From the handful of of such lodges created modern-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 initial Grand Lodge, an association of lodges, was Started in https://www.atlantagalocal.com/Top/West-Hills-Masonry/