Path: typhoon.sonic.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C1FDE73.2E3D@luckymojo.com> From: catherine yronwode Reply-To: cat@luckymojo.com Organization: Lucky Mojo Curio Co. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01-C-MACOS8 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick.order,alt.freemasonry,talk.religion.misc Subject: Re: Masonry, Supreme Beings, Atheists and Women (was Aleister Crowley Freemason) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 18 Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 00:14:35 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.204.141.106 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net X-Trace: typhoon.sonic.net 1008720875 209.204.141.106 (Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:14:35 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:14:35 PST Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick.tyagi:30526 alt.magick.order:6475 alt.freemasonry:201668 talk.religion.misc:368797 333 wrote: > contrary to what some Masons will have you believe, there are women > and atheist freemasons, and at least in the case of women, there > have been for many many years. Women have been made Masons since the 1400s at least, and orgnaized initiation of women began in the 1880s. See my historical article "Freemasonry for Women" at http://www.luckymojo.com/comasonry.html > I'm curious how long there have been atheist lodges. Atheist lodges have been around since the 1870s or 1880s, i believe, in France, Belgium, and elsewhere. Many are organized unfwer the Grand Orient of France. cat yronwode