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From Pat Deveney's database:
Yhteis-Vapaamuurari [Co-Freemason]. This was a journal primarily devoted to Le Droit Humain Masonry. It had been part of the more generally occult Ruusu-Risti magazine and then spun off. Contributions by or excerpts from
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Yhteis-vapaamuurari ('Co-Freemason') was the Finnish organ of international Co-Freemasonry — the mixed-gender Le Droit Humain current that Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater bound closely to Theosophy. As an insider lodge journal it reads Masonic initiation as a symbolic death and rebirth into a 'robe of purity,' and it surrounds that ritual core with a genuinely Western-esoteric curriculum: a heavy kabbalistic vocabulary, tarot and talisman symbolism, an astrological strand, and comparative excursions such as an exposition of the Zoroastrian Fravashis upholding heaven and earth. The theosophical alignment is explicit in its adept and karma vocabulary. It documents how early-twentieth-century Finnish esotericism fused co-Masonic ritual, theosophical doctrine, and the hermetic symbol-sets into a single self-consciously spiritual Freemasonry. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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