Freemasonry
The secret and fraternal organizations believed to have evolved from the medieval guilds of the stonemasons.
Freemasonry does have a traditional history (around which its rituals are constructed) that places its origin at the time of the building of King Solomon's Temple, but in the material world we can trace its history from 1717 A.D.
Freemasonry by Troyce Wilson
Freemasonry is an international fraternity for men (although there are also some lodges for women).
The Impact of Freemasonry
on Elizabethan Literature
The enthusiasm among Renaissance men for classical and Hebrew texts brought in its train a revival, and encouraged a sophisticated and creative apprehension, of numerous mystical, alchemical, ...
THE origins of Freemasonry are lost in the mists of antiquity. Last century there were many who thought that it could be traced no further back than the mediaeval guilds of operative masons, ...
The Golden Dawn and Freemasonry
from the Donmeh mail list
Both Freemasony and Kabbalah were formative in the development of the 19th century English occult magickal organisation - The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (founded by S.L.
Freemasonry
There is now a separate Freemasonry index.
Golden Dawn
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FREEMASONRY'S PRICELESS HERITAGE
The sanctum sanctorum of Freemasonry is ornamented with the gnostic jewels of a thousand ages; its rituals ring with the divinely inspired words of seers and sages.
Freemasonry and the Druids, by W. Winwood Reade
Gems, Amulets, and Talismans
Haunted Houses, by Andrew Lang
I Ching
Index of Major Figures in Divination and Occult Sciences ...
Freemasonry's legend of Hermes gained new meaning when the Hermetic elements of Renaissance esotericism was grafted onto the craft, beginning around 1599 (Stevenson 1988:22,44,49). Hermetism had its origin in age-old practices of Egyptian magic.
Freemasonry
A fraternity, which in modern days is increasingly shaking off its reputation for secrecy, ...
Jones, M. 1967. Freemasonry. Pp 152-177 In MacKenzie, N. (ed.) Secret Societies. Crescent Books, NY.
Jung, C. G. 1953 - 1967. The collected works of Jung, Volumes 7-13. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
Over the centuries it has developed in many directions, with strong influences from Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism, but continued input from Jewish Kabbalah has meant that many variants are not so different in spirit from the original.
In addition to the religious and philosophical traditions already mentioned, Hermeticism has of course included the beauty of Rosicrucianism since the 17th century, and has illuminated the symbolic ritual of Freemasonry since the 18th.
The Adornment of Silence: Secrecy and Symbolic Power in American Freemasonry
Freemasonary and other Secret Societies
Secret Societies - A Dozen
Freemason's and Lucifer
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