Secret Societies- In the Shadows S01-E05 - The Freemasons

The Freemasons have been meeting since the 14th century and its members have included the likes of Winston Churchill and Rudyard Kipling. From an ancient stoneworker's guild through to the modern era, their mythologies, beliefs, and secret rituals have inspired countless works of fiction and speculation. What happens behind the closed doors of thousands of Masonic lodges? How are members initiated, and how do they move up through the ranks? How has a sect from the Middle Ages kept pace with the modern world?