Super-Lodges (Ur-Lodges) Explained The ordinary Masonry consists of national Grand Lodges and Grand Orients which are often rigid, dogmatic, institutional groups. In contrast, Ur-Lodges (super-lodges) are cosmopolitan, transnational Masonic bodies uniting the most eminent members from ordinary Masonry and influential non-Masonic figures who demonstrate a genuine spiritual and esoteric aspiration. Examples: Progressive Ur-Lodges: Thomas Paine, Montesquieu, Ioannes, Christopher Columbus, Hiram Rhodes Revels, Ghedullah Conservative Ur-Lodges: Edmund Burke, Joseph de Maistre, Compass Star-Rose, Pan-Europa, Three Eyes, White Eagle Some Famous Members Who Passed Through the “Thomas Paine” Ur-Lodge Giuseppe Mazzini, Giuseppe Garibaldi (also first Grand Master of the Grand Orient of Italy), John Stuart Mill, Victor Hugo, Jules Michelet, Louis Blanc, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Charles Darwin, John Dewey, George Bernard Shaw, Aleksandr Kerensky, John Maynard Keynes, Mahatma Gandhi, G...