Some of the drug's effects in the body include: 1  Reducing anxiety. 2  Causing sleepiness. 3  Relaxing muscles. 4  Stopping seizures. 5  Impairing short-term memory.
As a result, they began to take in non-masons as patrons. This led, in the 17th century, to large numbers of. speculativeor non-working-masons entering the masonic âlodges.â By the end of that century, Masonic lodges. were almost wholly speculative, made up of Masons who never touched chisel to stone. Freemasons kept the old traditions.
Carmelites are members of a Roman Catholic religious order founded during the 12th century by a group of hermits on Mount Carmel (in present-day Israel). They were apparently inspired by the prophets Elijah and Elisha, who had lived there, but much of their early history is unknown.