In the six volume revised version of historical work History of Freemasonry Throughout the World (1883-1887), Robert Freke Gould (1836-1915) is lauded as the Thucydides of Masonic history. The work has remained a standard of Masonic history since publication. Initiated in Ramsgate in 1855, he was Master of the Inhabitants Lodge in Gibraltar in 1863.
Thucydides was a Greek historian who lived from ca. 460 - 400 BCE.
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The first, and probably best known, American Lexicon of Freemason was compiled by Albert G. Mackay in 1845. The work relies for much of its information on the German Lenning-Mossdorf Lexicon, published in about 1822.
An earlier German Lexicon was published in 1818 by Johann Gaedicke, in Berlin.
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Die Freimaurerei erschöpft sich nicht in Gesprächen, Ritualen oder Symbolen. Sie zeigt sich dort, wo Menschen Verantwortung übernehmen und aktiv Hilfe leisten.
Beim diesjährigen Großlogentag in Bremen haben die humanitären Freimaurer rund 12.000 Euro für soziale Projekte gesammelt. Unterstützt wurden unter anderem die Bremer Suppenengel, die Bremer Tafel und das Haus am Paschberg.
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German authors who wrote about Freemasonry, and were Masons, include Gottfried Lessing ("Ernst and Falk" and "Nathan the Wise") and Johan Wolfgang von Goethe ("Wilhelm Meister").
Other famous authors who used Masonic themes include Lew Wallace, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Burns, Rudyard Kipling, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Count Lev Nikolayevich (Leo) Tolstoy describes the initiation of a Candidate - Pierre Bezukhov - for Freemasonry into a Masonic Lodge in his epic work "War and Peace", published in 1869.
Tolstoy, who had studied Freemasonry, was not a Mason himself.
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Die Franz-Liszt-Straße erinnert nicht nur an einen großen Musiker des 19. Jahrhunderts, sondern auch an einen Freimaurer. Franz Liszt setzte sich für junge Künstler ein, unterstützte soziale Projekte und verband Musik mit Humanität und Verantwortung.
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Samuel Hemming, the first Senior Grand Warden of the United Grand Lodge of England, defined Freemasonry as being "a beautiful system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols."
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The rarest known Masonic book in the USA is the 1734 edition of Anderson's "Constitutions," printed by Benjamin Franklin. Seventeen copies of the original edition are known to exist.
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The first US Grand Lodge was formed in Massachusetts in 1777. The oldest working Grand Lodge, however, is that of Virginia, formed in 1778, with that of Massachusetts being reformed in 1792.
Between 1777 and 1796 thirteen Grand Lodges were formed in the USA. They adhered predominantly to the Grand Lodge of Antients in London.
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Opposition to Freemasonry in the United States became strong enough by 1830 that 124 of the 983 registered newspapers in the country were recorded as being anti-freemason. Of those 46 were in New York and 53 in Pennsylvania.
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