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“Besant’s entrance into Freemasonry marked an important change in the character of internationally-practiced Co-Masonry. It was she who restored its spiritual heart.”
― Karen Kidd, On Holy Ground: A History of The Honorable Order of American Co-Masonry

“CoMasonry, in that it admits women, is something different, something distinct from the other Masonic bodies,” said the January 1913 edition of Universal CoMasonry.240 “It has not been organized and is not maintained in America to compete with any of them, to condemn or fight any of them, but to fill a role of its own and that is to bring together in one organization men and women of all nationalities and races, of all creeds and political beliefs and have them, through the greatest of all Masonic virtues, TOLERANCE, work in peace and harmony to hasten the day when Universal Brotherhood shall be a reality, understood and lived.”
― Karen Kidd, On Holy Ground: A History of The Honorable Order of American Co-Masonry