Regular Grand Lodge of Italy

History

1993 was the year in which the Italian social and political system, that the nation had lived and made its own for fifty years and more, collapsed, and even Freemasonry, at that time mainly represented by the Grande Oriente d’Italia, had not remained foreign to that unusual as much as virulent Italian revolution.

In that moment of particular tension and necessity of new representatives, some authoritative brethren decided to dissociate from the lodges they belonged to and, joining together, they established the Regular Grand Lodge of Italy as the “sole, independent, undivided, responsible, autonomous and supreme authority over the whole territory of the Italian Republic for the governing of the degrees of the pure and antient universal Freemasonry”. The new Grand Lodge had also identified its motto, which appeared inscribed inside the coat of arms: “iure veritati iuncti”. Law and truth together. Thus the history of the Regular Grand Lodge of Italy began, under the auspices of this binding statement.

The reasons of the establishment of the new Regular Grand Lodge of Italy were made public. “With the Regular Grand Lodge of Italy, for the first time in our country, begins the pure ancient Freemasonry, with the deep and justified belief that its principles have been definitively and irreparably violated, with the consequence that often the Freemasons have acted on the basis of rules that nothing had to do with Freemasonry, in spite of that moral perfecting that every one has the duty to realize in the depths of his conscience. The truth is that when the fundamental principles that inspire practical behaviour degenerate, everything becomes possible. In this way are born the false perspectives, the deviations, the search of something that nothing has to do with Freemasonry. Instead, the project of a ‘new Freemasonry’ does not make reference to a different Masonic doctrine, since everything in Freemasonry has already been written and nothing has to be invented, but this project is to know how to read the book of the authentic ancient Masonic tradition, having clear the sense of the return to the origins and from this constitutional choice come the obligations that morally bind all its members. However, for the Regular Grand Lodge of Italy going back to the origins meant be inspired by that Anglo-Saxon model of Freemasonry that became widespread all over the world from the early eighteenth century”.

Principles

Freemasonry is a society of men concerned with moral and spiritual values. Its members are taught its precepts by a series of ritual dramas, which follow ancient forms, and use stonemasons’ customs and tools as allegorical guides.

Membership

Membership is open to men of all faiths who are law-abiding, of good character and who acknowledge a belief in God.

Freemasonry is a multi-racial and multi-cultural organisation. It has attracted men of goodwill from all sectors of the community into membership.