(by Katie Heyes, Kent Life, 20th June 2024)
Freemasonry has existed for more than 300 years, welcomes men from all weeks of life and supports many charities – yet the myths persist. Kent Life finds out why.
Dogged by more conspiracy theories than possibly any other organisation and with an abiding ‘secret society’ image, the Freemasons have had enough.
They’d like the public to wake up to what they really do, rather than automatically reach for the clichés of ‘funny handshakes’ and rolled-up trouser legs.
So when the invitation came for myself and my photographer to spend a morning with the East Kent Freemasons in Maidstone to ‘bust some of the myths about freemasonry’, I not only jumped at the chance, but came away feeling humbled – and enlightened.
Freemasonry is the oldest and the largest of the secular fraternal societies, developed from the stonemasons who built the great cathedrals and castles of the Middle Ages. Inevitably for such an historic organisation, it is steeped in tradition and from that many of the myths and prejudices have built up over the years.
This is what I learnt during my visit to…
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They’d like the public to wake up to what they really do, rather than automatically reach for the clichés of ‘funny handshakes’ and rolled-up trouser legs.
So when the invitation came for myself and my photographer to spend a morning with the East Kent Freemasons in Maidstone to ‘bust some of the myths about freemasonry’, I not only jumped at the chance, but came away feeling humbled – and enlightened.
Freemasonry is the oldest and the largest of the secular fraternal societies, developed from the stonemasons who built the great cathedrals and castles of the Middle Ages. Inevitably for such an historic organisation, it is steeped in tradition and from that many of the myths and prejudices have built up over the years.
This is what I learnt during my visit to…
read more:
Freemasonry is the oldest and the largest of the secular fraternal societies, developed from the stonemasons who built the great cathedrals and castles of the Middle Ages. Inevitably for such an historic organisation, it is steeped in tradition and from that many of the myths and prejudices have built up over the years.
This is what I learnt during my visit to…
read more:
