Three centuries of history! Modern Freemasonry is a product of the Enlightenment. It is the result of the transformation, from 1645, of an old business company into an association of meetings and reflection. The first Grand Lodge was formed in London, then the «capital» of philosophical ideas, in 1717\\. The Grand Orient of France is the oldest and most important Masonic obedience in continental Europe. Born in 1728 as the First Grand Lodge of France, it took its present form and name in 1773\\. Today, the Greater East has more than 51,600 members registered in more than 1,390 Lodges. He proposes a humanistic, initiatory and fraternal path. Indeed, for the Great East of France, the individual perfection that allows Masonic initiation and its method, makes it a duty for the Freemasons to reflect also on the problems of the world and the questions of society. This is one of its specificities in relation to other Masonic obediences. What is the value of a man’s improvement – intellectual, m

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