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Freemasonry
Origin and Aims of Freemasonry
Freemasonry is believed to have originated in England in
the late
16th or early 17th centuries, descending directly or
indirectly
from the craft of the mediaeval stonemason. Directly, by
operative
lodges accepting non-operative members who
gradually took over
and transformed the lodges into purely speculative
ones.
Indirectly, in that a group of men interested in promoting
tolerance in an intolerant age came together and adopted the
stonemason's tools and customs as allegorical aids to teach their
precepts.
When
living in Ghana I
became a Freemason in 1984 in a Lodge under the Constitution of the Grand Lodge
of Scotland.
After my return to
Germany I affiliated with the German Lodge
Constantia zur Zuversicht in
Konstanz.
Instead of
many words I prefer just to show a few pictures which can be enlarged by
clicking on them with the mouse:
Scotland
Ghana
Germany
A few useful links:
Lodge "Constantia zur Zuversicht":
http://www.czz.de
Vereinigte Großlogen von Deutschland:
http://freimaurer.org
Grand Lodge of
Scotland:
http://www.grandlodgescotland.com/
Feminine Lodges in Germany:
http://www.freimaurerinnen.de/
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