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🇬🇧 Video from the United Grand Lodge of England - Freemasons

WTF? The big eye is super creepy.

Yes. That particular eye is a bit creepy. The all seeing eye represents Divine Providence; that the creator watches and looks after his creation.

As I'm sure you all know... the same symbol is on the dollar bill.

FWIW there are very few prerequisites to joining.

1) Be a Man.
2) Join of your own Free Will
3) Belive in God / A Supreme being
4) Belive in the immortality of the soul.
5) Be of Good Moral Character.

It helps to be a "man of learning" but that's not a necessity.

Masonry transitioned from "Operative" (building cathedrals, etc.) to "Speculative" (using tools of architecture to teach deeper moral lessons) sometimes in the 1600s, give or take. The Renaissance was more or less over by the late 1500s and the Enlightenment Era had not quite begun.

In 1717, four local London lodges got together to form the first "Grand Lodge". Lodges were then, as they are now a places where ideas could be discussed without fear of reprisal from church or state. Keep in mind this was during the Enlightment when "modern" science started to emerge.

The only two topics off limit were Religion and Politics, but this was understandable given that England had just gone through a bitter Religous Civil War in the mid 1600's.

Then, as now, members came from all walks of life, but tended to be "men of learning". It's a place where we can meet and discuss how to better oursleves and society at large.