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Frequently Asked Questions
Women are not accepted in the regular Masonic order, but there are women's lodges... What is regular Freemasonry: - It exists since time immemorial, combines knowledge accumulated at various stages of human development, +4000 years are added to the calendar - The founders of the Masonic order in its modern form are the secret orders of the Middle East, Templar Knights, Rosicrucians, educators and scientists, etc. - Modern lodges and Freemasonry develop in Scotland, from there it reaches France and England, the latter founded the first dyad lodge- structure in 1717, a federation of symbolic lodges - Anderson's constitution was published - French continental and British Anglo-Saxon lodges separated, while both maintain regularity - the lodge must A collection of sacred laws, fargal and gonio should be presented, it is forbidden to talk about politics and religion in the lodge, and most importantly - mixed work is not allowed - that is, men and women... - Freemasonry is not a religion, it is progress-oriented and enlightenment-based, people with a good name - A fellowship of men - Freemasonry is not a secret organization, Masonry is an order with secrets, a private kitchen. - There are women's lodges, their cradle is France. Ever since the time of Napoleon Bonaparte, his wife Josephine was the Grand Master of Women Freemasons (her Masonic apron is shown in the photo) - the Grand Lodge of Women of France as an independent structure is 100 years old, it is the cradle of the Masonic orders of women in England and Belgium, as well as in the rest of the world - France The Grand Lodge, a regular Masonic union, does not allow its members to attend ritually mixed activities, while it actively cooperates with the Grand Lodge of Women - the Grand Orient of France and the Grand Lodge "Human Rights" accept women in their ranks, because of this they are no longer recognized by regular Freemasonry and called e . "Liberal" - there are quasi-masonic mixed unions, they are not recognized by traditional, regular masons themselves - there are co-masonic organizations, non-governmental organizations, where women are accepted and masonic lodges cooperate with them non-ritually, mostly spread in the United States of America. - The Grand Lodge of Georgia was founded on March 14, 2015, the first sovereign, independent association of Masons in the entire territory of Georgia, established in accordance with the regular Georgian legislation, in full compliance with the regular Masonic traditions. www.glgeorgia.ge - admission is only for men from the age of 21+ (see our page for details) - in the world, as well as in Georgia, there are many pseudo-Masonic associations, they have nothing to do with Freemasonry. The only recognized, legitimate, regular Masonic union in Georgia is Grand Lodge of Georgia, which works in accordance with the ancient and accepted Scottish charter.
Many people ask us who were the famous Freemasons, politicians and representatives of business circles are mostly known, such as: Franklin, Washington, Jesse Jackson, Roosevelt, Churchill, Kemal Ata Turk, Bonaparte, Garibaldi. Bolivar, Alvear, Montesquieu, Kutuzov, Lafayette, Mirabeau, Russian Emperor Alexander the First, Gregory the First Bagration, Spyridon Kedia, Noah Ramishvili, Gillette, Hilton, Lloyd, Ford, Rockefeller and many others... But less known are the arts, medicine, Masonic brothers working in science, engineering and other fields, for example Mozart, Mark Twain, Oscar Wald, Robert Burns, Goethe, Hermann Hesse, Franz Liszt, Schiller, Griboyedov, John Wayne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Swift, Pushkin, Voltaire, Kipling , Louis Armstrong, Betchen, Mendelssohn, Pope, Brahms, Puccini, Johann Christian Bach, Marc Chagall, Ferrari, Haydn, Victor Hugo, Alexander Fleming (invented penicillin), or even Lister, who was the first to introduce antiseptics in medicine. Edison, Newton, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, Ameghino, José Ingenieros, Eiffel, Chadaev, Sigmund Freud... This is a small list of the millions of Masons who did and are doing positive things for their country, region, continent or humanity in general. An escort, an engineer, a doctor, a policeman, a minister, a monarch, an astronaut, a poet, an archeologist, an artist, a geologist, or anything else... Freemasonry unites educated and progress-oriented people, the Masonic idea is to transform a good person into a better one, an enlightened and progressive society, peace in the world. And development!