Freemasonry and the Orient

Esotericisms between the East and the West

by De Poli, Barbara | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-

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The symbolic and historical dimension of the main founding archetypes of Freemasonry – the Orient with a special focus on Egypt – are at the core of this book, which aims to recover the red thread with which masons tie together Masonry and Oriental esotericism. If, on the one hand, the Author points out mystifications and inventions that have characterised part of the Masonic narrative on its origins; on the other hand, she unearths the history of real contaminations and intersections between esotericism of the East and the West, digging up the common matrix that nourished them.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Alchemy and Hermeticism, Initiatory orders and secret societies, Occultism and esotericism, and Ritual magic and grimoires.

Occultism and esotericism
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Ritual magic and grimoires
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Alchemy and Hermeticism
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Initiatory orders and secret societies
Controlled discovery queries from doab matched “secret societies”. Retained metadata contains “Freemasonry” in the title, “Freemasonry” in the description, “Freemasonry” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).
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Edition	Date	Publisher	Language	ISBN	Access	Links
Esotericisms between the East and the West Directory of Open Access Books edition 114; Venice, Italy	2019	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari – Venice University Press	English	—	Open access	Directory of Open Access Books (opens in a new tab) Directory of Open Access Books (opens in a new tab) OAPEN Library (opens in a new tab)