The Freemasons are a fraternity that started from obscure origins in the late 1500s to the early 1600s. They can be found all over the world, with a strength of 5 million members, and with around half a million in Britain and with 2 million in America. All the forms of freemasonry share moral and metaphysical ideals, which include, in most cases, a constitutional declaration of belief in a Supreme Being.

The organization is administrated into what they call "Grand Lodges" with each governing its own jurisdiction and consists of various subordinate lodges. Each grand lodge recognizes each other through a process or landmarks and regularity. There are also various appendant bodies, all of which are individual organizations related to the main Freemason branch and each administrating itself independently.

The metaphors of various stonemasons' tools are used in Freemasonry, against the allegorical backdrop of building the biblical King Solomon's Temple to convey what has been described by both Masons and critics as "a system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols."

Well, this is a hard one. Since not many celebs are freemasons in the first place! Pictured here is Guy Ritchie. Apparently he is thinking about joining the ranks of Tom Cruise and Jon Travolta in embracing a weird, quasi-religious organization. If he starts wearing masonic celebrity jewellery I'll keep you posted!