SEVEN Masonic Lodges in the state of Minas Gerais decided, in a historic and important deliberation, carried out on August 20, 2004, to become Independent, as were all the workshops prior to Andersons constitution. These pioneering Lojas left the Obediencial system until then, after exhausting all efforts to change the existing relationship model in the current Powers, mainly with regard to the Lojas affiliated to them.