Does Praxis Lodge use a Bible during meetings and rituals?
No, unless it is for the purposes of education. Because Grand Orient lodges are fundamentally secular, they do not require or use the Bible or any other religious text as a Volume of the Sacred Law . Some lodges use a white book, symbolizing freedom of conscience, with blank pages so that members may interpret the meaning of Sacred Law in accordance with their own worldviews. Other lodges may decide to use the Consitution of the Grand Orient of the United States or some other well known ethical text (e.g., Aristotle’s Ethics). The reason for not requiring religious scripture as a source of morality in a lodge also traces to the natural philosophy and Enlightenment roots of Modern Free-Masonry, which imply that morality need not be based on religion, but on reason and humanistic principles.
