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How to Become a Mason. Home. We believe men are first made Masons in their hearts, and then they ask to join our Fraternity. Freemasonry will take these men, already good men in our community, and help make them better men.
The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the Philippines. “Let there be more Men in the Light, And let there be more Light among Masons”.
To atone for their mistakes in killing Filipinos some of whom were fellow Masons, the Americans promised eventual independence to the Philippines. Masonry, along with much of life in the Philippines, was disrupted by the Japanese occupation during the Second World War.
Following this and in compliance with a provisional article, a Lodge of Master Masons was opened for the purpose of organizing and opening in Masonic form, the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the Philippine Islands.
The Philippine Center for Masonic Studies (PCMS) was established in 2008 by the Independent Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the Philippine Islands as its academic arm, in compliance with Article XI of its constitution.
Welcome to the Independent Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the Philippine Islands. Masonry is a progressive moral science. It is a way of life, the practice of which, is an art or profession taught in conformity to age-old traditions and transmitted through lessons in Masonic lodges .
Philippine Masonry: From Barcelona to Manila. Lopez-Jaena / Mabini / Rizal / Morayta. introduced to the Philippines when a Spanish naval officer organized a lodge in Cavite under the auspices of the Portuguese Gran Oriente Lusitano.
Independent Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the Philippine Islands. General info about a Masonic lodge, its functions, Masonry, membership.
Andres Bonifacio who led the first phase of the revolution in 1896 as Katipunan Supremo, was a member of Logia Taliba No 165 in Tondo while Emilio Aguinaldo, who became the president of the first Philippine republic in 1899 was made mason at Logia Pilar No 203 in Imus in 1895.
The history of masonry in the Philippines was marked, however, by a period of growth pains, when in 1912 American masons in the country formed the Grand Lodge of the Philippine Islands.
