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Freemasons work to rebuild the EU
05/27/2014
Marius
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Freemasons are working to rebuild an EU "in ruins" "Europe is in ruins, all that remains is to rebuild it" : sounded by the "earthquake" of an election marked by a strong push of the populisms, the leaders of about twenty European Masonic obediences meet Wednesday in Paris in an unprecedented setting. This first "forum of liberal and adogmatic Masonic obediences of the European Union" had been scheduled before the European elections, but the results of the ballot organized from Thursday to Sunday in the 28 countries of the Union give it a particular echo.
Nearly 25% of the votes cast in France for the National Front, 27.5% for the Europhobes of Ukip in Great Britain, 26.7% for the People's Party (anti-immigration) in Denmark, the Greek neo-Nazis in 'Golden Dawn entering the European Parliament... On Wednesday from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., around twenty delegations from almost as many countries, including Greece, Poland and Hungary, will be gathered at the headquarters of the Grand Orient de France ( GODF), rue Cadet, to talk about women's rights, immigration and European Freemasonry, but also to learn the lessons of the election. Which did not totally surprise Daniel Keller, Grand Master of the GODF, the first French Masonic association with some 50,000 claimed members, and one of the most important liberal obediences in Europe.
"Republicans of all persuasions have most certainly allowed themselves to be locked into a somewhat autistic logic of European institutions ," explains the leader of the Grand Orient, host of Wednesday's forum. "This date is not entirely the result of chance, it was anticipated in fear of this earthquake" , specifies Daniel Keller. His movement had also launched in early May, with the Mixed Grand Lodge of Greece and other European obediences, a "call from Athens" alerting against the risk of a strong extremist vote.
Re-enchanting the European dream
"We can see that populism is on the rise in all the countries of the European Union. Europe is in ruins, all that remains is to rebuild it", adds the grand master of the GODF, noting that it is a constant of Freemasonry to work "on the symbolism of the temple which must be constantly rebuilt" . Can a forum of reflection only respond to the urgency of a political earthquake? "On Europe, orphan of a project, the solution will not be found in two weeks. It is also the role of Freemasons in each country to initiate this citizen reflection which is lacking", pleads Daniel Keller, for whom masonry, which appeared in Scotland in the 17th century, is "a great utopia of European civilisation" .
Worried about the surge of what she calls "national-populism", the Grand Mistress of the Female Grand Lodge of France (GLFF), Catherine Jeannin-Naltet, for her part, evokes a Europe "to be reconstructed in its functioning", in noting that "the European Commission seems distant from the basic citizen". The May 28 forum, in which the GLFF will participate, will not, however, allow European Freemasonry to speak with one voice. Only liberal persuasions, very focused on social and political issues, will take part. Not the regular, spiritualist and apolitical Masonry, very present in certain countries like Great Britain, Germany and Austria.
"I hope that this forum will make it possible to hear the voice of the adogmatists, but I cannot forget that Freemasonry, especially in France, is a bit fragmented", confides the great mistress of the GLFF, who hopes that "everyone will come together on the essential values".
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