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A classic and highly controversial expos#65533; of the secret world of the Freemasons reissued with a new introduction by Martin Short, author of 'Inside the Brotherhood'. The Freemasons have long fascinated outsiders. The subject of Dan Brown's new novel - set for release in 2007 - this secret and exclusive society, thought to be the largest in Britain today, remains a mystery to the many excluded from its ranks. One would never know if a father or brother was a member due to the mandatory vow of secrecy. In this classic, controversial expos#65533;, Stephen Knight talks to the men on the inside - those who have broken their vow of secrecy to reveal the darker side of the 'brotherhood'. Do they influence the law? Is the KGB involved? And is there is a secret group of Masons running the country today, perhaps influencing every move we make? Fully updated with a new introduction by Martin Short, acclaimed author of 'Inside the Brotherhood', this is the unmissable, true story of an ancient, and mysterious brotherhood operating in our midst.… (more)
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The American went spare.
Afterwards, I was talking to him in the garden. He revealed himself to be a 33rd-degree Mason from Philadelphia. I explained that after Operation Countryman - the exposure of Masonry being used in London to cover collusion between the Metropolitan Police and the criminal fraternity - Freemasonry had got a bad press in the UK. And (through reading this book) I was able to tell him that the Grand Lodge in the UK would not admit, even to other Masons, that his degree of Craft even existed.
This book was topical in the middle 1980s. It remains useful background information today, for even though the Craft now has a more public face, it carefully chooses what it does and does not reveal.
The appendix, giving an account of the Masonic initiation ceremony, also confirms the account given in Tolstoy's 'War and Peace'....