Is “Continental” Freemasonry anticlerical?
When the Grand Orient of Belgium and later that of France skipped their references to the Grand Architect of the Universe and the Bible, some...
Is “Continental” Freemasonry more esoteric?
As in many cases, there are no easy answers. When you take mixed gender Freemasonry, it only really started to grow rapidly when there was...
Is “regular” Freemasonry bigger?
That’s not an easy question to answer, as the answer would be along the lines of: in some countries they are, in some they are...
Irregular, clandestine, bogus; synonyms?
When you find yourself on a forum with many American members (such as r/freemasonry on Reddit) you will find many users using such terms as...
A Grand Orient is “Continental” a Grand Lodge “regular”, right?
Wrong! The name an organisation itself says nothing about recognition. When a country has a Grand Lodge and for whatever reason a new organisation is...
What is this “regularity” thing?
“Modern” Freemasonry (after 1717) has brought different sets of “Landmarks”, rules of the game so to say. One of these rules was that a Freemason...
Does a continental lodge work differently from a “regular” one?
That’s a very broad question. Not every “regular” lodge works entirely the same as every other. There are different rites which can make huge differences....
Can an atheist be a Freemason?
Sometimes. An often-asked question on Masonic fora. The usual answer on boards with mostly “regular” members will be “no”. Within “Continental” Freemasonry, things are not...