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The Origins of Freemasonry

open access: yes, 1988
This is a classic account of the origins of freemasonry, a brotherhood of men bound together by secret initiatives, secret rituals and secret modes of identification with ideals of fraternity, equality, toleration and reason. Beginning in Britain, freemasonry swept across Europe in the mid-eighteenth century in astonishing fashion yet its origins are ...
David Stevenson
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MOZART AND FREEMASONRY

Music and Letters, 1976
On 14 December 1784 Mozart was initiated into the degree of Apprentice at the lodge 'Beneficence' in Vienna. That he wrote a number of works for specifically Masonic occasions and that The Magic Flute is a Masonic allegory, is, of course, well known. In 1738 Pope Clement XII issued an edict banning the Freemasons.
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Freemasonry

Notes and Queries, 1885
null F. N., null Lewis
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Freemasonry in Norway

open access: yes, 2016
This entry provides an overview over the development of freemasonry in ...
Önnerfors, Andreas,
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Freemasonry and Templarism

2014
Many texts which appeared in France in the 1740s, either to present, defend or condemn Freemasonry, considered it to be some sort of Order of chivalry. Given the rapid development of the chivalric theme running through French Freemasonry after the 1730s it is difficult to ascribe its origins to anything other than the personal innovation of Ramsay. The
Pierre Mollier, Pierre Mollier
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Freemasonry in Russia

Russian Studies in History, 1996
Since time immemorial, Freemasonry has been associated with something mysterious and powerful. Colorful pictures of ritual meetings come to mind, as portrayed by Sir Walter Scott, Georges Sand, Alexandre Dumas, Aleksei Pisemsky, and Leo Tolstoy—pictures of adepts of the order in dark rooms decorated with symbols—signs of the zodiac, skulls, shinbones ...
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