Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" cine and his new book "The Solomon Key" will advance millions of men to seek advice on the age-old fraternity of Freemasonry. What will they find? Unless they apperceive area to look, they'll acquisition annihilation added than an old man's doughnut and coffee club, angle fry socials, racism and mediocrity.
Atlanta, GA -- Knock on the aperture of a lot of any Masonic abode in America, and you won't acquisition Dan Brown's blue-blooded Grail-seeking men of honor, science and mysticism. If you administer to get anyone to acknowledgment that aperture at all, you will a lot of acceptable acquisition an old man's coffee and doughnut club, men who anticipate of themselves as a religious account club.
Unless, that is, you've agape on the aperture of Modern Freemasonry.
In 2005, Freemasonry rose from the ashes and bits of intolerance, bribery and mediocrity, and the United Grand Lodge of America was born. After seven years of aggravating to plan aural the "traditional" Antient Freemasonry arrangement of alone accompaniment Grand Lodges, a accumulation of adolescent Masons in Atlanta capital to abate the Masonic acquaintance in their lodge. They started by basic an breezy accumulation to abstraction and altercate the ethics, history and acceptation of Freemasonry.
This accumulation bound became accepted with the adolescent Masons in the area, and anon admiring the absorption of admiral aural the Grand Lodge of Georgia. For affidavit still not absolutely clear, the Grand Master of Georgia ultimately declared their accumulation “clandestine” (a Masonic chat generally acclimated in abundant the aforementioned way that the Catholic Church already acclimated the chat "heretic") and ordered the arbitrary "erasure" of these adolescent men from the rolls of their lodges.
Freemasonry, already a force for amazing acceptable in our country — a lot of of the nation's founding fathers were Freemasons — had devolved into not abundant added than a acceptable ol' boy arrangement brindled with petty squabbles, ability struggles, and title-seeking. The amusing agenda in abounding lodges consisted of the casual pot luck banquet and a annual absurd chicken or barbeque alms fund-raiser.
And in animosity of their crumbling associates – the archetypal Freemason is over 65 years old – and the affecting bead off in applications from adolescent men gluttonous to accompany their lodges, the Grand Master of Georgia tossed out the actual affectionate of energetic, thoughtful, and committed adolescent men he and Freemasonry so badly need.
Undaunted, these adolescent men assertive that Freemasonry is beyond than the Grand Lodge of Georgia and its absolute Grand Master, abutting calm with adolescent men from added states who were analogously annoyed with their absolute admirable lodges and formed the United Grand Lodge of America.
The Grand Lodge website www.grandlodgeusa.org lays out its purpose and mission: abating Freemasonry to its aerial and blue-blooded ideals. "The mission of the United Grand Lodge of America is the Brotherhood of All Mankind beneath the All-Seeing Eye of Deity through Universal Tolerance and the broad-mindedness of humanity. It is a bulletin of accord for all humanity, a bulletin added important for the apple now than at any time in animal history.
"But Free-Masonry for the account of itself is bare of acceptation and purpose. Many Masonic organizations accept absent afterimage of the alluringly aggressive ambition of the Craft, and accept attempted to about-face Free-Masonry into annihilation added than a amusing club and philanthropy. The aftereffect of this is aboveboard throughout the Craft today as the abiding Light grows anytime dimmer while the associates rolls age and shrink. We, however, appearance account to God and flesh as our priorities. The adaptation of Free-Masonry is the aftereffect of the achievement of our duties and obligations to both God and man. While political and religious leaders draw curve on the apple to abstracted and bisect men, we body bridges to affiliate them in Peace, Love and Harmony."
The apple needs to hear, learn, and abide this message. And Modern Freemasonry is the messenger.
For added advice about Modern Freemasonry, see www.modernfreemasons.org.
About the United Grand Lodge of America
The United Grand Lodge of America was accustomed on December 27, 2005 to restore and abate Freemasonry in the Unites States. The Grand Lodge and its accessory Lodges are accessible to all men behindhand of their chase or religion. For added information, go to www.grandlodgeusa.org.
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