R S L Plato
Ελληνικά
The Craft opened its doors to women and men together more than a century ago. Our Order keeps that promise, and mixed Freemasonry in Greece marks its hundredth year.
A lodge opens its door to a person, not to a sex.
The Craft asks every member to work on their own character with the same tools. The tools do not depend on who holds them. A lodge where women and men work side by side hears more voices, and it tests its ideas against more experience.
Maria Deraismes, a writer and a campaigner for women’s rights, is initiated in the lodge Les Libres Penseurs. Modern mixed Freemasonry begins with this act.
On 4 April, Maria Deraismes and Georges Martin found Le Droit Humain. It becomes the first international mixed order and admits women and men on the same terms.
The first Greek mixed lodge, Athena No. 815, is founded on 28 October and consecrated on 8 November. Greek women win the vote only in 1952, so the lodge is far ahead of its time.
On 14 December, the Greek lodges declare their independence. They found the International Masonic Order Delphi and re-found the Grand Mixed Lodge of Greece. At that time 34 lodges work in Greece, Romania and Bulgaria.
Mixed Freemasonry in Greece marks its centenary. Delphi lodges now work in Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, the United States and Brazil.
The Order of Delphi works under a Sovereign Grand Commander and a Supreme Council. In Greece its lodges belong to the Grand Mixed Lodge, which elects a National Grand Master every three years.
We will publish the programme of the centenary here. It will list each public event and each paper as a PDF file. For the wider story, read the history on the website of the Grand Mixed Lodge.
Yes. In a mixed lodge in Greece, women and men take the same degrees, hold the same offices and vote with the same weight.
Many obediences across the world recognise us, and our members visit their lodges. Recognition between obediences rests on shared principles, and it grows through long contact.
No. The square, the compass, the rough stone and the three degrees stay the same. What changes is who stands in the room.