From a few of those lodges developed modern-day symbolic or speculative Freemasonry, which especially from the seventeenth and 18th generations adopted the rites and trappings of historic spiritual orders and of chivalric brotherhoods. In 1717 the first Grand Lodge, an association of lodges, was founded in England. For a time https://porch.com/irvine-ca/masons/west-hills-masonry-1/pp