Parapsychology - Adoptive Masonry

What is Adoptive Masonry?

Adoptive Masonry is a term used to describe Masonic societies where women were accepted as members.

Such organizations first appeared in France in the early eighteenth century, and they quickly expanded to other nations.

The Mopses were among the first to "adopt" women.

In 1742, the Felicitaries were formed.

Bauchaine, Master of a Parisian lodge, founded the Fendeurs, or Woodcutters, in 1763.

It was modeled after the Carbonari, and its success prompted the opening of other lodges, including the Fidelity and the Hatchet.

The Grand Orient Lodge of France devised a three-degree system known as the Rite of Adoption in 1774, and the duchess of Bourbon was chosen Grand Mistress of France.

The process was widely embraced by Freemasonry, and additional degrees were added from time to time, bringing the total number of degrees to about twelve.

The Ladies' Hospitallers of Mount Tabor introduced Latin and Greek mysteries to the ritual.

The most powerful women in France became members of the French adoption lodges.

In 1819, 1821, 1838, and 1853, the Rite of Mizraim established lodges for both sexes, while the Rite of Memphis did so in 1839.

The Rite of the Eastern Star was created in five points by America.

Admission was often limited to Masons' female relatives in these systems.

Scotland sought but failed to establish the Order of the Eastern Star and Adoptive Masonry.

~Kiran Atma

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Paganism & Wicca - What Is Freemasonry?

Freemasonry is a worldwide fraternal organization whose members, depending on the Rite, are now both male and female and share metaphysical principles and a belief in a Supreme Creator.

 

• Although many Freemasons prefer to identify themselves as a society with secrets.
• Freemasonry has traditionally been defined as a hidden society. 

Freemasonry is a degree-granting system based on the symbolism of reconstructing Solomon's Temple, with supposed origins in medieval stonemason guilds. 

Some think these customs date back to the Adytum Builders, the masons who constructed Solomon's Temple. 

• Following the fall of the Knights Templar in 1312, legend has it that surviving Templars fled to Scotland, where they later emerged as Freemasons. 
• These Templar secrets were given to a "Unknown Master," who created seven degrees tied to knightly titles. 

• Local, regional, and national distinctions emerged gradually as Masonry expanded. 
• Alchemical and hermetic mysteries were used to create certain new ceremonies. 
• High Ceremonial Magic, Umbanda, and Vodou are all spiritual and magical traditions that have been influenced by Freemasonry. 

As the European Witchcraft mania faded, hatred toward Freemasons grew instead. In 1738, a papal decree made freemasonry illegal under penalty of death. 

• The rise of this secret group among the affluent and powerful alarmed the Vatican. 
• It was said to promote occultism, Protestantism, and atheism. 
• Freemasons were suspected of seeking global dominance, much like witches. 
• Count Cagliostro and his wife Seraphina, Casanova, Mozart, Herman Rucker, and Harry Houdini are all notable Freemasons. 

HALL OF FAME - Count Cagliostro and Black Herman Rucker.

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