A downtown Elgin church can remove Masonic symbols on the outside of its building, the city council said Wednesday night. The council voted 5-2 to let members of Family Life Church remove two markings ...

Elgin City Council members had hoped to preserve the symbols they agreed could be removed from a former Masonic temple-turned-church. But one of those symbols is now in pieces, and the other was left ...

Instead of commonplace designs like flowers or snowflakes, seamstress Celestia A. Milliken decorated her colorful quilt in 1908 with the square and compass and 70 other secret symbols of Freemasonry.

Elgin officials will attempt to preserve the Masonic symbols on a historic city building after they are removed by the church that now owns it. At issue are images of a square, compass and the letter ...

Don’t be surprised if sometime this summer you spot some Masonic symbols at Old Cowtown Museum. The Masons plan to create a historic lodge equivalent to what would have been used in Wichita during the ...

April 19, 2006 — -- Having tackled the secretive Catholic conservative group Opus Dei, Dan Brown says he's writing his next book about the Freemasons. The Freemasons say they are simply a ...

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(OMAHA, Neb.) — If Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad becomes the next U.S. Ambassador to China, he may want to leave any Masonic symbols at home. That’s because the Freemasons group that Branstad belongs to ...

A SERIES of Masonic signs have been found ‘hidden’ in paintings made of Scotland’s bard Robert Burns by one of the nation’s leading painters. Tiny letters and symbols - such as a comet and hooded ...