Co-Masonry A term used in Freemasonry, also known as adoptive Masonry, allowing for the admission and initiation of women. Traditionally women were not admitted into Freemasonry; however, historically there were some exceptions.
In Co-Masonry we refer to Him as the Head of all True Freemasons throughout the world (abbreviated as the H.O.A.T.F.) and in some of our Lodges His portrait is placed in the east, above the chair of the R.W.M.
Lee, who was an active member of Waite's Golden Dawn but who preferred Co-Masonry to the legitimate Craft.
Leadbeater, led to a rapid expansion of Co-Masonry among theosophists, taking in even those who had previously been bitter opponents of Freemasonry[4].
also published a periodical entitled Journal Novi-Jerusalemite, in which he called on all Masons to accept Swedenborg's teaching. He is thus an important figure in facilitating a rapprochement between Swedenborgianism and Catholic Franco-Masonry.
See also: Light, Influence, Freemasonry, Initiation, Mater
 
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