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From Pat Deveney's database:
Vrijmetselarij, De. The
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| Vrijmetselarij 1913 | |
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Vrijmetselarij takes Freemasonry for its subject but reads it through a thoroughly Theosophical lens, its pages thick with Blavatsky, Adepts, and occultism. Rather than lodge business, it offers an esoteric exposition of the Craft's symbolism: Hiram set beside Osiris, Mithra, Bacchus and Balder as figures of a single solar mystery, the degrees of initiation traced back to Egypt, Goethe's Groß-Cophta and the seventeenth-century Rosicrucians drawn into the same Western esoteric lineage. Kabbalah and comparative mythology supply supporting apparatus. The result sits at the occult boundary of Freemasonry — neither an insider Grand-Lodge organ nor an anti-Masonic tract, but the Theosophical case for Masonry's hidden roots in the ancient mysteries. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Freemasonry and Masonic Orders |
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