ILLITERACY IS A CANCER THAT UNDERMINES AND IS DOUBLE PENALTY SAID DANIEL KELLER

USPA NEWS - Daniel Keller, Grand Master of the Grand Orient de France (French Masonry) made a speech at the award ceremony of the Grand Orient of France to the Foundation APFEE Association fighting against illiteracy, two weeks ago. (See article: http://www.uspa24.com/berichte/schritt4-4045.html ).

GRAND ORIENT DE FRANCE FOUNDATION IS COMMITTED AGAINST ILLITERACY----------------------------------- At the ceremony the price of the Grand Orient Foundation, Daniel Keller, Grand Master of the Grand Orient, delivered a speech to the hearing, the Minister of Overseas, George Paul Lanvin and winners of the APFEE Association. APFEE was selected and rewarded for having implemented high-impact tasks in the fight against illiteracy in France and Overseas, to restore the principle of equal opportunities.-------------------------------------------------------------"Dear sisters and dear brothers friends, this use is likewise our Foundation (The Foundation was born in 1987) that will get 30th anniversary, in two years. It is important for " Grand Orient de France", which remains an insufficiently tool for our members to give the light of this all it deserves. Why reward illiteracy? French Grand Orient, has rewarded Babylon, this year, the main source of information. Illiteracy is the expression of a regression at odds with our values. It's early at childhood that the school is needed to fight against illiteracy, before becoming a disability. It affects children of a higher handicap to others, who later have less access to employment with difficulty. It is a double punishment, illiteracy is an additional inequality compared to the success of the school in the republic. Illiteracy is a cancer that eats away at our societies. Because it makes it difficult to have a critical sense, analytical, to make free men and repute. This injustice that eats away a little more each day in our societies. Failure is persistent in our school in the Republic. There was an ancient time when the school of the Republic took over education. Formerly integration began with the school of the Republic should do it by its own means. I pay tribute to the APFEE association that enhances the robustness of our ways of 100,000 children in 20 out of 250 cities in French metropole and overseas French territories. The importance of the invisible and silent action has to afford to live equal opportunities which must address the weakest among us " said Daniel Keller, Great Master of Grand Orient de France.

JULES FERRY'S HERITAGE FOR AN "EDUCATION FOR FREE AND ALL"The speech of Daniel Keller is in the line of famous ancestors, brother of the Grand Orient of France, especially as Jules Ferry. This great statesman of the 19th century, (3rd French Republic) was former Mayor of Paris and President of the Senate, the last was one of the founders of secularism in France and launched the concept of the school of the Republic to be "Free and compulsory ". Jules Ferry was already very committed to public education and accessible to all, and created free primary school. Besides his statue is erected in the Luxembourg garden (Behind the French Senate) and numerous public French schools bear his name in tribute to his political and civic engagement.

GRAND ORIENT OF FRANCE MASONRY BASED ON PRECEPTS OF 3 CENTURIES OF HISTORY-------------------- "Modern Freemasonry is a product of the Enlightenment. The first Grand Lodge was formed in London, while became " the capital "of philosophical ideas in 1717. The Grand Orient of France is the oldest and largest Masonic of continental Europe. Born in 1728 as the first Grand Lodge of France, took its form and current name in 1773. Today, the Grand Orient brings together more than 49,000 registered members in more than 1,200 lodges. it offers a humanistic way, initiation and fraternal. "Since its creation, the Grand Orient of France has aimed the unifying body of the French Freemasonry. Until the Second World War, GODF (F-Grand Orient Lodge of France) also brought together nearly two-thirds of French Masons. Today it is the only major traditional obedience to maintain fraternal relations with all persuasions, including mixed and female, he recognizes the perfect Masonic legitimacy".Source: Grand Orient de France http://www.godf.org/

GODF MASONRY IS "AVANT GARDE" BUT IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ITS ANCESTORS---------------------------------- "Grand Orient Freemasons are among the main architects of the coming and rooting in our country of the Republic which is part of French identity today. They consider themselves a bit as the guarantors and vanguard of the republican regime, which alone can ensure the development of each in Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. the history of the Grand Orient of France is a series of commitments of the members that compose tending to give shape to these values. Today, the work of the Masons particular focus on how to make alive these humanistic principles in a changing world and trying to rebuild. ". Source: Grand Orient de France http://www.godf.org/

FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE AT GRAND ORIENT DE FRANCE------------------------------------------------------------------ "During the eighteenth century, the Grand Lodges, around the world, decided to recruit not only Christians but to open the lodges to men of all religions. In the nineteenth century, the Grand Orient of France has gone a step further by proposing the Masonic initiation to all men provided they meet the "moral law" according to the letter of the Constitutions of Anderson (1723)". Source: Grand Orient de France http://www.godf.org/---------------------------------------------------------------------------- During the attacks of Charlie Hebdo on January 7, Bernard Michel Renaud and Maris were killed. They were members of the GODF who marched during the march of 11 January which follows (See article http://www.newsrama.uspa24.com/bericht-3194/2-million-of-silent-republican-march-in-paris-including-50-heads-of-state.html).------------------------------------------------- The issue of "C'est dans l'air" (It's in the air" French TV program on Channel France 5) of 16 April was to the credit of GODF because it was underpinned" with two sequences, the Masonic "Utopiales of obedience" of Rue Cadet, which took place on 11 and 12 April and on an interview with the Grand Master Daniel Keller ... a week after a portrait published by Le Figaro spoke on this tray is in the Air by Yves Calvi and Yves Thréard. Source: http://blogs.lexpress.fr/lumiere-franc-macon/2015/04/17/cest-dans-lair-la-fm-revient-en-politique/----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXCERPT FROM THE KELLER'S BOOK " If Freemasonry aims to improve everything at once man and society (...) it does not intend to thoroughly reform the institutions of the Republic, but more modestly to contribute in developing existing structures and laws governing to support change or to forestall it. "This comprehensive program, ambitious, signed by Celine Byron-Porter and Daniel Keller, in their book "the Masonic Utopia" (Derby, April 2015). For more information: http://www.fondation-godf.org/bundles/foundationmain/images/logo-fondation-godf.jpg----------------------------------------------- http://www.godf.org/, www.outre-mer.org http://blogs.lexpress.fr/lumiere-franc-macon/2015/04/17/cest-dans-lair-la-fm-revient-en-politique/, http://www.fm-fr.org/francais/obediences/les-obediences-liberales/le-grand-orient-de-france About Massons in US, origins see alos: http://www.ilmason.org/Site/GrandLodgeIllinois/Information/FamousMasons.aspx