Clandestine
Masonry
Declaration of
Principles Relating Thereto
Of the Most Worshipful
United Grand Lodge A.F.&A.M.
Of Democratic Republics
Many individuals use the word clandestine to oppose
the objectives of others. Some in Masonry use this word to describe their oppositions to
individuals who have formed Masonic Lodges that ascertain that they stand for the
Brotherhood of Mankind under the Fatherhood of their Supreme Being in a manner other than
which those who oppose it would have it done. Now you might ask what would these conflicts
be to which it should be replied there are many and varied reasons and some thus are:
- Some Lodges rituals require that the Lodge be dedicated to the
Holy Saints John:
- That agreements within the Lodge require that its
members promise and swear rather than just affirm those agreements:
- That the Scared Volume(s) of Religious injunctions be
the Old and New Testaments (bound as one volume) on which the promising and swearing
occurs.
- The erroneous explanations given by cowans to the
meaning of Masonic ritual taken from the Sacred Volumes of Law.
We, in the United Grand Lodge of Ancient Free And
Accepted Masons of Democratic Republics, engross the abstraction that the only things that
make a Mason or A Lodge Clandestine and/or irregular are:
- Anything that infringes on the allegiance to ones
Nation.
- Anything that infringes on the Duty of one to his God.
- Anything that infringes on the Duty of one to his
Himself.
- Anything that infringes on the Duty of one to his
Family.
- Anything that infringes on the Duty of one to Mankind.
- Anything that infringes on the Duty of one to the
philosophy of Matthew 5:17 as it may be applied to his duty to his God.
- Anything that infringes on the Duty of one to the
philosophy of Matthew 5:18 as it may be applied to his duty to his God.
- Anything that infringes on the Duty of one to the
philosophy of Matthew 5:19 as it may be applied to his duty to his God.
- Failing to follow the 613 commandments referred to in
Matthew 5:19.
- Not following the moral law as a true Noachida.
- Failing to follow the three great articles of Noah.
- Not shunning the gross errors of bigotry and
superstition.
*Any
Grand Lodge that operates without a warrant and/or charter from the sovereign.
