Supreme Council of the Mixed Modern French Rite of Belgium

January of this year saw the creation of the Supreme Council of the Mixed Modern French Rite of  Belgium,  which is linked to the UMURM

This past January 21, 2012, several Belgian Brothers, members of the V° Order of the Modern French Rite have constitued the Suprême Conseil Mixte du Rite Moderne Français pour la Belgique.

Assembling under it are three chapters: Le Prince de Ligne, founded in 1984 in the valley of Brussels, the Chapter Les Chevaliers de la lumiere in the valley of Mons and the Chapter Diogene Chercheuir de la Lumiere in the valley of Wavre.


The Supreme Council of the Mixed Modern French Rite of Belgium is led by the Sovereign Grand Inspector General Jean van Win.


Thanks to Bro. John Slifko


Thanks to Bro. Victor Guerra who is Director de la Academia Internacional del V° Orden del Rito Moderno/ UMURM.

The Rosicrucian Chapter of Léman, Valley of Geneva

Tuesday, May 15, 2012, Jean van Win, SGIG SCM of the French Rite for Belgium  announced the establishment of The Rose Croix Chapter of Léman, Valley of Geneva on April 21st this year, 2012, as follows: 

 The Supreme Council Meeting of FMR for Belgium has affiliated with and added to the number of its chapters the sovereign Swiss Joint Chapter of the French Rite "The Rosy Cross Lake Geneva, in the valley of Geneva, Switzerland" This chapter is considered a full member of our jurisdiction. It retains the habits and customs of its own, in the French Rite, while adhering unreservedly to the Charter of UMURM, of which it is now part. This Belgian membership will continue until The Rosy Cross Lake Geneva deems to have been able, with the active assistance of our Supreme Belgian, to create a sufficient number of chapters to be either General Grand Chapter, either by Council or Sublime or by the Supreme Council for Switzerland. We are confident in our valleys of Brussels, Mons and Wavre, that your respective jurisdictions will take to heart, in your valley, a triple battery particularly warm in honor of this happy meeting with Sisters and Brothers of Switzerland.

Thank you for your attention, my SS and my FF.
Semper Fidelis!
Jean van Win SGIG the SCM of the French Rite for Belgium

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Gracias a Victor Guerra ஃ

Conference: The Source of Masonic Symbols: The Western Esoteric Tradition.

Aux sources des symboles maçonniques : la tradition ésotérique occidentale

A Conference to be delivered by Jan Snoek this Tuesday, February 28 as part of Gremme will be devoted to exploring the sources of Masonic symbols, shedding new light on specific elements of the symbolic construction of and naming of different degrees.

Conference Summary: The study of "Western esotericism" as a scientific discipline, including astrology, Neoplatonism, Gnosticism, alchemy, Kabbalah, hermeticism, the cult of Astrea, Rosicrucianism, or the occult in the nineteenth century. Freemasonry is also included. Although all these currents are distinct, their founders were still scholars familiar with the literature produced by earlier movements. Thus, we find many traces in Freemasonry. In this lecture, Professor. Snoek will give examples of symbols and methods characteristic of Freemasonry, whose sources are probably to be found in the movements discussed above as the perfection of oneself (Neoplatonism), the cubic stone (alchemy), the how to spell sacred words (Christian Cabala), or the revival of the golden age under the reign of Astraea (Astraea worship).

Dr. Jan Snoek, Ph.D. (1987) in the Sciences of Religions, University of Leiden (The Netherlands), is attached to the Institute for the Sciences of Religions at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), and published widely about the development of masonic rituals. With Jens Kreinath and Michael Stausberg he published Theorizing Rituals (two volumes), Brill 2006 & 2007, and with Alexandra Heidle Women’s Agency and Rituals in Mixed and Female Masonic Orders, Brill 2008.

When: Tuesday, February 28 at 18h
Where: at CIERL, 17 av. F. Roosevelt, 1050 Brussels
Admission: Free admission, no reservations
Information: Anna Maria Vileno avileno@ulb.ac.be

Jan Snoek studied Religious Studies at Leiden (Netherlands). After his PhD he was devoted to the history and development of Masonic rituals. It is in this context that he published some eighty articles. In 1996, the ULB conferred on Prof. Snoek The Chair of Théodore Verhaegen. Since 2000 he is professor at the Institute of Religious Sciences at the University of Heidelberg (Germany). In 2009 he was appointed Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Wales, Lampeter. Recently, he published: Einführung in die Westliche Esoterik, für Freimaurer (Introduction to Western Esotericism, for Freemasons), Zürich 2001. Soon appear on his book "Rite of Adoption" (in English by Brill in January 2012 and French in Dervy in September 2012).

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