- Grand Master
In Freemasonry the Grand Master is the supreme ruler of the Craft within a given jurisdiction. He presides over his Grand Lodge and has certain rights in each private lodge (constituent lodge) within his jurisdiction. Just as the Worshipful Master of each private lodge annually appoints lodge officers to assist him, so the Grand Master of each Grand Lodge annually appoints grand lodge officers to assist him in his work. - Albert Pike
Albert Pike (b. December 29 1809, Boston - d. April 2 1891, Washington, D.C.) was an attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason. Pike is the only Confederate military officer or figure to be honored with a statue in Washington, D.C. The statue sits in Judiciary Square. - Prince Hall
Prince Hall (c.1735 - December 4, 1807) is considered the founder of "Black Freemasonry" in the United States, known today as Prince Hall Freemasonry. Prince Hall is claimed to have been born in the British West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados on September 12, 1748, moving to Boston at a later date, sometime before 1775. He was the son of an English leather merchant, and his mother was a free colored woman of French extraction. - Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin (April 17 1790) was one of the most critical Founding Fathers of the United States. He was a leading author, political theorist, politician, printer, scientist, inventor, civic activist, environmentalist, and diplomat. As a scientist he was a major figure in the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. As a political writer and activist he, more than anyone, invented the idea of an American nation, … - Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. Twain is most noted for his novels "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", which has since been called the Great American Novel, and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". He is also known for his quotations. During his lifetime, Clemens became a friend to presidents, artists, leading industrialists, and European royalty. - Texe Marrs
Texe W. Marrs is an American preacher from Austin, Texas. Prior to 1987 he was a prolific author of nonfiction books on career preparation and other subjects. His book "Dark Secrets of the New Age" was published by Crossway Books in 1987 and became a #1 bestseller in the Christian book market in 1988, on the momentum of growing alarm at the time within evangelical Christianity about the New Age Movement. - Robert Lomas
Robert Lomas is a British writer, Business studies academic and pseudohistorian/novelist. He is a best-selling author on the subject of the history of Freemasonry. His books relating to Freemasonry include "The Hiram Key" and its sequals: "The Second Messiah" and "The Book of Hiram" (co-authored with Christopher Knight), and "Turning The Hiram Key: Making Darkness Visible" (authored alone). - Arthur Edward Waite
Arthur Edward Waite (October 2, 1857 - May 19, 1942) was an occultist and co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. Born in the United States, and raised in England, A.E. Waite joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1891 and also entered the "Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia" in 1902. The Golden Dawn was torn by further internal feuding until Waite's departure in 1914; a year later he formed the Fellowship of the Rosy Cross, … - Albert Mackey
Albert Gallatin Mackey (born March 12 1807, died June 20 1881), was an American medical doctor, and is best known for his authorship of many books and articles about freemasonry, particularly Masonic Landmarks. He served as Grand Lecturer and Grand Secretary of The Grand Lodge of South Carolina; Secretary General of the Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Rite for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States. - Elias Ashmole
Elias Ashmole (23 May 1617-18 May 1692), the celebrated English antiquary, was a politician, officer of arms, student of astrology and alchemy, and an early speculative Freemason. He supported the royalist side during the English Civil War, and at the restoration of Charles II he was rewarded with several lucrative offices. Throughout his life he was an avid collector of curiosities and other artifacts. Many of these he acquired from the traveller, botanist, … - Joseph Warren
Dr. Joseph Warren (June 11, 1741 - June 17, 1775) was an American doctor and soldier, remembered for playing a leading role in American Patriot organizations in Boston and for his death as a volunteer private soldier while also serving as chief executive of the revolutionary Massachusetts government. - William Preston
William Preston was a Scottish author, born in Edinburgh, on the 7 August, 1742. He died on April 1, 1818. With the death of his father, Preston left college and found a job as a secretary to Thomas Ruddiman, with whom he carried out extensive research, required by the same in his classical and linguistic studies. With the death of Ruddiman, Preston became a printer for Walter Ruddiman, Thomas's brother, to whom he had been apprenticed. - Manly Palmer Hall
Manly Palmer Hall (March 18, 1901 - August 29, 1990) was a Canadian-born author and mystic. He is perhaps most famous for his work "The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy", which is widely regarded as his magnum opus, and which he published at the age of 25 (or 27, 1928) He has been widely recognized as a leading scholar in the fields of religion, mythology, mysticism, … - Licio Gelli
Licio Gelli (born in Pistoia, Tuscany, April 21, 1919) is an Italian financier, chiefly known for his role in the Banco Ambrosiano scandal. He was outed in 1981 as being the Worshipful Master of the masonic lodge Propaganda Due (P2). - Stephen Knight
Stephen Knight (September 26 1951 at Hainault, Essex - 25 July 1985) was a British author. He is best known for the books "The Brotherhood" and "Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution". Both books suggest there is a secret cabal of Masons running most aspects of British society, and have been criticised for their anti-Masonic tone. "The Brotherhood" was published at a time when Freemasonry was coming under increased scrutiny in the United Kingdom. - Lon Milo Duquette
Since 1975 he has been a National and International governing officer of Ordo Templi Orientis , one of the most influential (and controversial) magical societies of the 20th Century. Since 1996 he has been the O.T.O. 's United States Deputy Grand Master and one of the most visible members of the secret society. Many of DuQuette's books have been dedicated to analyzing and exploring the works of Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), an English occultist, poet and philosopher. - Robert Moray
Sir Robert Moray FRS (10 March 1609 – 4 July 1673), was a Scottish soldier, freemason and natural philosopher. He was well known to Charles I and Charles II, and French Cardinals Richelieu and Cardinal Mazarin. He attended the first meeting of the Royal Society on 28 November 1660, and was influential in gaining its Royal Charter and formulating its statutes and regulations. Moray was the son of Sir Mungo Murray, of Craigie in Perthshire. - Julius Evola
Julius Evola born Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola, aka Baron Evola (May 19, 1898-June 11, 1974), was an Italian esotericist and occult author, who wrote extensively on Hermeticism, the metaphysics of sex, Tantra, Buddhism, Taoism, mountaineering, the Holy Grail, militarism, aristocracy, on matters political, philosophical, historical, racial, religious, as well as the essence and history of civilizations, … - William Schaw
William Schaw (c.1550-1602) was a Scottish mason, and was an important figure in the development of freemasonry in Scotland. - Hargrave Jennings
Hargrave Jennings (1817-1890) was a British Freemason, Rosicrucian, author on occultism and esotericism, and amateur student of comparative religion. - Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet, better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, essayist, deist and philosopher known for his wit, philosophical sport, and defense of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and the right to a fair trial. He was an outspoken supporter of social reform despite strict censorship laws in France and harsh penalties for those who broke them. - Oswald Wirth
Oswald Wirth (1860 - 1943) was a Swiss occultist, artist and author. He studied esotericism and symbolism with Stanislaus de Guaita, and created a set of Tarot trumps based on the Marseilles deck. His interests also included Freemasonry and astrology. Wirth is the artist responsible for the so-called Baphomet or Leviathan design of a goat head inside a pentagram that was modified for use as the logo for Anton LaVey's Church of Satan. - C. Fred Kleinknecht
C. Fred Kleinknecht was active in the "Supreme Council of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite" of Freemasonry for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States for 56 years, 18 of them as its Grand Secretary and the final 18 as "Sovereign Grand Commander" of this oldest of the world's Scottish Rite governing bodies. Sovereign Grand Commanders statutory age of retirement is 80 years. - Michael A. Hoffman II
Michael A. Hoffman II, (born 1954, New York), is an American historian and writer. Hoffman has been characterised as a conspiracy theorist and Holocaust denier; he has questioned the accuracy and legitimacy of the latter term. Hoffman is the managing editor of the newsletter "Revisionist History", and describes himself as a "heretical writer." He is rather little known to mainstream audiences, but has produced many books and articles. - William Wynn Westcott
William Wynn Westcott (November 17, 1848 - July 30, 1925) was a British esotericist, coroner, ceremonial magician, and Freemason. He was born in Leamington, Warwickshire, England. - Anthony Sayer
Anthony Sayer (c.1672 - 1741/2). On 24 June 1717 (the Feast of St. John the Baptist), at the formation of the first Premier Grand Lodge of England of freemasons at London, the members present elected as their first Grand Master "Antony Sayer, … - Laurence Dermott
Laurence Dermott (1720 - June, 1791 ) was a freemason of the "Antient Grand Lodge of England" and published the "Book of Constitutions of this Grand Lodge" for the Antient Grand Lodge of England, the Ahiman Rezon. - Elizabeth Aldworth
Mrs. Elizabeth Aldworth (1693-1773) was a female Freemason. Born the Hon. Elizabeth St. Leger, daughter of Viscount Doneraile of Doneraile Court, County Cork, Ireland, she was married in 1713 to Richard Aldworth, Esq. From a narrative published by the family in 1811 it appears that, upon secretly observing the first two degrees of a lodge at labour in her father's home, she was discovered and, after discussion, … - Des Griffin
Des Griffin is an American right-wing editor and conspiracy theorist. Writing from a firmly Christian standpoint, he is mainly interested in global conspiracies and especially the topic of the New World Order. His books try to show the links between government corruption and the influence of the "Illuminati", as well as Freemasonry or "world banks" (classical conspiracy theory subjects that became famous especially with the works of William Guy Carr). - Masonic Lodge Officers
This article relates to mainstream 'Craft Freemasonry', sometimes known as 'Blue Lodge Freemasonry'. Every Masonic Lodge appoints Masonic Lodge Officers to execute the necessary functions of the lodge's life and work. The precise list of such offices may vary between the jurisdictions of different Grand Lodges, although certain factors are common to all, and others are usual in most. All of the lodges in a given nation, state, … - Denis Fahey
Father Denis Fahey (1883-January 21 1954) was an Irish Catholic priest who wrote controversial books alleging various conspiracies against the Catholic Church, including a Judeo-Masonic conspiracy. - George Payne
George Payne was a freemason and the second Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England in 1718. In his second term as Grand Master in 1720, he wrote the "General Regulations of a Free Mason", which were printed in 1722/3 - Christopher L. Hodapp
Christopher L. Hodapp (born 1958 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American author and filmmaker, noted for his writings about Freemasonry and secret societies. - Tyler
Tyler (or Tiler) is the name of the office of "outer guard" of a Masonic Lodge. Early speculative Masonic lodges met in rooms in taverns and other public meeting places, and all Lodges appoint a Tyler to guard the door from unqualified, malicious or simply curious people. Although an Officer of the Lodge and often a highly experienced Past Master, he may be considered akin to a sergeant: the Tyler may be an employee rather than a member of the Lodge, … - Alain Bernheim
Alain Bernheim, French Masonic author, was born in Paris and now lives in Switzerland. He stopped his concert career in 1980 for health reasons after giving some 2,000 piano recitals. Since then he has devoted his life to masonic research. - Maria Deraismes
Maria Deraismes, born August 17, 1828 - February 6, 1894, was a French author and major pioneering force for women's rights. Born in Paris, Maria Deraismes grew up in Pontoise in the city's northwest outskirts. From a prosperous middle class family, she was well educated and raised in a literary environment that led to her authoring several literary works but soon developed a reputation as a very capable communicator. She became active in promoting women's rights and, … - Michele Sindona
Michele Sindona (known in banking circles as "The Shark", May 8 1920 - March 22, 1986) was an Italian banker and convicted felon. Sindona was a member of Propaganda Due, an Italian lodge of Masons, and had clear connections to the Mafia. He was poisoned in prison while serving a life sentence for the murder of lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli. - Frieda Harris
Marguerit Frieda, Lady Harris, nee Bloxham, (1877 - May 11, 1962) was commissioned by Aleister Crowley to paint the Thoth Tarot. Although involved in the women's branch of Freemasonry - Co-Freemasonry - her interest in the occult was not deep. Crowley had to initiate her into his Orders to expand her knowledge and commence the spiritual training necessary to design a deck of such power. By his own admission, the deck was intended to be traditional, … - Carl Kellner
Carl Kellner (Renatus, 1 September 1851 - June 7 1905) was a wealthy paper chemist and founder of the Ordo Templi Orientis. - John Salza
John Salza (November 30, 1967) is an American non-fiction author who writes about religion. John Salza was raised in the Roman Catholic faith. He attended law school and was invited to join freemasonry. He was a member for several years and became a 32nd degree mason in the Scottish Rite. He eventually would renounce his membership in freemasonry. Salza has researched and written several books on the Catholic faith and freemasonry.
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