The Masons

[Oaty]

I suspect that someone here has given out more info about Masons than they needed to. Needless to say do'nt bother if someone that has posted in this thread never comes back here to post again

[Nowake]

Confirmed history: 966 as was the year of creation

.. if you do not believe in Hiram's legend, of course. The Orient of France has indeed another agenda from the old anglo-scotish masonery, and it forms a left wing of the organisation.

It is said that USA became a mason experiment. What it is sure is that Washinton is full of masonic simbols, even the city planning is in close relation to them.

[Rosacrux]

...Masons? What Masons? The ones building stuff, perhaps?

[Nowake]

Freemasons .. Washington's architecture is not .. mason free

[monkian]

Isn't there a Masonic symbol on the US dollar ?

[Armchair Athlete]

yep, the one dollar bill. The pyramid with the eye on the top of it (the eye of Horus) and in latin it has written something like New World Order.

[meravelha]

Their political influence

Associations of Masons did become politically active and influential in the years preceding and during the French Revolution. That is, from the 1760's to the 1790's.

During this time the lodges (as well as other clubs and literary societies) were patronised by members of a literate and politically inclined middle-class.
These associations, with their international connections, became the vehicle of bourgeois discontent with the feudal regime then existing over the whole of Europe.

The American Revolution deserved and obtained large and enthusiastic support among these societies. This is the support commemorated in US banknotes.
Later, in France, there were few of the recalled Parlement of 1789 who were not members of one or other of these societies.

By the time the Jacobins had fallen from grace in Paris, the influence of the associations was greatly diminished - politics had moved well beyond the pale of polite conversation by then.