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Global Power & Elites · Secret societies

Competing accounts of Freemasonry as a fraternal civic network versus a covert coordinating layer among political and economic officeholders.

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Timeline

  1. 1841 · eventMuseum of Freemasonry institutional origins at Freemasons' Hall
  2. 1866 · document_releaseDuncan's Masonic Ritual and Monitor published
  3. 1870 · amplificationCatholic and nationalist critiques expand international debate
  4. 1880 · document_releaseGould's multi-volume History of Freemasonry circulated
  5. 1915 · eventGastvrijheid Lodge No. 113 founding officers recorded
  6. 1950 · popularizationPostwar conspiracy literature folds Freemasonry into elite-control maps
  7. 1968 · document_releasePoncins' Freemasonry and the Vatican published
  8. 1995 · mutationInternet lists of famous Masons circulate widely
  9. 2010 · investigationGrand lodge transparency pages expand public self-presentation

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