Bucharest, on December 31, 2020
My dear brother,
I hear the only good thing about 2020 is that it's coming to an end.
What more can be said about the year in which, worse than the Covid-19 virus, the virus of megalomania, imposture, division, fraud and betrayal also hit us?
Treatments have already appeared for both viruses. Antibodies have been activated for both predators. They will be defeated.
There are also fair answers to what happened to us this year.
We did not lack the answers. The right questions were missing. There was no manhood to put them. We lacked the courage to put them on.
The shame of being fooled and dishonored will haunt us for a while. But it will pass. Our right deeds will complete the recovery.
Suddenly, this year, we turned to face the Initiation mirror. And I saw the truth. And we shuddered.
Perhaps the return of Freemasonry to the life of Romania immediately after 1989, although it was inevitable, was done too early. Maybe society wasn't ready yet. It still took time to think. The rush led to an imitation of Freemasonry, a pompous and bottomless form. If it were not so, the shameful eruption of the generic episode called "Ninel" would not have existed.
The sufferings of the Romanian Freemasons this year prove to be the pains of the birth of the true Freemasonry in Romania. The Grand National Lodge of Romania returns to authentic Freemasonry, respecting the universal principles and the Old Landmarks. Only in this way will we be able to forget that he had begun to take on the twisted face of envy, hatred, and imposture of the fraud of our Order.
My dear Brother, life begins today. From today on, you have the chance for your name to be mentioned in the future among those who will have assumed the cleansing of the current misery, giving back to the Romanian Freemasonry the Honor and Dignity that were temporarily confiscated.
Now we can truly build together "from the foundation stone" a spiritual work that our families can be proud of over the years. Not to be ashamed. It's a truly historic chance.
In Bucharest, at our invitation, in the online meeting on December 18, 44 countries out of the approximately 60 in which there is -regular and recognized- the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, were represented at the highest level. Here is confirmation that we are not on the wrong side of the road.
Those who drove the passengers here got out of the carriages. And it goes down.
Those who have a ticket remain.
We're moving forward!
Happy New Year, it's better than all!
Stelian Nistor, 33º,
THE SOVEREIGN GRAND COMMANDER
