Post by corab on Mar 17, 2011 12:49:22 GMT 10
Mar 17, 2011 10:20:14 GMT 10 @maximus said:
Regarding the Lausanne Congress, I offer the following observation from Bro. Shandalla:"What started as an attempt by Albert Pike to standardise the SR, became a ploy by French Brothers to allow for atheism in the SR.
The Scottish Brothers present saw it for what it was and walked out. Once he was brought up to speed on what happened, Albert Pike brought his full force against the declarations of the conference.
All regular Supreme Councils followed suit and withdrew their names."
That is a rather biased observation, and not in keeping with reality - I suggest a close read of the articles listed as resource in this Wikipedia page; particularly the one on the politics of Grand Lodge foreign relations.
The Scottish representative, Lyndsay Mackersy, left the Congress on 8 September, while it lasted from 6-25 September. Hardly enough to base a well-informed opinion on. And yet it was on his extremely limited impression of the proceedings that he went ahead and informed his Grand Lodge that the Congress was about to do away with the principle of a belief in a personal God, which, as even the representative of England & Wales later wrote, was not the case.
It was the attempt to introduce Atheism into the AASR that sabotaged the whole thing. Belief in Deity is a foundation of the Craft, in all of it's forms, save the French.
I'm afraid that is also a somewhat biased reflection of the reality. Perhaps you would like to take a look at the Lausanne Thread
