Concept
Freemasonry
Overview
group of fraternal organizations
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
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Freemasonry is a secret brotherhood which has more by its secret and iron rules than by its service to humanity obtained a hold upon some of the best minds. Similarly there seems to be some secret code of conduct governing the official class in India before which the flower of the great British nation fall prostrate and unconsciously become instruments of injustice which…
Mahatma Gandhi, Freedom's Battle Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation
The chapter “POLITICAL FREEMASONRY” is titled for Freemasonry; states what Freemasonry is.
This type of organization occurs as early as the associations of medicine-men among the Africans and the American Indians; later, it is to be found in connection with the Eleusynian and Orphic mysteries; it is represented also by the Christian and Buddhistic orders, and by their various secular counterparts, such as the Rosicrucians and the Freemasons. Not infrequently these societies, in contradiction to their…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
Close in meaning to Freemasonry; the term itself is not named.
Each of them is a mode of associated or community life, quite as much as is a family, a town, or a state. There are also communities whose members have little or no direct contact with one another, like the guild of artists, the republic of letters, the members of the professional learned class scattered over the face of the earth. For they have aims in common, and the activity of each member is directly modified by…
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
Close in meaning to Freemasonry; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Freemasonry
- Frédéric Bastiat
- Francis Bacon
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Pythagoras
- Julius Evola
- Voltaire
- Swami Vivekananda
- Nikos Kazantzakis
- Friedrich Schiller
- Roscoe Pound
- Fernando Pessoa
- Dan Brown
- The Da Vinci Code
- Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
- Arturo Reghini
- Robert Moray
- Camillo Berneri
- Nishi Amane
- Constantin François Chassebœuf, comte de Volney
- Émile Littré
- Mikiel Anton Vassalli
Related ideas
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Antisemitism
- Fascism
- French Revolution
- Jamaica
- Bolshevism
- Immortality
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Benito Mussolini
- American Revolution
- Annie Besant
- Nazi Germany
- Authoritarianism
- New England
- Ottoman Empire
- Pennsylvania
- Religious text
- Boston
- Taiwan
- Protestantism
- Second Vatican Council
- Sufism
- Age of Enlightenment
- Alexandria
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Fascism.