For people who say Freemasonry is restricted to men only.

Throughout the World there are thousands of Women Freemasons

 In the United Kingdom, female freemasons often meet in halls owned by the male orders. This is fully approved by Grand Lodge. I have re-printed the official confirmation letter below.  

Today, the United Grand Lodge Of England acknowledges Women’s Freemasonry. This is distinct from them saying “recognises, or includes”. You can read more about their view on their website. (Just Google UGLE.) The two female freemasons Grand Lodges are entirely autonomous jurisdictions, both from eachother and the male only UGLE.

NB.

Members of  The Eastern Star Organisation are absolutely not female Freemasons. 

Nor, are Lions, Buffs, Elks, Kiwanis, Rotarians, Round Tablers, Mensa Members Inner Wheelers, or Rotarians.

However all are welcome as masons. Here are some Women Freemasons wearing beautiful embroidered regalia.

These two “brethren” are of very high masonic rank. Yes, that’s right they too refer to eachother as Brother

(Women Freemasons are not called Sister)

Click Here!

The Official United Grand Lodge Of England view on

FEMALE FREEMASONS

The UGLE is The Premier Grand Lodge of the World

The Order of Women Freemasons

27 Pembridge Gardens

London

W2 4EF

Tel:  020 7229 2368/020 7227 2164

http://www.owf.org.uk/

Both Grand Lodges are independent and autonomous from each-other.

We usually tell enquirers that the above organisations practise “regular” Freemasonry, but point out that there are some Grand Lodges and other apparently Masonic bodies that do not meet these standards, e.g. that do not require a belief in a Supreme Being, or that allow or encourage their members as such to participate in political matters, and that these Grand Lodges and bodies are not recognised by the United Grand Lodge of England as being Masonically regular.

It is in order to hire out Masonic buildings to Lodges affiliated to the two Ladies’ Grand Lodges listed above, as long as their meetings do not coincide with your Lodge meetings or any meeting of a Lodge under the UGLE.

I hope this is helpful, but please do not hesitate to contact a member of the Communications Department at UGLE if you have any further questions.

United Grand Lodge of England

Freemasons’ Hall Great Queen Street

London

WC2B 5AZ

+44 (0) 20 7831 9811

+44 (0) 20 7831 9811

+44 (0) 20 7831 9811

+44 (0) 20 7831 9811

+44 (0) 20 7831 6021

Website: www.ugle.org.uk

Email: info@ugle.org.uk

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This video shows a little of what Freemasonry is to it’s members.

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1. From time to time the United Grand Lodge of England has deemed it desirable to set forth in precise form the aims of Freemasonry as consistently practised under its Jurisdiction since it come into being as an organized body in 1717, and also to define the principles governing its relations with those other Grand Lodges with which it is in fraternal accord.

2. In view of representations which have been received, and of statements recently issued which have distorted or obscured the true objects of Freemasonry, it is once again considered necessary to emphasize certain fundamental principles of the Order.

3. The first condition of admission into, and membership of, the Order is a belief in a Supreme Being. This is essential and admits of no compromise.

4. The Bible, referred to by Freemasons as the Volume of the Sacred Law, is always open in the Lodges. Every Candidate is required to take his obligation on that book or on the Volume which is held by his particular creed to impart sanctity to an oath or promise taken upon it.

5. Everyone who enters Freemasonry is, at the outset, strictly forbidden to countenance any act which may have a tendency to subvert the peace and good order of society; he must pay due obedience to the law of any state in which he resides or which may afford him protection, and he must never be remiss in the allegiance due to the Sovereign of his native land.

6. While English Freemasonry thus inculcates in each of its members the duties of loyalty and citizenship, it reserves to the individual the right to hold his own opinion with regard to public affairs. But neither in any Lodge, nor at any time in his capacity as a Freemason, is he permitted to discuss or to advance his views on theological or political questions.

7. The Grand Lodge has always consistently refused to express any opinion on questions of foreign or domestic policy either at home or abroad, and it will not allow its name to be associated with any action, however humanitarian it may appear to be, which infringes its unalterable policy of standing aloof from every question affecting the relations between one government and another, or between political parties, or questions as to rival theories of government.

8. The Grand Lodge is aware that there do exist Bodies, styling themselves Freemasons, which do not adhere to these principles, and while that attitude exists the Grand Lodge of England refuses absolutely to have any relations with such Bodies, or to regard them as Freemasons.

9. The Grand Lodge of England is a Sovereign and independent Body practising Freemasonry only within the three Degrees and only within the limits defined in its Constitution as ‘pure Antient Masonry’. It does not recognize or admit the existence of any superior Masonic authority, however styled.

10. On more than one occasion the Grand Lodge has refused, and will continue to refuse, to participate in Conferences with so-called International Associations claiming to represent Freemasonry, which admit to membership Bodies failing to conform strictly to the principles upon which the Grand Lodge of England is founded. The Grand Lodge does not admit any such claim, nor can its views be represented by any such Association.

11. There is no secret with regard to any of the basic principles of Freemasonry, some of which have been stated above. The Grand Lodge will always consider the recognition of those Grand Lodges which profess and practise, and can show that they have consistently professed and practised, those established and unaltered principles, but in no circumstances will it enter into discussion with a view to any new or varied interpretation of them. They must be accepted and practised wholeheartedly and in their entirety by those who desire to be recognised as Freemasons by the United Grand Lodge of England.

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