"Freemasonry"

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Freemasonry (also known as masonry or tectonicism) is a global system of fraternities, which began during the late 16th/early 17th century and numbered around 5 million members. Individual fraternities, whose relationship and connection between them varies, have as common elements some formal processes (such as the use of hierarchy and specific symbols) and the necessity of each member believing in some higher power or God.

It is also identified as the body of the teachings and practices of the secret brotherhood of the Ancient and Accepted Masons, a "special moral system covered by allegory and depicted by symbols". Other terms used to describe the fraternity, but their concept is wider, are Masony and Masonry. According to the mythology of the Freemasons, the roots of their brotherhood go back to the time of the erection of Solomon’s Temple. Freemasonry in modern times exists as a worldwide brotherhood with about 5 million members around the globe. Members of the brotherhood can become male adults, with good judgment, honest and free, provided they believe in a Supreme Being and the immortality of the soul. Freemasonry in its various forms maintains its fundamental values and belief in the Supreme Being.
The guild is organized in large galleries—which in some cases are also called the Great East—with administrative autonomy and divided into provincial galleries, each of which in turn is divided into septific galleries. Large arcades recognize each other as Normal or non-normal and respectively their members are recognised as acceptable or not. The parallel Masonic Bodies are independent of the large arcade, but their members become only teachers freemen.

History

The most likely and most realistic theory is that freemasonry as a sorority represents the evolution of the professional arcades (Operative Lodges) of the architects of the Middle Ages. According to calendars of medieval buildings of Scottish stonemen (stonemasons), as early as the end of the 14th century, these master builders were gathered in huts, which as gathering places were galleries, to feed and rest. In the 15th century the archives of the aforementioned stonemen refer to factions of builders (masons). At the end of the 15th century the concept of the arcade exceeded the concentration area and began to define the team of stonemen gathered in this space to regulate its art. In time, the arcades began to develop early student initiation ceremonies and introduced the secret word of recognition as a means of proving the membership of the arcade and as an credentials of adequate education in the art of stone.

History of World Freemasonry

At the beginning of the 16th century, the arcades, due to their declining course, began to accept men within themselves