Philippine Masonic Directory ~ 1918 by Chas . M . Colton Originally limited to the Spanish occupiers , Freemasonry attracted leaders of the Philippine independence movement and has played an important role in the history of the islands . The great leader Joseph Rizal was an active member , as were Marcelo H . Del Pilar , Graciano Lopez Jaena , Jose Alejandrino , brothers Juan and Antonio Luna , Ambrocio Flores , and Galicano Apacible .
Masonic Regularity by Alain Bernheim
Alain Bernheim was born in Paris on May 23 , 1931 . At twelve he was interned in Drancy under Occupied France . After World War II was over , Bernheim studied at the National Music Conservatory of Paris , and became the first French Fulbright scholar sent to the United States . Bernheim was initiated in the Grand Orient of France in 1963 , belongs to the Swiss Grand Lodge Alpina ( Masonry Universal No . 40 ) and numerous other organizations .
Pioneering in Masonry : The Life and Times of Rob Morris , Masonic Poet Laureate , Together with the Story of Clara Barton and the Eastern Star by Lucien V . Rule
Social history as a corrective to a historiography is often too limited to diplomacy and wars . It began an upward trajectory as early as the 1930s , but it remains constrained by the frustrating cost and availability of materials that even great research libraries lack . This volume is a case in point . Fraternal movements like Freemasonry have impacted society for hundreds of years .
Plain Thoughts on Secret Societies by John Lawrence John Lawrence ( 1824-1899 ) was a historian of the United Brethren churches and an abolitionist . When he wrote Plain Thoughts there was a clear consensus among his fellow believers that Freemasonry was insidious and diabolical . But in 1889 the United Brethren split into two denominations . Contributing to the schism was the effort of a majority of the members to soften the anti-Masonic teachings of the sect .
President John Quincy Adams ’ Quarrel with the Freemasons - Edited and Introduced by Guillermo De Los Reyes Such was the revulsion in the United States over the purported murder of William Morgan , an upstate New Yorker who in 1826 disappeared after threatening to expose Masonic secrets , that political groups campaigned to drive Masons out of office and close down their lodges . President John Quincy Adams devoted considerable energy to the controversy , as this remarkable set of letters shows .