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Post by staffs on May 19, 2007 13:43:37 GMT
I presume then that Thomas's third degree that was witnessed by some of our members in Copenhagen was the Swedish Rite Please correct me if i am wrong.?
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Post by holming on May 24, 2007 19:56:53 GMT
I used to hear an older freemason say that "Masonry works despite freemasons".
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Post by giovanni on May 25, 2007 3:31:43 GMT
I used to hear an older freemason say that "Masonry works despite freemasons". me too!
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Post by maat on May 25, 2007 3:50:12 GMT
Me also and likewise... IT WORKS! Maat Liked that post holming!
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Post by bod on May 25, 2007 12:50:05 GMT
I presume then that Thomas's third degree that was witnessed by some of our members in Copenhagen was the Swedish Rite Please correct me if i am wrong.? indeed it was - and very impressive it was too
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Post by holming on May 26, 2007 20:48:55 GMT
Freemasonry is "veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols" because these are the surest way by which moral and ethical truths may be taught. It is not only with the brain and with the mind that the initiate must take Freemasonry but also with the heart.
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Post by maryan on Jun 17, 2007 20:12:02 GMT
Heard from my Master that in Sweden masonry is very interesting, in particular on it's accents on christianity.
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Post by Marcel on Jul 5, 2007 17:44:28 GMT
As far as i know there are three Orders of Masonry in Sweden.
*Swedish Rite.
*Le Droit Humain.
*A Latin American Grand Lodge (Originated with Chilean refugees).
I would just like to say too that the Swedenborgian Religion and Church is something completly else than what is asked for in Swedish Rite Masonry witch is Lutheran, nothing else.
Swedenborgian thought, just like Martinism or Gnostisism can be found here and there in different Mystical Orders but not in Swedish rite Masonry.
Swedens Church was for a long time (until recently) conected to the state.
By Swedish law our King must be a member of that Church. Until recently the GM of the Swedish GL was the King (or at least Royalty).
I can agree that it might be exlusive but it´s not surpricing to me (being against Church / state connection too). Most Swedes would have been members since birth in the Swedish Church anyway for the last couple of hundred years.
Staffs: Danish GL is also Swedish Rite. I think there´s LDH there too though.
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