Freemasonry | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-22

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00:02:09 1 Masonic Lodge
00:05:34 1.1 Joining a lodge
00:08:20 2 Organisation
00:08:29 2.1 Grand Lodges
00:09:47 2.2 Recognition, amity and regularity
00:10:37 2.2.1 Exclusive Jurisdiction
00:11:41 2.2.2 Regularity
00:13:25 3 Other degrees, orders and bodies
00:14:43 4 Ritual and symbolism
00:17:22 5 History
00:17:31 5.1 Origins
00:20:24 5.2 North America
00:22:08 5.2.1 Jamaican Freemasonry
00:23:54 5.2.2 Prince Hall Freemasonry
00:26:10 5.3 Emergence of Continental Freemasonry
00:27:27 5.3.1 Schism
00:31:51 5.4 Italy
00:33:15 5.5 Freemasonry and women
00:36:34 6 Anti-Masonry
00:37:56 6.1 Religious opposition
00:38:23 6.1.1 Christianity and Freemasonry
00:45:09 6.1.2 Islam and Freemasonry
00:47:15 6.2 Political opposition
00:51:55 6.2.1 The Holocaust
00:53:49 7 See also



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Freemasonry or Masonry consists of fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients. The degrees of Freemasonry retain the three grades of medieval craft guilds, those of Apprentice, Journeyman or fellow (now called Fellowcraft), and Master Mason. The candidate of these three degrees is progressively taught the meanings of the symbols of Freemasonry, and entrusted with grips, signs and words to signify to other members that he has been so initiated. The initiations are part allegorical morality play and part lecture. The three degrees are offered by Craft (or Blue Lodge) Freemasonry. Members of these organisations are known as Freemasons or Masons. There are additional degrees, which vary with locality and jurisdiction, and are usually administered by their own bodies (separate from those who administer the craft degrees).
The basic, local organisational unit of Freemasonry is the Lodge. The Lodges are usually supervised and governed at the regional level (usually coterminous with either a state, province, or national border) by a Grand Lodge or Grand Orient. There is no international, worldwide Grand Lodge that supervises all of Freemasonry; each Grand Lodge is independent, and they do not necessarily recognise each other as being legitimate.
Modern Freemasonry broadly consists of two main recognition groups. Regular Freemasonry insists that a volume of scripture is open in a working lodge, that every member profess belief in a Supreme Being, that no women are admitted (although, in some jurisdictions, those who transition to women after being initiated may stay; see below), and that the discussion of religion and politics is banned. Continental Freemasonry is now the general term for the jurisdictions which have removed some, or all, of these restrictions.