LOGIA SOLIDARIDAD BLG. 28

GERMINATION AND GROWTH 
• 1856 – “Primera Luz Filipina” organize in Cavite under Grand Oriente Lusitano. Other foreigners, mostly Germans, founded Lodges. British founded a Lodge in Nagtahan, Spaniards founded a Lodge in Pandacan.
• 1879 – Teheron founded four Lodges in Manila, two in Cavite and one in Zamboanga. Also founded higher bodies.
• 1890 – Nilad No. 144 organized. According to the annual of 1893 –1894 there were 24 Lodges and 70 triangles.
• 1893 – December 10, Gran Consejo Regional de Filipinas was installed under the Gran Oriente Español.
• 1898 – Jose Reyes Tolentino and Valentin Polintan founded Lodge“Modestia” No. 199. American Masons also established a Lodge named “Manila”under the Grand Lodge of California.
• 1901 – June 18, Dr. Trinidad Pardo de Tavera formed “Rizal” Lodge under Grand Orient of France and afterwards, “Minerva”, “Isarog”, “Tayabas”,and “Nueva Ecija”. Afterwards “Rizal”, “Minerva” and “Isarog” passed to the jurisdiction of the Grand Oriente Espanol and the others were dissolved.
• 1901 – Manuel Camus and others founded Perla del Oriente under the Grand Lodge of Escosia and afterwards founded Lodge Cebu.
• 1902 – Lodge “Minerva” was founded under the Grand Oriente Lusitano.
• 1907 – March 6, at the initiative of Sinukuan Lodge No. 272 with Timoteo Paez as Venerable Master, a Grand Regional Lodge was founded.
• 1912 – November 17, American Masons organize the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons the Philippines Islands composed of Lodges Corregidor, Manila and Cavite.
With those two Grand Lodges or jurisdiction existing face to face, the (1) Grand Lodges of the Philippine Island and the (2) Grand Regional Lodge under the Grand Oriente Español, the conflict of territorial jurisdiction came out, with the result that each other declared the other irregular and vice versa.
• 1917 – January, Grand Regional Lodge and Grand Lodge of the Philippine Islands formed committees to lay the ground work for a fusion of the two jurisdictions. Grand Regional Lodge approved fusion but this was disapproved by the Grand Lodge of the Philippine Island, and demanded that each lodge under the Grand Regional Lodge be admitted through affiliation.
• 1917 – February 15, 27 Lodges of the Grand Regional Lodge of the Philippines were affiliated to the Grand Lodge of the Philippine Island. For sometime the union was sweet, but by - - -
• 1921 – Due to political reasons a cleavage was developed which led to a return to the former TWO JURISDICTIONS. The Grand Oriente Español was constituted.
• 1924 – April, trouble between the Grand Master of the Grand Regional Lodge and Grand Delegate both under the jurisdiction of the Grand Oriente Español arose. Appeal was sent to Madrid by the Grand Master but the Grand Delegate was sustained and given ample power. This incident gave birth to the idea of forming the Philippine Family of the Universal Freemasonry.
• 1924 – July 4, 1924 at the Teatro Rizal, Tondo Manila, a general meeting or assembly of Master Masons was celebrated and the birth and organization of the Supremo Consejo del Grado 33 para Filipinas, took place.
• 1924 – December 30, Rizal Day – PROCLAMATION OF SUPREMO CONSEJO DEL GRADO 33 PARA FILIPINAS consisting of 27 Blue Lodges, one Lodge of Perfection, One Chapter Rosa Cruz, one Council Kadosh and the corresponding Grand Consistory.