Grandmaster,Most Worshipper Naval Captain (rtd right) Kwadjo Adunkwa Butah launching the anniversary logo.
The Grand Lodge of Ghana (GLG), popularly known as Freemason, on Thursday launched its 10 anniversary in Accra, on the theme: “Consolidating Ten Years of Impactful Leadership in the promotion of Fraternal Unity.”
Launching it, the Grandmaster Most Worshipper Captain (rtd) Kwadjo Adunkwa Butah dispelled claims that members of the group were occults.
He said “often time films and banners with false promises of strange imaginary powers and benefits of being a freemason had been published by unscrupulous people to deceive the general public.”
Capt (rtd) Butah explained that freemasons were “people who are less perfect with a core tenet of brotherly love, charitable to fellow humans and truthful people.”
He stressed that the perception that Freemasons drunk blood for wealth, was untrue, and that “being a freemason will not give any person who becomes a member money, power, fame and fortune.”
The Grandmaster Most Worshiper Butah stated that, freemasonry was founded on the belief in a Supreme Being and honesty and integrity guided the actions of members.
He said “we are not saints, we don’t have powers, we don’t have secret gods we are ordinary people who believe in making the world a better place by helping others.”
Responding to why they don’t have female members, Capt (rtd) Butah indicated that for now the lodge only admitted male members.
Touching on whether they had challenges of families refusing to accept them as freemasons, he said some had challenges in accepting them but gradually the notion was changing.
The Grand Secretary of the Lodge, Babacar Adama Barry, said the first records of freemasons meeting in Ghana extended back to the 1800s, adding that the GLG was established in 2009 as a self governing body.
He said the group had more than four million members world-wide, and more than a thousand in the country.
Barry indicated that the group was made up of teachers, clergymen, traditional rulers, public servants, traders, judges, statesmen, farmers among others.
BY ALLIA NOSHIE
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