Masons

The call from the picture editor on The Australian came early on a Tuesday. Not unusual, but the pictorial brief was to photograph inside the Freemasons’ Grand Lodge in the centre of Sydney, drawing back the veil of secrecy around the organisation which features in Dan Brown’s new book, The Lost Symbol.

The end result in situ in The Australian. See below for how it unfolded

I’m not a fan of Dan Brown, nor do I profess to be Freemansony. I knew very little about the subject when I walked into the lift at the Freemasons United Grand Lodge..

I knew that with Freemasons there were handshakes, secret passwords, aprons and something to do with architecture.

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  • Servaas says:

    08:21am | 11/12/10

    Well, the bottom guys could probably be anything including agnostics. They are mostly well-meaning guys looking to join a society as they have, like all of us the need to ‘belong’. That is the many in the lower degrees who would call me a liar for writing this and the… Read more »

  • Luke says:

    12:10pm | 20/05/10

    Grand Architect is whoever one considers a “higher being” Read more »

 

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