gold Rush-era Jamestown Masonic Cemetery.

At a Masonic Funeral, Belonging to the Beyond

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The Masonic funeral rite unites Masons and their loved ones in a shared community of symbolism and fraternity.

For Freemasons, Death Is Not the End

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Freemasonry offers a framework to living a better life. That’s why it holds so many lessons for confronting death—and whatever comes next.

At a Masonic Cemetery, a Forever Home

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

Underwater, Reminders of a Masonic Cemetery

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Buried among the rocks and rubble of San Francisco’s Aquatic Park breakwater, a reminder of a long-lost Masonic graveyard.

These Morticians Are the Last Masons You’ll Ever Meet

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It takes a special temperament to succeed as a mortician—and one, it turns out, that Freemasons are well suited to.

Three Masons Working as Death’s Doormen

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Meet three Masons with an intimate familiarity with death—and the other side.

At a Hollywood Cemetery, a Masonic ‘Forever’ Lodge

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The Masons moved out ages ago, but their aura remains at the Masonic Lodge at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

He Studied Near-Death Experiences. They Taught Him About the ‘Great Beyond.’

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A psychologist from the Masonic Center for Youth and Families is an expert on near-death experiences—and what they tell us about grief.