The Grand Lodge of Slovenia

HISTORICAL AND PRESENT FREEMASONRY

reemasonry was a professional association in the Middle Ages, a guild that incorporated the masons of the cathedrals. The art of masonry was a state of the art technology in those times, as are information and space technologies today. The guild therefore protected their knowledge and skills in the same way as modern day computer companies hide the source code of their software. The nowadays archaic image of freemasonry stems from its beginnings. Such as the masonic apron and the depiction and the symbolism of nowadays completely prosaic mason's tools (spirit levels, trowels, hammers, squares, compasses). A veil of secrecy concealed the actions of the Freemasons throughout the centuries. Thus, the society formed many incorrect and mostly malevolent notions about the Freemasonry. That it is a secret society of revolutionists, conspirators, disbelievers, pagans etc. The Internet is filled with such information about Freemasons that are always put there by people outside the fraternity. It is a fact that people love reading such saucy stories. We would like to offer direct information about Freemasonry in Slovenia and Freemasonry in general to the visitors of our web page that are interested in the true image of modern Freemasonry.


he contents of Freemasonry have developed and adapted with time behind an archaic and for many centuries unchanged outside image. The conserving and guarding of masonic secrets has transformed itself into studying and discovering the secrets of human existence. Associating by profession has developed into associating by the same moral and ethic principles.

reemasonry, as it is seen and experienced today, is a movement that assures every single member of this fraternity to be a cherished and respected guest in Lodges that operate on all continents of the world.

odern history of Freemasonry started in 1717 when the Grand Lodge of England was founded at the Goose & Gridiron Alehouse in London. For more than 250 years our fraternity stayed loyal to its own fundamental definition that free men of good reputation that want to act for the good of all people meet in Lodges. Freemasonry is seen as a spiritual movement that reaches across country borders and spreads the notion of humanism regardless of national, racial, religious, ideological or other differences.

he Freemason's fraternity does not have a uniform leadership. Each Grand Lodge that incorporates Freemasons from a certain country is independent. Ideas of Freemasonry as a world organisation with a leadership hierarchy are incorrect. The only form of common work are rituals that are performed by members of the Lodges who firmly believe that by performing symbolic work on themselves helps them attain the ethical goals that they have set for themselves. The content and the message of these goals are not religious or political in any sense, but humanistic in the broadest meaning of the word. Freemasonry is by today's comprehension a form of civil society that strives for a moral and spiritual growth of its own members whereas its role in the society is purely humanitarian.

reemasonry was founded in Europe and has spread almost all over the world. Modern Freemasonry builds on the intellectual foundations of the European civilization, from the philosophers of the classical antiquity to the Age of Enlightenment. The notion that Freemasonry does not accept religion and religious people is incorrect. Quite on the contrary, a belief in the Supreme Being, God, is integrated into the essence of the value and philosophical system of the Freemasons. However, every individual is free to decide in what and how to believe. Thus, members of different religions and agnostics can meet within the same Freemason's Lodge. In order not to insult each other religious beliefs, the divine principle they all believe in is referred to as the Grand Architect. As a support of these statements we should mention it is recommended in the Anglo-Saxon world that at least one clergyman is a member of a Lodge.


reemasonry has a visionary power. How else would the ancient principles of the Freemasons (liberty, equality, fraternity) be written down in the fundamental document of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and be built in as a corner stone of the constitution of any democratic country? How else would some Freemason two hundred years before the birth of the European Union write its future anthem Ode to Joy? How else would some other Freemason set the anthem to music in his Symphony Nr. 9? Last but not least, how else would be a Freemason among the first men to ever walk on the surface of the Moon? Because of this visionary power Freemasonry still attracts numerous people who would like to achieve something more in their lives, something for other people and something that will leave a mark.