Soberana
Welcome to the GLSP – Sovereign Grand Lodge of Portugal, the new Portuguese Freemasonry! We are an initiatory Masonic body working regularly in accordance with the universal landmarks.
WHO WE ARE
Soberana is a new and modern way of living Freemasonry, ready for the challenges of the 21st century, anchored in history yet turned towards understanding how universal Masonic values can flourish and give meaning to the most important philosophical questions of our time.
Soberana practises the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, the York Rite and the Portuguese Rite, and has Lodges throughout the country. We form Masons who are Masons every day and who do not forget the oath they took: to become better Men. Freemasonry is, then, the “Gymnasium of the Soul”. At Soberana, we do not create disciples, we form Masters!
Our Mission
A MASONIC INSTITUTION FINDS ITS MEANING BY ALIGNING ITSELF WITH THE CONCERNS AND CHALLENGES OF TODAY’S SOCIETY
Solidarity
Solidarity means sharing. Only Brotherly Love can be divided and, even so, multiplied. We are not a charity. Our wish is to help others help themselves. As the saying goes, we would rather “teach a man to fish than give him a fish”.
Education
Understood in its holistic sense, we stand for an education towards leadership, accountability, citizenship and example. For us, the act of educating is a function of the one who learns and not of the one who teaches. We shall be agents of the awakening of consciences.
Grand Master
Fernando José Pereira
Sep 2024 – Sep 2026
Masonic C.V.
Secular C.V.
My dear Brethren, dear friends,
The times we live in today are deeply battered by the most dangerous ideological aggressions, by every kind of manipulation and populism, which seriously call into question the most basic foundations of democracy, of freedom, of peace and of social harmony. They promote hatred, selfishness, intolerance and systemic ignorance, confusing citizens ever more, especially the young, and thereby affecting the whole of Humanity in the most primary and cruel way.
By their philosophical genesis, their spirit of solidarity and their historical responsibility, Masons are the people who can and must make the greatest difference in this terrible context of intolerance and radicalism in which the world now finds itself. And that is also why it is so important that we stand firmly united, on the side of truth, love and wisdom, seeking to illuminate our spirit with ideas as clear and clean as the purest, most crystalline water. Without hesitation, ambiguity or betrayal of the most elementary moral, ethical and philosophical principles. The very ones we swore on our honour to embrace, defend and uphold uncompromisingly.
We need to be ever more coherent and effective in the proposal we profess to the world, in the value we place on our cultural and spiritual mission, and in the way we positively influence society and every other Human Being.
And that is why it is also essential that we grow, in the number and in the quality of our Brethren, becoming ever more and ever better in everything we do. Day after day, at home, at school, in the streets, at work, in life. From the intimacy of the Lodges out into the profane world, a true army of light, of peace and of hope, in the service of Humanity.
For a Mason, the work on the stone of conscience and of his inner temple will never be finished. And however many we may be today, we shall always be too few for the hard and herculean work that stands before us. The times demand it.
For true Masons, for the new Portuguese Regular Freemasonry, for our Obedience, which is Soberana, there remain principles and values that are universal, timeless and absolutely non-negotiable.
Always and forever, Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
And may the Great Architect of the Universe help us.
Fernando José Pereira
Grand Master of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Portugal
Past Grand Masters
João Pestana Dias
Sep 2018 – Sep 2020
Secular C.V.
Masonic C.V.
Abílio Alagôa da Silva
Sep 2020 – Sep 2022
Secular C.V.
Masonic C.V.
Fernando Correia
Sep 2022 – Sep 2024
The Imperative of the Portuguese Rite
The symbolic complex of our myth-history, of decisive importance in building the identity of the Lusitanian soul, presents itself as a field that can no longer be postponed, calling for the deepening and dissemination that our organisations must undertake.
Equally by virtue of the ecumenical quality inherent in that complex, the need arose to bring into being the Portuguese Rite, capable of expressing in condensed form the specificity of the Portuguese being, its spirituality, and its contribution to a possible harmonisation of a process of globalisation that has been proving iniquitous and ill-adjusted. This, moreover, has been addressed by countless authors from António Telmo, Cunha Leão, Dalila Pereira da Costa, Agostinho da Silva, Camões, Pessoa, Teixeira de Pascoaes and many more, in whose works we find the conceptualisations of the Fifth Empire and the Empire of the Holy Spirit, the Voyage, the Saudade, the Mare Tenebrum and the Finisterrae, the Resurrection and the Eschatological or Salvific Redemption.
The Portuguese Rite, while not constituting a rupture with an exogenous tradition, holds it possible to integrate into the context of a Portuguese Freemasonry its socio-historical and mythical references, taking on an invaluable contribution to Universal Freemasonry.
Would you like to belong to the new Freemasonry?
Sente-se preparado para ser uma melhor versão de si próprio? Esta Utopia real é feita da materialização do espírito na matéria pois como disse Fernando Pessoa: Deus Quer, o Homem Sonha, a Obra nasce!