solution was passed unanimously:

That the Grand Lodge, whilst always anxious to receive in the most
fraternal spirit the Brethren of any foreign Grand Lodge whose
proceedings are conducted according to the Ancient Landmarks of the
Order, of which a belief in T.G.A.O.T.U. is the first and most
important, cannot recognize as "true and genuine" Brethren any who
have been initiated in lodges which either deny or ignore that
belief.[675]

The Grand Orient, says M. Copin Albancelli, not content with renouncing
the Great Architect whose glory it had celebrated on every possible
occasion and whose praises had been incessantly sung in its lodges,
demanded of its initiates that they should declare themselves to be
absolutely convinced that the Great Architect was nothing but a
myth.[676] More than this, violent anti-religious tirades have been
permitted and even applauded in the lodges. Thus in 1902 the Freemason
Delpech in his discourse at a masonic banquet uttered these words:

The triumph of the Galilean has lasted twenty centuries; he is
dying in his turn. The mysterious voice which once on the mountains
of Epirus announced the death of Pan, to-day announces the death of
the deceiver God who had promised an era of justice and peace to
those who should believe in him. The illusion has lasted very long;
the lying God in his turn disappears; he goes to rejoin in the dust
of ages the other divinities of India, Egypt, Greece, and Rome, who
saw so many deluded creatures throw themselves at the food of their
altars. Freemasons, we are pleased to state that we are not
unconcerned with this ruin of false prophets. The Roman Church,
founded on the Galilean myth, began to decline rapidly on the day
when the masonic association was constituted. From the political
point of view Freemasons have often varied. But in all times
Freemasonry has stood firm on this principle: war on all
superstitions, war on all fanaticism.[677]

How is it possible to reconcile this attitude towards religion in
general and Christianity in particular with the fact that the Grand
Orient still works the Rose-Croix degree? This degree--which, as we have
seen, was first devised (whether in Scotland or in France) to give a
Christian meaning to Masonry--was only incorporated into British
Freemasonry in 1846 and in our country has retained its original
char