The Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Malta reveals how Malta's freemasons work

Freemasonry is the only refuge left from a world consuming and devouring itself with relentless materialism, according to Simon Cusens.

“It’s a real relief to walk up those steps in Triq Marsamxett and enter a building full of like-minded people and spend a meaningful evening speaking about the truly most important things in life that you can’t buy with money,” he said.

Real freemasons are good and virtuous people who meet to become better persons and find genuine friends but their reputation is being tainted by rogue criminals who want to operate in secrecy to hide sinister motives and by bloggers who are unfairly associating the good freemasons with the bad ones, according to the chief of Malta’s original freemasons.

Cusens is a man on a mission. He wants to clear the name of hundreds of genuine freemasons in Malta whose reputation has been smeared by centuries-old public misconceptions and conspiracy theories about crime and corruption.

“We did not conspire to kill Daphne Caruana Galizia, we are not criminals, we are not infiltrated by the mafia and we do not help each other to break the law, obtain illicit wealth or harm other people,” Cusens insisted.

“But I can only speak for our group of regular freemasons. We are not the only freemasons in Malta. I will not discuss the others and cannot speak for them because we don’t hang out with them but I want people to know that we are not one group.”