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The Grand Orient de France (GOdF) is the oldest masonic organisation in Continental Europe, founded in 1733. Over time, it has established different ways of working from other masonic jurisdictions. Image File history File links GOdFlogo. ...
The Masonic Square and Compasses. ...
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Events February 12 - British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia. ...
It was one of the first masonic orders to allow some of its lodges to become adoptive (i.e. to admit women). In 1774, following the introduction of Rites of Adoption in several of its lodges, it issued an edict authorising them, the Duchess of Bourbon being elected first Grand Mistress of France. Chesma Column in Tsarskoe Selo, commemorating the end of the Russo-Turkish War. ...
An edict is an announcement of a law, often associated with monarchism. ...
Napoleon III established an undisguised dictatorship over official French freemasonry, appointing first Prince Lucien Marat and later Marshal Magnan to closely supervise the craft and suppressing any hints of opposition to the regime. Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte (April 20, 1808 - January 9, 1873) was the son of King Louis Bonaparte and Queen Hortense de Beauharnais; both monarchs of the French puppet state, the Kingdom of Holland. ...
In 1877 it allowed those who had no belief in a Supreme being - which many other Freemasons regarded as a Masonic Landmark - to be admitted. 1877 (MDCCCLXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
Candidates for regular freemasonry are required to declare a belief in a Supreme Being; a generic description allowing the candidate to adhere to whichever deity or concept he holds to be appropriate. ...
Masonic Landmarks are a set of principles which many Freemasons claim to be both ancient and unchangeable precepts of Masonry. Issues of the regularity of a Freemasonic Lodge, Grand Lodge or Grand Orient are judged in the context of the Landmarks. ...
Other Grand Lodges withdrew recognition from the Grand Orient, which they now claimed was irregular. It was a schism in Freemasonry which continues to this day.
The Grand Orient advanced the concept of Laïcité, a French concept of the separation of church and state and the absence of religious interference in government affairs. Motto of the French republic on the tympanum of a church, in Aups (Var département) which was installed after the 1905 law on the Separation of the State and the Church. ...
The separation of church and state is a political doctrine which states that the institutions of the state or national government should be kept separate from those of religious institutions. ...
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