Category: faq

Theosophy and co-Masonry

Some people think that co-Masonry is a Theosophical pet-project. This is far from true. In 1893 Georges Martin and Marie Deraismes founded what was to...

What do you do in lodge?

A frequently asked question that is close to impossible to answer on a website that covers the whole wide world. What all lodges do is...

Contacts with other Freemasons

Some “traditional” Freemasons claim that they are the originals with really the world-wide network that other (grand) lodges lack. This is a bit of a...

Is co-Masonry different?

Some Freemasons object that the initiation of a woman would be inappropriate. Some even claim that their wives would object if their lodges initiated women....

Different kinds of Freemasonry

“Freemasonry” is not a single organisation. Far from it! Every grand lodge, every individual lodge even, is autonomous. There is no central authority. There is...

On joining

I frequently get a question in the vein of: “Hello, I want to join.” Actually, there isn’t much I can do for you there. This...

co-Masonry and atheism

An often heard objection of so-called “regular” Freemasons against mixed gender Freemasonry is that it admits atheists. Therefor co-Masonry is ‘doubly “irregular”‘, both women and...

Anthroposophy and co-Masonry

A while ago a regular Freemason was making fun of my kind of Freemasonry towards a brother of his. He mentioned Annie Besant (1847-1933) and...

The term “co-Masonry”

A frequently asked question is what the term “co-Masonry” is and where it comes from. I just found the answer in Karen Kidd’s On Holy Ground....