Numerous male, female and mixed obediences from Europe, Africa, Asia and America responded to the Appeal of Strasbourg and joined the Chain of Universal Union. 

Cohering with the ethics proposed by the founders, all our Obediences: 

-  are proud of their absolute fidelity to the message of tolerance, fraternity and union contained in the 1^st article of Anderson's Constitutions. Respecting it continues to be their gold rule.

- believe the Freemasonry has the mission of gathering people who would be permanently strangers without it and that the Freemason should be an element of concord among the men. 

- consider that the main point of Freemasonry consists of its social ideal of fraternity and duty, not the rigid observance of any habits, even if traditional. 

- believe that a spirituality that narrowly connects the man to the future of the humanity and to the improvement of its condition has as much moral value as the one that can be found in the relationships with a supra-natural principle.

For being progressive, our Freemasonry, conscious of accomplishing Master Anderson's generous intention in the modern scientific society, does not admit any limitation to the absolute liberty of conscience and, for its natural extension, the complete liberty of the spirit. 

The accomplishment of this ideal demands the understanding of every Freemason inside of a harmony where each note conserves its value and, inside of the respect to the liberty of each one. A Freemason who tries to accomplish his mission would not repel any of the values capable of fortifying Freemasonry. 

All of the free and honest human beings, from all races, religions, social situations, philosophical or political ideals and economic conceptions should commune the same wish for unity to allow the construction of a vast universal Masonic reunion whose need is more imperative now than it has ever been.

If there is exclusion, it does not result from us and we avoid creating it ourselves. Far from being an obstacle to the Union, we believed the diversity of moral values is a factor of intellectual and spiritual wealth indispensable to its success.

With the spirit of those values CLIPSAS expressed its convictions and moral engagement to the World through the Appeal of Lisbon, where, with no ambiguities, Clipsas assumed a position about the most important problems of the humanity, on the verge of the 21 century: 

"Freemasons of today, members of CLIPSAS, men and women from different races,
different philosophical convictions, from all nationalities, who fraternally connect to all human beings from all continents, make the following Appeal:

-  that all the world inhabitants unite in actions favoring the emergence of a real human solidarity,

-   that they rise up against any integrism, against any aggression, against any exclusion,

-   that they work for the harmonious development of all human beings in the liberty of conscience and mutual respect.

To attain these goals, it is necessary that each man and each woman fully play its role in working to the progressive elimination of world economical injustice, of physical, moral and spiritual alienation of the peoples, in the respect of our vital environment. It is the aim of all Free-Masons signatories of the present Appeal, who work in accordance with the principles of humanistic tradition".

Joining the Union of Strasbourg, through CLIPSAS, the freemasonry connected to the liberty of conscience and to a perfect mutual tolerance, contributes to the humanist ideal and to the re-establishment of the Chain of Union of Anderson's Constitutions.