Alain De KeghelAmerican Freemasonry
Its Revolutionary History and Challenging Future
Alain de Keghel served as chair of the Supreme Council of the Grand Orient of France from 2002 to 2008. In 1994 he became a lifetime member of the Scottish Rite Research Society (Southern U.S. jurisdiction). The chair of an independent European Masonic Research Society, he has worked with the Philalethes Society in North America and with the research lodge Quatuor Coronati no. 8 in Germany. He is the former Consul General of France in Tokyo and Washington, D.C., and lives in Paris.
Foreword by Margaret C. Jacob, Ph.D.
Foreword by Arturo de Hoyos, 33°
PREFACE
Interpreting American Freemasonry throughout Time
1 Freemasonry in Pioneer America
2 At the Order’s Origins The United Lodge of England
3 The American Spiritual Infusion and Freemasonry
4 The Masonic Tradition The Specifically American Features of Rituals and
Institutions
5 Black American Freemasonry
6 The Charity of an Order Challenged by Change
7 American Masonry Confronted by the Initiation of Women
8 Relations and Ruptures with French Freemasonry
9 French Freemasonry in North America, Yesterday and Today
10 A Little American Masonic Perspective in a Changing World
11 Is the Overall Decline in Membership the Herald of Profound Changes?
AFTERWORD
Freemasonry in North America by John L. Cooper III Appendices
APPENDIX I
Statistical Studies of the Evolution of the Membership of American and
Canadian Grand Lodges APPENDIX II American Demographic Studies U.S. Census
Bureau and the Washington Post
APPENDIX III
Speech on the Occasion of the Commemoration of the Twentieth Anniversary of
the Lighting of the Fires (May 3, 2009) Bo∴ of Bro∴ Alain de Keghel, Former
Venerable Master of the W∴ L∴ La Fayette 89, Or∴ of Washington
APPENDIX IV
Sacramento Seminar of 2002, Organized by the Grand Lodge of California
APPENDIX V
Geneva Declaration (May 7, 2005)
APPENDIX VI
Declaration of Basel (June 10, 2012)
APPENDIX VII
Declaration of Vienna (January 29, 2014)
APPENDIX VIII
Extracts from the Report of the Commission on Information for Recognition
of the American Grand Lodges at the Conference of Baltimore in 2014
APPENDIX IX
Letter of the Sovereign Grand Commander Alain de Keghel to the Northern
Jurisdiction
APPENDIX X
Thirty-fifth Anniversary of the George Washington Union
APPENDIX XI
George Washington Union A Progressive American Obedience
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names
Subject Index
