Everybody has heard something about the Freemasons and the judgement of the majority is, in the whole, negative:

- Freemasons are members of secret society: this is not true, the freemasons are quite open towards the general public. It would be closer to the truth to say that it is an organisation that has secrets (secret knowledge, secret rituals, etc.)
- Freemasonry is a church. This is not true either. In the Temple religion is not mentioned, but to become a member each candidate must swear that he believes in a 'Super Being', whatever this means to him
- Freemasonry is against all the churches. The opposite is true as it only accept as members people who declare to believe in a religion.
- Freemasons act like a so-called mafia, protecting and defending their members. This is partly true, but only in the sense that members of other organisations such as political parties, graduates from the same schools, members of various clubs, etc help and support each other. Nothing else.
- Freemasons have rituals that cannot be described to the general public because they are too gruesome. This too is false.

In this document, the author - who is not a Freemason - is trying to give a non-partisan view of what Freemasonry is really like, its possible origins and, as far as they are known, parts of its rituals and beliefs. [read more]

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