Post by magusmasonica on Dec 5, 2009 3:52:35 GMT
Let hope for the best, the day may just come
November 21, 2009 - Dramatic Turn of Events for Co-Masonry in Grand Orient!
www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societ ... 30071.html
Masonic Justice annulled the decisions of the Grand Orient in September 2009 denying the entry of women within it. A special session of the Convent [General Assembly] could be convened.
On November 20, the Supreme Court of Masonic Justice (CSJM) annulled all of the votes of the Convent of the Grand Orient held in Lyon from September 3 to 5 concerning the sexual integration of the largest French obedience, with 50,000 members. Such a decision, very rare, is linked to serious procedural errors during the consultation of the 1,200 delegates, which undermined the integrity of the vote. The partisans of the initiation of women in the Grand Orient were only 44% (compared to 49% in 2008).
The Council of the Order of the Grand Orient will meet on November 26 behind closed doors ("in secret session") to decide what the consequences of this serious decision of the CSJM should be. A special session of the Convent could be convened next month. The Grand Orient could wait until the next annual general assembly of the lodges in September 2010 to have the brothers vote again on this issue that divides them, while women have already been initiated in five lodges, last spring. These sisters are now suspended, and have been asked to practice their rituals in a mixed or feminine obedience, after the vote of September 2009.
Are the high dignitaries of the Grand Orient beginning to realize the devastation of the status quo on their obedience? It is always described as progressive, but its neurotic fixation on the refusal of mixed Masonry gives it an increasingly reactionary image. This is why the Council of the Order could "take a far-reaching initiative intended to settle definitively the question of the freedom of the lodges to initiate women and/or to affiliate sisters through a process of federation of liberal and adogmatic French Freemasonry." This is what one can read in the letter of the Grand Master Pierre Lambicchi to the Venerable Masters [Worshipful Masters] dated November 6, 2009, that L'Express was able to obtain. To put it clearly, the Grand Orient would be transformed into a confederation of three federations of lodges, one mixed, one feminine and one masculine. This prospect, desired for several years by former Grand Masters, has become more credible today.
November 21, 2009 - Dramatic Turn of Events for Co-Masonry in Grand Orient!
www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societ ... 30071.html
Masonic Justice annulled the decisions of the Grand Orient in September 2009 denying the entry of women within it. A special session of the Convent [General Assembly] could be convened.
On November 20, the Supreme Court of Masonic Justice (CSJM) annulled all of the votes of the Convent of the Grand Orient held in Lyon from September 3 to 5 concerning the sexual integration of the largest French obedience, with 50,000 members. Such a decision, very rare, is linked to serious procedural errors during the consultation of the 1,200 delegates, which undermined the integrity of the vote. The partisans of the initiation of women in the Grand Orient were only 44% (compared to 49% in 2008).
The Council of the Order of the Grand Orient will meet on November 26 behind closed doors ("in secret session") to decide what the consequences of this serious decision of the CSJM should be. A special session of the Convent could be convened next month. The Grand Orient could wait until the next annual general assembly of the lodges in September 2010 to have the brothers vote again on this issue that divides them, while women have already been initiated in five lodges, last spring. These sisters are now suspended, and have been asked to practice their rituals in a mixed or feminine obedience, after the vote of September 2009.
Are the high dignitaries of the Grand Orient beginning to realize the devastation of the status quo on their obedience? It is always described as progressive, but its neurotic fixation on the refusal of mixed Masonry gives it an increasingly reactionary image. This is why the Council of the Order could "take a far-reaching initiative intended to settle definitively the question of the freedom of the lodges to initiate women and/or to affiliate sisters through a process of federation of liberal and adogmatic French Freemasonry." This is what one can read in the letter of the Grand Master Pierre Lambicchi to the Venerable Masters [Worshipful Masters] dated November 6, 2009, that L'Express was able to obtain. To put it clearly, the Grand Orient would be transformed into a confederation of three federations of lodges, one mixed, one feminine and one masculine. This prospect, desired for several years by former Grand Masters, has become more credible today.