Do freemasons worship Satan?
No. Freemasonry, not being a religion by any definition, does not “worship” any specific supreme being. Individual freemasons, dedicated to the principles of faith, hope and charity, brotherly love, relief and truth, by definition would not recognize Satan as a supreme being. The baseless accusation goes back to the earliest days of recorded Freemasonry when in the words of Dr. George Oliver freemasons were: ‘…charged with the practice of forbidden arts; as for instance “raising the devil in a circle;” though the use they made of his infernal majesty does not appear; but from hints scattered about in other places we may surmise that it was for the purposes of divination, the discovery of hidden treasures, and other illegal designs, which were more openly avowed in the innovations of continental Masonry.’ An anti-masonic letter, reproduced on page 9 of James Anderson’s Constitutions of 1738, claims: “the Freemasons in their lodges, raised the devil in a circle, and when they had done
