Freemasons preserving antient traditions is an email group set up by a brother in Australia who would like to see many of the older masonic ways - rituals and ceremonial traditions - returned to and ceremonies performed in true and antient form (if such a thing exists!). Let's find out!
I am a relatively young freemason and am sure that many both young and old have similar views, that unnecessary changes have taken place over many years, and this offers us a chance to discuss alternative rituals, rites and ceremonies within the bounds of our obligations of course. Perhaps we can get into just what is an "antient landmark" and what is an "innovation" too. What traditions need preserving and which should be critiqued in the light of freemasonry being a "progressive science"...
This is not to stifle progress, or the enlightenment of truth, but to encourage a look at changes that have occurred and those which have not occurred, and to ask why - and how freemasonry can remain both relevant to society and in touch with its deeper meanings and purposes.

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Please email Matt freemasons at ozemail.com.au if you have any more questions about this concept or please join to partake in our masonic discussions.