Who are The Freemasons Part Two

The Freemasons became very powerful after the Revolution in 1775-1783 lodges were being built in small villages and towns and they were a sign of prestige in the community. For anybody to become a success in business it was a requirement to join the freemasons, this was because the freemasons went high in ranks of business.

Round the same time though, people who knew of the freemasons started to spreads rumours about the rites and pledges that any member of the freemasons had to up-hold. They were saying that these rites and pledges were strange and grim and Satanic, also that any member who joined sold there souls to the Devil. This might sound a be dramatic, however though these were only don symbolically and represented and earlier age and were less harmful than they used to be.

In 1826, the freemasons were near non-existing; this was because in that year a member died because he was abducted, his death was tragic for the other members which in turn caused havoc with the freemasons religion. William Morgan, a member of the freemasons from New York decided that he was going to reveal all the secrets of the freemasons. Morgan agreed with a printer that he would print the manuscript the shop then was torched down along with the manuscript Morgan was arrested on charges over a two-dollar debt. On that evening, a stranger came to pay the bail on Morgan then fellow members of the freemasons forced him in to a carriage, the strange part is that Mr Morgan or his remains ever found.

Trials about William Morgan’s death caused havoc, this time with the general population they demanded justice and got the trials they wanted over the matter of his murder. However, after 20 trials later the sheriff for that town, who was a freemason and was part of the abduction of Morgan, received 30 months in jail. After that incident an anti-freemason attitude set in the country, seven electoral governors won the votes of the people who were not freemasons got in to power in the year 1832. In addition, no body found it prestigious to be a Freemason, state after state lodges closed and the overall Freemason religion was no longer as powerful as before.

In 2001, Freemason members reach about 2 million in the United States and all of those are over 50 years of age, younger men are no longer attracted to it as they once were.

There is also another secret society called the Skulls which president Bush was part of, however that is for another time.