St. Edmund’s Church, off Falinge Road in Rochdale – now largely seen as a suburb of Manchester – might lay claim to being Britain’s greatest Masonic secret. Alas, unlike Rosslyn Chapel, it is unlikely to feature in Dan Brown’s The Solomon Key, where the bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code tackles Freemasonry, taking us no doubt from one “Masonic monument” to the next.

Though Rosslyn Chapel, the star of The Da Vinci Code, is often…

The Freemasons are often accused of all kinds of things from influencing international affairs to managing interplanetary alliances and treaties. The problem with research on the subject of Freemasonry, especially on the Internet, is that most of the time religious beliefs and superstitious ideologies get in the way and DISTORT THE TRUTH. I will attempt to lay out the differences between some of these confusions and set the record straight.…

Ties to Christianity

While Freemasonry is non-sectarian, some Masonic bodies and rites require a statement of Christian faith to join. These include (but are not limited to) the Knights Templar, the Rectified Scottish…