The Grand Orient of Poland gave the Light and Patent to our International Masonic Grand Lodge LIBERTAS.
This was an historic decision of the Polish Grand Orient. The common past of Poland and Germany is very dark. We are all the more grateful to our Polish Brothers and Sisters that they have made not the past, but the future the driving force behind their decision.
In this context, it is important to know that the Honorable Grand Master of the Polish Grand Orient brought us the Light into our Grand Lodge. His mother, Krystina, wrote the book "I Survived Auschwitz" in 1946. In Poland she was the most famous satirist of her time.
We, the members of LIBERTAS, are very grateful to the Grand Orient of Poland and will never forget that the Sisters and Brothers from Poland were able to forget.
Since Freemasonry is not centrally organized, the individual founding Lodges combine to form an umbrella organization. The Grand Lodges are this association of individual Lodges. In order to be recognized as a newly founded Grand Lodge in Freemasonry, it requires the recognition of an older, established Grand Lodge. For this reason, we at LIBERTAS had already sought contact with the Grand Orient of Poland in the early founding phase.
these we want to live by and so be open to all nationalities. The Lodge "Jacques de Molay" in Augsburg, from whom the impulse for the founding of a Grand Lodge originated, has lived this internationality since its foundation. The members were and are at home in Belgium, Latvia, France, Greece, Romania, Scotland and Germany.
In our Lodge we learn to adapt to and respect our different traditions and customs every day. This diversity of origin is good for us and it renews us regularly. It prevents us from becoming frozen in our own traditions. It demands our flexibility and tolerance.
Gerhild BoĢhnisch Grand Master