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Robes?

Elexir

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In a swedish closed fb-group a brother posted the attached photo.
Does anyone know if its related to freemasonry? Or if its another group?
 

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chrmc

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It'll have to be a guess, but it could be Scottish Rite, or potentially a robed 3rd degree team.
But from the regalia it doesn't really look specific to any certain degree as far as I can see.
 

Bloke

Premium Member
With the exception of the one in the middle, they look more liturgical than masonic.. but the 3 embroidered outfits seem to have a recurring theme on the front (two do and the third echoes it ) - I downloaded and zoomed in to see... it looks like a cross perhaps on top of a heart outline, with what might be a flower (not a heart) below within an oblong shape with filled with lines forming diamonds with a second heart outline below to upper oblong containing what might be a flower. All three embroidery wearing men have a central figures on the chest and stomach - with a V in the stomach emblem interlocked with other shapes I cannot make out..

It seems a mish mash to me - but if Masonic, it might be orders of the York Rite, but as I said, it looks more liturgical than masonic..
 

Roy_

Registered User
The photo doesn't exactly look Masonic, but robes in lodge? Sure!

After a slow start, Le Droit Humain started to grow when Annie Besant started to invest her energy early 20th century. She wrote a Rite based on Emulation but slightly Theosophic (later Leadbeater and Wedgwood would come with the really Theosophic rewrite) and her dressing contained robes. See these Pinterest photos. You can see Besant in the middle, third photo from the top. As you can see there are also men with these white robes.

After not only two decades Le Droit Humain tried to get rid off these Theosophical Rites which caused lodges to split off and continue working with that Rite. Nowadays in such lodges you mostly see that the women still wear the white robes, the men just have a white suit. It was not too long ago (a few decades) that everybody went in white robes. Word has that even some pointy head-dress made part of the clothing in some lodges, but you won't be surprised that these were done away with.

So robes in lodge? Sure!
 

hanzosbm

Premium Member
Also, don't forget, there an unknown (but probably large) number of non-public organizations that are built on a Masonic framework. Let's assume that one of these groups requires all members to active in a regular Masonic lodge, they practice and discuss the Blue Lodge rituals, but they also practice rituals unknown to outsiders. Would they be considered related to Freemasonry? Guess it depends on your opinion.
 
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