Wild lodge

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A masonic lodge that describes itself in this way is called a wild lodge or angular lodge , which eludes the control of compliance with Masonic legislation (constitution) by a grand lodge . The term Masonic Lodge is not protected by law: Often organizations with their own objectives are founded under this name with partly changed, but also well-known rituals, without having obtained recognition from worldwide Freemasonry .

"Without a patent from a grand lodge (or supreme council) there is no regularity , just as there can be no independent lodges from the power of individual Freemasons." A Masonic lodge does not necessarily need a patent from a grand lodge that is recognized by the United Grand Lodge of England . Although a characteristic of the regularity of a grand lodge is its family tree-like connection with the United Grand Lodge of England, this is not a prerequisite. Although the concept of the Winkelloge has a particular sharpness in German and alludes to Winkeladvokat / Winkelschreiber, paradoxically the angle in Freemasonry is at the same time the “symbol of conscientiousness that human actions according to the law of right angles, i.e. H. orders and judges according to law, justice and humanity, so that they are always correct and keep within the right limits of divine and human laws. "

history

“According to the age-old custom of the Masonic Brotherhood, according to which five brothers can form a lodge and take pictures, many of the so-called angular lodges should have been placed in the line of lawfully working, while others, built by fewer than five brothers, should never have been legally recognized . After the establishment of the first grand lodge, it included the right in the Old Ordinance VIII [the General Regulations of James Anderson of April 24, 1723] to be allowed to erect lodges alone, and declared all those who nevertheless established them to be rebels, until they submit to her. This arbitrary rule soon led to disputes and finally to the establishment of a second grand lodge, the members of which called themselves 'old Freemasons'. In disregard of the Old Law, the former Grand Lodge even issued patents for the establishment of lodges to individual brothers, without caring whether the first requirement, namely the number of five brothers, was present. In Germany, different lodges, rightly or wrongly, adopted the same constitutional law and, like in England, declared those who did not recognize their authority to be rebels. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder : Internationales Freemaurer Lexikon . 5th edition 2006, Herbig Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7766-2478-6 , p. 908
  2. ↑ Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: Internationales Freemaurer Lexikon . 5th edition 2006, Herbig Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7766-2478-6 , p. 907
  3. ^ Wilhelm Keller: History of Freemasonry in Germany . 2nd edition 1859, Ricker Verlag Giessen, p. 110 ff.