Month: April 2022

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Kaaba

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The name of the holy temple of Mecca, which is to the Mohammedans what the Temple of Solomon was to the Jews. It is certainly older, as Gibbon admits, than the Christian era, and is supposed, by […]

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Job’s Daughters

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The International Order of Job’s Daughters was founded in 1920 in Omaha, Neb., by Mrs. Ethel T. Wead Mick. Job’s Daughters began in an atmosphere of Masonry and the Order of the Eastern Star. The […]

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Royal Order of Jesters

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Usually so called, but more formally named the Royal Order of Jesters, an organization evolved out of the good fellowship of members of the Mystic Shrine during a voyage to Honolulu, February 15 to March 7, 1911. […]

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Jacobins

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A political sect that sprang up in the beginning of the French Revolution, and which have origin to the Jacobin clubs, so well known as having been the places where the leaders of the Revolution […]

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The Bavarian Illuminati

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A secret society, founded on May 1, 1776, by Adam Weishaupt, who was Professor of Canon Law at the University of Ingolstadt. Its founder at first called it the Order of the Perfectibilists; but he subsequently […]

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The House of the Temple

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The House of the Temple House of the Temple is the name of the headquarters of the Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction. The building is located in Washington D.C. – Source: Masonicdictionary.com The House of the […]

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The Harleian Manuscript

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An old record of the Constitutions of Freemasonry, so called because it forms No. 2054 of the collection of manuscripts in the British Museums which were originally collected by Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford, the […]

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The Halliwell Manuscript

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The earliest of the old Constitutions. It is in poetic form, and was probably transcribed in 1390 from an earlier copy. The manuscript is in the King’s Library of the British Museum. It was published […]

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The Gormogons

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A secret society established in 1724, in England, in opposition to Freemasonry. One of its rules was that no Freemason could be admitted until he was first degraded, and had then renounced the Masonic Order. […]