Following the appointment of its first aristocratic Grand Masters in the 1720s and in the wake of its connections to the scientific Enlightenment, 'Free and Acc

This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the be

A full and fascinating account of the signs and symbols behind the beliefs and hisotry of the freemasons.

Freemasonry is part of a long tradition of Western mysticism, steeped in a long-standing and eclectic mixture of historical fact and legend. Much of the ritual