The ranks of the Freemasons are dwindling

[dlevere]

Freemasons have long wielded the qualities most irresistible to thriller writers and conspiracy theorists — secrecy, politics, power and celebrity.

Among their members are Founding Fathers, Presidents, musicians, artists and businessmen.

But today, as membership plummets within one of the oldest international fraternal organizations ever to exist, a new question persists:

What is the point?