Doesn Freemasonry promote ecumenism or syncreticism?
No. Ecumenism is defined as a perspective representing the whole Christian world or seeking world-wide Christian unity. Syncretism is an attempt to unify or reconcile differing schools of thought or theology. Freemasonry does not view itself as qualified to hold or promote any opinion on the beliefs of Christianity or any religion. Freemasonry requires its members to respect different religious views, not necessarily to accept them. It makes no attempt to reconcile differences of religion and belief, only to promote an understanding of similarities. [RETURN TO INDEX] 10. Is Freemasonry a form of Hermetism? No. Hermetism is a belief in Hermetica or Hermetic writings a collection of works of revelation ascribed to the Egyptian god Thoth, also styled in the Greek as Hermes Trismegistos (or Trismegistis). Hermes was once considered to be the inventor of writing. The theological writings, written in Greek and Latin, date from the middle of the 1st to the end of the 3rd century CE. The colle
