Freemasonry From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Freemasons redirects here. For other uses, see Freemasons (disambiguation). Masonic redirects here. For the ghost town in California, see Masonic, California. This is a good article. Click here for more information. Standard image of masonic square and compasses The Masonic Square and Compasses. (Found with or without the letter G) Part of a series on Freemasonry Square compasses.svg Core articles[hide] Freemasonry Grand Lodge Masonic Lodge Masonic Lodge Officers Grand Master Prince Hall Freemasonry Regular Masonic jurisdictions Continental Freemasonry History[hide] History of Freemasonry Liberté chérie Masonic manuscripts Masonic bodies[show] Views of Masonry[show] People and places[show] Other related articles[show] By country[show] v t e Freemasonry is a fraternal organisation that traces its origins to the local fraternities of stonemasons, which from the end of the fourteenth century regulated the qualifications of masons and their interaction with authorities and clients. The degrees of freemasonry, its gradal system, retain the three grades of medieval craft guilds, those of Apprentice, journeyman or fellow (now called Fellowcraft), and Master Mason. These are the degrees offered by craft, or blue lodge Freemasonry. There are additional degrees, which vary with locality and jurisdiction, and are now administered by different bodies than the craft degrees. The basic, local organisational unit of Freemasonry is the lodge. The lodges are usually supervised and governed at the regional level (usually coterminous with either a state, province, or national border) by a Grand Lodge or Grand Orient. There is no international, world-wide Grand Lodge that supervises all of Freemasonry. Each Grand Lodge is independent, and they do not necessarily recognise each other as being legitimate
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