I’m not saying they were against religious morals and values. Washjngton was a Freemason. He was for all religions.
George Washington was a patriot, U.S. President, and Freemason who zealously labored to uplift humanity through the advancement of Masonic principles.
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MASONIC BIOGRAPHIES
George Washington
Born: Friday, 22 February 1732
Died: Saturday, 14 December 1799
George Washington was a patriot, U.S. President, and Freemason who zealously labored to uplift humanity through the advancement of Masonic principles.
George Washington was born in 1732 in Virginia, the son of a tobacco planter among the newly emerging colonial elite of the American colonies. George Washington became a Freemason in 1752 at the age of 20, in a Lodge in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Masonic ideals and aspirations would influence him throughout his life. He held the craft in high esteem and was seen as an archetypal Mason by most Masons in colonial America.
George Washington became a military officer in 1752, the same year that he was entered into the craft. During the French and Indian war to protect the American colonies from falling into French hands he was leader of the Virginia militia, and after the war was over he was the most respected military officer, and gentleman in Virginia. When the American Revolution began, he was most people’s first pick for commander of the Continental Army. During the war he distinguished himself as a competent and masterful commander, keeping the Continental Army together through defeat after defeat, until final victory was attained at the Battle of Yorktown in 1783.
After the war he became the first President of the newly created United States of America. He served with distinction in this role as well, setting a tradition of stepping down from power after a set amount of time, in order to ensure that the U.S. did not become a hereditary monarchy or dictatorship.
George Washington is quite possibly one of the most famous Freemasons in American history. He is one of the great paragons of liberation, of gentleman farmers, and warrior scholars in the canon of history. His reputation and mythos soars above almost all other Freemasons.
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Universal Co-Masonry is an organization of moral principles that seeks to do away with all cause for division by combating ignorance in all its forms.
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DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES
Laboring Under the Banner of Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth
Freemasonry is a fraternity including men and women of every race, nationality and religion. Wishing to do away with all cause for division and strife, it continually seeks the means which to help all human beings to unite and work together for the perfection of Humanity.
Universal Co-Masonry, a Masonic Obedience independent of all others, has not created a new Rite. What distinguishes it from other existing Obediences is that, instead of admitting men only to its ranks, it admits women on an equal footing. It proclaims equal rights for both sexes and absolute liberty of conscience. In order to secure to everyone unlimited freedom in the search for truth, it demands the utmost tolerance from all its members. It avoids political and religious discussions wherever these cannot be carried on with requisite tolerance and moderation; it welcomes everyone who is upright, free, of mature age, sound judgement, and strict morals, whatever may be his or her convictions in matters of religion, philosophy, or politics.
Universal Co-Masonry seeks to destroy ignorance under whatever form, and its program may be explained as follows:
- Each Mason owes obedience to the Order and to the laws of his or her country; he must live honorably, practice justice, love his neighbor, work unceasingly for the true happiness of humanity, and help human beings to emancipate themselves from the thralldom of passion and ignorance.
- From the first to the last, to whatever degree the aspirant may desire to be admitted, the first condition to be fulfilled is to have a reputation of unsullied honor and probity.
- Members of the Order owe to each other help and support in all circumstances and conditions of life.
- To think high, to speak truth, to do well, to be tolerant to others, to search after truth, to practice liberty under law, fraternal equality, justice, and solidarity, are the duties which the Supreme Council of Universal Co-Masonry, prescribes for its members seeking to build to the Glory of the Great Architect of the Universe, to the perfection of Humanity, and to the service of the Head of All True Freemasons, the true Masonic Temple open to both men and women.