The History Channel has been putting out made for T.V. documentaries like crazy, and one of them was about the mysteries of the Freemasons, which is something I’ve been interested in for a while now.

They start the documentary by asking all the same questions that got me intrigued enough to watch this documentary in the first place. What are the Freemasons? What is their secret? Are they devil worshipers? Do they run the government? What I learned from the documentary is the sad truth that they aren’t as amazing as we are led to believe.

I guess that’s just the way it is though, if there was some shocking secret that could be told in the documentary we would have heard it all already. Despite the fact that the Freemasons aren’t as interesting as we all hope, the documentary made them a bit more interesting with some of the features in the documentary.

For example, they showed some of the Freemason secret handshakes and where they came from. They showed a reenactment of a master mason ceremony, and the history behind that. I think what the documentary did best was just to go into the history of the Freemasons, what some of them believe, where they get their ceremonies from, what type of people they descended from. Some rumors were pretty interesting, most of which I had never heard before. For example, there are some rumors that the Freemasons discovered America before Columbus.

If you’re afraid of the Freemasons, some of the facts they went into could be a little shocking, 14 U.S. presidents have been Freemasons, and 9 of the people that signed the declaration of independence. They have 2 million members in the United States. And it seems to me that most of the founders were illiterate, but tremendous architects.

So if you want to know more about the Freemasons, (unless a Freemason made this documentary and doctored the facts), this should teach you as much as you need to know about them. You can buy the DVD here!

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