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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry 00:02:15 1 Masonic Lodge 00:05:49 1.1 Joining a lodge 00:08:42 2 Organisation 00:08:51 2.1 Grand Lodges 00:10:13 2.2 Recognition, amity and regularity 00:11:04 2.2.1 Exclusive Jurisdiction 00:12:10 2.2.2 Regularity 00:13:59 3 Other degrees, orders and bodies 00:15:20 4 Ritual and symbolism 00:18:08 5 History 00:18:17 5.1 Origins 00:21:16 5.2 North America 00:23:05 5.2.1 Jamaican Freemasonry 00:24:55 5.2.2 Prince Hall Freemasonry 00:27:19 5.3 Emergence of Continental Freemasonry 00:28:39 5.3.1 Schism 00:33:14 5.4 Italy 00:34:40 5.5 Freemasonry and women 00:38:07 6 Anti-Masonry 00:39:33 6.1 Religious opposition 00:40:02 6.1.1 Christianity and Freemasonry 00:47:08 6.1.2 Islam and Freemasonry 00:49:21 6.2 Political opposition 00:54:12 6.2.1 The Holocaust 00:56:12 7 See also Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.7306464933995941 Voice name: en-AU-Wavenet-B "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= 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. |