co-Masonry against Theosophy
Annie Besant and several other English members came to Amsterdam on 18 June 1904 to initiate six gentlemen and four ladies. Two days later they...
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...
The different histories of mixed gender and women only Freemasonry
It was in 1902 that the first lodge of Co-Masons was formed in London and that importation from France soon snowballed. […] Various members resigned from...
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...