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Discover the remarkable history of the most widely known secretive fraternal organization in "A Dictionary of Freemasonry." This comprehensive and convenient one-volume text includes a thorough encyclopedia, full dictionary of symbols, and over 300 beautiful nineteenth-century engravings.

The 600-year-old brotherhood of Freemasons is based on a tradition over 3,000 years old. Robert Macoy, a member of the order, uses the resources of the Fraternity available to him, to discern the truth from a myriad of half-truths, rumors, superstitions, and interpretations. He presents the rise and...

- Examines the letters of Prince Hall, legendary founder of the first black lodge

- Reveals how many of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century were also Masons, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Nat King Cole

- Explores the origins of the Civil Rights Movement within black Freemasonry and the roles played by Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois

When the first Masonic lodges opened in Paris in the early 18th...

Freemasonry prescribed for its members a supra-religious, supra-national philosophic universalism. Dorothy Ann Lipson examines its reception and adaptation in America, where its rapid spread was one index of increasing local diversity and cultural change.

After tracing the English origins of Masonry, the author focuses on its development in post-Revolutionary Connecticut, where the Calvinist churches and the state had been supported by an unusually homogeneous population. As a counterculture or form of dissent, the fraternity provided its members with a variant religious experience,...

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Gesprache fur Freimaurer. Ernst und Falk

Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch

Berliner Ausgabe, 2016, 4. Auflage

Durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger

• Erstdruck: Wolfenbuttel bzw. Frankfurt recte: Gottingen] 1778 (anonym).

Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe:

• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Werke. Herausgegeben von Herbert G. Gopfert in Zusammenarbeit mit Karl Eibl, Helmut Gobel, Karl S. Guthke, Gerd Hillen,...

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Gesprache fur Freimaurer. Ernst und Falk

Lesefreundlicher Grossdruck in 16-pt-Schrift

Edition Holzinger. Grossformat, 216 x 279 mm

Berliner Ausgabe, 2016

Durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger

• Erstdruck: Wolfenbuttel bzw. Frankfurt recte: Gottingen] 1778 (anonym).

Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe:

• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Werke. Herausgegeben von Herbert G. Gopfert in Zusammenarbeit...

Freemasonry prescribed for its members a supra-religious, supra-national philosophic universalism. Dorothy Ann Lipson examines its reception and adaptation in America, where its rapid spread was one index of increasing local diversity and cultural change.

After tracing the English origins of Masonry, the author focuses on its development in post-Revolutionary Connecticut, where the Calvinist churches and the state had been supported by an unusually homogeneous population. As a counterculture or form of dissent, the fraternity provided its members with a variant religious experience,...

As the United States moved from Victorian values to those of modern consumerism, the religious component of Freemasonry was increasingly displaced by a secular ideology of service (like that of business and professional clubs), and the Freemasons' psychology of asylum from the competitive world gave way to the aim of good fellowship" within it. This study not only illuminates this process but clarifies the neglected topic of fraternal orders and enriches our understanding of key facets of American cultural change.

Originally published in 1984.

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