ADDRESS OF SOVEREIGN GRAND COMMANDER OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite ROMANIA FOR THE T.IL.F. PIERRE ANDRE SZAKVARY 33, the 130th Aniversary FOR THE NATIONAL GRAND LODGE OF ROMANIA 1880 UNITED
Very Famous Brothers Very Respectable Grand Masters,
Respectables FF. '. and sisters, you and all my FF. '. and SS. '. in your grades and qualities.
When celebrating a birthday, it is customary to remember the past, what has characterized each of those years, related friendships or lost, withdraw the joy or regret the events as they came to reflect on our attitude towards the world in which we lived and we live ... .. day of reflection but also days of hope and resolve for the future ... ... .. resolutions that often sell out over time.
In fact, I did not tell you about birthdays, others have done or will do. I wanted to tell you about a word that has inhabited my life since my teens. Given my age you really have doubts that it's been a while since we live together.
is a word that had a very strong meaning and precise in time and whose meaning has slowly diluted, dissolved, in everyday language and popular.
What can I take as an example? LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY, we adopted instead the more airtight bag. . You all know that this motto came in the middle of the nineteenth masonry. Century, it has its roots in the French Revolution. The motto adorns every public building in France. We read this in an automatic way but we often forget the meaning.
Freedom has been little just eaten by the technology that surrounds us, equal with the exciting competition of modern life, the fraternity by the acute sense of necessity of survival of each ... ..
There are words like this that you remember from time to time, sometimes without attaching any importance, and if left unchecked, they will appear one day in our dictionary flanked by the adjective "unusual .
It's the same word that I wanted to talk. Oh sure, it is not really overused, but like everything that is in common use, its meaning has become diluted, the act of applying it to everything and nothing has made it a word "common."
And yet, what would the masonry if those who compose them were engraved these words, I wonder what we would do here, all together without having a deep sense of the word LOYALTY.
Fidelity, I've always wondered why that word is not part of the motto of Freemasonry? Freedom, without applying this concept to others that would faithfully tolerance? Equality, consider how the other without seeing them as the true image of ourselves? Brotherhood? Brotherhood without fidelity, this is a sham!
Do we not pretend to be from the Brotherhoods whose customs and traditions dating back thousands of years and whose members were united by ties in all respects similar to that of a sibling of the same family? From across the world then - the Middle East to Scotland - they do not recognize as such - do not they lent assistance in daily life and in critical moments beyond what each fraternity could have professionally or spiritually specific - a child of the widow he could count on all his brethren?
Anderson Desaguliers, Newton, were inspired by the traditions of guilds, brotherhoods professional Germanic, Flemish, French, Scottish, English, Freemasonry called modern Is not multicultural from the beginning?
Similarly, the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of eminently European origin and established by the eleven gentlemen of Charleston, gentlemen born in seven different countries. The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite did not want it, from birth to impose its universality?
At these constitutions, these regulations Are we faithful?
How many brothers, how many sisters are coming to the FM in search of this fraternity, this universality, this hope of sharing in the search for spirituality and reflection to bring them into the belief that outside the fraternity and understanding between people can make this world a better place to live and ensure the well being of the entire human family?
Have we been faithful?
How many are left disappointed, how many are left on the way, how many have found that the discord, claims, exclusions did not meet any of the ideal they had given to follow, for which they had agreed to sacrifice their comfort inside to make a step towards self-introspection, tolerance of others and understanding the universe?
Have we been faithful?
In recent years a significant number of large weekly countries graded on the decline of Freemasonry, "the excesses and heresies," the crisis brewing in the temples, "the aging workforce and frameworks " "The Freemasons are more concerned with power struggles than in the debate of ideas," "a retrograde sexism," "the disaffection of the boxes, some also question" whether the 2020 Order does has not ceased to exist. "A senior American Freemasonry declares" Freemasonry began a slow descent of the peaks, a disturbing truth ... in twenty years we have lost over 30% of our members. "(End quote). A large English daily, said "more than 130 lodges were closed in recent years ...
Have we been faithful?
Yet since the mid-twentieth century, Central America, South America, North America, Europe, Asia, new structures are created ex nihilo, Masonic say, around a geographic pole, around a concept from elsewhere, about a desire for hegemony of one or the other, around a "regularity" or a claim to legitimacy or take each other on criteria set arbitrarily often whimsical but sometimes premium first convincing, offering secular and masons disoriented horizons filled with bright hopes.
Everywhere on the planet, anyone, does anyone, anywhere, anyhow. Anyone, but not limited powers, so to speak Masonic well established in the world, have led by example and continue to spread the goodwill of each of the entities that have the name of Masonic .
We are witnessing the proliferation of conflicts on the same. We discover, we affirm differences mysterious, unknown for others, even within a universe of similar nature, the same idealism, same beliefs ... ... are they justified or justifiable??
Masonry lived in a sectoral manner, particularism, new rituals, clans, prerogatives, have given considerable force to the differences, therefore the refusal of the other. One wants to admit it or not, this is a kind of racism, rejection, exclusion.
Where Do We Come my brothers, my sisters where are we?
Very Famous Brothers Very Respectable Grand Masters,
Respectables FF. '. and sisters, you and all my FF. '. and SS. '. in your grades and qualities.
When celebrating a birthday, it is customary to remember the past, what has characterized each of those years, related friendships or lost, withdraw the joy or regret the events as they came to reflect on our attitude towards the world in which we lived and we live ... .. day of reflection but also days of hope and resolve for the future ... ... .. resolutions that often sell out over time.
In fact, I did not tell you about birthdays, others have done or will do. I wanted to tell you about a word that has inhabited my life since my teens. Given my age you really have doubts that it's been a while since we live together.
is a word that had a very strong meaning and precise in time and whose meaning has slowly diluted, dissolved, in everyday language and popular.
What can I take as an example? LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY, we adopted instead the more airtight bag. . You all know that this motto came in the middle of the nineteenth masonry. Century, it has its roots in the French Revolution. The motto adorns every public building in France. We read this in an automatic way but we often forget the meaning.
Freedom has been little just eaten by the technology that surrounds us, equal with the exciting competition of modern life, the fraternity by the acute sense of necessity of survival of each ... ..
There are words like this that you remember from time to time, sometimes without attaching any importance, and if left unchecked, they will appear one day in our dictionary flanked by the adjective "unusual .
It's the same word that I wanted to talk. Oh sure, it is not really overused, but like everything that is in common use, its meaning has become diluted, the act of applying it to everything and nothing has made it a word "common."
And yet, what would the masonry if those who compose them were engraved these words, I wonder what we would do here, all together without having a deep sense of the word LOYALTY.
Fidelity, I've always wondered why that word is not part of the motto of Freemasonry? Freedom, without applying this concept to others that would faithfully tolerance? Equality, consider how the other without seeing them as the true image of ourselves? Brotherhood? Brotherhood without fidelity, this is a sham!
Do we not pretend to be from the Brotherhoods whose customs and traditions dating back thousands of years and whose members were united by ties in all respects similar to that of a sibling of the same family? From across the world then - the Middle East to Scotland - they do not recognize as such - do not they lent assistance in daily life and in critical moments beyond what each fraternity could have professionally or spiritually specific - a child of the widow he could count on all his brethren?
Anderson Desaguliers, Newton, were inspired by the traditions of guilds, brotherhoods professional Germanic, Flemish, French, Scottish, English, Freemasonry called modern Is not multicultural from the beginning?
Similarly, the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of eminently European origin and established by the eleven gentlemen of Charleston, gentlemen born in seven different countries. The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite did not want it, from birth to impose its universality?
At these constitutions, these regulations Are we faithful?
How many brothers, how many sisters are coming to the FM in search of this fraternity, this universality, this hope of sharing in the search for spirituality and reflection to bring them into the belief that outside the fraternity and understanding between people can make this world a better place to live and ensure the well being of the entire human family?
Have we been faithful?
How many are left disappointed, how many are left on the way, how many have found that the discord, claims, exclusions did not meet any of the ideal they had given to follow, for which they had agreed to sacrifice their comfort inside to make a step towards self-introspection, tolerance of others and understanding the universe?
Have we been faithful?
In recent years a significant number of large weekly countries graded on the decline of Freemasonry, "the excesses and heresies," the crisis brewing in the temples, "the aging workforce and frameworks " "The Freemasons are more concerned with power struggles than in the debate of ideas," "a retrograde sexism," "the disaffection of the boxes, some also question" whether the 2020 Order does has not ceased to exist. "A senior American Freemasonry declares" Freemasonry began a slow descent of the peaks, a disturbing truth ... in twenty years we have lost over 30% of our members. "(End quote). A large English daily, said "more than 130 lodges were closed in recent years ...
Have we been faithful?
Yet since the mid-twentieth century, Central America, South America, North America, Europe, Asia, new structures are created ex nihilo, Masonic say, around a geographic pole, around a concept from elsewhere, about a desire for hegemony of one or the other, around a "regularity" or a claim to legitimacy or take each other on criteria set arbitrarily often whimsical but sometimes premium first convincing, offering secular and masons disoriented horizons filled with bright hopes.
Everywhere on the planet, anyone, does anyone, anywhere, anyhow. Anyone, but not limited powers, so to speak Masonic well established in the world, have led by example and continue to spread the goodwill of each of the entities that have the name of Masonic .
We are witnessing the proliferation of conflicts on the same. We discover, we affirm differences mysterious, unknown for others, even within a universe of similar nature, the same idealism, same beliefs ... ... are they justified or justifiable??
Masonry lived in a sectoral manner, particularism, new rituals, clans, prerogatives, have given considerable force to the differences, therefore the refusal of the other. One wants to admit it or not, this is a kind of racism, rejection, exclusion.
Where Do We Come my brothers, my sisters where are we?
Who respects what?
Ultimately what are we loyal?
And a recent evening, to replay for the instruction of my brethren the text of "New Foundations and Institutes Fundamental Secrets" of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, 1886, I have to wonder if, - Once again we have not reached a state of crisis which had then presented. I quote: "The divisions that led to the organization of new companies: most of them have nothing in common with Free Art of Free Masonry, except the name and some formulas preserved by the founders, the better to conceal their designs, secret designs, often too exclusive, sometimes dangerous and almost always contrary to the sublime doctrines of Free Masonry, as we have received from the Tradition. "End quote.
No matter who is credited with these words and who have actually written "as it is to these doctrines Sublime and the Message of those traditions that we have sworn to be true, since our first step and our first oath in the Temple. " -This is not mine - Albert dixit Pike.
course, it is easy to see the mote in the eye of the neighbor and not the beam that is in ours ... but it's not that we all have a beam in the eye, a beam that prevents us from seeing that it is our duty to do something for the FM continues to live within its ancestral traditions with the ideals that are our own and by spreading outside our inner circles The Brotherhood and the constant concern of our spiritual development.
So how to get out of this whole mess, everything that has hijacked the concept of Franche Traditional masonry of his way, way out of this morass of diversification that gradually managed to smother the fire combined wills of Brothers and Sisters initially decided to change the face of the world?
So have we been faithful, do we have the moral strength to declare our loyalty? I am tempted to plagiarize my Illustrious Brother Marc Antoine: "bring together what is scattered" But in today's world nothing is easy now, all work and application efforts.
My brothers, my sisters, we are no longer at the time esoteric discussions smokers: they were more hermetic, incomprehensible and the more aroused the admiration of many.
my brothers my sisters learn to talk without a priori, with the sole aim of mutual understanding, a fraternal order of understanding. Let at least the effort to try, even if we go to failure ... .... Because there is something worse than failure is not trying !.... and we Freemason is a failure to face our ideal!
Let us resolutely straightforward in the world today:
Let us have the courage to be our age! Approach our problems, not utopian dreams but in practice as would any marketing research company. Are we not meant to reflect together on our problems - we sort of - and find solutions.
respect our traditions, they have stood the test of time. And what is more extraordinary is that the texts of these constitutions are still justified today as there are over 300 years!
us use all means of communication available to us.
Masonic Powers's meet without preconditions, but not for a conference for a meeting to study multi-Masonic obediential foresight of several days. Given the timelessness of our Order, we have no right to count the effort or time.
Let us honestly about our past, the evolution of our Order in the Company, on a future project compatible with the changing world.
's discuss the importance of values to which each of our Obedience is attached, - what is special about each one - on how to address our differences and accept them - to highlight complementarity, but also the means to get closer to each other, overcome exclusion, rebuild Masonry, a masonry building of the 3rd millennium.
invite all our brothers of good will to multiobédentielle a meeting, invite the wise, encourage young people who may have a better view of the future, please those who do not share our views, invite those who have the potential to invite those whose job it is to build!
give back to the radiation Lodges of thought-edge, give back to the masons leadership of the spiritual world of the twenty-first century, facing them with the ethical problems of our present life and the challenges that inevitably arise in future generations. Generations of masons who preceded us had the temperament to cope with the problems of their time have the courage to do the same!
Yes my brethren, yes my sisters, those of you who are not convinced that we must do this procedure have already accepted that Freemasonry has a foot in the grave.
Were we faithful to our commitments?
Fidelity is not only to transmit the tradition, it also consists of compromising himself, to fight, to convince, act, share! Begin to impose it from those who call themselves Masons.
Learn the understanding of others, including the excluded, giving everyone the opportunity to develop their culture, share the daily that the welfare of the human family is a reality in all parts of the world, be confident and Recapture around you the feeling of fraternity other than by the principles outlined in our temples ... .
What each brings its own stone, large or small, according to his abilities or powers and the building of our future will be well built. So only the word loyalty has taken on its full meaning.
I said.
Andre Pierre Szakvary
SOVEREIGN GRAND COMMANDER SUPREME COUNCIL
for Romania
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