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Journal articles on the topic "Freemasons, rituals"
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Milinkevičiūtė, Daiva. "TARP DVIEJŲ KOLONŲ: XVIII A. PABAIGOS – XIX A. PRADŽIOS VILNIAUS MASONŲ KASDIENYBĖ SIMBOLIKOJE." Lietuvos Didžioji Kunigaikštystė Visuomenė. Kasdienybės istorija, T. 4 (October 8, 2018): 144–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.33918/xviiiastudijos/t.4/a6.
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The Age of Enlightenment is defined as the period when the universal ideas of progress, deism, humanism, naturalism and others were materialized and became a golden age for freemasons. It is wrong to assume that old and conservative Christian ideas were rejected. Conversely, freemasons put them into new general shapes and expressed them with the help of symbols in their daily routine. Symbols of freemasons had close ties with the past and gave them, on the one hand, a visible instrument, such as rituals and ideas to sense the transcendental, and on the other, intense gnostic aspirations. Freemasons put in a great amount of effort to improve themselves and to create their identity with the help of myths and symbols. It traces its origins to the biblical builders of King Solomon’s Temple, the posterity of the Templar Knights, and associations of the medieval craft guilds, which were also symbolical and became their link not only to each other but also to the secular world. In this work we analysed codified masonic symbols used in their rituals. The subject of our research is the universal Masonic idea and its aspects through the symbols in the daily life of the freemasons in Vilnius. Thanks to freemasons’ signets, we could find continuity, reception, and transformation of universal masonic ideas in the Lithuanian freemasonry and national characteristics of lodges. Taking everything into account, our article shows how the universal idea of freemasonry spread among Lithuanian freemasonry, and which forms and meanings it incorporated in its symbols. The objective of this research is to find a universal Masonic idea throughout their visual and oral symbols and see its impact on the daily life of the masons in Vilnius. Keywords: Freemasonry, Bible, lodge, symbols, rituals, freemasons’ signets.
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Zhang, Xinyi. "The Analysis of the Queen of the Night." Communications in Humanities Research 22, no. 1 (December 7, 2023): 170–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/22/20231701.
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Mozarts Die Zauberflote stands as one of his masterpieces, characterized by a significant Freemasonic influence. Within the opera, the Queen of the Nights aria serves as a defining moment for the soprano singer. Portrayed as the mother of the heroine Pamina, she undergoes a transformation in her personality, transitioning from a loving mother to an evil one. This paper will delve into the elements of Freemasonry that shape her character, such as the inclusion of Egyptian motifs, the conflict between fatherhood and motherhood, and the rituals of the Freemasons. Furthermore, it will conduct a psychological analysis of her motives using the theory of archetypal women. The archetype of the Great Mother has been expressed through various symbols throughout history, predating humanitys understanding, manifesting in forms such as fairy tale fairies, witches, and stepmothers. Die Zauberflote, as a fairy tale, also includes these elements. This paper uses the Great Mother God theory to explore the reasons and rationality of her transformation and how music describes her psychological movement.
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Brown, Matthew B. "Girded about with a Lambskin." Journal of Book of Mormon Studies (1992-2007) 6, no. 2 (October 1, 1997): 124–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/44758824.
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Abstract The publication of the Book of Mormon brought forward the first of many comparisons between the restorational work of the Prophet Joseph Smith and his surrounding environment, including Freemasonry. One point of comparison has been the lambskin apparel mentioned in 3 Nephi 4:7. I will suggest a possible connection between this item of apparel and ritual clothing that was worn in ancient Israel, Egypt, and Mesoamerica. I will also suggest a possible reason for the use of this item of clothing among the secret combinations in the Book of Mormon. Finally, I will discuss the lambskin apron used in Freemasonic ritual.
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Camp, Pannill. "May Philosophy Flourish: Pantheisticon, Freemasonry, and Eighteenth-Century Ritual Philosophy." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 51, no. 3 (September 1, 2021): 553–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10829636-9295065.
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In eighteenth-century Europe, ritual performance behavior was consciously used for philosophical purposes. The richest documented instances of this involved Freemasonry, a voluntary fraternal order that drew tens of thousands of men, across Europe and beyond, into a secretive ritual practice. Masons understood ritual, the core of Masonic “craft,” as a philosophical activity in itself. Supporting this claim requires a critique of the prevalent view that Freemasonry was uniquely compatible with specific Enlightenment philosophical constructs—constitutional monarchism in political thought and deistic Newtonianism in natural philosophy. Rather than expressing these specific philosophical views, Masonic ritual effectuated philosophical reflection apart from the outside world. John Toland's proto-Masonic ritual document Pantheisticon shows how early modern rituals fostered thinking in lodge settings and distinguished between Masonic and “profane” entities. On this basis it can be argued that performance in this era and beyond should be understood as the generative containment of knowledge.
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PORTER, JOY. "Native American Indian Freemasonry and Its Relation to the Performative Turn within Contemporary American Scholarship." Journal of American Studies 47, no. 2 (August 2, 2012): 439–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875812000795.
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This article is informed by recent work by the author unearthing the histories of Native American Indian Freemasons from the Revolutionary era to the present. Given that performed ritual has always been key to Masonic practice, it was initially supposed that Indian performance within Masonry could be explained using the same performative analytical lens that has recently been applied to various other aspects of the American and American Indian past. However, this research reveals that the performance paradigm has important limitations when applied in colonial or postcolonial contexts and that these have a particular significance when we evaluate the Native American fraternal experience of Freemasonry. This article explores the specifics of recent “performative” analyses and argues that whilst performance offers potentially revealing and enabling new means of comprehending Indian and non-Indian interaction, it also carries with it risks against which we must remain vigilant. It argues that the performance paradigm is useful only to the extent to which it can differentiate between positive cultural interaction and negative cultural appropriation. It concludes by suggesting that it is only when we conceive of culture as being essentially imaginative that performance as an analytical paradigm fully functions.
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KOROLEV, Yu A. "THE PHENOMENON OF SWEDISH FREEMASONARY IN RUSSIAN AND EUROPEAN HISTORY." JOURNAL OF PUBLIC AND MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION 10, no. 2 (2021): 153–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/2225-8272-2021-10-2-153-162.
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The purpose of the article is to study the history of one of the little-known Masonic organizations - the Swe-dish Rite of Freemasonry. A significant part of the work is devoted to the Swedish system development in Russia and the ties between Russian and Swedish Freemasonry. The author pays attention to the specific nature of the Swedish ritual, which differs in many respects from traditional Freemasonry. These con-cerns, first of all, the legend about the origin of Swe-dish Freemasonry from the medieval Knights Templar order. Based on this legend, the analysis of the hierarchy of Swedish ritual degrees is given and their inter-nal content is revealed. This article can become the basis for a great scientific research of the Swedish Masonic system and the peculiarities of its existence in various European countries.
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Burmistrov, Konstantin. "Mystical vision and its evaluation in the Russian freemasonry of the late 18th — early 19th century." St. Tikhons' University Review 102 (August 31, 2022): 73–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.15382/sturi2022102.73-86.
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In the richest manuscript heritage of Russian freemasons, who lived two centuries ago, there are numerous descriptions of various mystical experiences. These are visions and mystical dreams in which beings from the other world appeared, as well as deliberately evoked mystical states by which an adept attempts to penetrate into the other world. For censorship reasons, this aspect of the activities of Russian brothers practically did not go beyond the narrow circle of initiates. The article will attempt to present the main types of mystical experience reflected in the manuscripts of Russian freemasons – mostly diaries and correspondence. The most valuable information of this kind is contained in so-called “Masonic dreams”. These stories constitute a special genre of Masonic literature and preserved in a significant number of manuscripts. They were based on the idea of a special inner, spiritual vision, which has an adept and which allows him to achieve clairvoyance. Masonic dreams contain a significant amount of details related both to the Masonic ritual and symbolic decoration of the premises of Masonic lodges, and to those practices of moral self-improvement that are important for the Masonic path. Russian freemasons paid considerable attention to the problem of evaluating such experience – is it a gift from the divine essences or a temptation sent by demonic forces? The question of the significance of such an experience was also important: is it an accidental consequence of Masonic work, a hindrance on the way, or, on the contrary, a kind of confirmation of progress in following the Masonic path? The Orthodox Church, to which the Russian freemasons belonged, is extremely negative about such forms of mysticism. Therefore, they were forced to seek explanations for such phenomena in Catholic and Protestant mysticism, as well as in the European esoteric tradition. The article attempts to answer these questions, based on the analysis of a wide range of Masonic manuscripts of the 18th - early 19th centuries, preserved in the families of Russian Masons and today located in the Moscow archives.
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Small, Alastair, and Carola Small. "South Italy, England and Elysium in the Eighteenth Century." Antiquaries Journal 79 (September 1999): 301–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003581500044553.
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In a complex of interconnecting tunnels at Avigliano in South Italy there are two inscriptions at two entrances in eighteenth century lettering referring, one to Inferno, the other to Elysium. The measurements of the spatial components of the tunnels refer to Pythagorean numerology. The complex is on land formerly belonging to the local Corbo family and was probably constructed about 1762 by Carlo Corbo for rituals of the mystical, somewhat unorthodox Neapolitan freemasonry of the time. They can be compared to the tunnels at West Wycombe, England where Sir Francis Dashwood who, like many contemporaries, was acquainted with Italian freemasonry, apparently parodied such masonic ideas. The Avigliano tunnels were still in use in 1838. By then the Corbo were embroiled in revolutionary politics perceived as having masonic links.
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Kortus, Nadzieja. "Masoński kod w twórczości Władimira Nabokowa. Próba interpretacji powieści „Zaproszenie na egzekucję” w kluczu symboliki masońskiej." Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, no. 41 (June 20, 2018): 121–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/strp.2016.41.10.
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This article is an attempt to interpet a work by Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading, with the most important determinants of Masonic culture. There are few studies that discuss this outstanding prose writer in terms of freemasonry and the author of this article discusses this issue with particular attention to the symbolism of the Masonic initiation ritual.
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Péter, Róbert. "Women in Eighteenth-Century English Freemasonry: the First English Adoption Lodges and their Rituals." Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism 4, no. 1 (March 30, 2014): 60–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/jrff.v4i1.60.
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Stemper, William. "Crafted links : the transformation of Masonic ritual order, 1772-1802; an intellectual history of the Preston-Webb synthesis." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367876.
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Assis, Manoel Wellington de. "A etnografia dos pedreiros livres da loja cavaleiros de Salomão." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2011. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/4171.
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Freemasonry is a closed social system, comprised of free men, morality, which are started in order regardless of colour, creed and nationality. The art of Free Masons (Freemasons), relates mystically the construction of the Temple of Jerusalem, where the symbols and rituals relate to the art of building, called real art. The present study objective was to analyze the Masonic symbology and its manifestations of order sociological, philosophical and scientific. Used ethnography as methodology, which consisted in collecting right and thorough of certain symbols and language changes that speaks to him who starts, Objectifying the description of the phenomena observed in "Free Masons" and Masonic Knights of Solomon, situated in the city of João Pessoa-PB, affiliated to the Grand Orient of Paraíba. The questions were formulated with participants and compiled on the basis of a rational reflection of symbols and languages. We found that there is an Operative Masonry in Franco-contemporary Freemasonry, fuelled by symbols originating transcendental, which lay down the secrets of initiation, which in turn are linked to certain objects. Possessing a unique profile, a scientific basis which emerges from a secular thought, love and truth are focal points, followed by good and beauty, and that was created from sedimentations of knowledge that past centuries and relies on the transcendentalidade of creation.
A Maçonaria é um sistema social fechado, composta por homens livres, de bons costumes, que são iniciados na ordem não importando a sua cor, credo e nacionalidade. A arte dos pedreiros livres (maçons), se relaciona misticamente à construção do templo de Jerusalém, onde os símbolos e rituais se referem à arte de construir, chamada arte real. O presente estudo teve por objetivo analisar a simbologia maçônica e suas manifestações de ordem sociológica, filosófica e cientifica. Utilizou-se como metodologia a etnografia, que consistiu na coleta direita e minuciosa de determinados símbolos e uma linguagem muda que fala àquele que é iniciado, objetivando a descrição dos fenômenos observados nos Pedreiros Livres e na Loja Maçônica Cavaleiros de Salomão, situada na cidade de João Pessoa-PB, filiada ao Grande oriente da Paraíba. As questões foram formuladas com os participantes e elaboradas com base em uma reflexão racional desses símbolos e linguagens. Concluímos que existe uma Maçonaria Operativa na Franco-Maçonaria contemporânea, alimentada por símbolos, com origem transcendental, que estabelecem os segredos da iniciação, que por sua vez estão ligados a determinados objetos. Possuindo, assim, um perfil exclusivo, uma base cientifica que emerge de um pensamento laico, nela o amor e a verdade são pontos focais, seguidos do bem e da beleza e que foi criada a partir de sedimentações de conhecimentos que ultrapassaram séculos e se apóia na transcendentalidade da criação.
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Gruson, François. "Pratique rituelle et forme de l'espace : le temple maçonnique : forme, type et signification." Thesis, Lille 3, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LIL30040/document.
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L’architecture des temples maçonniques constitue un patrimoine vivant, mais peu étudié, notamment dans le cadre de la recherche universitaire. Elle présente pourtant un double intérêt. En tant qu’objet d’étude, tout d’abord, elle offre des caractéristiques formelles, spatiales et stylistiques suffisamment marquantes pour qu’on puisse souhaiter en faire la description, en cherchant à la fois à en définir les limites et les invariants, et aussi à en cerner les différentes variations au travers de tropismes liés à l’histoire, la géographie ou la culture dans laquelle elle se développe. Cette architecture présente également un intérêt en tant que sujet de recherche : elle est strictement dictée par des rituels précis qui en définissent à la fois la forme, l’organisation et l’usage. De ce point de vue, cette étude permet tout d’abord de revisiter les notions de type et de modèle, telles qu’elles avaient été définies dans le cadre de l’analyse typo-morphologique développée par la critique italienne dans les années 1970. Elle permet ensuite d’établir un lien entre l’usage, ici codifié par le rituel, et la forme architecturale, et de proposer l’esquisse d’une théorie de la concrétion, dans laquelle la forme de l’espace architectural serait comprise comme le résultat d’une pratique ritualisée de l’espace. La thèse se développe en trois parties. La première partie, qui s’ouvre sur un état de l’art, est consacrée à l’approche méthodologique et aux développements de la recherche, grâce notamment aux moyens liés aux technologies numériques et à l’informatique, qui ont permis l’élaboration du corpus de la recherche. La seconde partie est consacrée à l’analyse de ce corpus, qui s’appuie sur la dimension sociale, symbolique et architecturale du temple maçonnique. Enfin, la troisième partie propose un extrait du catalogue raisonné du corpus. Cet extrait recouvre l’Europe et l’Amérique du NordThe architecture of the Masonic temples is a living heritage, but little studied, particularly in the context of academic research. Yet it has two advantages. As an object of study, first of all, it offers formal, spatial and sufficiently significant stylistic characteristics that we may wish to describe, seeking both to define the limits and invariants and also to identify different variations across tropisms related to history, geography or the culture in which it develops. This architecture offers also an interest as a subject of research: it is strictlydictated by specific rituals that define both form, organization and use. From this perspective, this study provides first revisit the concepts of type and model, as they were defined within the framework of the typo-morphological analysis developed by the Italian criticism in the 1970s. It establishes also a link between the use, here codifiedrituals, and architectural form, and suggest the outlines of a theory of concretion, within the form of architectural spaces would be understood as the result of ritualized practices of space. The thesis is developed in three parts. The first part, which opens a state ofknowledge, is devoted to the methodological approach and research developments, thanks to the means of digital technology and computers, which enabled the developmentof the corpus of research. The second part is devoted to the analysis of this corpus, based on the social, architectural and symbolic aspects of the Masonic Temple. The third part provides an extract of the of the corpus. This excerpt covers Europe and North America
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Pálfi, Ágnes. "The incommunicable secret or the encountered experience: Mystery, ritual, Freemasonry in 18th century French literature." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/298788.
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The philosophers of the Enlightenment base their ideas on reason while attracting public attention on the futility of religion. The concept of the universe inherited from Antiquity is rejuvenated by contemporary sciences and, at first sight, we would think that nature governs the supernatural. A number of philosophical works, which would today be considered anthropological, deal with the customs and manners of different countries of the world, inevitably describing the religious cults and ceremonies practiced throughout the centuries. To what extent are these rituals kept, neglected or transformed in the century of Enlightenment? What is the connection between the ceremonies of Antiquity and the rituals practiced in the confined space of modern secret societies? Speculative Freemasonry, introduced to France at the beginning of the 18 th century, counts among its members a number of well-known philosophers. Do these enlightened minds, most of whom are adversaries of religion, practice the rituals based on sacred and incommunicable mysteries? These are some of the questions which this dissertation tries to answer in analyzing the philosophers' (i.e. Voltaire, Dupuis, Boulanger, Demeunier) anthropological views; the origins of Freemasonry and the ancient sacred tradition; the founding murder and the sacrificial ritual; freemasonic and initiatory symbols in Ramsay's Voyages of Cyrus (1727); Ramsay's quest and the mysteries in his Discourse (1736); Casanova's Icosameron (1788), a freemasonic utopia, hermetic allegory and symbolic fable. This dissertation attempts to demonstrate that the denial of the mystery and the supposed domination of the world by reason are only the well-known and visible aspect of the 18 th century.
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Walker, Corey D. B. ""The freemasonry of the race": The cultural politics of ritual, race, and place in postemancipation Virginia." W&M ScholarWorks, 2001. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623392.
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African American cultural and social history has neglected to interrogate fully a crucial facet of African American political, economic, and social life: African American Freemasonry. "The Freemasonry of the Race": The Cultural Politics of Ritual, Race, and Place in Postemancipation Virginia seeks to remedy this neglect. This project broadly situates African American Freemasonry in the complex and evolving relations of power, peoples, and polities of the Atlantic world. The study develops an interpretative framework that not only recognizes the organizational and institutional aspects of African American Freemasonry, but also interprets it as a discursive space in and through which articulations of race, class, gender, and place are theorized and performed.;"The Freemasonry of the Race" presents a critical cartography of African American Freemasons' responses to the social and political exigencies of the postemancipation period. The study connects the developments of African American Freemasonry in the Atlantic world with the every day culture of African American Freemasonry in Charlottesville, Virginia from the conclusion of the Civil War until the turn of the century. Utilizing African American Freemasonry as a critical optic, the major question this study attempts to respond to is: How can we historicize and (re)present African American Freemasonry in order to rethink the cultural and political space of the postemancipation period in the United States?;Borrowing and blending a number of methodologies from social history, literary theory, and cultural studies, "The Freemasonry of the Race": The Cultural Politics of Ritual, Race, and Place in Postemancipation Virginia presents a set of analytic essays on African American Freemasonry, each intimately concerned with deciphering some of the principles that organized and (re)constructed various regimes of power and normality along the fault lines of race, sex, gender, class, and place. By thinking and working through African American Freemasonry in such a manner, this project seeks to open up new interdisciplinary horizons in African American cultural and social history.
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Mersch, Marie-Anne. "La franc-maçonnerie et les femmes au temps des Lumières : Angleterre, France et territoires allemands." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016BOR30055.
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La franc-maçonnerie spéculative s’est répandue en Europe de l’ouest durant tout leXVIIIe. Bien que les Constitutions d’Anderson interdisent catégoriquement l’admission des femmes dans les loges maçonniques, il s’avère que des femmes furent initiées en France et en Allemagne. La présente étude part du constat que nous sommes confrontés à un double phénomène en ce qui concerne la franc-maçonnerie et les femmes. D’un côté leur exclusion formelle des loges instituées pour les hommes dotées de règlements délivrés par leurs obédiences respectives. D’un autre côté l’existence prouvée de l’initiation des femmes dans des loges maçonniques. L’organisation de ces loges nous renvoie immédiatement à d’autres constats. Plusieurs questions se posent d’emblée. Quelles sont les raisons précises de cette exclusion et d’où tirent-elles leur origine? La définition de la femme fut-elle la même dans les sociétés anglaise, française et allemandes du XVIIIe siècle ? Si l’on parvient à identifier les causes, pourrons nous établir si elles sont intrinsèques à la franc-maçonnerie ou plutôt liées à la délimitation entre sphère publique et privée ? Enfin comment expliquer dès lors que cette exclusion ait pu être dépassée et contournée et qu’un modèle d’intégration des femmes ait pu être inventé? Dans une première partie la recherche repose sur les mentalités existantes dans les trois pays au vu des paroles des francs-maçons au sujet des femmes. Dans la deuxième partie sont analysés avec détail les arguments qui ont justifié l’exclusion des femmes de la franc-maçonnerie. La troisième partie est accordée aux loges féminines. Une attention particulière est apportée aux discours prononcés dans les loges féminines ainsi qu’aux différents rituels utilisés. Les sources à l’appui sont principalement des sources primaires, tels que des ouvrages du XVIIIe siècle, les articles de presse, mais aussi les chansons et les poèmesFreemasonry spread throughout Europe in the eighteenth century. Although the Constitutions of Anderson barred women from membership right from the beginning, women were initiated in France and Germany. The present research starts from the observation that we are confronted to a double phenomenon. On the one hand the formal exclusion from male lodges according to the regulations of the Grand Lodges. On the other hand the proved existence of the initiation of women in masonic lodges. The organization of these lodges suggests other remarks and several issues have arisen. What are the precise reasons of this exclusion and what are its origins? Are women defined in the same way in England, France and Germany? If we can identify the reasons of this exclusion, are they intrinsic to freemasonry itself or rather linked to the definition of the public and private spheres? How can we explain that these rules of exclusion could be overcome and that a model of integration be invented? In the first part of this study the research is based on the mentalities existing in the three different societies with regard to the freemasons’ opinions on women. The second part is analysing the arguments brought forward to justify women’s exclusion from freemasonry. The third part deals with women's lodges and particular attention is given to the speeches delivered in these lodges as well as to the rituals in use. The documentation consists mostly in primary sources, such as books published in the eighteenth century, press articles, but also masonic songs and poems
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Brownrigg, Sandra D. "Freemasonry : men’s lived experience of their membership of a male-only society." Diss., 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/26014.
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This study explores the themes of the experience of belonging to a male-only society, namely Freemasonry, by allowing members of the Freemasons to tell their stories of their experience of belonging to Freemasonry. The epistemological framework was that of phenomenology, using a qualitative research design. The study involved a series of in-depth individual interviews. Their stories provide alternative ways of perceiving men’s experience of belonging to a male-only society, focusing on the Freemasons. Several common themes were also identified in the participants’ interviews. The researcher found that the history of the Freemasons plays a large role in the member’s justification for female exclusion. Gender, as well as the members need to belong to a male- only society, gave the researcher some insight into their experience of belonging to a male-only society. The themes that were articulated in the study may be helpful in trying to understand the experiences of belonging to a male-only society.Dissertation (MA (Clinical Psychology)--University of Pretoria, 2007.
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Covernton, Gillian. ""A system of morality veiled in allegory" : the private rituals and public performances of Freemasons in Winnipeg, 1864-1900." 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3300.
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The influential role of the Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons in the development of the province of Manitoba and city of Winnipeg represents a gap in historiography. Between 1864 and 1900 Masonry in Manitoba evolved from a small fraternal organisation to a large group on the precipice of establishing significant influence in Winnipeg. A mainly British, business elite politically and economically dominated Winnipeg and many of these men held membership in the Masons. Masonry had already been established as a respectable and exclusive institution in the rest of Canada, England and in the United States but Masonry in Manitoba was unique because of its faux secrecy. The commercial elite strove to establish themselves as a social elite and legitimated their claim to respectable status by privately and publicly performing the rituals of Masonry. Masonry in Manitoba was used as a tool for negotiating status and respectability at a moment in Winnipeg's history where both were not assured and the culture of professionalism was beginning to inform the values that would define the middle class. An analysis of Masonry as a system of moral and ethical instruction in Manitoba is necessary to an understanding of the construction of Victorian culture in early Winnipeg.
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Biagetti, Samuel Frank. "The Only Universal Monarchy: Freemasonry, Ritual, and Gender in Revolutionary Rhode Island, 1749-1803." Thesis, 2015. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8QZ295X.
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Historians, in considering Freemasonry in the eighteenth century, have tended to define it in political terms, as an expression of enlightened sociability and of the secular public sphere that supposedly paved the way for modern democracy. A close examination of the lodges in Newport and Providence, Rhode Island, between 1749 and 1804, disproves these received notions. It finds that, contrary to scholarly perception, Freemasonry was deeply religious and fervently committed to myth and ritual. Freemasonry in this period was not tied to any one social class, but rather the Fraternity attracted a wide array of mobile, deracinated young men, such as mariners, merchants, soldiers, and actors, and while it was religiously heterogeneous, the Fraternity maintained a close relationship with the Anglican Church. The appeal of Masonry to young men in Atlantic port towns was primarily emotional, offering lasting social bonds amidst the constant upheaval of the eighteenth century, as well as a ritually demarcated refuge from the patriarchal responsibilities of the male gender.
Masonry celebrated the holiness of kingship in its myths and symbols; far from hotbeds of revolution, the lodges were haunted by the Jacobite movement, which was firmly royalist and traditionalist. Its main political impact in Anglo-America came in the aftermath of independence, when Masonic art and rhetoric helped to carve out a sphere of sacred institutions and loyalties—such as the Constitution, the Navy, the judiciary, and the figure of George Washington—that purportedly stood above partisan politics, and hence could take the place of the overthrown monarch. Far from proto-democratic, Freemasonry appealed to men’s longing for the unity and stability of a restored Biblical kingdom; the lodges operated largely by social deference and suppressed internal politicking. The Masons summed up their mission in their repeated toasts in the 1790s that prayed, “May universal Masonry be the only universal monarchy.”
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Brunet, Lynn Patricia. "Terror, trauma and the eye in the triangle: The Masonic presence in contemporary art and culture." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/25875.
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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)This thesis examines the coexistence of traumatic themes and Masonic content in the work of contemporary visual artists. The project originated with a discovery of the depiction in my own artwork, produced in the context of a professional art career, of traces of terrifying early initiatory experiences in the context of a Masonic Lodge and using Masonic ritual and regalia. A number of key Masonic authors suggest that the Order draws on a mixed ancestry that contains not only the orderly and sombre rituals based on the practices of the early cathedral builders, but also initiatory rites from various cult groups of the Classical world that involve a course of severe and arduous trials. Recent research by scholars examining cult practices has indicated the existence of Masonic ritual abuse of children, based on the reports of a substantial number of survivors in western countries. Premised on this discovery, the thesis constitutes a feminist and interdisciplinary investigation into the impact of hidden fraternal initiation practices on the production of contemporary art. Examining Masonic themes, symbols and allegories in the context of the contemporary debates about trauma, the thesis initially argues that the concepts used to describe the impact of trauma on the individual psyche may be observed in symbolic form in the rites and practices of the Masonic tradition. This leads into an exploration of the work of five high profile international contemporary artists - the American artists Matthew Barney, Bruce Nauman and Paul McCarthy, an early career painter Mark Ryden, and the Australian artist Ken Unsworth - as case studies, arguing that similar traces of initiatory trauma, along with Masonic references, may be identified in their work. Incorporating insights from trauma theory, scholarly discussions of initiation rites and ritual abuse, combined with knowledge of Masonic practices, this groundbreaking study sheds new light on these artists' work, in particular, on those aspects of the work that have hitherto remained obscure and perplexing for critics. The thesis also includes an examination of my own artwork in this light.
Books on the topic "Freemasons, rituals"
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Lance, Brockman C., Ames Kenneth L, Jones Susan C, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum., and Scottish Rite (Masonic order), eds. Theatre of the fraternity: Staging the ritual space of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, 1896-1929. Minneapolis, Minn: Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, 1996.
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Robinson, John J. Bornin blood: The lost secrets of freemasonry. London: Century, 1990.
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Robinson, John J. Born in blood: The lost secrets of freemasonry. New York: M. Evans & Co., 1989.
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Auricchio, Bruno. Liberi di essere liberi: Il tempio massonico "svelato" : vecchi e nuovi rituali nella Gran Loggia d'Italia. Foggia: Bastogi, 2011.
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Schulmeyer, A. W. Table lodges and lodges of instruction for Master Mason Lodge, Fellow Craft Lodge, and Entered Apprentice with Saints John Festive Table. Deer Lodge, Mont. (304 Milwaukee, Deer Lodge 59722): Deer Lodge #14, 1998.
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Macoy, Robert. A dictionary of Freemasonry: A compendium of Masonic history, symbolism, rituals, literature, and myth. New York: Bell Pub. Co., 1989.
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Noce, Giuseppe Del. L' evoluzione della libera muratoria nel secolo XVIII. Poggibonsi: Lalli, 1990.
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Hanke, Roland Martin. Mops und Maurer: Betrachtungen zur Geschichte der Mopsgesellschaft : Materialien zur Freimaurerei. Bayreuth: DFM, Verlag Deutscher Freimaurer, 2009.
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Starr, Martin P. "The Detroit Working." In The Unknown God, 82–89. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197744512.003.0008.
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Abstract This chapter treats Aleister Crowley’s contact with socially prominent Scottish Rite Freemasons in Detroit, which leads to a predictable crash against the waves of conventionality. The publication of the “Blue” Equinox was designed to outrage as many as possible, and it succeeds beyond the author’s intentions. This book included the text of Crowley’s “Gnostic Catholic Mass.” Its suggestion of ritual nudity and sex leads to a moral panic drummed up by the yellow press at the mostly imagined activities of the OTO in Detroit. Crowley gives up attempting to represent the OTO as a higher development of Freemasonry, which he now views as a reactionary movement opposed to his Law of Thelema, acceptance of which was the first requirement in OTO under Crowley.
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"Masonic Rituals of Initiation." In Handbook of Freemasonry, 319–27. BRILL, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004273122_018.
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Snoek, Jan A. M. "Index of Rituals." In Initiating Women in Freemasonry. BRILL, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004219342_014.
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"1. Uncomfortable Rites in Early Republican Freemasonry." In Awkward Rituals. University of Chicago Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226818498.003.0002.
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"Rituals of identification and initiation." In The Origins of Freemasonry, 125–65. Cambridge University Press, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511560828.007.
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Snoek, Jan A. M. "The Diffferent Families of Rituals." In Initiating Women in Freemasonry. BRILL, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004219342_009.
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Snoek, Jan A. M. "The Development of the Rituals." In Initiating Women in Freemasonry. BRILL, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004219342_010.
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"The Craft Degrees of Freemasonry." In Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation, 67–94. SUNY Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780791480106-007.
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"High or Additional Degrees of Freemasonry." In Western Esotericism and Rituals of Initiation, 95–120. SUNY Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780791480106-008.
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"High Knights Templar Rituals, Dublin (1795 and 1804)." In British Freemasonry, 1717–1813, edited by Róbert Péter and Jan A. M. Snoek, 463–73. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315639901-38.
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