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Freemasonry is a fraternal organization that draws heavily from Abrahamic religious symbolism, particularly the Old Testament. It venerates figures like Solomon, Hiram Abiff, and Melchizedek, and incorporates allegories centered on the construction of Solomon’s Temple. While not a religion, it requires belief in a Supreme Being, often referred to as the “Grand Architect of the Universe,” and promotes a universalist outlook that allows members of various monotheistic faiths to participate. Appendant bodies such as the Shriners adopt stylized Islamic and Middle Eastern imagery, including fezzes and Arabic-inspired names, though these are largely symbolic and theatrical rather than theological. Freemasonry shares structural and thematic similarities with certain esoteric or Abrahamic-adjacent traditions—such as the Druze or Yazidis—in its use of secrecy, layered initiation, symbolic cosmology, and emphasis on moral refinement, but it does not constitute a religion in itself.