A seminar for Freemasons, organised by the Swiss branch of the research lodge Quatuor Coronati, in collaboration with the Freemason Museum Switzerland.
2023 was the year in which we commemorated the publication of James Anderson’s Constitutions 300 years ago. 2024 is the year 1 after this anniversary. In this chronology, 2024 signals a beginning. An examination of the Constitutions from the point of view of their significance for the future of Freemasonry raises many problems that can be summarised in the following question:
To what extent and under what conditions can the Constitutions also be a guiding text for the future of Freemasonry? – The focus here is not only on the Old Charges, but on the entire work.
We will explore this question together in a moderated workshop on the afternoon of 17 February. In the morning, the following speaker and the following speakers will provide us with a basis for this with their presentations:
Pantelis Carelos, Emeritus Professor of Byzantine Studies, Humboldt University Berlin, Grand Archivist of the Grand National Mother Lodge To the Three Globes and associated. Master of the research lodge Quatuor Coronati:
Cultural and Historical Remarks on the Historical Part of the Old Charges by James Anderson
Thomas Forwe, Master of Honour of the Research Lodge Quatuor Coronati and Associate Master of the AFuAMvD:
The Ancient Duties of 1723: The Social Mission of Freemasonry
Helga Widmann, Past Grand Master of the Women’s Grand Lodge of Germany:
Celebrate or petrify? – 300 years of James Anderson and the Constitutions
Max Wolfensberger, Dr sc. nt. ETH biochemist, Modestia cum Libertate i.O. Zurich
Thoughts on the shadowy existence of nature in Freemasonry
