Insiders call it the Craft.
John Dickie\'s The Craft is an enthralling exploration of a the world\'s most famous and misunderstood secret brotherhood, a movement that not only helped to forge Modern society, but has substantial contemporary influence, with 400,000 members in Britain, over a million in the USA, and around six million across the world..
Freemasonry\'s story yokes together Winston Churchill and Walt Disney
Wolfgang Mozart and Shaquille O\'Neal
Benjamin Franklin and Buzz Aldrin
Rudyard Kipling and \'Buffalo Bill\' Cody
Duke Ellington and the Duke of Wellington.
For Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, the Lodges spread the diseases of pacifism, socialism and Jewish influence, so had to be crushed.
In the eyes of the Catholic Church, Freemasonry has always been a den of devil-worshippers.
Yet the Masons were as feared as they were influential.
Both the Mormon Church and the Sicilian mafia owe their origins to Freemasonry.
Under Napoleon, the Craft became a tool of authoritarianism and then a cover for revolutionary conspiracy.
Masonic networks held the British empire together.
Under George Washington, the Craft became a creed for the new American nation.
Masonic influence became pervasive.
Founded in London in 1717 as a way of binding men in fellowship, Freemasonry proved so addictive that within two decades it had spread across the globe.
Discover the fascinating true story of one of the most influential and misunderstood secret brotherhoods in Modern society.
Insiders call it the Craft
