Post by magusmasonica on Feb 8, 2010 21:50:29 GMT
THE FRENCH RITE IN FEMININE: A HISTORY OF FUTURE
Marie-Françoise Blanchet, a former-great Teacher of the GLFF * *
The French Rite is of a plasticity that can adapt to all the aspirations. It is this way as the Great Feminine Lodge of France, she practices the three " styles " the R. F. (Modern French Rite) the RFR (Reestablished French Rite) and the RF 1801 that they practice 24% of their lodges.
In the breast of the Great Feminine Lodge of France (GLFF) the history of the French Rite doesn't made a mistake with the Obedience. but if with their pluralismo. The GLFF takes place this year the seventy anniversary. But it will be in 1973, February 16, when the Great Master of GODF, Fred Zeller, remit the patent from the French Rite to the Great Teacher of the GLFF: Liberate Morte; and March 10 1973 will be the moment in that is founded the lodge Unité, which will work in French Rite.
The question would be: Why the French Rite and reason this year? The years 70 in France accuse the appearance in new ways as for the social framings, among them those that have the aspiration of picking up the feeling of numerous women incardinadas in the reflection spaces, of the word and of the action specifically feminine. The Great Feminine Lodge of France, or the lodges that they worked then in the REAA think that it is the moment of of opening up to the evolutions, and of opening the doors from the feminine freemasonry to the women that it disables them to choose the ritual in the one which to develop their road iniciátic."
The women wanted, like the founders of the lodge affirmed " Unité " to practice a robbed Rite of the connotations " deidist " and that it rejected to oppose the curriculum iniciático to a humanist project and united with the firm will of associating the works, the Masonic symbolic road to an open search on the questions of the world, of the citizenship.
It is in this time, we can say that the history is an eternal one to restart. In the corridor of the GODF, brujulean the rumors about the necessity of beginning women and of helping to the creation of a Great Feminine East. will be the Great Master Fred Zeller quine will express without doubting it in their address in the ceremony of delivery of the Patent : S.G.M.:. Retrace les destinées de la femme dessués l’âge de cavernes (…) pour arriver a notre époque de revendications. IL nous dit combien ils est heureux de transmettre le Rite Français Moderne a des SS.:. dont apprécie particulièrement le dévouement car, faute de pouvoir crée un Grand Orient Féminin, il voit , dans cette première Logia féminine au Rite Français un rapprochement des Obédiences..” Traces the destiny of the woman dessués l age of caves (…) to arrive at our era of claims. It tells us how much they is pleased to transmit the Modern French Rite of SS.:. whose particularly appreciates the dedication because, without power creates a Grand Orient Female, he sees , in this first Logia women to the French Rite a reconciliation of Obediences..
It will be at this time when the GLFF is shown desirous of opening the new Sisters the new project, without putting in danger the identity and the unit of the obedience.
The introduction therefore of the French Rite in the GLFF, it was fruit of the circumstances and of the vision of long journey, and of the fraternal duty of transmission and of the “realpolitik” of the obedience., and the result of the meet again of exceptional personalities that they allowed was also that this project concretize.
In these moments inside the GLFF, while works as Obedience in the REAA, the RF inside its diverse " styles " is worked by 24% of its lodges. This proportion is distributed in an identical way by the whole French territory, with some variations: 48% is developed in the call region This, and 16% in the Southeast region, to stress the differentiating questions.
In opposition in the call Dom Tom, an alone of the eight existent lodges works in French Rite (The Croix du South to the East of Eats you that he makes it in French Rite 1801). In the rest of Europe, África ..etc), the eleven lodges that exist all the REAA work, except for the first Sisters togolesas begun in 1973 with the help of the lodge Unité; the rest is a transmission from the Hexagon, which is made from a lodge like The Rose gives Vents created specifically to help to grow to other shops outside of France.
For the same reason, the obediences sisters of the GLFF to which she has helped in their birth (the Grands Lodges of Switzerland, Spain or Venezuela) all work in the REAA, and single Belgium and Portugal they make it in RF. After 2003 there were a diversification will and international development driven by the GLFF when creating a structure of coordination of the lodges of RF: Him Creuset Bleu to whose position has been he confident the work of growth and development of shops in Latvia and Bulgaria.
Inside this same spirit, there is a new status conceived by the lodges of foreign countries, and the first lodge " partenaire " that lit their fires in the year 2005, he made it in Jerusalem (Israel) and he also works in RF it is the shop Jerusalem d´Azur et of Fraternité.
We can say that the French Rite in the GLFF therefore is structured and it develops and you in self characteristic of its history. The founders of the first lodges of RF, sisters that were initiate and that they worked during years in the REAA, they are integrated in the spirit and in the letter of the Obedience, without doubting of the good will of you unite them and the other ones, strength that is of verifying, although it is undeniable the human tendency of reproducing, you must recognize that preference although it is necessary to keep in mind the habits and therefore the undeniable consequences of the import of numerous foreign elements to the French rituals
In all ways the backer of the Rite, was the creation of the Great one exactly I Surrender General Feminine of France in the 2001, for the Federal Council, executive organ of the Obedience. It is necessary to add that the arrival of the Orders of Wisdom in 1999 to the Sisters of the RF, these they were persuaded that after the one on the way to the Master, the possible continuation was related with the jurisdiction of the High Degrees of the REAA, but the reasons of restarting the whole work iniciático and ritual they were numerous and imperious
As in human societies, minorities are often confiscated its own history, which also is rewritten by others, and that are altered, and devalued. However, the history of the Rite French is told by themselves, and we can say that it has this scheme. To back a past is necessary to be an actor. The Rite French in female. It is a history of the future, there can be no transmission without dignity of inheritance. That is why the work of the memory is essential to render justice to the Rite French and the values and to their roots to its history and its taxation, and on way to its formidable vitality. The persevering work of the Commissions of Ritual is crucial to this safeguard.
The first Masonic work is the one of rectifying. The genealogical vulgata that is still assigned too often to the French Rite to begin it is that it seems to lack own square, as if was an almost illegitimate sprout of a noted Masonic line but little documented.
It is therefore necessary that the Rite called French has to distinguish it from the new uses, in fact was imported from the Grand Lodge of London, and its history is confused with the freemasons speculative. We cannot ignore the fact that the loggia that form in 1751 under the influence of Laurence Dermott and certain facts that accompany him will to reach our days an excellent spin doctor which is undeniable that had an extraordinary sense of the communication to the self the loggia of the Old , with the intention of desclasar to the loggia of Modern although this outside prior to the other in almost 30 years..
And it is surprising the reluctance to confront the more recent history, or the files more indisputable. It is astonishing that since the origins to our days, the Brothers and Masters Freemasons who say seeking the truth , demonstrate a taste so exquisite by pedigrees dubious and the stories rebuilt. It is without doubt the unconscious masonic that is yet to explore. .. Because there will be a day will lack appeal to his real name Rite Founder , that less , and with the merit of not mistake.
It is also true that there is a prolific diversity in practice ritual before which the reaa has been privileged and tolerant of variants and the uniqueness of the Rite French, before the Brother Doré responded on 22 October 1980 to the Sister Edith Hakoun founder of the loggia Phenixia the ritual that we have conveyed the Brother André Drom, at that time Great Master Deputy, (it was a ritual journal practiced by the REAA of those times)… a guy which is also a brother is the ingenia is providing various modifications and adding the title of Rite Français as an epithet for recovery. In fact the Rite French is installed by the GO in 1786 and was printed in 1801 and amended in 1848.. and since then has not changed… This same continuity temporary is what it claims and is expressed in the test-preface to the 2002 Edition of the Ritual of REAA, which justifies this new edition is called simply Rite French Reference of REAA.
Contrary to that position the Gran Logia Female of France has formalized varied practices and therefore has approved the three appeals rituals such as reference, which went to see.
The RF. It is the ritual that we was referred to the patent by the REAA, and is described as Rite Modern French (RFM). However this term the purity of the rite and its origin that comes from the Grand Lodge of Modern in 1717, and whose designation has a certain logic in both that it is opposed to the Rite Traditional French, with which it designates the stage ritual that takes into account the developments of the century and the CENTURY, and the codification that Brother Arthur Groussier, set in 1938 and in 1955.
The RFR (Rite French Restored) is the closest to the rituals of the Grand Lodge of Modern and the Regulateur du Dunant in 1801, was the loggia Le Devoir et the raison du reaa who donate rituals to the Sister Yvonne Dornés, founder of the loggia La Source (then loggia of the GLFF) and then of the Great Logia of Belgium, after the creation of the new Obedience; and The Francaise East of Paris to light their fires in 1981. In the same time the loggia Porte de l'Orient, located east of Marseille, opts for the RFR instead of the FR, which was the one that had taken in its creation.
The RF 1801 rite, particularly to the GLFF , despite his appeal this next to the RF, and in no way to the Régulateur. The Loggia Phenxinia east of Nueilly, founded in the RF, a few months before the loggia Unité in 1973, took the title: RF 1801, in the year 1981.
We see here the role that the Brothers of REAA played to publicize the Sisters of the GLFF the Rite French to refer the rituals of face to experience certain items on the 2th grade, which were forwarded by the time to study the REAA, and that was not approved. Such an event was known in the GLFF of maliciously as the ritual vilmorin although this was never denied. (Commented on by Bernard Dat in the magazine chaine d'Union no. 8-1999)
It is therefore a laudable intention of accountability of the declines of the Rite French and its institutionalization in the GLFF, leads us perfectly to the idea of favoring the particularism, which enhance the basics that meet in itself. It is distressing that the culture of the difference that we have instilled a certain events are the that we share sometimes, as in the tribes that bordering or spend long and is ignored, and that seem in the common history of the acculturation.
Profusion and even confusion. Without a doubt. Plus, it is not in this fun creativity by which are plotted the ways of life and freedom…? There are no to rely, there are many Lodges within the french purple.. In fact, there are several variants of the Rite French, without which their consistency of ensemble is weakened. The Rite French not only accepts, but that is more vindicates the unity in diversity: Omnia in one that was the currency for the creation of the loggia Unité. The rite French that we teach, should not be confused the Rite with the ritual, the second is the staging of the first, and this entails an area of interpretation, of incardination, literally a bet in body and spirit.
Nothing is as alien to the philosophy of the Rite French to be fixed, that what encloses or promulgates. Rigorous in its foundations, flexible and adaptable within its legal system, every mode of operation regulatory environment is in contradiction with his spirit. That is the difference with the mystique of landmarks of the “regularity” . The Rite French is proud of its capacity to integrate loans, breaks and developments. The Rite French that he can be considered a Rite Composite or mestizo, for which no sense pre within the collective history that carries as such.
But in what name and under its auspices is built this history?
We have been the GADU. It is a sensitive point that we should consider often as the point of fracture between the Rite French and other rites. A party anyone who travel to other loggias of other Obediences can check how many of rules and practices may differ, and when it is an obligation and a choice among others. Throughout the 18th century GADU was not invoked in the opening and closing of the work, was booked for the great occasions such as the ceremonies of reception. The over-zealous begin in the 19th century.
A the GADU in itself is an object ambiguity and confusion. Invokes and convenes to justify a fraternity cacofónica, and the opposite. The Obediences regular calls and certain jurisdictions intimidate their members that have been to see God, as the Creator. Others argue that shaken the Organizing Principle (the Great Clockmaker of Newton), perfectly compatible with the agnosticism or atheism. And for others it is as a kind of pascaliana deviation, i practice but i do not think not devoid of a shell of bad faith. We can send anything, as if, as if it were very serious work to the search for truth under the auspices so ambiguous.
The Rite French in feminine: it is a history of back to be a scientist, philosophical and political, religious and, which does not fall or at the time or space. How To think that the atheism can conceive and find its place in a project integrator as freemasonry?
In return has been insisting on its progressive, somewhat subversive to the time of the Constitutions of Anderson claimed as the religion suitable for all the men and that it opposes according to its drafters of religion in their country . The GADU is a deism open that combines with the freedom of free consideration as a center of union
Since that same perspective will be necessary interrogate the design of GADU within the context of the century, as did the freemasons of the nineteenth century, which initiated the review within the positivism and the utopian ideas of Fourier, and the development anticlerical of those times. It is clear that we are in contexts historiographic different, with the same but we must not lose perspective. That same spirit of openness and freedom of conscience could inspire both the reference to the GADU in 1717, and the freedom of not invoke in 1877.
One thing is certain, since the origines to our days, it is inconceivable that the philosophy of the Rite French to believe who wants it to be. OR do not recognize or receive or do not constitute a brother or sister in humanity, is made by some demiurge decor, or by the ability to believe or not.
For me the clichés circulating on the Rite French are particularly tenacious: RF will be less symbolic than others. Others say that the vulgate is not supported by the intimate prejudices of those who spread, which ends creating a strong confusion when merges with the line symbolic; non-assimilation of a corpus heterónimo rather than subordinate, not a know but a knowledge, not a individual work and what makes sense for me, depending on what makes sense for the other. The rite French by their very sovereignty, allows invest spaces of imagination and therefore appeal without prejudice to a Rite of Open .
A feature indisputably specifies the Rite French is that through the centuries has prevailed the economy of its apparatus rite and their preference for the consistency more conceptual figurative, more imaginative that demonstration. That is why we can say that is eminently faithful to the spirit of the freemasonry of origin, but placed in the opposite of the private lounges, or the taverns, to be in the temples furnished the lodges- at times sacred- doing everything an exercise of adjustment with the times.
Another complaint that has the Rite French very interesting is the social aspect or worse the political issue to the detriment of what would be the quintessence of the freemasons: spirituality and tradition, two terms that very often come together but are rarely defined. A thorny issue that understand as such, the more zealous is the etymology of the words of the historical reality.
What The police forces, citizenship, are not land by Freemasons? What Is that do not know the work of the Venerable Masters that show that they only if they were filled with the itching esoteric, which seem torment all our lodges and concerned above all in the philosophy and philanthropy and the science… in copious banquets…?
This opposition between the temple inner and outer temple is a false debate that we have the imperative duty des build, How to build a more harmonious world without changing the order itself?, is part of the good work that must return to the world Continue outside the temple, the work begun .
It is necessary to speak, in order, within the cultural exception french which is the fact female in freemasonry. It is paradoxical understand that the lodges women can open their taken by the reading of the chosen lines of the Constitutions of Anderson. That is a fact, that does not lack cast doubt on the commemorative event that is fundamental to any taken masonic within the affiliation of the origins, more should not forget that this excluded women from their race.
It would be dishonest give credit to the Rite French itself since it naturally within the context of the 17th century, is a specific rite that was assigned to the “good genere” , more the “adoption” of women in the lodges is inseparable from the country of the ideas that made it possible. The deep difference between the free adogmatica it leaves the Lights and that halfopen the door of their lodges to women of the eighteenth century, and that the Anglo-saxon tradition even the closed to women in the 21st century is brilliant. We cannot prevent within the inexorable decline of this freemasonry dogmatic seeing it as a result not incidental to a redeployment deadly.
It will be necessary sweep either a number of cliches about the Freemasonry of ladies of the 18th century, long taken as a masonry operetta an opportunity to play on the part of the ladies of the high society and to ensure honest women masons. The recent investigations show that they were an area of sociability and emancipation of strong effectiveness which is fully in a story that outlines for women roads of the freedom.
The freemasonry female can contribute to take the work of utopia in which the Rite French, in turn conservative and laboratory, living example of fidelity to the tradition and adapting to modernity, which is an area of future
Laure Caille
Magazine Chaine d´Union 2006
Translation and Spanish of Victor Guerra MM.:. of GODF
Translation and English of Rodrigo Alvarez Reynal MM.:. of Egyptian Masoneria of Old and Primitive Rite of Memphis Mizraim of Mexico (MEAPRMM)
Marie-Françoise Blanchet, a former-great Teacher of the GLFF * *
The French Rite is of a plasticity that can adapt to all the aspirations. It is this way as the Great Feminine Lodge of France, she practices the three " styles " the R. F. (Modern French Rite) the RFR (Reestablished French Rite) and the RF 1801 that they practice 24% of their lodges.
In the breast of the Great Feminine Lodge of France (GLFF) the history of the French Rite doesn't made a mistake with the Obedience. but if with their pluralismo. The GLFF takes place this year the seventy anniversary. But it will be in 1973, February 16, when the Great Master of GODF, Fred Zeller, remit the patent from the French Rite to the Great Teacher of the GLFF: Liberate Morte; and March 10 1973 will be the moment in that is founded the lodge Unité, which will work in French Rite.
The question would be: Why the French Rite and reason this year? The years 70 in France accuse the appearance in new ways as for the social framings, among them those that have the aspiration of picking up the feeling of numerous women incardinadas in the reflection spaces, of the word and of the action specifically feminine. The Great Feminine Lodge of France, or the lodges that they worked then in the REAA think that it is the moment of of opening up to the evolutions, and of opening the doors from the feminine freemasonry to the women that it disables them to choose the ritual in the one which to develop their road iniciátic."
The women wanted, like the founders of the lodge affirmed " Unité " to practice a robbed Rite of the connotations " deidist " and that it rejected to oppose the curriculum iniciático to a humanist project and united with the firm will of associating the works, the Masonic symbolic road to an open search on the questions of the world, of the citizenship.
It is in this time, we can say that the history is an eternal one to restart. In the corridor of the GODF, brujulean the rumors about the necessity of beginning women and of helping to the creation of a Great Feminine East. will be the Great Master Fred Zeller quine will express without doubting it in their address in the ceremony of delivery of the Patent : S.G.M.:. Retrace les destinées de la femme dessués l’âge de cavernes (…) pour arriver a notre époque de revendications. IL nous dit combien ils est heureux de transmettre le Rite Français Moderne a des SS.:. dont apprécie particulièrement le dévouement car, faute de pouvoir crée un Grand Orient Féminin, il voit , dans cette première Logia féminine au Rite Français un rapprochement des Obédiences..” Traces the destiny of the woman dessués l age of caves (…) to arrive at our era of claims. It tells us how much they is pleased to transmit the Modern French Rite of SS.:. whose particularly appreciates the dedication because, without power creates a Grand Orient Female, he sees , in this first Logia women to the French Rite a reconciliation of Obediences..
It will be at this time when the GLFF is shown desirous of opening the new Sisters the new project, without putting in danger the identity and the unit of the obedience.
The introduction therefore of the French Rite in the GLFF, it was fruit of the circumstances and of the vision of long journey, and of the fraternal duty of transmission and of the “realpolitik” of the obedience., and the result of the meet again of exceptional personalities that they allowed was also that this project concretize.
In these moments inside the GLFF, while works as Obedience in the REAA, the RF inside its diverse " styles " is worked by 24% of its lodges. This proportion is distributed in an identical way by the whole French territory, with some variations: 48% is developed in the call region This, and 16% in the Southeast region, to stress the differentiating questions.
In opposition in the call Dom Tom, an alone of the eight existent lodges works in French Rite (The Croix du South to the East of Eats you that he makes it in French Rite 1801). In the rest of Europe, África ..etc), the eleven lodges that exist all the REAA work, except for the first Sisters togolesas begun in 1973 with the help of the lodge Unité; the rest is a transmission from the Hexagon, which is made from a lodge like The Rose gives Vents created specifically to help to grow to other shops outside of France.
For the same reason, the obediences sisters of the GLFF to which she has helped in their birth (the Grands Lodges of Switzerland, Spain or Venezuela) all work in the REAA, and single Belgium and Portugal they make it in RF. After 2003 there were a diversification will and international development driven by the GLFF when creating a structure of coordination of the lodges of RF: Him Creuset Bleu to whose position has been he confident the work of growth and development of shops in Latvia and Bulgaria.
Inside this same spirit, there is a new status conceived by the lodges of foreign countries, and the first lodge " partenaire " that lit their fires in the year 2005, he made it in Jerusalem (Israel) and he also works in RF it is the shop Jerusalem d´Azur et of Fraternité.
We can say that the French Rite in the GLFF therefore is structured and it develops and you in self characteristic of its history. The founders of the first lodges of RF, sisters that were initiate and that they worked during years in the REAA, they are integrated in the spirit and in the letter of the Obedience, without doubting of the good will of you unite them and the other ones, strength that is of verifying, although it is undeniable the human tendency of reproducing, you must recognize that preference although it is necessary to keep in mind the habits and therefore the undeniable consequences of the import of numerous foreign elements to the French rituals
In all ways the backer of the Rite, was the creation of the Great one exactly I Surrender General Feminine of France in the 2001, for the Federal Council, executive organ of the Obedience. It is necessary to add that the arrival of the Orders of Wisdom in 1999 to the Sisters of the RF, these they were persuaded that after the one on the way to the Master, the possible continuation was related with the jurisdiction of the High Degrees of the REAA, but the reasons of restarting the whole work iniciático and ritual they were numerous and imperious
As in human societies, minorities are often confiscated its own history, which also is rewritten by others, and that are altered, and devalued. However, the history of the Rite French is told by themselves, and we can say that it has this scheme. To back a past is necessary to be an actor. The Rite French in female. It is a history of the future, there can be no transmission without dignity of inheritance. That is why the work of the memory is essential to render justice to the Rite French and the values and to their roots to its history and its taxation, and on way to its formidable vitality. The persevering work of the Commissions of Ritual is crucial to this safeguard.
The first Masonic work is the one of rectifying. The genealogical vulgata that is still assigned too often to the French Rite to begin it is that it seems to lack own square, as if was an almost illegitimate sprout of a noted Masonic line but little documented.
It is therefore necessary that the Rite called French has to distinguish it from the new uses, in fact was imported from the Grand Lodge of London, and its history is confused with the freemasons speculative. We cannot ignore the fact that the loggia that form in 1751 under the influence of Laurence Dermott and certain facts that accompany him will to reach our days an excellent spin doctor which is undeniable that had an extraordinary sense of the communication to the self the loggia of the Old , with the intention of desclasar to the loggia of Modern although this outside prior to the other in almost 30 years..
And it is surprising the reluctance to confront the more recent history, or the files more indisputable. It is astonishing that since the origins to our days, the Brothers and Masters Freemasons who say seeking the truth , demonstrate a taste so exquisite by pedigrees dubious and the stories rebuilt. It is without doubt the unconscious masonic that is yet to explore. .. Because there will be a day will lack appeal to his real name Rite Founder , that less , and with the merit of not mistake.
It is also true that there is a prolific diversity in practice ritual before which the reaa has been privileged and tolerant of variants and the uniqueness of the Rite French, before the Brother Doré responded on 22 October 1980 to the Sister Edith Hakoun founder of the loggia Phenixia the ritual that we have conveyed the Brother André Drom, at that time Great Master Deputy, (it was a ritual journal practiced by the REAA of those times)… a guy which is also a brother is the ingenia is providing various modifications and adding the title of Rite Français as an epithet for recovery. In fact the Rite French is installed by the GO in 1786 and was printed in 1801 and amended in 1848.. and since then has not changed… This same continuity temporary is what it claims and is expressed in the test-preface to the 2002 Edition of the Ritual of REAA, which justifies this new edition is called simply Rite French Reference of REAA.
Contrary to that position the Gran Logia Female of France has formalized varied practices and therefore has approved the three appeals rituals such as reference, which went to see.
The RF. It is the ritual that we was referred to the patent by the REAA, and is described as Rite Modern French (RFM). However this term the purity of the rite and its origin that comes from the Grand Lodge of Modern in 1717, and whose designation has a certain logic in both that it is opposed to the Rite Traditional French, with which it designates the stage ritual that takes into account the developments of the century and the CENTURY, and the codification that Brother Arthur Groussier, set in 1938 and in 1955.
The RFR (Rite French Restored) is the closest to the rituals of the Grand Lodge of Modern and the Regulateur du Dunant in 1801, was the loggia Le Devoir et the raison du reaa who donate rituals to the Sister Yvonne Dornés, founder of the loggia La Source (then loggia of the GLFF) and then of the Great Logia of Belgium, after the creation of the new Obedience; and The Francaise East of Paris to light their fires in 1981. In the same time the loggia Porte de l'Orient, located east of Marseille, opts for the RFR instead of the FR, which was the one that had taken in its creation.
The RF 1801 rite, particularly to the GLFF , despite his appeal this next to the RF, and in no way to the Régulateur. The Loggia Phenxinia east of Nueilly, founded in the RF, a few months before the loggia Unité in 1973, took the title: RF 1801, in the year 1981.
We see here the role that the Brothers of REAA played to publicize the Sisters of the GLFF the Rite French to refer the rituals of face to experience certain items on the 2th grade, which were forwarded by the time to study the REAA, and that was not approved. Such an event was known in the GLFF of maliciously as the ritual vilmorin although this was never denied. (Commented on by Bernard Dat in the magazine chaine d'Union no. 8-1999)
It is therefore a laudable intention of accountability of the declines of the Rite French and its institutionalization in the GLFF, leads us perfectly to the idea of favoring the particularism, which enhance the basics that meet in itself. It is distressing that the culture of the difference that we have instilled a certain events are the that we share sometimes, as in the tribes that bordering or spend long and is ignored, and that seem in the common history of the acculturation.
Profusion and even confusion. Without a doubt. Plus, it is not in this fun creativity by which are plotted the ways of life and freedom…? There are no to rely, there are many Lodges within the french purple.. In fact, there are several variants of the Rite French, without which their consistency of ensemble is weakened. The Rite French not only accepts, but that is more vindicates the unity in diversity: Omnia in one that was the currency for the creation of the loggia Unité. The rite French that we teach, should not be confused the Rite with the ritual, the second is the staging of the first, and this entails an area of interpretation, of incardination, literally a bet in body and spirit.
Nothing is as alien to the philosophy of the Rite French to be fixed, that what encloses or promulgates. Rigorous in its foundations, flexible and adaptable within its legal system, every mode of operation regulatory environment is in contradiction with his spirit. That is the difference with the mystique of landmarks of the “regularity” . The Rite French is proud of its capacity to integrate loans, breaks and developments. The Rite French that he can be considered a Rite Composite or mestizo, for which no sense pre within the collective history that carries as such.
But in what name and under its auspices is built this history?
We have been the GADU. It is a sensitive point that we should consider often as the point of fracture between the Rite French and other rites. A party anyone who travel to other loggias of other Obediences can check how many of rules and practices may differ, and when it is an obligation and a choice among others. Throughout the 18th century GADU was not invoked in the opening and closing of the work, was booked for the great occasions such as the ceremonies of reception. The over-zealous begin in the 19th century.
A the GADU in itself is an object ambiguity and confusion. Invokes and convenes to justify a fraternity cacofónica, and the opposite. The Obediences regular calls and certain jurisdictions intimidate their members that have been to see God, as the Creator. Others argue that shaken the Organizing Principle (the Great Clockmaker of Newton), perfectly compatible with the agnosticism or atheism. And for others it is as a kind of pascaliana deviation, i practice but i do not think not devoid of a shell of bad faith. We can send anything, as if, as if it were very serious work to the search for truth under the auspices so ambiguous.
The Rite French in feminine: it is a history of back to be a scientist, philosophical and political, religious and, which does not fall or at the time or space. How To think that the atheism can conceive and find its place in a project integrator as freemasonry?
In return has been insisting on its progressive, somewhat subversive to the time of the Constitutions of Anderson claimed as the religion suitable for all the men and that it opposes according to its drafters of religion in their country . The GADU is a deism open that combines with the freedom of free consideration as a center of union
Since that same perspective will be necessary interrogate the design of GADU within the context of the century, as did the freemasons of the nineteenth century, which initiated the review within the positivism and the utopian ideas of Fourier, and the development anticlerical of those times. It is clear that we are in contexts historiographic different, with the same but we must not lose perspective. That same spirit of openness and freedom of conscience could inspire both the reference to the GADU in 1717, and the freedom of not invoke in 1877.
One thing is certain, since the origines to our days, it is inconceivable that the philosophy of the Rite French to believe who wants it to be. OR do not recognize or receive or do not constitute a brother or sister in humanity, is made by some demiurge decor, or by the ability to believe or not.
For me the clichés circulating on the Rite French are particularly tenacious: RF will be less symbolic than others. Others say that the vulgate is not supported by the intimate prejudices of those who spread, which ends creating a strong confusion when merges with the line symbolic; non-assimilation of a corpus heterónimo rather than subordinate, not a know but a knowledge, not a individual work and what makes sense for me, depending on what makes sense for the other. The rite French by their very sovereignty, allows invest spaces of imagination and therefore appeal without prejudice to a Rite of Open .
A feature indisputably specifies the Rite French is that through the centuries has prevailed the economy of its apparatus rite and their preference for the consistency more conceptual figurative, more imaginative that demonstration. That is why we can say that is eminently faithful to the spirit of the freemasonry of origin, but placed in the opposite of the private lounges, or the taverns, to be in the temples furnished the lodges- at times sacred- doing everything an exercise of adjustment with the times.
Another complaint that has the Rite French very interesting is the social aspect or worse the political issue to the detriment of what would be the quintessence of the freemasons: spirituality and tradition, two terms that very often come together but are rarely defined. A thorny issue that understand as such, the more zealous is the etymology of the words of the historical reality.
What The police forces, citizenship, are not land by Freemasons? What Is that do not know the work of the Venerable Masters that show that they only if they were filled with the itching esoteric, which seem torment all our lodges and concerned above all in the philosophy and philanthropy and the science… in copious banquets…?
This opposition between the temple inner and outer temple is a false debate that we have the imperative duty des build, How to build a more harmonious world without changing the order itself?, is part of the good work that must return to the world Continue outside the temple, the work begun .
It is necessary to speak, in order, within the cultural exception french which is the fact female in freemasonry. It is paradoxical understand that the lodges women can open their taken by the reading of the chosen lines of the Constitutions of Anderson. That is a fact, that does not lack cast doubt on the commemorative event that is fundamental to any taken masonic within the affiliation of the origins, more should not forget that this excluded women from their race.
It would be dishonest give credit to the Rite French itself since it naturally within the context of the 17th century, is a specific rite that was assigned to the “good genere” , more the “adoption” of women in the lodges is inseparable from the country of the ideas that made it possible. The deep difference between the free adogmatica it leaves the Lights and that halfopen the door of their lodges to women of the eighteenth century, and that the Anglo-saxon tradition even the closed to women in the 21st century is brilliant. We cannot prevent within the inexorable decline of this freemasonry dogmatic seeing it as a result not incidental to a redeployment deadly.
It will be necessary sweep either a number of cliches about the Freemasonry of ladies of the 18th century, long taken as a masonry operetta an opportunity to play on the part of the ladies of the high society and to ensure honest women masons. The recent investigations show that they were an area of sociability and emancipation of strong effectiveness which is fully in a story that outlines for women roads of the freedom.
The freemasonry female can contribute to take the work of utopia in which the Rite French, in turn conservative and laboratory, living example of fidelity to the tradition and adapting to modernity, which is an area of future
Laure Caille
Magazine Chaine d´Union 2006
Translation and Spanish of Victor Guerra MM.:. of GODF
Translation and English of Rodrigo Alvarez Reynal MM.:. of Egyptian Masoneria of Old and Primitive Rite of Memphis Mizraim of Mexico (MEAPRMM)