Freemasonry and the Society of Bees

In 1779, two years after Vyshop's initiation to Freemasonry, he wrote to Zwacken Hurdle, suggesting the order be renamed the Society of Bees. The bee connection again demonstrates the close ties to the illuminat of the Illuminati to Masonry as the beehive has long been an important Freemason symbol. Today's Masonic lodges were once referred to as hives, and any internal disputes are called swarming. One 18th-century Masonic ritual stated, "The beehive teaches us that as we are born into the world rational and intelligent beings"