18th Century Freemasonry
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This paper investigates the eighteenth century phenomenon of the wide spread and use of Sabbaetean literature by “main stream” Jewish rabbis. For what reason did participants in the Jewish rabbinic elite posses and use copies of... more
In the second half of the eighteenth century, members of European Commercial Companies founded the first Masonic lodges overseas over the many port cities within the global system of market relations. From that moment on and as... more
This essay should be considered as part of a larger question: how were Continental millenarian, mystic and hermetic texts received and adapted in contexts for which they had not been intended? Its purpose is twofold – specifically to... more
The newsletter of the Deputy Grand Master Right Worshipful Richard J. Kessler As New York Masons we are proud of the D Wint House and the historic events there. Key to American history is the four visits by General (Brother) George... more
“Clidophorus” (Gr. κλειδόφορος “The Bearer of the Key”) was John Toland’s treatise (1720) on the history of exoteric and esoteric philosophy. He extensively argued in support of the thesis that the entire philosophical heritage of ancient... more
in Dieter, Breuer; Tüskés, Gábor; Lengyel, Réka (eds.) Aufgeklärte Sozietäten, Literatur und Wissenschaft in Mitteleuropa
(Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2019) pp. 304-318.
(Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2019) pp. 304-318.
The paper is concerned with the life and work of Pierre Clément, a Geneva-born journalist, dramatist and poet, who was one of the first to make a freemason a protagonist in a play. Issues relating to that author have not been discussed in... more
The history of Colombian Freemasonry can be divided into three clearly identifiable stages, this work focused on the first historical stage characterized by the influence of continental European Freemasonry. This article analyzed the... more
Bulletin de la Société de l’Histoire du Protestantisme Français, oct-nov-déc. 1996, pp. 597 à 628.