Grande Loge Nationale Française
The Grande Loge Nationale Française (GLNF) (German: French Nationale Grand Lodge) is a 1913 under the name " Grande Loge Nationale Indépendante et Régulière pour la France et les Colonies Françaises " (German: Independent and regular national grand lodge for France and its Colonies) French regular grand lodge founded in Paris .
Origin and principles
In 1877, the Grand Orient de France (GOdF) renounced the " Grand Architecte de l'Univers " in the ritual in the course of its departure from deist symbolism . It was not until 1910 that some of the GOdF brothers wanted to return to the same “Great Builder of the Universe”. Under the leadership of de Ribeaucourt, they re-established the “Center of Friends” lodge and practiced the Scottish Rite. With that they returned to the traditional English style. The Grand Lodge of England withdrew the “regularity” of the Grand Orient de France in 1913, and from 1913 the GOdF no longer tolerated the “English” practice of the “Center of Friends” lodge and excluded the lodge. De Ribeaucourt founded, together with the “English Lodge of Bordeaux”, the “Grande Lodge Nationale Independente et Reguliere pour la France et les Colonies Francaises” and became its first grandmaster. The ritual separation from the GOdF 1912 will be used in 2012 to mark the 100th anniversary.
The mutual perception of the two French grand lodges is characterized by an agreement from 1964, according to which the GOdF and the GLNF are “on friendly terms”. This agreement was annulled in 1970, but there is probably a worldwide unique relationship between “French” (GOdF) and “English” Freemasonry (GLNF) in France: “It is possible for a mason from either of the two obediences to work on the [work of] Participate others ”(appartenir).
The GLNF publishes eight basic principles that apply to every regular grand lodge and its subordinate lodges:
- 1. The member's belief in the Great Architect of the Universe (Grand Architecte de l'Univers)
- 2. A new member's commitment to the “Book of Holy Law”, depending on their faith
- 3. Temple work requires the "three great lights": the book of the holy law, the square, and the compass
- 4. Prohibition of arguments on political and religious issues during masonry work
- 5. Only men can become members
- 6. A grand lodge must have Masonic sovereign jurisdiction over its subordinate lodges
- 7. A grand lodge must strictly observe in its sphere of activity: The " old duties " and the manners and customs of traditional Freemasonry
- 8. A grand lodge is regular if it is constituted by an existing regular grand lodge.
organization
According to its own information, the GLNF has 43,500 members (as of December 2010), annual additions: 4,000. For the 100th birthday in 2012 "there will be 50,000 members" (homepage, link see below). The grand lodge is divided into provinces, which essentially correspond to the French administrative division into regions . Number of boxes: 1,365.
In the “Annuaire 2008 - 2012” the organization of the grand lodge is shown, including: postal addresses and “working days” (temple work) of all lodges.
2009 crisis
In December 2009 the grand lodge came to a crisis when it became known that the grand lodge under Grand Master François Stifani had used over 17 million euros to promote political goals. Stifani stepped back. In January 2011 Monique Legrand, herself not a Freemason, was appointed as administrator of the grand lodge by a French court. The grand lodge was no longer under its own administration, which is why most European grand lodges suspended contact with the GLNF. She was from the Grand Lodge of England withdrawn and four other European Grand Lodge by letter of 20 December 2011, the recognition of the "regularity". On June 12, 2014, in a joint declaration by the United Grand Lodge of England and the Grand Lodges of Ireland, the GLNF was re-recognized as a regular grand lodge. With the resolution of the Senate of the United Grand Lodges of Germany on January 31, 2015, the latter also recognized the regularity of the GLNF again.
literature
- Annuaire 2008–2012 , Ed .: Grande Loge Nationale Francaise (GLNF; Grand Secretariat), Verlag SCRIBE SAS, 305 p., Paris 2008
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annuaire 2008, Paris 2008, p. 27
- ↑ Lennhoff-Posner-Binder: International Freemaurerlexikon, Herbig-Verlag, Munich 2006, 975 pp., P. 302
- ↑ History of the GLNF ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Annuaire 2008, Paris 2008, p. 21
- ^ François Koch: Guerre ouverte chez les francs-maçons. L'Express , March 17, 2010, accessed July 20, 2015 . (French)
- ↑ "... the GLNF continue de violer les principes fondamentaux et maximes de la franc-maçonnerie. Après un délai supllémentaire de réflexion, avec un profond regret mais avec gravité et détermination, les Grands Maîtres signataires ont décidé d'initier, sans délai , au sein de leur Grande Loge respectively, la procédure de retrait de leur reconnaissance de la GLNF, chacune selons ses dispositions réglementaires spécifiques. " (Jean Rhein: Franc-maçons réguliers: rupture avec la GLNF . ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note, Le Quotidien, December 22, 2011. p. 4). In the article the date of the declaration of the grandmasters, December 20, 2012
- ↑ Recognition of the Grande Loge Nationale Française. (No longer available online.) United Grand Lodges of Germany, archived from the original on July 16, 2015 ; accessed on July 15, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
