To some, the Freemasons are a cult-like society practicing rituals, secret handshakes, and passphrases- but the modern-day organization is far from a secret Illuminati-like group. While it still ...

Pastor Mason McGill stopped a girl outside West Seaford Elementary to deliver the day’s first lesson, a nine-step handshake, leading her in its tap-tap-slap-bump rhythm for a few seconds before ...

They may be known to have to bare the odd breast and roll a trouser leg up and perform a strange handshake - but secrecy surrounds the inner machinations of the Freemasons. In their 300th year they ...

April 19, 2006 — -- Having tackled the secretive Catholic conservative group Opus Dei, Dan Brown says he's writing his next book about the Freemasons. The Freemasons say they are simply a ...

It is probably the largest fraternal organisation in the world, with 49 'lodges' in Dorset alone. Yet an air of secrecy still surrounds freemasonry, which is celebrating its 300th year in the county ...

It may come as a disappointment to some that there are no subterranean pens holding goats to be offered in ritualistic sacrifice. No torture chambers for intruders or revealers of secrets. No dragons.