Large Priory of Gaules

The Great Priory of Gaules (GPDG) is a maconnic and chivalrous organization Christian. Since the beginning of the years 2000, the GPDG supplemented its official designation of a double titulature:

Order of the Christian freemasons of France
Order of the Christian knights of France

It is about an obedience created in 1935, joined together in 1958 with the French National Big room and which took again its independence in 2000 to be established as an obedience with whole share in the way nearest possible of paramount times to the Scottish Régime rectified of which he regards himself as the heir (1778-1782).

Until the beginning of the year 1990, the GPDG was centered on the Scottish Rite Rectified which was its raison d'être first. Since 1992 and especially since 2000, the GPDG gradually integrated in its center of other rites maconnic whose characteristic first is their reference to Christianity as a framework of development of the maconnic symbolic system. Currently, the GPDG proposes with its members three maconnic and chivalrous ways (Scottish Rite Rectified, Scottish Rite, French Rite) and a way martinist (Company of Independent).

The mission which the GPDG gives itself " is to allow the Man by maconnic initiation to find its divine original nature by a maconnic personal realization, then chevaleresque" (Goal of association).

The GPDG is directed by a Large national Master assisted by a Large Master assistant and advised by a National council (large associated Master, large chancellor, large treasurer, large chaplain, three national visitors, three chiefs of a nature representing the three constitutive rites)

The three constitutive rites are:

the Scottish Rite Rectified is composed of the maconnic class (Apprentice, Compagnon, Maître and Scottish Master of André saint) directed by a Main Deputy of the rectified cabins and an interior Order (Rider Beginner and Beneficial Chevalier of the Holy City) dirigié by a Large Prior. The Rectified Mode was structured geographically around the three historical French provinces (II-Auvergne, III-Occitanie and V-Burgundy). The Provinces are structured around Scottish Regencies for the maconnic class and around the Prefectures for the interior Order. Each Regency gathering the cabins (siant Jean and of saint Andre) and each Prefecture gathering the commanderies.

the Scottish Rite is the rite practiced by the maconnic cabins in Scotland. It is supplemented by the cabins of the Mark and the Chapters of the Royal Arc then by the establishments about the Temple and about Malta.

the French Rite is the rite practiced by GODF until the end of the XVIIIè century and which corresponds, in its three ranks symbolic systems, with the rite of the first historical big room, that created in London in 1717 and also known under the qualification of " Big room of Modernes". This class symbolic system is supplemented by 4 orders which culminate in a rank qualified a long time of " last word " freemasonry: the Sovereign Prince Pink Cross.

The GPDG supplemented these three constitutive rites by a way which is not really maconnic but which nevertheless proposes an initiatory Christian gasoline way, the Martinisme. The martinism practiced by the members of the GPDG is a way saint-martinienne which is exclusively pursued the study of the work of Louis-Claude of Saint Martin's day.

Since 2000, the GPDG has establishes fraternal relations with the French national Loge and the Grand the East of France. Thereafter, the GPDG will contribute to the foundation of the Large Priory of Hispanie with which it maintains the most fraternal relations.

The GPDG publishes two regular publications:

one intended only for its members (" Epitomé")
and other intended for its members and the general public (" Books verts" or " Books verts")

External bonds

The official site of the GPDG

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