Franco-Masonry
History.
Known universally by Freemasonry, by its etymology comes from the French franc (free) and Mason (mason), ie, free mason, referring to what it considers the Masons as their remote home, the community of masons who led by Hiram Tire built the temple of Salomon. But that secret society, as has been seen, say that the Masons los angeles center is a closed society, based on principles for determining has undergone modifications and changes to the assumptions parallel ideological, intellectual, moral and religious who gave her life. Although often speak of a mythical and zohar legendary of Freemasonry (Hiram myth) and another period of Freemasonry called "old" or "operational" (which is nothing but the continuation and transformation of clusters of medieval guilds and Renaissance) , genuine Freemasonry, considered as the modern meaning of the word, called "Modern Masonry" or "speculative Masonry", emerged in the early eighteenth century as a society "initiated" the first divine worship, which later becomes Introduction to acquire the virtues and the hue-rationalist PHILANTHROPIC it may be distinguished.
Masonry itself emerged in 1717, the work of the British Protestant pastors and James J. kabbalah Anderson T. Desaguliers, followers of the spiritual movement inspired by Comenius. Get structuring systematic and defined in 1723, when it publishes Anderson, The tree center Constitutions of the Free Masons. Since then, the Masons took the influences of intellectual currents of the eighteenth century encyclopedic and rationalism and liberalism of the nineteenth century. Spread very quickly through Europe: in 1721, the first lodge was founded in France in 1717, in Russia, established by Pedro I in 1723 in Spain, in 1734 in The Hague in 1738, in Boston, and so on.
The established in France, originally from Scotland, Stuart, was favored by the French rationalist spirit: ritual established as the "Ancient and Accepted Scottish, as opposed to the York lodges English, and in 1738 at the founding of the Grand Lodge of France, the French became detached from the English, since being in open opposition. In this division were born the three main branches of Freemasonry Current English Rite, Scottish Rite, Rite kaballah symbolic French. Facing the character of the Puritan and aristocratic English Freemasonry, the French evolved to a diffuse deismo inspired naturalistic rationalism that is slowly losing the religious nuance that I had, later, a second transformation process, changes its design of an aristocratic basis of society for a more democratic, intellectual and politicized.
Though it has always wanted to see an active political involvement in the designs of the lodges, which are attached nearly all the bourgeois revolutions of the nineteenth century, the truth is that, in principle, the Freemasons do not take part in reaching them. Today this into the relationship could have with the French mysticism Revolution, despite the coincidence of the same slogans in the heading of "liberty, equality and fraternity." But while the Anglo-Saxon Freemasonry survives the spirit and religious initial static, the French became the last under the Empire and Terror in the paladin of liberal trends. Mason and liberal red string terms will be matched in some European countries during the nineteenth century the bourgeoisie trade, intellectual or military moves andalusia study center andalusia aristocrats and eagerness of human perfectibility that dominated at birth.
In 1804, The Grand Lodge of France with Napoleon becomes the first driver of Freemasonry in Europe, being named the kabbalah Grand Master Jose Bonaparte.
The predominance of French Freemasonry in Europe creates an internal incision in the universality of it. The initial rupture of the lodges of France, for religious reasons, is accentuated even more in the mid-nineteenth century when the Grand Lodge of France abolishes the requirement of the motto: "For the Glory of the Great Architect of the Universe", thus being separated from Masonic body and being repudiated by the Grand Lodge of England together. Since then, the division persisted. On the israel - center one hand, andeista, a ritual, very conservative on moral and customs, which form a bloc led by Britain, on the other, a Freemasonry no religious spirit, more intellectual, humanistic and based heavily involved in the events of their time, particularly in the field of political commitment, however, be overcome andalusia intellectual political liberalism, which cabala
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In England and Nordic countries, is still linked to Freemasonry royalty in France, always inclined to make government based on strict individual freedom, has always been respected by all political regimes until 1940 when Marshal P tain declared outside the law, although later in time of General de Gaulle, this law became invalid.
In the twentieth century have made several attempts at unification.
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