Reflections

Freemasonry organised knowledge into degrees not to create hierarchies of power, but because it understood that knowing is a process without end — and that whoever thinks he has arrived has stopped working.

Experience the spirit of unity as Freemasons gather at the Ágape to celebrate fellowship.

Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. Freemasonry built a method for examining it. A reflection on self-knowledge as a Masonic practice.

We have more connections than any generation in history and fewer bonds. A reflection on what genuine brotherhood offers in an age of digital isolation.

Freemasonry takes death seriously. The third degree ritual is a confrontation with mortality that has no equivalent in secular culture. Here is what it offers.

Freemasonry opens and closes its meetings with prayer. This is not a religious act in the confessional sense — it is something more universal and more interesting.

Women's Masonic bodies have existed for over a century. The debate about admitting women to regular Freemasonry is serious and unresolved. Here are the real arguments.

No institution has been more consistently misrepresented by conspiracy theories than Freemasonry. An editorial analysis of why — and what, if anything, can be done about it.