Title : Freemasonry - A philosophical and spiritual quest for knowledge - René Le Moal - book

Summary :

Generally misunderstood, often suspected, sometimes persecuted, Freemasonry is rooted in the philanthropic optimism of the Enlightenment. Its paradox is that it combines reverence for myth and trust in reason, an awareness of the need to withdraw into the separate space of the temple, and a fraternal aim of understanding man and the world.

The constant return of the thousand forms of hatred of the other, with which the last century was abundant, would be enough to justify that minds concerned with harmony and progress have built a refuge for themselves to develop a philosophy of life and civilization, and to return to the world to fertilize it.

But understanding Freemasonry, which is a knowledge enterprise, presupposes above all that one uses the weapons of intelligence and reason. This is the whole merit of this book, which provides more through the intellectual and ethical keys that it delivers than many large volumes navigating between complacent description and inventive delirium.

René Le Moal is editor-in-chief of a journal of philosophical studies published by the Grand Orient of France under the aegis of the Masonic Institute of France.

Georges Lerbet is an honorary professor of universities.

Masonic premodernity. A relative modernity in the Anglo-Saxon world. Continental modernities. Setbacks. An untenable binary. Bar of God or bar of the divine? Three centuries of continental Masonic counter-modernity. The Masonic experience. Masonic symbolism. The initiatory experience. From self-recognition to identity construction.

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