He also argued that some serious dissensions among Filipinos originated, "more than for anything else, from the mania of Aguinaldo, or rather of his adviser, Mabini, to elevate any person who was a mason" It should not come as a surprise to anyone, therefore, if Aguinaldo decided to extol masonry in the Philippine flag. In his Memoirs, Felipe Calderon, the President of the Malolos Congress, claimed that the "sectarian masonic spirit" undermined the insurrection. His nepotism was so pronounced, a critic of masonry denounced it as one of the "evils" of the Revolution. He made membership in the masonic fraternity an important qualification for appointments to government positions. And I venture to say that the first Philippine Republic of which I was its humble president, was an achievement we owe, largely, to masonry and the freemasons." Speaking of the revolutionists, he added "With God to illumine them, and masonry to inspire them, they fought the battle of emancipation and won." During the Revolution, Aguinaldo frequently displayed a marked bias in favor of freemasons and masonry.
In one of his speeches delivered after the Revolution, Aguinaldo said "The successful Revolution of 1896 was masonically inspired, masonically led, and masonically executed.
These assertions are essentially plausible, for the man principally responsible for its design President Emilio Aguinaldo was a zealous masonic partisan. Time and again it has been asserted that masonry played an important role in the design of the Philippine flag and that some of its symbols were meant to memorialize the Craft. Use our Search Engine to locate topics of interest, or email requests for specific information to our Grand Lodge Librarian. "There is nothing so indestructible as a symbol but nothing is capable of so many interpretations."
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