Benjamin Franklin Lodge #11

Accepted Free-Masons

Mailing address: 1818 Library Street, Ste 500-20 - Reston, VA 20190 

Meetings: 1st & 3rd Saturday of each month - 8:00 a.m.

Tel: (703) 481-0505 - Fax (703) 997-5519

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Benjamin Franklin Lodge #11 is a progressive Masonic Lodge operating under the authority of the Grand Orient of the United States of America.  Besides Masonic knowledge, we are interested in improvement of the human condition through the preservation and improvement of human rights as well as the promotion of ecological sustainability. 

Through intellectual, spiritual and social advancement, our cosmopolitan brotherhood of Free-Masons discuss and help solve many of the issues facing our society today.  In order to attain these goals, our order has established the following guiding principles for humble Craft:

.·. We believe in the freedom of conscience of all people, and that it is an essential component of liberty, equality, and fraternity.

.·. We believe in and support the separation of religion and government, and promote religious and spiritual tolerance among all people.
.·. We believe in and support the freedom of the press as a necessary component of maintaining the inalienable rights of all human beings, and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
.·. We believe in and support the need for higher education and life-long learning.
.·. We believe in and support an impartial judiciary system as essential to guaranteeing the preservation of human rights.
.·. We believe in and support the arts and sciences as essential elements in the progress and evolution of humanity.
.·. We believe in and support efforts that work towards global environmental and ecological sustainability as essential to the survival of the human species.

The members of the Masonic fraternity were at the forefront of the European Enlightenment and have continued their pursuit of knowledge and understanding down to the present day. Our interests range from the latest theories in Quantum Mechanics to social and economic development in third world nations.

Benjamin Franklin Lodge offers a form of the original Free-Masonry that was practiced in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. This time period marked the beginning of the Age of Enlightenment, ushering in a period where science and reason began to overcome superstition and fear. Early Free-Masons were intimately involved with this intellectual movement and the Free-Masonry that evolved from it was one of the building blocks of modern democracies. Benjamin Franklin Lodge offers a return to the intellectual and scientific roots of the original Free-Masonry.

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