The masonry
in transition
dr. Viorel Dănacu
President
of the Regional Centre for Franc Masonic Studies Paris - Bucharest

   
     
The Masonry in its generality is an initiatical complex of the free people, which accede through knowledge at the wells of the Great Creation, all for the Glory of The Great Architect of the Universe.
The mason has the obligation to treasure with discretion and honor his membership to the Franc Masonic Order. Practically, he must not reveal anything about the Masonic work.
Not a very long time ago, talking to a distinguished lady about her husband, she told me: “Oh, I had no idea that my husband is mason. The children didn’t know about this either. I have found out a few years ago. He said that he was going to some meetings, but he didn’t tell us anything and nor me or the children have asked him about what happens there.”
Of course, the rigorousness of the order, through the rules that maintained the confrere thousands of years, indicates the conscience of every person that gave his word at the beginning.  
Only the keeping of these secrets maintained unaltered the Masonic work, the power of the order and its respect in the world. The Franc Masonry past through different steps that permitted its reaching.  Sometimes these were unwanted, some other times these were out of lack of knowledge or adaptation, or ill-will. But what was clear, healthy and natural remained and continued to exist until this day.
The presence of the Franc Masonry in Romania, somewhat more intense now, even explosive, was seen as an evidence of freedom.
The freedom gained after 1989 must be maintained, cultivated and consolidated permanently, so that the people can continue through improvement of their own intellectual faculties, researching and listening at the light of the Truth.
Our country has offered such a complex of events and moments, sometimes reputable and other times nefarious for the Romanians. But we have continued through consciousness, faith and love for people
This period, named of transition, accommodation, tolerance, has had an impact on each association of free people.
So, the Masonry has suffered some ups and downs, dew to lack of knowledge, information, where the manipulation and disinformation were very important „Divide and conquer” was an extremist method which cultivated only hate, lie, ill-will, the things that the Franc Masons fight against, to eliminate them.
The existence of some malevolent or people that don’t have the knowledge, on the hands of which was the Masonry after 1989, lead to a decline in the masonry. Practically, it wasn’t a relationship from a position of equality, a relationship from free man to free man, from mason to mason declaratively, and lucratively, practically very little.
The lack of experience, the deviations immediately appeared or practically said: “he deserves not the sweet that will not taste the sour” were as natural as the society we live in. This is why, the decantation, sedimentation, settlement of the Masonic work regular, traditional and spiritual, started after 16 years, after a period of transition, which we consider closed.
All that has happened in this period remains as unforgettable rough guide in the history of the Romanian Masonry and should not repeat. These must be recorded and the future generations should learn from them, as a period of a new born child that, with very little help, doesn’t know where to head to or what his goal is.
I have identified each day masons willing to continue the work they have just discovered. There is a need for opening to all the Brothers and a need to have a dialog with them, with the Romanian and foreign Brothers, that can support us in our research of the true mysteries of the Franc Masonry.
A short time ago, I have been to Vienna and Paris, where I have participated to really Masonic meetings, through the importance and the high level of approaching and interpretation of theories, documents and proofs of the Franc Masonry from the Balkans, Europe and around the world.
It is very necessary to eliminate the wasted time with sterile discussions, that don’t bring any advantage to the sublime improvement of mankind
The connections we have, with initiated and sometimes uninitiated people, concerning the research of the history of Romanian and universal Franc Masonry indicates the high level that we tend to reach.
The knowledge brings light, and the work settles on its normal, natural, traditional, regular and spiritual track.
The new stage of reconstruction, of regeneration of the Romanian Masonry, is in the hands of the conscious people, that have connections with the exterior world and that have engaged through their vows to continue the work for the next generations, work that will support and help the development of Romania.

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