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Stories for the American Freemason's Fireside

Stories for the American Freemason's Fireside

Paperback

Secret Societies

ISBN10: 1633910792
ISBN13: 9781633910799
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 17 2014
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.93 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
This is a collection of stories intended to be morality tales for Masons and their admirers. Numerous nineteenth century writers saw a market for fiction whose intention was to inculcate the values of a popular, redefined Freemasonry. The result was a folklore that has been likened to a Disney version of the Craft. While there are a variety of themes presented, Victorian values of family and chivalry appear in contrast with previous Masonic imagery that drew on the Enlightenment. The invoking of nature is seen in pieces like Blue Hyacinth, The Countryside, An Autumnal Thought, and The Moonlight on the Mound. The sentimentalism was new to the fraternity and became ritualistically incorporated in auxiliaries such as the Eastern Star and Amaranth.

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