A historic panorama and the current relation between Christian Churches and Freemasonry. The history of facts and ideas isn't a long, quiet river. Thus, what fortune made that the medieval operative Freemasonry (cathedral builders) really Christian (cf extracts from the Regius Manuscript - 1390 - quoted by Jean-François Var) became in the 19th century, in France, under the influence of Napoleon 1st, a masonry really politic with "The prefect as the Worshipful Master, the mayor as the Senior Warden and the police captain as the Junior Warden"... ?
Nowadays: in its foundation, in its doctrine and in its modalities: what does remain of the Christ's words within Freemasonry ?
To answer this question, we gathered Pierre Barrucand, Jean-François Var and Jean-Marc Vivenza. This European panorama of relationships between Freemasonry and Christianity is the reflection of our history: a series of schisms, misunderstandings and amalgamations from which it is hard to have an opinion. It's at least what our participant endeavored to establish.
Tradition as it is transmitted in Freemasonry, in different Christian churches, or somewhere else, is "semper rediviva", ever renewed. It doesn't belong to the men of yesterday nor to those of today.
If some men, whatever the path they have chosen, became intoxicated by their power and certain to be the only ones who hold the truth, spread division or anathema: The Tradition continues untiringly its way. Both ancestral and present, it is repository of universal and eternal values...
A 86 minutes interview presented by Jacques Boucher.
A historic panorama and the current relation between Christian Churches and Freemasonry.
