From the couple of those lodges made present day symbolic or speculative Freemasonry, which especially in the 17th and 18th centuries adopted the rites and trappings of ancient religious orders and of chivalric brotherhoods. In 1717 the primary Grand Lodge, an Affiliation of lodges, was Launched in England. columns and http://www.sanantoniotxlocal.com/Top/West-Hills-Masonry/