From the few of these lodges formulated present day symbolic or speculative Freemasonry, which particularly while in 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 Affiliation of lodges, was founded in England. Setting https://nicelocal.com/irvine/building/west_hills_masonry/