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There is one aspect of Freemasonry that the profane know little about, and that Freemasons themselves sometimes tend to regard as secondary: the Masonic banquet. Yet since the origins of...

The Sun and the Moon in Freemasonry hold such a familiar place in the Lodge that we almost forget how singular they are. Present from the opening of the Lodge...

The vault in Freemasonry seems almost absent from the first three degrees. The Masonic rituals speak at length of the column, the level, the square and the plumb rule, but...

The Rite of Memphis-Misraim traces its true origins to the creation of the Rite of Misraïm in 1805 and the Rite of Memphis in 1838. Far from legendary claims, its history unfolds through the Bédarride brothers, Jacques-Étienne Marconis, and the complex union attributed to Garibaldi in 1881.

The Swedish Rite remains largely unknown across most of Freemasonry in Europe, even though it is the principal initiatic system of the northern kingdoms. Practised in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland...

It unfurls across the white capes of the knights of old, on banners stamped with the seal of the Temple, and deep into the imagination of initiates: the Templar cross...

All the elements of Masonic clothing have a symbolic dimension in Freemasonry, and are not only for aesthetic reasons. One of the first things we say to new initiates in...

The symbolism of the circle in Freemasonry does not immediately strike the eye. At first sight it even seems almost absent from a world marked by the omnipresence of angles,...

The Grand Orient of France under the Restoration (1815-1830) The fallacious theories of the Jesuit Augustin Barruel (known as "l'Abbé Barruel", 1741-1820), which portrayed Freemasonry as the instigator of the...

Everyone has heard of the Grand Orient of France. The oldest and largest Masonic Obedience in France, the Grand Orient of France is a major institution with considerable influence throughout...

Freemasonry, which is based on the symbolism of the Builders, could not ignore the Stone, which is, along with wood, the fundamental material for the construction of the Temple, according...

The Mosaic Pavement holds a central place in the temple and in the Masonic imagination. Present at the heart of the Lodge or depicted on the Lodge Tracing Board, it...