Dear all, spread the word...
Nobody of us knew the information and I have discovered it today only. In November 2008 (probably), Metropolitan Hilarion of ROCOR and Metropolitan Platon (Russia) met with free masons dignitaries in Brazil. The information is told in Brazilian in the masonic newspaper (AO ZENYT, number 6) of the Local lodge available and downloadable here at page 4 and 5 :
http://www.godf.org.br/ao_zenyte/ao_zenyte6.asp
The cover of this number is here : http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/a/r/archiv/__1.jpg
Look at the pics! Hilarion, Metropolitan of ROCOR is easily recognisable:
http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/a/r/archiv/5.jpg
The man at the right of the pic is the masonic great master that can be seen on this pic at the center with his mason uniform.
http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/a/r/archiv/333.JPG
The article in Portuguese (Brazilian) says the masons wanted to end the myths about masonery and explain masonery wanted to promote freedom, justice, equality and was ready to work with other spiritual forces to do so. After that, the article describes the history of the Russian church.
Jean-Serge
ps : the information is already in French here : http://orthodoxie-libre.over-blog.com/a ... 37804.html