Isaac & Elias

I´m new to this forum so allow me to start by briefly introducing myself: my name is Chris, I am 36 and have been a member of the Grand Lodge of Spain for the past ten years. Not any more. I´ve just recently demitted and joined a co-masonic lodge whose commitment to masonic education is far stronger than I have ever seen in a regular lodge in my country.
Sad as it is, I must say my visits to other regular lodges in Europe (Grande Loge Nationale Française, Grand Lodge of Ireland, UGLE) have only confirmed the apathy and lack of purpose that I have come to see as a present trademark of regular free-masonry.
You might know that liberal free-masonry, in continental Europe, is much concerned with politics (in the french tradition of the Grand Orient and Le Droit Humain), which I think are not primarily related to the Art, and not so much with spirituality. But you have to make choices, and free-masonry is too enrichening to me to just throw the towel.
I´ve been following closely all the blogs and news that have surged on the Net concerning the United Grand Lodge of America, and I must say I´m impressed by almost everything I´ve read and the enthusiasm with which those "new modern" masons are struggling to cast a light upon this true heir to the Invisible College.
This alliance of spirituality and science matches my views on free-masonry, to which I was driven in the hope that it would offer some of the intellectual approach to spirituality that I found in Spinoza´s Ethics and such spiritual background to science as in the Princeton Gnosis.
I would therefore be glad to hear and read more about on the subject and hope you might help me with that.
Thanks very much in advance!

D. W. Brown

Isaac & Elias,

I actually touched a little on this in one of my other post when speaking of the appendent bodies having the right to split from the Blue Lodge. I said I agreed with their right to do so but not their reasoning. The UGLA is one exception here, I do feel they are justified in what they are doing.

After talking with quite a few of them at length about their beliefs and plans, personally, I believe their heart is closer to what I always envisioned Freemasonry to be about. Please don't everyone jump in here at once, my comment is based on my limited experience in my region of the South and the way Freemasonry is here.

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