Masonry: Historical, Political and Economic study in terms of origin and content

Abstract

Freemasonry has always prided itself as being a universal fraternity, in the sense that its message has gone through the ages and travelled across the continents, it is really difficult to speak of Freemasonry as a general entity, as if it were governed by a single body and encompassed people who share the same values.

In this research several topics like “Definition and concepts of Freemasonry, the beginnings of Freemasonry, conditions and requirements of Freemasonry association, the most important symbols of Freemasonry, Freemasonry grades and the Masonic constitution, the influence of Freemasonry in politics and economics in global societies, and the relationship between Freemasonry and Judaism were discussed.

Of course, the message of fraternalism is an attractive one, and it certainly has a strong basis, yet an organization which is nearly 300 years old is bound to have witnessed changes and modifications in the perception its members have, and the perception non -masons have of the Craft.

The dialectics between what is commonly held to be the reasons why men and women join Freemasonry and the idea they represent in the eyes of non-masons are complex and depend very much on the historical and geographical context.

The gradual transformation of the original stone -masons’ guilds into a fraternity that has lived on for nearly three centuries and is well -established in every democratic country around the World has not been the same everywhere, and differences have appeared as the Craft grew and expanded.