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The Masonic Book Club, Vol. 22: Lessing's Masonic Dialogues

The Masonic Book Club, Vol. 22: Lessing's Masonic Dialogues

Lessing, Gotthold
Carr, Robin L.

Paperback

PhilosophySecret SocietiesGerman History

ISBN10: 1637236417
ISBN13: 9781637236413
Publisher: Westphalia Press
Published: Jun 16 2026
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.68
Height: 0.48 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The Masonic historian Findel declared in his History of Freemasonry that, Ernst and Falk is one of the best things which has ever been written upon Freemasonry . . .. In order to impress upon the reader's mind just how important were Lessing's dialogues, which seem so common and pedestrian in today's world where even the inner workings of Freemasonry are open to the world, the editor has included four essays by Otto Caspari, University Professor of Philosophy, and Orator of the Lodge Ruprecht zu den funf Rosen at Heidelberg, Germany during 1913 and taken from Freemasonry: Its Meaning and Significance translated by members of the Deutschland Lodge No. 3315 of London and printed by J.C. Konig and Ebhardt in London in 1914. Caspari was awarded the Peeters-Baertsoen Masonic Prize for this volume at a conference in Brussels in 1914. These essays, added to Cohen's incisive commentary, powerfully reveal Lessing's understanding of the basic principles of Freemasonry with its tenet of the Brotherhood of Man under the Fatherhood of God. More importantly they also mirror in an important way the great frustration that so many Freemasons of today share with the Lessing of two hundred years ago, the simple fact that Freemasonry is falling short of its great possibilities. The craft, simply by example and a sharing of ideals and tenets, could move the world. All it would take would be the simple faith the size of a mustard seed.

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