FOREWORD LOOK AROUND, THEY’RE EVERYWHERE
The Giant Fraternal Town Swimming Pool
Traditional / Masonic / Appendant / Men-Women-and-Children
A Brotherhood for Your Every Need
Social / Fun / Partying / Dionysian / Bacchanalian / Philanthropic
Blue Collar / Labor / Farmer / Insurance
Temperance Bands / Drinking Clubs
Business / Professional / Community
Burlesque / Hazing/ Fraternity / Minstrel
The Masonic Origins of Baseball
POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE: EVERY MAN A KING
Cowans and the Committee of Three
Contemplating Skulls and Getting Hoodwinked
Structure of a Lodge Meeting, Outline of an Initiation
Thousands of Orders and Their Substitution for Church and Government
High Titles, Floats, and Fezzes
More Secret Royalty from Red Men and Veiled Prophets
Officers of the Knights of Korassan
Types of Initiations: Conformist, Gnostic, and Sadomasochistic
The DeMoulin Brothers and the Holy Goat
Man Killed During Initation at Masonic Lodge
THE GRAND CYCLOPS: RACE, GENDER, AND THE BROTHERHOODS
Black Shriners and the Moorish Science Temple of Noble Drew Ali
The End of Time and the Fulfillment of the Prophecies
Improved Order of the Red Men Not for Red Men
From the Initiation Ceremony of The Improved Order of the Red Men
From the Red Men Pledge of Honor
Jacques DeMolay and the Boys Club
Moose Recreation: Drinking and Sports
Why Women Cannot Become Masons
The Back of the Bus and the Kitchen Apron
STRANGE, ESOTERIC AND CONFOUNDING TWILIGHT LANGUAGE
Twilight Language and Mystical Masonry
Sexual Geometry and the Arithmetic of Death
Cryptic Rites, Caverns, and Subterranean Masonry
Robert Anton Wilson on Coded Word Games
Symbolic Human Sacrifice: The Cornerstone Ritual
Orientalism, the Temple of Solomon, and the Red Heifer
Arabian Nights and Muslim-Crusader Ping-Pong
The Norwegian Order of Freemasons Expressing Compassion and Care
Masonic Muslims and the Nobles of the Shrine
FOP Spotlights Robert F. Kennedy as “The Enemy”
An Officer, a Gentleman, a Master Mason
Freedom Team and the Iraq Lodge
J. Edgar Hoover, the Mason’s Mason
Masons Bury Doubts about a Dead Kennedy
The Freemason, the Cornerstone, and the IRS
A Short List of Masonic Entrepreneurs
Solomon’s Treasure: The Magic and Mystery of America’s Money
The Bohemian Grove Gets Literary
The Anti-Mason Every Lodge Loves
Blanchard Heads off the Plagues of Egypt
Masonic Assassins, Lucifer, and Lodge Hookers: Léo Taxil’s Satanic Panic
Taxil’s Confession: The Game Begins
Prayer of Release for Masons and Their Descendants
What Freemasonry Means to Me by Reverend Norman Vincent Peale
It Is Great to Be a Mason by Danny Thomas
Pope Leo XIII: Tear Away the Mask from Freemasonry
Southern Baptists: Eight Problems with Freemasonry
The Elks Indulge in Every Lust of the Flesh
Being Fair to Catholics, Masons, and Luciferian Spirits
High Priestess of the Secret Society Potboiler
From Nesta Webster, World Revolution
The Illuminati: Quiet Rationalists, Satanic Subversives, or a Bit of Both?
Diogenes’ Lamp by Adam Weishaupt
Brother Albert Mackey on the Illuminati
Robert Anton Wilson on Weishaupt
An Epopt Speaks: James Wasserman on the Illuminati
SONS OF THE DESERT: FREEMASONRY IN POPULAR CULTURE
Brotherhoods in Film and Television
Lady Gaga Talks of Illuminati Dreams
Mouth to Ear by Ernest Borgnine
Tweets from Lindsay Lohan on Freemasonry
Harold Lloyd and the World of Hiram Abiff
Dan Brown and the Mason’s Boast
From Tied to Masonic Apron Strings
The Lamb Skin by Edgar A. Guest
Brick by Brick: Edgar Allan Poe’s Anti-Masonic Sarcasm
SEX, DEATH, CLOWNS AND CRIPPLED CHILDREN
The Geometry of Generation: The 47th Problem of Euclid
Paschal Beverly Randolph: Trance Medium, Friend of Lincoln, and Mulatto Sex Magician
Study Shows Children Fear Clowns
Mirth Is King and Silence Is Golden
Human Trafficking Close to Home
MasonicLeaks and the DeMolay Molestations
Peculiar Ties Connect Boys Town to CIA
Not to Drink: From the International Good Templar
FOLK MAGICK, CRYPTO-MASONRY, AND HOLDING IT
The Masonic Historian Who Chartered Crowley
Yarker Puts a Fresh Apron on the Beast
Yarker’s Masonic Bona Fides: A Partial List
Osho/Rajneesh on Wilhelm Reich
Strange, Near-Impotent Sex Magick
Madame Blavatsky and the Mahatmas
Charles Leadbeater: Theosophist, Convicted Masturbator, and Co-Masonic Leader
Satan Asks, “Who’s in Charge?”
The Prophet, Freemason, and Martyr Joseph Smith
The Fox Sisters and Mr. Splitfoot