# Freemasonry > Bashar attributes Freemasonry as a historical vehicle for ancient metaphysical knowledge about reality creation and self-empowerment, with secrecy serving preservation rather than exclusion - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/freemasonry # Freemasonry *An open geometric study room holds unfinished stone models and measuring tools* This chapter records Bashar's account of Freemasonry as an attributed teaching rather than verified institutional history. In the session, the order is presented as one historical vehicle for a body of metaphysical knowledge that long predates it — knowledge concerning how reality works and how a being manifests the reality it prefers. The account explicitly rejects the framing of that knowledge as inherently negative. ## Organizational form versus the older ideas Bashar distinguishes the organizational beginning of Freemasonry from the ideas associated with it. The organization, in the form the questioner recognizes, is said to have begun with the Knights Templar; the ideas the Templars uncovered are described as far more ancient, preceding them by thousands of years. The two freemasonry transcripts are near-duplicate recordings of the same exchange; either source carries the complete teaching. ## What the "secrets" were about What are called the secrets of Freemasonry, the Knights Templar, and the mystery schools of Atlantis are characterized as one and the same body of metaphysical understanding: how reality works, and how one manifests and attracts the preferred reality. The session places this same information behind the teachings of Jesus, Buddha, and Krishna — not a collection of separate teachings, but one metaphysical understanding expressed through different vehicles. ## Why the knowledge was kept secret The secrecy is framed as a preservation choice rather than an exclusionary one. Because the knowledge concerns how to genuinely use self-empowerment, public misunderstanding of it was likely; the mystery schools are described as the clean channel through which the information could be passed without corruption. The characterization is not of a hidden ruling apparatus but of a teaching insulated from dilution. ## Practical implications A learner can take from this account a single reframe: the "hidden" material is not intrinsically negative, esoteric, or beyond reach — it is the same metaphysical content Bashar presents openly elsewhere in the corpus (see metaphysics, self-empowerment, manifestation). What was once protected inside an organizational form is, in this framing, the ordinary work of understanding how reality and self-empowerment operate. The practical question becomes how one uses that understanding, not whether one has been granted access to it. ## Representative passages "Essentially it started with the idea of the organization you call the Knights Templar. The ideas are very, very ancient and existed way before the Knights Templar, but in that form it began with the Knights Templar. The information is nothing particularly to be negative. It's how you view it."— Bashar, Freemasonry (freemasonry#qa-1) "A lot of the so-called secrets of Freemasonry and secrets of the Knights Templar and secrets of the mystery schools of Atlantis are all about the metaphysical understanding of how reality works and how you manifest and attract the reality that you prefer. That's really all that information was about."— Bashar, Freemasonry (freemasonry#qa-2) "Because it involved the understanding of how to really use your self-empowerment, it was framed in a way and taught in a way that made it seem to be a very big secret… it was thought that the only way to really preserve the information clearly and cleanly was to pass it down through the mystery schools of those organizations so that it wouldn't be corrupted."— Bashar, Freemasonry (freemasonry#qa-3) ## Related - [Metaphysics](https://sassani.app/topic/metaphysics) - [Self-Empowerment](https://sassani.app/topic/self-empowerment) - [Manifestation](https://sassani.app/topic/manifestation) - [Ancient Civilizations](https://sassani.app/topic/ancient-civilizations) Markdown twin of https://sassani.app/topic/freemasonry. The HTML page is the source of truth.