THE CRAFT FREEMASONRY - Masonic High Council the Mother ...

During the first five years of our existence, we have experienced various situations reminding us of our
duty of care in all circumstances, particularly in the choices and directions that we choose to select and
follow.
Given the youth of our organisation, we must be particularly careful to avoid making the wrong
decisions which might then undermine all the previously well laid work carried out on our new
structures. we have to further be very careful when we must choose our candidates, that we agree to
a well thought out policy and this is especially important when making appointments to high and
responsible office.
While we constantly repeat that the admission into Freemasonry allows the man to become an
honourable member of our universal brotherhood and of course the entire human society, the virtues
and mutual assistance and brotherly love should never be confused with any other kind of material
gain. Freemasonry always ends up discovering the truth by the grace of the G.A.O.T.U. and such
individuals who use Freemasonry for their own advancement must be excluded from our ranks.
Our Craft Freemasonry is traditional in essence, in the sense that it refers primarily to ancient Craft
Freemasonry before the existence of Grand Lodges, while adopting the fundamentals of regularity by
the Constitutions of Anderson.
It is indeed a vision of our own, through which we follow a course of high Masonic spirituality, free
from political or religious debates or society business.
Our aim is to grow in wisdom and to get to know ourselves better as individual beings and to be able
to understand human condition which is the way we all live on this earth. This will help us to
contribute to the happiness and advancement of mankind.
Our order has been created to revive the maxim that: "The world is a State in which every nation is a
Family and each individual is its Children." Craft Freemasonry has been established to train men and
make amiable men good citizens and good subjects.
The fact that the traditional Masonic order is capable to explain to the Entered Apprentices, moral
virtues and charity, to the Fellow Craft heroic virtues and to the Master Masons those superhuman and
divine virtues, this shows that we have not only the technical attributes as architectural heritage of our
ancients masters, enabling us to build our temples of stone, but we are also requiring a high standard
of enlightenment to help us edify and protect the temples of the Most High.
Although we only admit men to our society we must not underestimate the true value of women and
we must also acknowledge the existence of Female Freemasonry.
Our role must be to encourage such organisations. However the basic principles of our traditional
regularity and I would say more primitive which allusion was made above, prohibit to us any
relationship in Masonic work with women's or mixed lodges. In like manner we must steer clear of
lodges whose members reject the acknowledgement of a Supreme Being. The organisations that reject
this form of faith under the pretext that this is kind of religious dogmatism can’t work with us on the
level as we are necessarily in conflict during the work.
Nevertheless we respect these organisations in their guidelines but we cannot interfere. It is a question
of being tolerant.
According to a Masonic working in Ancient Craft Rite it is said that Freemasonry does not impose any
religion on its members but would rather refer each individual to his own faith.
Because we are spiritual Masons the order requires to each of us the acceptance of all useful sciences
as well as the liberal arts and holy morals.
We express a deep need in terms of knowledge without which all that we want to do is approximate.
The need to develop our knowledge is a recurrent need whose satisfaction requires research. Each
Grand Lodge in our international federation requires a lodge of research and we must strive to ensure
this is the case. We must also strive very hard to create the financial foundation of our Masonic High
Council the Mother High Council of the World requires for it's future development.
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