Freemason Information seeks to convey the meaning, history and symbolism of the venerable institution.

Crossing the Extraordinary Boundary Between Regular and Mixed Gender Freemasonry

Freemasonry, like religion, is an institution that has created for itself its own teleological system of boundaries. What is, and what isn’t, a Freemason is often a hard etched line drawn in the metaphysical sands of the philosophy.  And yet, those lines shift between organizations, time or ideology. To overcome this, most branches of Freemasonry […]

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On Holy Ground – A Review

If you are a traditional Mainstream or Prince Hall Mason, hereafter referred to as a Malecraft Mason, then you probably have the perception that a woman in Masonry is a member of the Eastern Star or Heroines of Jericho.  You would be wrong. Co-Masonry, as Kidd tells us, started with the making a Mason of […]

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Freemason Information seeks to convey the meaning, history and symbolism of the venerable institution.

Theosophy and Freemasonry

I happened onto a reference in a book I just finished reading, Occult America, about Gandhi that mentioned the influence of Theosophy in his life. On a quick excursion to find the deeper connection, I happened upon a statement of Gandhi’s from his Harijan Journal about the philosophy that struck me. In the statement written […]

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