Author: Arthur Wilberforce JosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
The Australian Encyclopædia: A to Lys
Author: Arthur Wilberforce JosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
The Foundations of Freemasonry in Australia
Author: Grahame H. CummingPublisher:
ISBN: 9780646115023
Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
The Illustrated Australian Encyclopedia
Author: Arthur Wilberforce JosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
Catholic Values and Australian Realities
Author: James FranklinPublisher: Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd
ISBN: 0975801546
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
Australian Catholics have made a unique contribution to the nation. At its centre is a solid grasp of the objectivity of ethics. Persons or societies cannot "choose their own values", because what is right and wrong is founded in the way things are. In his wide-ranging book on Australian Catholic thought and action, James Franklin, author of the much-praised polemical history of Australian philosophy, Corrupting the Youth, shows how core Catholic values have played out in the issues where Catholics have challenged their host society - in debates on land rights, immigration and values in schools, and in combats with Freemasons, Protestants and Communists.
A New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry
Author: Arthur Edward WaitePublisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1602066418
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 509
Book Description
"Provides a complete view of the history, literature and myths surrounding Freemasonry. Comprehensive explanations of their secret rituals and symbolism. Including alchemy, astrology, Kabbalism, ceremonial magic, animal magnetism and more."--Amazon.
The Freemason and Masonic Illustrated. A Weekly Record of Progress in Freemasonry
Author: Australia's Secular Foundations
Author: Malcolm WoodPublisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing
ISBN: 1925333329
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Explaining how Australia’s secular society derives from its colonial past, this book examines: • the environmental and social context that encouraged godlessness, including the convict system, the bush, materialism and cultural development; • religious practice and sectarianism; • the state’s policy of denominational even-handedness to ensure social harmony; • the challenges to faith that science and critical biblical scholarship posed; and • churchmen’s attempts to foist a moral code on society, and their ambivalent attitudes to society’s poor and distressed.
A New Encyclopædia of Freemasonry (ars Magna Latomorum) and of Cognate Instituted Mysteries
Author: Arthur Edward WaiteThe Foundations of Modern Freemasonry
Author: Ric Berman MAPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1802072314
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Following the appointment of its first aristocratic Grand Masters in the 1720s and in the wake of its connections to the scientific Enlightenment, 'Free and Accepted' Masonry became part of Britain's national profile and the largest and most influential of Britain's extensive clubs and societies. The organisation did not evolve naturally from the mediaeval guilds and religious orders that pre-dated it but was reconfigured radically by a largely self-appointed inner core at London's most influential lodge, the Horn Tavern. Freemasonry became a vehicle for the expression of their philosophical and political views, and the 'Craft' attracted an aspirational membership across the upper middling and gentry. Through an examination of previously unexplored primary documentation, Foundations contributes to an understanding of contemporary English political and social culture and explores how Freemasonry became a mechanism that promoted the interests of the Hanoverian establishment and connected the metropolitan and provincial elites. The book explores social networks centred on the aristocracy, parliament, the learned and professional societies, and the magistracy, and provides pen portraits of the key individuals who spread the Masonic message. Foundations and Schism (Sussex Academic, 2013), have been described as 'the most important books on English Freemasonry published in recent times', providing 'a precise, social context for the invention of English Freemasonry'. Berman's analysis throws a new and original light on the formation and development of what rapidly became a national and international phenomenon.
Isaac Newton's Freemasonry
Author: Alain BauerPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1620553325
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
An exploration of how modern Freemasonry enabled Isaac Newton and his like-minded contemporaries to flourish • Shows that Freemasonry, as a mystical order, was conceived as something new--an amalgam of alchemy and science that had little to do with operative Freemasonry • Reveals how Newton and his friends crafted this “speculative,” symbolic Freemasonry as a model for the future of England • Connects Rosslyn Chapel, Henry Sinclair, and the Invisible College to Newton and his role in 17th-century Freemasonry Freemasonry, as a fraternal order of scientists and philosophers, emerged in the 17th century and represented something new--an amalgam of alchemy and science that allowed the creative genius of Isaac Newton and his contemporaries to flourish. In Isaac Newton’s Freemasonry, Alain Bauer presents the swirl of historical, sociological, and religious influences that sparked the spiritual ferment and transformation of that time. His research shows that Freemasonry represented a crossroads between science and spirituality and became the vehicle for promoting spiritual and intellectual egalitarianism. Isaac Newton was seminal in the “invention” of this new form of Freemasonry, which allowed Newton and other like-minded associates to free themselves of the church’s monopoly on the intellectual milieu of the time. This form of Freemasonry created an ideological blueprint that sought to move England beyond the civil wars generated by its religious conflicts to a society with scientific progress as its foundation and standard. The “science” of these men was rooted in the Hermetic tradition and included alchemy and even elements of magic. Yet, in contrast to the endless reinterpretations of church doctrine that fueled the conflicts ravaging England, this new society of Accepted Freemasons provided an intellectual haven and creative crucible for scientific and political progress. This book reveals the connections of Rosslyn Chapel, Henry Sinclair, and the Invisible College to Newton’s role in 17th-century Freemasonry and opens unexplored trails into the history of Freemasonry in Europe.