Grand Lodge of Portugal
Early Grand Scottish Rite
Primigenius more majorem
Tradition, initiation and self-improvement.
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The Grand Lodge of Portugal — Early Grand Scottish Rite is a Masonic body dedicated to preserving, practising and transmitting the Early Grand Scottish Rite.
Its work is conducted in respect for the tradition received, the initiatic nature of Freemasonry, and the principles that guide the moral, intellectual and spiritual improvement of the individual.
Discretion as a principle
Freemasonry has historically carried out its work in a space of reserve, freedom of conscience and respect for the private lives of its members.
The Grand Lodge of Portugal preserves that tradition. Our public presence is therefore deliberately restrained: it exists to make the institution and its principles known and to provide a legitimate means of contact, without exposing what properly belongs to Masonic life.
Discretion does not mean absence. It means reserve.
A presence with history
The present institutional form of the Grand Lodge of Portugal is part of an earlier Masonic journey.
The organised practice of the Early Grand Scottish Rite in Portugal dates back to 2012 and was developed and consolidated in the years that followed through the regular transmission of the Rite and the continuity of its work.
The Grand Lodge of Portugal is today the institutional expression of that journey, with responsibility for preserving and transmitting the tradition received to future generations.
The present institution is recent. The path that preceded it is not.
Early Grand Scottish Rite
The Early Grand Scottish Rite practised by the Grand Lodge of Portugal belongs to an initiatic tradition of Scottish and Christian character in which spirituality, initiation and symbolism come together in a path of individual improvement.
Primigenius more majorem, the traditional motto of the Rite, expresses the continuity of a received tradition, preserved through work and intended to be transmitted.
Masonic Papers
A selection of papers, studies and reflections produced within the Grand Lodge of Portugal, as an expression of Masonic work and of the tradition it preserves.
Public papers will be made available progressively.