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                     The Brotherhood of Man under the Fatherhood of God!

Welcome to the official web page of the Regular Grand Lodge of Virginia, Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and
Accepted Masons. The Regular Grand Lodge of Virginia is the governing body of Ancient Craft Freemasonry of it's
Constitutive Lodges and Appendant Bodies in the State of Virginia.

The Regular Grand Lodge of Virginia is a multi ritualistic Sovereign Independent Body of Ancient English Craft
Freemasonry. The Regular Grand Lodge of Virginia is affiliated with the Masonic High Council of England and Wales the
Mother Masonic High Council of the World and share Masonic Treaties of Amity with other Grand Lodges across the globe.


                                                             Mission Statement

The Mission of the Regular Grand Lodge of Virginia is to teach, restore and promote the original Traditions of Ancient Craft
Freemasonry within the State of Virginia, serve within the community and live by the rule and guide of our faith "the Holy
Bible."

                                     Fraternal Recognition

Fraternal recognition may be extended to a Grand Lodge when it appears to the satisfaction of this Regular Grand Lodge, the
Masonic High Council of Virginia having first considered and reported thereon:

- That such Grand Body has been formed lawfully by at least three just and duly constituted Lodges, warranted by one of the
Regular Grand Lodges affiliated with the Regular Grand Lodge of England or that it has been legalized by a valid act issuing
from the Regular Grand Lodge of Virginia, or from a Grand Body in fraternal relations with this Grand Lodge.

- That it is an independent, self governing, responsible, incorporated organization with entire, undisputed and exclusive
dogmatic and administrative authority over the Constitutive Lodges within its Jurisdiction, and not in any sense whatever
subject to, or dividing such authority with, a Supreme Council or other Body claiming ritualistic or other supervision or control.

- That it make Freemason's of men only.

- That it requires conformity to the following, which the Regular Grand Lodge of Virginia considers necessary in a Masonic
Body:
* Acknowledgment of a belief in God the Father of all men.
* Secrecy.
* The Symbolism of Operative Masonry.
* The division of Symbolic Masonry into the three degrees including the
Holy Royal Arch.
* The legend of the Third Degree.
* That its dominant purposes are charitable, benevolent, educational and
for the worship of God; and that it excludes controversial politics and
sectarian religion from all activities under its auspices.
* The Sacred Book of the Divine Law, chief among the Three Great
Lights of Masonry, indispensably present in the Lodges while a work.
* That its multi ritualistic and uphold the Anderson Constitutions of 1723.

- That it occupies exclusively its territorial Jurisdiction and that it does not presume to extend its authority into, or presume to
establish Constitutive Lodges in a territory occupied by a lawful Regular Grand Lodge affiliated with the Masonic High Council
of the United States of America, without the expressed assent of such supreme governing Masonic Body.

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