Le Droit Humain – French Federation

Le Droit Humain – French Federation is the French federation of the International Mixed Masonic Order Le Droit Humain. According to its official website, it is the leading Masonic organization in terms of co-ed membership, with more than 15,000 Freemason brothers and sisters working in 740 French lodges in metropolitan France and overseas, within an Order present in more than 60 countries across the 5 continents. Its members come from varied backgrounds and profiles, and in their Masonic temples they exchange views on initiatic and societal topics in freedom, equality, and fraternity, using rituals and symbolism as their common language. The organization describes itself as an inclusive, emancipatory, and cosmopolitan Freemasonry, guided by humanist and inclusive principles, aiming to contribute to social progress and to harmony between human beings and nature.

The official website of Le Droit Humain – French Federation presents the organization as part of a Masonic heritage from the Age of Enlightenment. It states that modern Freemasonry, also called speculative Freemasonry, began with the meeting of four London lodges on 24 June 1717, which decided to form a Grand Lodge. This new organization was intended to unite and regulate the practices and functioning of its constituent lodges. The Grand Master of the new structure asked scholars, including the Presbyterian pastor James Anderson, to draft a framework document, first published in 1723 as the Constitutions of Anderson. Its drafting also owed much to an Anglican priest of French origin, Jean-Théophile Désaguliers. The website notes that this emerging Freemasonry, which affirmed fraternity among human beings, was not open to slaves and servants, atheists, or women. The Constitutions nevertheless showed great tolerance, particularly religious, for the time. The duties constitute its most timeless part and are considered the founding text. The French Federation itself describes its history as transgressive and presents its values as an inclusive, emancipatory, and cosmopolitan Freemasonry.

Inclusive, emancipatory, and cosmopolitan Freemasonry; the leading co-ed Masonic organization.

1. 1Accueil - Droit Humaindroithumain-france.org
2. 2Notre histoire - Droit Humaindroithumain-france.org
3. 3Le Droit Humain – French Federationwikidata.org