Today, “Freemasons are a social and philanthropic organization meant to make its members lead more virtuous and socially oriented lives,” says Margaret Jacob, professor of history at University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe. Grounded in the Enlightenment, the organization “still conveys core values, religious tolerance, thirst for knowledge sociability,” says Cécile Révauger, a freemason, historian of Freemasonry and professor at the University of Bordeaux. With the decline of cathedral building, the focus of the society shifted. The Freemasons Are the Oldest Fraternal Organization in the World.įreemasons belong to the oldest fraternal organization in the world, a group begun during the Middle Ages in Europe as a guild of skilled builders.
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