Table Of Contentlnside the Brotherhood
Martin Sliort wrote. produced and narrated tbe
prize-winning ПV documentary series оп the Маfш
in America. Crimг lncorporated. То accompany the
series, Ье wrote Crime /пс.: А History о/ Organized
Crime in America. In addition to writing feature
articles for Тhе Times, the Spectator, New Statesman,
Тiте Out and Special Forces, he co-autbored (in
1977) The Fall of Scotlllnd Yard, about police
corruption in Loodon. Не is also the author of
Lundy: The Destruction of Scotland Уa rd's Finest
Detective (1991).
After reading history at Cambridge University,
he worked - from 1969 to 1984-on major current
affairs programmes for the rгv companies ТЬаmеs,
Granada and London Weekend (on the Lebanon)
and for Channel 4's Dispatches series (оп the inter
national anns trade). In 1988 he preseoted Charlie
Richardson and the British Mafia for Longshot
Productions and Channel 4. His series based on
lnside the Brotherhood appeared on IТV in 1989,
and in 1994 he produced and presented the IТV
series Gangsrers.
ВУ ТНЕ SAME AUTHOR
The Fall of Scot/and Yard (co-author)
Crime Jnc.: А History of Organized Crime in America
Lundy: The Destruction of Scotland Yard's Finest Detective
MARTIN SHORT
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BROTHERHOOD
Further Secrets of the Freemasons
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Contents
Acknowledgements 7
Foreword 9
lntroduction: The Brotherhood and lts Aftermath 18
PART ONE: Ritual or Religion?
1 Ritual Poison 45
2 Whatever Happened to Jesus? 66
3 Cloth and Apron, Cross and Square 81
4 Jahbulon - the Sacred Word to Кеер 90
5 Masonic Light, Resurrection and Gnosis 1о6
6 OЬelisks and Egypt 115
7 Sorcery, Sex, Satan and Sku\ls 124
8 St Peter's Squared 149
PART тwо: Who are the Masons?
9 Figuring the Facts 169
IO А Mechanism of Social Control? 183
PART тнквв: Freemasonry and the Police
II The Manor of St James's 195
12 The Fal\ and Fall of Brian Woollard 205
13 The Meaning of the Manor 236
14 The Phoenix 254
15 А Criminal Intelligence 261
16 А Firm in а Firm; Freemasonry and Police
Corruptio11 268
17 Master of the City 291
18 А Column of Mt1tua\ Defence 300
6 Contenl$
19 The Encompassing of John Stalker 312
20 Parrish's Council 351
21 Tough at the Тор 361
Masonic Activities
PART FOUR:
22 Judging Ьу Results 369
23 Masonic Justices 381
24 The Cotton Inheritance 391
25 Masonic Light in Town Halls 4о6
26 London Belongs to Тhem 432
27 Every Breath You Take 449
28 А Masonic Education 462
29 What's Up, Doc? 48о
30 Squaring the Square Mile 486
31 The Regirnental Square 502
32 Your Masonic PuЫic Servant 517
33 Spooks in Aprons 532
34 The Tory Party in Aprons? 564
Masonic
PART FIVE: TrouЫes
35 Plain Tales of the Lodge 589
36 Falling Masonry 595
37 Charity Begins at Ноте 6о?
38 The Destruction of Arthur Edmonds 627
39 Тhе Ladies - God Bless Thern! 641
Conclusion: The Remedy 6s8
Notes 6'74
Index 689
Acknowledgements
First 1 thank those many men and women who have
supplied me with infonnation оп Freemasonry but who
have asked me not to name them. Most of the men are
Freemasons themselves. In essence this Ьооk is their story.
1 am merely а conduit for the expression of their hopes,
fears and anxieties. They are my primary sources. If any
more wish to come forward in the future, 1 promise total
confidentiality.
1 also thank all those Masons and non-Masons, puЫic
figures and private citizens, whom 1 have Ьееn аЫе to паmе
and whose stories 1 tell chapter Ьу cbapter. Further thanks
go to hundreds of other folk who have courteously replied
to ту letters or talked to me оп the telephone. А Ьооk like
this сап Ье written only with the direct assistance of literally
thousands of people.
1 express my gratitude to those many reporters whose
stories in Britain 's local and national press have enaЫed me
to assemЫe а vast mosaic of information aЬout Masonic
activities in all parts of the country. ln this respect
Duпant's Press Cuttings agency has provided an invalu
aЫe service. Fellow journalists to whom 1 owe direct
thanks include Mary Beith, Andy Вell, Uam Qarke,
Andrew Jennings, Paul Lashmar, Graeme McLagan, Alex
Marunchak, Mike Unger and the 1 in 12 PuЬlications
Collective of Bradford.
Otber people who have greatly assisted (from diverse
quarters) include Carol Andrews, Anne Archer, Harvey
Brown, Blaise Compton, Dr Peter Fenwick, Топу Frewin,
Chris Hudson, Vernon Jamieson, Bruce Кitchen, Leonard
Knight, Gerard Moate, David Pidcock, Mark Radford,
Acknowledgementr
Cyril Ruskin, Francesco Siniscalc:hi and DeЬorah WooJ.
lard.
Тhanks also to my agent Andrew Hewson, 10 long·
suffering editor Janet Law, and to Richard Johnson and tbe
staff of Grafton Books.
Jn several chapters 1 have relied heavily оп other
people's Ьooks. 1 express my particular indebtedness to the
work of Walton Hannah (Darkness VisiЫe and Christion Ьу
Degrees, Augustine PuЫishing), Sir Kenneth Newman and
Albert Laugharne (Th.e Principle.s о/ Policing, Metro-
politan Police), Peter Tompkins (Тhе Magic of OЬeUsks,
Harper & Row), John Stalker (Stalker, Harrap), and
Andrew Arden (the Final Repon of his Jnquiry into the
London Borough of Hackney).
1 acknowledge the Masonic learning 1 have derived from
AQC (the Transactions of Quatuor Coronatj Lodge) and
Мшюпiс Square (Ian Allan/Lewis Masonic). 1 also рау
tribute to Commander Michael Higham, Grand Secretary
ofthe United Grand Lodge of England. for his painstaking
replies 10 my detailed written inquiries. 1 douЬt if he will
treasure this book but 1 hope he will accept that I have
writtcn it in а spirit of faimess and with integrity. Had we
made each other's acquaintance over anything other than
Freemasonry we might have got оп well.
Fiпally 1 thank my wife for her inordinate patience.
'Masonic widows', whose husbands are out оп 'Masonics'
five nights а week, might sympathize with а wife whose
spouse has spent almost every night in for the past three
years studyjng the brotherhood's literature. This is not
often а source of humour nor is its wisdom easily communi·
cated to someone who is not equally deeply immersed. То
help me make up, would any puЫisher now commission me
to write а Ьооk on Great Holiday Hore/.s о/ lhe World? AU
research expenses pajd for two, of course!
Foreword
It is an obvious truth, that thc: privileges of Masonry have long
Ьееn prostituted for unwonhy considerations, and hence their
good effects have Ьсеn less conspicuous.
These words were written more than two hundred years
ctgo Ьу William Preston, one of Freemasonry's greatest
teachers. In 1772 he could see his Ьeloved brotherhood
sinking into а 'general odium, or at least а careless
indifference', 1 Today Freemasonry has an even worse
puЫic image than iп Prcston's day but does it deserve it? ln
tbls book 1 try to weigh all its guod effecL" against thc cost of
it,.; enduring prostitution.
Jnside lhe Brotherhood has its origins in the pioneering
work of Stephen Knight who died in July 1985 aged thiгty
three, just eighteen months after the puЫication of his
bestselling, controversial and much-disputed expose of
Freemasonry, The Brolherhood.
Had he lived, Stephen would have writtcn his own
$Cquel. lnstead 1 stepped, almost literally. into а dead
man's shoes. 1 tracked down many of his sources and read
hundreds of letters sent in response to his Ьооk but which
he never pursued because of illness. More than three years
after his death, fanmail still pours in for him from all over
the world.
Uke Stephen 1 have had to feel my way through the fog
of oЫuscation, ignorance and malice that engulfs Free
masonry. 1 have had to identify and dismiss the tales of
ogenzs provocazeurs, as well a.s the paranoid ravings of
fantasists and 'nutters'. Тwenty years' tramping round the
lower dcpths as an investigative reporter was some train-
