Check out the links above Buck, if you're interested. My grandfather belonged to a Lodge in Winnipeg, and he was just a 'regular guy' too. A decorated veteran of WW1, and a linotype operator for the Winnipeg Press.

Like Forum Lurker said, there are many different Rites and Orders and Lodges within Freemasonry, with different agendas and practices. Apparently, not all are into the occult or political/economic manipulation, but some certainly are. And certainly the group I found myself caught up with were! (Not the same one as my grandfather's!)

If they are not into designing and controlling money, then why are their symbols and slogans still plastered all over American currency and the American constitution, for just one example? That evidence is right in your wallet every day of your life!

And why all the bally-hoo about 300 Masons in the highest positions of gov't and business in the Ukraine, according to 'The Pravda' at GUEST's link? There's likely to be at least SOME fire behind all that smoke!

Anyway, I really don't know all the facts, and I am interested in finding credible information about it.

daylia