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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1912 Edition.
Author : John Blanchard
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 24,26 MB
Release : 2014-03-30
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ISBN : 9781498055123
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1912 Edition.
Author : Albert Gallatin Mackey
Publisher :
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,17 MB
Release : 1898
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Author : Reva Wolf
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 14,92 MB
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 1501337971
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2020 With the dramatic rise of Freemasonry in the eighteenth century, art played a fundamental role in its practice, rhetoric, and global dissemination, while Freemasonry, in turn, directly influenced developments in art. This mutually enhancing relationship has only recently begun to receive its due. The vilification of Masons, and their own secretive practices, have hampered critical study and interpretation. As perceptions change, and as masonic archives and institutions begin opening to the public, the time is ripe for a fresh consideration of the interconnections between Freemasonry and the visual arts. This volume offers diverse approaches, and explores the challenges inherent to the subject, through a series of eye-opening case studies that reveal new dimensions of well-known artists such as Francisco de Goya and John Singleton Copley, and important collectors and entrepreneurs, including Arturo Alfonso Schomburg and Baron Taylor. Individual essays take readers to various countries within Europe and to America, Iran, India, and Haiti. The kinds of art analyzed are remarkably wide-ranging-porcelain, architecture, posters, prints, photography, painting, sculpture, metalwork, and more-and offer a clear picture of the international scope of the relationships between Freemasonry and art and their significance for the history of modern social life, politics, and spiritual practices. In examining this topic broadly yet deeply, Freemasonry and the Visual Arts sets a standard for serious study of the subject and suggests new avenues of investigation in this fascinating emerging field.
Author : Cécile Révauger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1620554887
The history of black Freemasonry from Boston and Philadelphia in the late 1700s through the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement • 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 century their membership included traders, merchants, musketeers, clergymen, and women--both white and black. This was not the case in the United States where black Freemasons were not eligible for membership in existing lodges. For this reason the first official charter for an exclusively black lodge--the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Massachusetts--was granted by the Grand Lodge of England rather than any American chapter. Through privileged access to archives kept by Grand Lodges, Masonic libraries, and museums in both the United States and Europe, respected Freemasonry historian Cécile Révauger traces the history of black Freemasonry from Boston and Philadelphia in the late 1700s through the Abolition Movement and the Civil War to the genesis of the Civil Rights Movement in the early 1900s up through the 1960s. She opens with a look at Prince Hall, legendary founder and the chosen namesake when black American lodges changed from “African Lodges” to “Prince Hall Lodges” in the early 1800s. She reveals how the Masonic principles of mutual aid and charity were more heavily emphasized in the black lodges and especially during the reconstruction period following the Civil War. She 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, founder of the NAACP, among others. Looking at the deep connections between jazz and Freemasonry, the author reveals how many of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century were also Masons, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Eubie Blake, Cab Calloway, and Paul Robeson. Unveiling the deeply social role at the heart of black Freemasonry, Révauger shows how the black lodges were instrumental in helping American blacks transcend the horrors of slavery and prejudice, achieve higher social status, and create their own solid spiritually based social structure, which in some cities arose prior to the establishment of black churches.
Author : Robert L.D. Cooper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 12,74 MB
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1416546820
Respected historian and Scottish Freemason Cooper offers a rare, inside look at the secret brotherhood of the Freemasons. Readers will discover the true role the order has played throughout history, its purposes, symbolism and beliefs, and more.
Author : James Wasserman
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 2008-11-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781594772665
Esoteric symbols abound in Washington D.C. This illustrated guidebook provides a walking tour of the Masonic sites and symbols of the national capital and will be welcomed by students of esoteric symbolism as well as fans of Dan Brown's novels and the National Treasure movies.
Author : Art DeHoyos
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780739107812
In Freemasonry in Context: History, Ritual, Controversy editors Arturo de Hoyos and S. Brent Morris feature work by renown Masonic scholars. Essays explore the rich and often times controversial events that comprise the cultural and social history of Freemasonry.
Author : George E. Simons
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 18,31 MB
Release : 2014-03
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ISBN : 9781497998254
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1878 Edition.
Author : Robert Macoy
Publisher :
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 30,82 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Freemasonry
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Author : Robert L.D. Cooper
Publisher : Lewis Masonic Pub
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,33 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Freemasonry
ISBN : 9780853182818
Much has been written over the years about Rosslyn Chapel and its connection with Scottish Freemasonry, as well the St.Clair family, the Knights Templar and a variety of 'lost treasures'. The author looks in depth at the validity of the published material and the legends associated with the Rosslyn Chapel exposing major differences between Scottish Freemasons' view of their history and heritage and that described by those who are not Freemasons.