But what exactly does all that symbolism mean, and where did it come from? Browse this gallery and peek inside the secretive world of the Masons.

Instead of commonplace designs like flowers or snowflakes, seamstress Celestia A. Milliken decorated her colorful quilt in 1908 with the square and compass and 70 other secret symbols of Freemasonry .

WASHINGTON -- At every corner, beneath you and above you and to all sides, the inscrutably familiar symbolism of the Freemason organization is hidden in plain sight. This historic home is like a ...

In 1854, US Commodore Matthew Perry landed at Hakodate, Hokkaidō, in the northern part of Japan. Two members o… ...

THE Consistory Court of the diocese of Carlisle has refused a faculty to per­mit a masonic symbol to be added to the churchyard memorial of a person who had been a senior Freemason. Although the ...