Category: freemasonry

Oswald Wirth (1860-1943) and co-Masonry

Wirth’s name is one that you may quite likely have heard of. He is one of those ‘famous Freemasons’ who lived relatively recently. Besides for...

Waite’s “new encyclopaedia”

Arthur Edward Waite (1857-1942) published his classic A New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry in 1921 which contains a fairly long piece about co-Masonry. Waite was well...

The early days of Le Droit Humain

I realised that when I’m looking for details of the start of mixed gender Freemasonry, I often find myself trying to read non-English websites. What...

Rudolf Steiner and Le Droit Humain?

The possible connections of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) with Le Droit Humain remain elusive. Over four years ago I wrote about Anthroposophy and co-Masonry for which...

Grand Orient du Québec

Late 2015 I started to set up this website. I looked around the internet to find information about mixed gender and women-only Freemasonry worldwide. Since...

Diversity in unity?

Heidle and Snoek’s book also has a ‘very Dutch’ essay. Anne van Marion-Weijer conducted an investigation within the Dutch federation of Le Droit Humain for her master’s...

Saint John

It is that time of the year that Freemasons talk about Saint John. Well actually, it is one of these times of the year. There are...