Post by stepnwolf on Jan 27, 2013 20:27:24 GMT 9.5
A W. Bro. from Adelaide delivered in a L. in Ohio a seemingly complete account of Freemasonry in Australia and its enviorns. There is mention in passing of women in the Craft, but don't blink or you'll miss it! The paper was reproduced in Pietre-Stones (www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/freemasonry_australia.html) where the reader will find many other topics of interest.
I shall have to bring Bro Num up to date re our Order ... including the name
The International Order of Freemasonry for Men and Women, Le Droit Humain which is a global Masonic Order, membership of which is available to men and women on equal terms.
We are not officially recognised by Bro Num's Order, but we are on friendly terms unofficially. Some of our female members have husbands in what we refer to as 'the male craft'.
We thank the original members of our order (many of whom were Theosophists) for giving us The Lauderdale Ritual. Not much different to the male craft ritual worked here (by all accounts) ours is probably a little less veiled with respect to masonic science.
(It was Bro Num who introduced me to Masonic forums, which I find are useful tools, one way or the other )
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home -Wordsworth
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