Shawn Eyer, author, editor of the Philalethes Magazine, and Managing Director of Communications and Education at the George Washington Masonic National Memorial. The Philalethes Society produces this scholarly, independent journal of Masonic studies devoted to exploring the history, ritual, art, symbolism, and enduring practice and application of Freemasonry. Publications include topics such as Numberless Worlds, Infinite Beings which explore the “numberless worlds” around us. But few realize that, for a brief period, a few Masonic lectures claimed that life existed on these scattered worlds, all to the glory of the Great Architect of the Universe—a surprisingly common scientific belief of the eighteenth century.