|
ROSE+CROSS ONLINE ROSE+CROSS
MESSAGE THE MANSORY –
HISTORY The Masonry is a society that uses symbols
derived of the bricklayers and architects, beyond of the traditions of the
Old Mysteries, and of the Bible, in its doctrinal and ritualistic system, with
the finality of to practice the morality and the philanthropy. The bricklayers and architects
that built cathedrals, monasteries, castles and palaces were much respected
in the past. The pyramids Egyptian and Mayan,
cathedral of Others beautiful constructions:
the castles of Newschwanstein and Hohenzollern, the
cathedrals of The works site of the great
constructions, as the one of the European cathedrals, where the bricklayers worked,
fed and rested were called of lodges. These lodges only admitted the
workers and they demanded secret of their knowledge. Today also each occupation has its
association or syndicate for defend their interests, in some cases, demanding
a diploma for be registered
as members. Here is a picture of the epoch of
the constructions of the cathedrals: in 1275 the mason master Erwin
Steinbach, architect of the cathedral of Strasbourg, of 1275 until 1318 built
an huten (lodge in German) of wood beside of the
cathedral, that had been initiate in 1015, summoning the best architects, and
adopted signals and words of recognition, ceremonies for reception of the Apprentices
and Companions. This organization of builders gave
origin to several Lodges in The daughter of Steinbach, Sibile, executed the sculptures of the south portal of
the cathedral. Sibile, was a woman among the builders,
therefore had no the prejudice against women that passed to exist after 1717. Some consider the Great Lodge of
Strasbourg the beginning of the current Masonry and Steinbach the first Great
Master of France and Afterward the people of the
nobility began to be admitted in these secret associations. The nobles and politician acquired
more prestigious for belong to these Lodges, and these increased its power
and safety with the support of theses members of the nobility. They were the masons accepted,
strange members to occupation. Like this the Masonry was passing
gradually of the operative phase,
at which it was formed only for bricklayers that really knew how to build temples
and castles, for the speculative
phase. The speculative Masonry also was developing,
and substituted the work of those builders, that always united the material
work with the religion, from the It considers the date of 24 of June of 1717, day of Saint
Johan, the beginning of the modern Masonry. In that date the four Lodges of The strange name of the four
Lodges founders londoners comes of the taverns, places where sold drinks and
cheap meals, where the Stores used to gather. Thus appeared the Great Lodge of
London, being the first Great Masters: Anthony Sayer,
Georges (1717), Payne (1718) and Jean Théophile Désaguliers (1719). The Scottish religious shepherd James
Anderson wrote the Book of the Constitutions, that still today governs the
world Masonry. Some believe that the author of
the "Constitutions of Anderson" was Désaguliers,
others that was a group of masons. The Masonry soon dispersed for the
world: France (first Lodge in 1725), A German magazine published, in
1787, the number of Masonic Lodges existent in epoch, although we cannot to
guarantee its accuracy: The Masonry incorporated ideas,
symbols and rituals that didn’t exist at the beginning of the modern Masonry
of after 1717, more linked to construction and the Christianity. Masonic Lodges that were founded
strange personages: - Rite Martinist
- Claude of - Egyptian Rite – Cagliostro - Rite of the New Jerusalem – Swedenborg - Rite of Misraim
– Brothers Bédaride - Rite of And others rites less well-known. As was passing the epoch of the
constructions of the cathedrals and castles, were decreasing the masons
operative and increasing the speculative, as it already happened in 1717,
when the masons didn’t know not even to build a wall. . At present the Masonry is completely
speculative, and the masons are dedicated to activities more philosophical,
but it conserves the symbols of the construction as: square, compass, beetle,
chisel, etc. The expression free masons or frank masons, it began to be used in 1375. At that time the people the people
could not to transit freely among the feuds of the many kingdoms, being prisoners
of the earth where was born, belonging to the mister of that region. But the free masons won the privilege
of moving freely by the several feuds. Feud was an extension of earth conceded
by the sovereign to a noble in exchange for tax and help in the wars. When speech to lay about the Masonry
the first thought that comes to your mind is that treats itself of a secret society full of secrets. In the Middle Age, when it was
prohibited to think different of the majority or of the dominant religion, the
Masonry, the Rosecross and other similar societies
were secrets. On those times many people were
tortured or died because of their thoughts. But little by little the freedom of expression, of to think,
was growing. Still today some countries,
inclusive some developed, don’t appreciate those that speak certain true or
think contrary to majority. But now, the bookstores are full
of books about the Masonry, its rituals, symbols and others secrets of old. At the Mysteries Egyptian Temples,
Greece, The laws that governed the Lodges
that there were before of the regulation of the Masonry in 1717, don’t mention
the exclusion of the women of the Masonry, that only began with the
"Book of the Constitutions", of the shepherd James Anderson, in
1723, that it said: "are not admitted slaves, women, immoral people and
dishonored, but exclusively the ones that enjoy good reputation". But years after the Constitution
of Anderson, appeared some Stores than didn’t follow this discriminatory law,
being the main ones the Masonry Egyptian, created by the Count of Cagliostro in 1786 and the Human Right or Comasonry, founded in 1893 for Marie Deraismes
that admits both the sexes and possesses Lodges world over. In the United States exist several feminine Masonry: "The Order of the Eastern
Star", created in 1850 (2.000.000 members), White Shrine Star, created
in 1895 (1.300.000 members), Order of Amaranth (1891) and Order of Rainbow for
Girls. The ideal would be a mixed masonry,
without separation of sexes, a Christian and Islamic custom. + + + Until today, we never saw evil some
left of that institution (the Masonry).
Can one say the same of the Church? Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Never walk for the traced way,
because it only conducts until the others were.
Alexandre Graham Bell Always that the people agree with
me, I have the sensation of to be wrong.
Oscar Wilde The primitive Masonry was purely
catholic. The predecessors of the masons were the monk builders. Jorge Adoum The only source of knowledge is the experience.
Albert Einstein The masons form a “secret society”
of religious nature whose basic principle is the fraternity among the
men. Originally, it was an association
of bricklayers that possessed a system of secret signals to identify amongst
themselves, and that traveled by
Colin Wilson © Copyright. All
Rights Reserved. |