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                            "SIT LUX ET LUX FUIT"

Welcome to the official web page of the Masonic High Council of the USA, Ancient and Honourable
Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons. The web page of the Masonic High Council of the USA
was created in order to provide a focal point, where those interested in the Craft can access
information on the History and Tradition of Freemasonry in general.

                                       Mission Statement

Our mission is charting the path, in promoting and uniting the Craft, in America and across the
globe and the only Masonic Federation practicing and promoting Ancient English Craft Masonry and
establishing a New Confederation of Regular Grand Lodges.

                                             Fraternal Recognition

Fraternal recognition may be extended to a Regular Grand Lodge when it appears to the satisfaction
of the Masonic High Council Constitutions, the Board Members of the MHCUSA with their having
first considered and reported thereon:

- That such Regular 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 MHCUSA, or from a Grand
Body in fraternal relations with this Masonic High Council.

- 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 MHCUSA 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.

    MASONIC HIGH COUNCIL OF THE USA
               Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons

YOU CAN CONTACT US AT:

		President General (jhburris@gmail.com)
		Deputy Secretary General (carlbrigham@gmail.com)

Confederation of Regular Grand Lodges in America

MHCUSA

SITE LINKS

MW Bro. Philipe Paul Alexandre Henry
Grand Master of Masons
Regular Grand Lodge of England F&AM