From the couple of of those lodges formulated present day symbolic or speculative Freemasonry, which especially while in the seventeenth and 18th hundreds of years adopted the rites and trappings of historical religious orders and of chivalric brotherhoods. In 1717 the 1st Grand Lodge, an Affiliation of lodges, was Established https://the-dots.com/pages/west-hills-masonry-445670