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PANSOPHIC

FREEMASONIC LODGES

TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY FREEMASONRY FOR MEN AND WOMEN

Now in the U.S., CANADA, and AUSTRALIA

MISSION STATEMENT

Our mission is to preserve, study, improve, develop, practice, and perpetuate esoteric spiritual and initiatic degrees and schools associated with Pansophic Freemasonry and other spiritual traditions, such as the Eastern traditions, as part of the general Masonic practice of social and self-improvement, and to revive the universal and spiritual traditions of Freemasonry as they were originally practiced by speculative or philosophical Masons within the context of Rosicrucian, Templar, Kabbalistic, Gnostic, and other esoteric European schools. Collectively, these spiritual paths were known as the Graal or sacred Grail.

WHO WE ARE

We are Master, Fellow Craft, and Apprentice Freemasons from many obediences (Masonic and Co-Masonic) who share and are willing to stand up for these convictions:

• Freemasonry is for honorable women and men of all religious, racial, and ethnic backgrounds;

• Freemasonry preserves ancient, profound, and world-wide streams of initiatic spiritual tradition that Freemasons have a responsibility to study, practice, develop, and intelligently adapt for future generations.

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HOW WE OPERATE

The Pansophic Masons operate in three modalities: LOCAL CONVENTICLE,  LOCAL LODGE, and GRAND LODGE #1 ST. GERMAIN. These allow for the women and men of Home Temple and THG in locations too distant for physical meetings to participate and make progress in Pansophic Freemasonry. 

• LOCAL CONVENTICLE: Chaired by one or more Masters of Grand Lodge; private study, initiation, and advancement. Leads to establishment of Lodge when three Masters have been raised.

• LODGE:  Convened twice annually at or near the Equinoxes.  Physical meeting at a geographically convenient location for Masonic initiation and advancement.  All Pansophic Lodges are opened in the Entered Apprentice Degree, and members occupy the offices of each Lodge in a queue order, moving up one office on each Equinox. The offices are Sephirotic positions on a Kabbalistic floor. It is necessary for every member to experience and qualify each of these energies as part of Blue Lodge operation and advancement.

• GRAND LODGE #1 ST. GERMAIN: Convened as a Conventicle or Grand Lodge at the pleasure of the Grand Master and/or Deputy Grand Master as necessary. Opened in the Entered Apprentice degree for all Pansophic Masons who are able to attend. 

1. Established himself in the office of Pansophic Grand Master of Grand Lodge #1 St. Germain for the duration of his life.
    Rationale:
    A. All of the six other original masters in the queue have either died, dropped out, or are living abroad, making succession to the office of Grand Master as originally envisioned impossible.
    B. The office of Grand Master was originally held for life by a true master appointed by royalty, such as the adepts St. Germain and Martinez de Pasquales; only later when royalty began to appoint unqualified grand masters concerned only with titles and completely lacking in esoteric knowledge, did freemasons rebel and adopt the ancient Greek idea of election to a defined term of office. In the case of an esoteric grand lodge, as opposed to conventional non-esoteric democratic grand lodges with rotating leadership, the Grand Master must be a proven adept who serves as a teacher and master of masters. Without that kind of leadership, the Pansophic Grand Lodge cannot survive and carry out its intended mission.

2. Restored warrants and charters for the ancient Order of the Fratris Lucis or so-called Illuminati to the Pansophic Rites.
These were originally passed on to Dr. Keizer as Grail Master by Bishop Boyer. However, when Count Boyer wrote the charter for Pansophic, he was prevailed upon by his friend and associate the esotericist Desmond Bourke not to include the Fratris Lucis in the masonic charter, as he wanted to revive the order himself. Now, however, both Boyer and Bourke have died, and Bourke did nothing with the order. In the year 2003 Keizer granted a charter to an esoteric group in Brazil that had proven its worthiness (now known as the Ordo Fratris Lucis). On Sunday, November 1, 2009, Keizer granted the same warrants and charter to Pansophic Freemasonry. This restoration is noted in red as an addendum to the original Pansophic charter from Boyer above.

3. Established the office of Deputy Grand Master (Vicarius Salomonis) as a life-long office and successor to the Grand Master.
The Deputy Grand Master carries all the warrants and charters of Pansophic Freemasonry as organized, established, and passed on by Bro. John Yarker. He/she has authority over all procedures and rites of Pansophic Freemasonry, as well as the authority to alter and improve them in consultation with the Grand Master.

4. Installed Bro. D., whose identity is known only to Pansophic Masons, as his Deputy Grand Master (Vicarius Salomonis) and successor at the Grand Master's death or retirement from his office.
Bro. D. is eminently qualified as an esoteric Freemason to serve in association with, and in succession to, the Grand Master.

CONSTITUTION AND BYLAWS OF PANSOPHIC FREEMASONS

 

PHILOSOPHICAL MISSION:

The basic mission of this new mixed Masonic obedience is to preserve, study, improve, develop, practice, and perpetuate esoteric spiritual and initiatic degrees and schools associated with Pansophic Freemasonry and other spiritual traditions, such as the Eastern schools, as part of the general Masonic practice of social and self-improvement, and to revive the universal and spiritual traditions of Freemasonry as they were originally practiced by speculative or philosophical Masons within the context of Rosicrucian, Templar, Kabbalistic, Gnostic, and other esoteric European schools.

GENERAL PURPOSE:

Our purpose is to establish and maintain a new obedience of esoteric Pansophic Freemasonry which:

admits qualified mature men or women of all races, religions, and ethnic groups, providing that they adhere to traditional Masonic principles of moral character, social service, and spiritual orientation;

overcomes the limitations of time and space in our culture by intelligently employing contemporary means of electronic communications such as e-mail and the internet to facilitate fruitful interaction and spiritual-intellectual growth of all qualified members in virtual lodge meetings;

studies, preserves, develops, and works the initiations, advancements, and practices of the Pansophic Rites of Freemasonry, which are:

MASONIC: Ancient and Primitive Rite; Rites of Memphis and Mizraim (Egyptian Rite); Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite; Swedenborgian Rite; the United Templar Lodge.

ULTRA-MASONIC: Order of the Illuminati (Fratres Lucis); Order of the Martiniste; Order of the Rose Croix of Hiredom; Order of the True Rosy Cross; Order of the Ecclesiae Rosicrucianae Catholicae; Order of the Holy Royal Arch of Enoch; The Hidden Church of the Holy Grail; Order of the Fratres Lucis

studies, preserves, develops, and works the initiations, advancements, and practices of all other appropriate Eastern and Western mystery schools which may have been, or will be, chartered or otherwise legitimately warranted for members of this obedience, including (but not limited to) Hermetic, Kabbalistic, Pythagorean, Magical, Theurgical, Alchemical, Tantric, Shamanistic, and Theosophical traditions.

 To this end, the main activity of Conventicles and Lodges is to form study groups and offer lectures, presentations, and demonstrations of topics in esoteric Freemasonry. Secondary to this is the function of initiating, advancing, and raising Pansophic Masons.

ORGANIZATION:

 

1. Admission and Process for Application

Every seminarian or ordained ministry of the Home Temple and/or THG has been vetted and interviewed. Acceptance into any of the Home Temple or Caduceus Institute programs including JIVA and DVH qualifies a person for admission to Pansophic Freemasonry. He or she must formally request candidacy and study materials by emailing the Grand Master CLICK FOR EMAIL.

2. Initiation of Apprentices: Lodge Initiation or Private Initiation.

Accepted candidates for Entered Apprentice must download and study the EA Study Guide linked above and submit their answers to the study questions as an email attachment. The formal acceptance of a Candidate for Entered Apprentice is traditionally done in a Lodge initiation as a ratification of the decision to admit during the Apprentice rites after seclusion in the Chamber of Reflection. For a private initiation, however, this procedure will be omitted, as the sponsoring Master will be well and personally acquainted with the candidate's qualifications. Private initiations and advancement rituals adapt lodge rituals for operation by a minimum of one Master with possible assistance from Pansophic Masons of any degree.

3. Elections and Lodge Queues

Members of every Lodge except the Grand Lodge will advance on a queue based upon seniority by date of first membership in that Lodge. Members in good standing will advance through the Offices according to this queue, with the Venerable Master becoming a Past Venerable Master, the Senior Warden becoming Venerable Master, etc. The Venerable Master may hold office for two consecutive years if ratified by vote, thus keeping the queue at status quo for another year. If an officer drops out of the queue, a Past Venerable Master will take that position so that every member will continue to be able to pass through each lodge office.

Each of the floor positions, from Tyler to Venerable Master, carries the subtle energies and forces of one Sephira of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. An important aspect of advancement in the Blue Lodge of the Pansophic Rites is that each member be able to experience, hold, and emanate each of these forces in Fall and Spring equinoctial Masonic rites.

Major Lodge Offices consist of Venerable Master, Senior Warden, and Junior Warden. If a Brother or Sister has not advanced to the degree of Master Mason but moves in the queue to the first major office of Junior Warden, he or she must trade queue positions with the Master Mason most proximate below him or her in the queue.

4. GRAND LODGE OFFICERS:

Grand Master

As transmitter of the Pansophic warrants and charters, and as founding Grand Master of Respectable Lodge #1, St. Germain, Bro. Lewis Keizer is authorized to serve as life-long Grand Master for the Grand Lodge of the new Masonic obedience hereby designated as the Pansophic Rites of Freemasonry. He will hold the floor position of Past Venerable Master, or may occupy any floor vacant position.

Deputy Grand Master

The person designated to succeed the Grand Master will hold the floor position of Venerable Master.

Development of Pansophic Master Masons

Initially, Pansophic Masters will be initiated, advanced, and raised in the Grand Lodge. Different cases:

    1. Existing Master Masons who complete all requirements for a Pansophic Master will travel to the Grand Lodge to be raised in one ritual, after which they may establish a Pansophic Conventicle in their local area.
     2. When no Pansophic Conventicles exist within reasonable traveling distance, non-Masons may complete all requirements and studies for the degree of Pansophic Master and be initiated, advanced, and raised at the Grand Lodge all in one weekend.

As Pansophic Masons develop, both existing conventional Master Masons and non-Masons may be initiated, advanced, and/or raised in Pansophic Conventicles following rules and rites of the Grand Lodge.

Development of New Lodges

Initially, all members of the Pansophic Rites of Freemasonry will be adjunct members of St. Germain Lodge #1 while associated with a Conventicle led by a Pansophic Master. When there are seven members living within a reasonable geographical proximity, of whom at least three are Master Masons, they may petition the Grand Lodge to establish a separate numbered Lodge for their area that will operate as a separate named lodge.

Lodge Officers

New Lodge officers will be established by their chronological queue positions, which they are free to interchange by mutual agreement.

Lodge Rites

Each Lodge will be sovereign with respect to its development of higher degrees, but must use versions of the Blue Lodge rites approved by the Grand Lodge.

The Grand Lodge Archives

Each lodge will send files of its meetings, lectures, presentations, and studies to the Grand Lodge archives, to be made available to all other Pansophic Freemasons.

Conventicle and Lodge Masters Virtual Convention

Once each year all Venerable Masters of Pansophic Conventicles and Lodges will convene in an electronic Internet virtual meeting to discuss and decide issues with Grand Master and Deputy Grand Master concerning the operations of the entire obedience. The annual meeting will be established each year by email poll from the Grand Lodge.

 

MASONIC SECRECY:

1. Secrecy of Membership

In order to protect members from harassment or misguided accusations of breaking their anti-co-masonic vows in other male Masonic obediences—which oaths are binding only for their specific obediences--it will keep the identity of its membership absolutely and inviolably secret.

2. Masonic Secrecy

Masonic secrecy refers to the signs, tokens, grips, words, and other initiatic secrets that Freemasons have obligated themselves never to reveal except to other Freemasons under specific circumstances. Even though people can purchase books that reveal Masonic secrets, the initiate is bound by Oath never to discuss them or communicate about them to non-initiates. This secrecy is a test of the initiate and his / her Obligation, and it must be meticulously respected. One might ask why these secrets cannot be discussed publicly, even though they might be published and available to anyone as a result of oath-breaking in the past. It is a matter of individual honor and integrity. One does not publicly discuss the details of one’s intimacies with a lover, or the internal issues of family or friends. By the same token, Masonic secrecy is sworn to seal the intimate spiritual unions that connect all initiates, and regardless of what may or may not be publicly claimed, it is the obligation of the initiate to remain silent at all times.

 

MEMBERSHIP AND DUES:

1. Confidential Lodge Records

After each meeting to initiate or advance, a Conventicle or Lodge will send an updated electronic file of its membership to the Grand Lodge Secretary, who will integrate it into the private Grand Lodge Membership Files.

2. Dues and Other Expenses

No dues are assessed. However, individual members are expected to assist their Conventicles or lodges with any expenses for rental of facilities, purchase of Masonic regalia, food, and operating expenses.

 

STRUCTURE OF A CONVENTICLE

          One Pansophic Master serves as head of a Conventicle. As members are added and advanced, he or she will assign
            necessary offices to them to assist in rituals or offer lectures and presentations.      

 

LODGE OFFICERS AND STRUCTURE

Offices: 

The Lodge Offices reflect the cosmic and spiritual energies of the Kabbalistic Sephiroth as follows:

Past Venerable Master = Kether

Venerable Master = Kether

Senior Warden = Hokmah

Junior Warden = Binah

Grand Orator = Hesed

Grand Expert = Geburah

Ceremonial Master = Tiphareth

Secretary = Netzach

Treasurer = Hod

Tyler = Yesod

General Members and Appointed Offices (Musician, etc.) = Malkuth

Blue Lodge Rituals

The official Blue Lodge rituals are adapted from the French alchemical Rites Moderne, requiring the Chamber of Reflection, at least five swords, white gloves, and specific music tape for use with rites.

Chartering and Lighting Up a New Lodge

Each new Lodge must be established by at least one officer of the Grand Lodge delegated by the Grand Master, who will travel to the new site at the expense of the new Lodge to oversee the installation ritual and convey the Charter, which will be signed by the Grand Master. He or she will also train and drill the new Lodge officers in the details of conducting the three degree rituals.

Blue Lodges Open in Apprentice Degree

Blue Lodges will always open in the Entered Apprentice Degree so that all Lodge meetings, including the three degrees of advancement and raising, will be open to all members.

Esoteric Degree Work

        All Pansophic Entered Apprentices must choose at least TWO PATHS of esoteric study to advance to Fellow Craft and Master. The following esoteric studies are required as part of the Blue Lodge studies. E.A.'s are encouraged to work in more than two lineages. Contacts and Guides for the studies are accessed through Masters of the Grand Lodge who themselves are Grand Masters of these lineages.

APPRENTICE Undertakes any Two of the Following Initiatic Paths:

First Two Degrees of Martiniste +OMCC+ (English and Spanish)

First Two Degrees of Elus Cohen (English and Spanish)

First Degree of Memphis-Mizraim (advanced degree study materials in English only)

Rosicrucian R+C Studies A (adapted from FRA and Ordo Fratres Lucis materials in English and Spanish)

Probationary Studies for T:.H:.G:. Leading to Wesak Initiation into T:.H:.G:. First Order and Completion of Exorcist, Root Chakra 1, and Long Life Empowerments (English and Spanish)

First Year of +HOOM+

First Year of JIVA studies in Vedic Astrology

First Year of DVH studies

Esoteric (Tibetan) Buddhist, Hindu, Kabbalistic, or Shamanic Training (to be evaluated by Grand Master before attempting)

FELLOWCRAFT Undertakes:

Master Degree studies for +OMCC+ qualifying for SI::III

Master Degree studies Elus Cohen qualifying for M:.E:.C:.

Master Degree studies Memphis-Mizraim qualifying for Raising as a Master

Second Year of Rosicrucian FRA and/or OFL Studies

T:.H:.G:. First Order Empowerments Leading to Completion of the Antahkarana Building or Fifth Empowerment

First (if not already taken) or Second Year of +HOOM+

First (if not already taken) or Second Year of JIVA studies in Vedic Astrology

First Year of DVH studies (if not already taken)

Esoteric (Tibetan) Buddhist, Hindu, Kabbalistic or Shamanic Training (to be evaluated by Grand Master before attempting)

MASTER:

Successful Candidates will be Raised and Dubbed as Knight Master or Dame Master, and will be advanced into the appropriate degree of their Paths of Study:

Third Degree of Martiniste SI::III Superior Inconnu; may pursue advanced studies.

Master Elus Cohen M:.E:.C:.

Third (Master) Degree of Memphis-Mizraim

Rosicrucian R+C Master

T:.H:.G:. May pursue advanced studies. To complete T:.H:.G:. First Order (final two Empowerments not required for Raising as a Pansophic Master Mason), Initiates must be Ordained in the Home Temple or other valid Apostolic Priesthood for the Theurgical work of the Grail Priesthood, which includes the Liturgist Empowerment and Root Chakra 2. This qualifies them for advancement through Portal studies into the Second Order Christ-Melchizedek Tantra.

            ROYAL ARCH:

Grand Masters, Lodge Masters, and Past Masters qualify for the Royal Arch Degree, which will be conferred upon them during or after Installation.

Higher Degrees

The Masonic and Ultra-Masonic degrees requiring Master Mason status may be developed and offered, or may be made available through mutual agreements with organizations that already offer them.

Acceptance of Masonic Credentials from Other Masonic Obediences

The Pansophic Rites of Freemasonry will accept credentials and degree-work from all Masonic and Co-Masonic obediences that offer traditional Masonic initiation. In addition to the traditional male Masonic obediences, these include both branches of Co-Masonry; all members of the French Grande Orient such as Memphis-Mizraim, all forms of the Prince Hall Lodges and their Co-Masonic Egyptian and other break-away organizations, and exclusively female Masonic organizations. However, the first three Martinist and Elus Cohen degrees must be evaluated for their Masonic content on an individual basis, as they are sometimes conferred as "paper degrees" without training, or without proper Masonic Lodge ritual.

Previous conventional Masonic advancement, however, does not fulfill the Pansophic Initiatic Path requirements, which are necessary for advancement to Fellowcraft and Master degrees, so conventional Master Masons are accepted as Entered Apprentices until the Path requirements have been met. Once Path requirements have been met, they do not require ritual advancement but merely Grand Lodge acceptance of them as Fellowcraft or Master, as qualifications merit. Conventional EA's and Apprentices will also begin as Pansophic EA's.

 

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