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Deraismes was a well known writer and campaigner for democracy, women's rights, and the separation of church and state. Her lodge, on 9 January, had seceded from la Grande Loge Symbolique Ecossaise in order to initiate her. She then resigned, to enable her lodge to rejoin their previous jurisdiction.
Job's Daughters International is a Masonic affiliated youth organization for girls and young women aged 10 to 20. The organization is commonly referred to as simply Job's Daughters, and sometimes abbreviated as JDI (or IOJD, referring to its longtime former name, International Order of Job's Daughters).
As the Order of DeMolay had come under his close study during his Masonic activities, he suggested that a similar order for young women would be beneficial. The first Initiation consisted of a class of 171 young women on April 6, 1922, in the auditorium of the Scottish Rite Temple in McAlester, Oklahoma. The original name was "Order of the ...
The Women's Grand Lodge of Belgium, the Grand Orient de France [12] and the Women's Grand Lodge of France [13] have lodges in North America. The Grande Loge Nationale du Canada, [14] which is a member of CLIPSAS, has 15 lodges, mostly in Québec and Montréal. In Mexico there is the Spanish-speaking Grand Orient of Mexico (also a member of ...
Pages in category "Women's masonic organizations" ... Women's Grand Lodge Of France This page was last edited on 3 January 2016, at 10:02 (UTC). ...
The Order was founded in 1908 as the Honourable Fraternity of Antient Masonry, and formed by a small group of men and women who seceded from the Co-Masonic movement. They disagreed with the theosophical precepts and the governance of the Co-Masonic organisation and wanted to return to the traditional workings of English Masonry.
The Catholic Church, some Protestant denominations, and certain Islamic countries or entities have expressed opposition to or banned membership in Free-Masonry. Opposition to Freemasonry is sometimes rooted in anti-Semitism or conspiracy theories , [ 8 ] [ 9 ] and Freemasons have historically been persecuted by authoritarian states.
A number of Masonic-affiliated youth organizations exist, mainly in North America, which are collectively referred to as Masonic youth organizations. Order of the Knights of Pythagoras, for boys aged 8 to 18; sponsored by the Prince Hall Freemasons. DeMolay International. Young men from 12 to 21 are eligible for membership.