Dear Editor,
On behalf of “Notizie massoniche italiane,” I would like to thank you for your willingness to publish this response, aimed at clarifying certain aspects related to the workings of the transnational Masonic Lodge Flos Mundi. These aspects, which we have highlighted on our Telegram Channel, are deemed worthy of attention by the competent authorities.
This case arose from our investigation into Maltese Freemasonry, which represents a unique aspect in the international Masonic landscape.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Malta (SGLoM), a daughter of the Grand Lodge of Ireland, is predominantly composed of non-Maltese citizens. As for the transnational Lodge Flos Mundi, it is primarily made up of Italians, mostly from the Calabria and Sicily regions.
Therefore, the claim that the Lodge is composed 90% of Sardinian members is entirely unfounded.
According to our information, there would be no more than a dozen Sardinians affiliated with Flos Mundi, out of an estimated membership list of about 200-300 affiliates. A truly significant number.
This Lodge, in fact Italian, under the Maltese and English umbrella (granted by the recognition of SGLoM by the United Grand Lodge of England), operates throughout Eastern Europe and Southern Italy, with operational meetings (among others) in Prague on May 18 and 19, 2019, in Tirana on May 16, 2020, in Bucharest on May 19, 2023, and in Switzerland, in Lugano on May 31, 2024, but especially, as far as we are concerned, in Italy, in Ragusa on September 27, 2024, and in Palmi on March 23, 2024. It has widespread and substantial affiliations in these locations (9 in Tirana, 17 in Palmi…).
All of this is documented in the full material we attach.
The peculiar nature of this transnational Lodge, which we have confirmed through documents in our possession, is that the membership list is secret; it is held exclusively by the Worshipful Master of the Lodge, the Secretary, and the Grand Master of SGLoM, Mr. Simon Cusens.
This secret membership list is not even released to the affiliates of the Flos Mundi Lodge, even if specifically requested, citing privacy reasons. This is at least ridiculous, especially for those who know how things work within any Masonic Lodge worldwide.
In our opinion, the issue is not as much with the meetings of these “brothers” in the Balkans, the Carpathians, or in Lugano, but when Flos Mundi operates in Italy, under the aegis of the Grand Orient of Italy (GOI), in the Masonic Temples of the Grand Orient of Italy. In such cases, the GOI cannot verify, due to the secrecy of the Flos Mundi membership list, who truly belongs to this transnational Lodge, which includes among its officials one Tommaso Lentini (as “Mentor”), who, we understand, was involved over a decade ago in the judicial police operation against ‘Ndrangheta, called “Saggezza.”
We have wondered whether allowing Flos Mundi to operate in its Temples violates the Spadolini-Anselmi Law on secret societies for the GOI and its Legal Representative.
We consider it serious that the Grand Orient of Italy allows a Lodge that cannot provide the necessary guarantees about the legitimate membership of its affiliated “brothers” in the Regular Freemasonry circuit to operate in its Temples.
Without being able to verify the membership list, how can we be sure that the transnational Lodge Flos Mundi does not include expelled members from Regular Freemasonry? Or worse, individuals initiated “in the ear of the Worshipful Master” or “on the sword”?
These are questions that require concrete answers, as the scandal we have uncovered has international ramifications, especially considering the economic network tied to the initiations Flos Mundi has organized throughout Europe (mainly Eastern Europe).
We would also like to know what the Grand Chancellor of England, Paul Engeham, has to say about this issue and whether he considers such a circus worthy of the most traditional English Freemasonry.
Italian Masonic News