The secrets of the Ur-Lodges

In 2010, the famous year he vanished from the map, Gioele Magaldi joined the "Thomas Paine," the oldest Ur-Lodge in the world (dating back to 1849-1850). And here it would be appropriate to explain what Ur-Lodges are, whose existence, first mentioned in these pages, was for a century and a half one of modern Freemasonry's best-kept secrets. According to Magaldi, super-lodges are "the Masonic circles that are protagonists of contemporary history," that is, "groups and individuals with a structurally supranational and cosmopolitan orientation and vocation" who have "considerably left behind the now modest influence of ordinary Freemasonry." What is the difference between them and regular Freemasonry? And what do Ur-Lodges do?