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Our Vision
Freedom, Equality, Fraternity
Universal Freemasonry and its spiritual heritage are facing new challenges in a time of profound global transformation. Accelerated change, growing individualization, and the erosion of shared values shape a world in which orientation is becoming increasingly difficult. These developments are also leading to differing interpretations and paths within worldwide Freemasonry.
At the same time, political, cultural, and religious tensions are increasing across the globe. Conflicts, migration movements, and humanitarian crises are expressions of a global instability that is no longer confined to individual regions. Moreover, the assumption that borders had been permanently overcome has given way to a sobering reality: territorial issues and claims to power have once again become part of the global political landscape — including in Europe.
A World in Transformation
In this complex age of constantly changing conditions, Freemasonry must learn to face these challenges, to deal with them, and to find well-founded answers.
It must therefore be our goal to preserve the original and valuable writings, rules, and values of Freemasonry, as well as their spiritual context — created centuries ago by intellectuals and more relevant in content than ever — and to establish them firmly in the 21st century. This can only succeed if each of us expands our own horizons and engages in a discourse that corresponds to the dimensions of today’s world order.
The Responsibility of Freemasonry
The Confederation of the Grand Lodges of Europe and the Mediterranean emerged a quarter of a century ago from this very environment in order to meet the challenges of the coming decades. It is our credo to live up to these requirements and to respond with appropriate and forward-looking concepts. We seek to connect, not to separate; therefore, we have laid the foundations for this purpose in a charter of mutual recognition.
As an organization, we are in a continuous process of growth. In addition to regional development within our Country Grand Lodges, enlargement negotiations are ongoing with various countries — always guided by the pursuit of quality rather than quantity. It is not the number of members that matters to us, but their Masonic quality and the spirit of fraternal harmony among all.
The spirit that animates our Confederation is one of union among equals, equal in rights and duties, and jointly oriented toward the only path that can truly be called Masonic: the path of individual improvement and collective progress. Its aim is to forge better men who can contribute Beauty, Solidity, and Wisdom to the world.
We share the choice to be Freemasons in order to improve ourselves together through our ritual work and individually through continuous inner effort, thereby becoming servants of a better and higher Humanity.
Freedom, Equality, and Fraternity Today
At present, the Presidency of the Confederation is held by Italy, which is also leading the current enlargement negotiations.
The great pillars of Freemasonry — Freedom, Equality, and Fraternity — together with tolerance and humanity, are not relics of bygone times for us. They represent a living claim that, alongside technical progress, moral and ethical progress must also be cultivated and lived.
Our work is meditative, of course, but also operative: mind and heart, right thought and right action. For if reason alone is allowed to speak, indifference, selfishness, deception, and fanaticism may act. For this reason, we roll up our sleeves and continue our work, so that with our convictions — as men trained in the method of Freemasonry — together with those who follow other paths of perfection, we may work toward a common goal: that if the nineteenth century was the Century of Liberty and the twentieth century the Century of Equality, this century may become the Century of Fraternity.
We will no longer be isolated individuals if we work together so that no one is left behind, and if we learn to be, all together and among all, men freely equal, equally brothers, fraternally free.
And the world will be a little better if we learn to recognize in one another a human being — fraternally equal, equally free, and also, if he so wishes and if it is so written, freely a Brother.
Not by speaking, but by showing through our daily example that a better world is possible.
This is our way of living Freemasonry — together and united: to be better for a better world.
Our Landmarks
Our landmarks are immovable and a backbone in this unruly and inflationary times, where dubious Masonic brotherhoods arise in great variety, profiteering and superficiality are in the foreground and the seriousness of the lineage is not questioned.
what unites us:
- The Reference to the Great Architect of the Universe
- The presence of the Three Lights: The Holy Book, the Square and the Compass
- The Sovereignty of Three Symbolic Grades
- The Sovereignty of the High Degree System of the A.A.S.R.
- Respect for the Landmarks and Customs of the Order
- Respect for the Laws of the Respective Countries
- Prohibition of any political or religious discussions during the work in the Lodge
- Respect for Ethics and Masonic Tolerance
- Respect for Masonic rituals
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