From a number of of these lodges designed present day symbolic or speculative Freemasonry, which especially during the seventeenth and 18th centuries adopted the rites and trappings of ancient spiritual orders and of chivalric brotherhoods. In 1717 the initial Grand Lodge, an association of lodges, was Established in England. After http://www.sanantoniotxlocal.com/Top/West-Hills-Masonry/