Masonic Footnotes
Masonic Footnotes (this website) has now its own publishing “department” – Cravat Books – created to release books of István Horváth. The very first volume is a Masonic pocket companion: Weekly Masonic Doubts. It has 52 chapters (plus a Bonus
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How Masons support and spread pseudo-science I just received a pdf document which was sent with the best intentions as “an interesting paper”. We, Masons, often refer to a phrase from our books that calls us to advance daily
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Certainly, social media “presence” cannot be construed as an indicator of the intellectual level of a group, be it formal or informal, however, it might provide clues as to what is considered important and acceptable for said group. Or, at
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With thanks to my Hungarian Brothers I was invited to an online discussion held by a few lodges from my mother jurisdiction, the Symbolic Grand Lodge of Hungary. (No AFM or AFAM, in case you were wondering…) It started with
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Let’s start a simple exercise: imagine you have the “reset” button that will restart the work in our lodges when life returns to what we considered normalcy. How would you want to reset the regular working? Even in the case
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I just tried to explain to other day, during a zoom presentation, the peculiarities of an Observant lodge – to a European audience. Make no mistake, this was not an audience of “irregular” Masons, that some of us often call
Read moreI have studied linguistics (and literature) way before I even dreamt to become a Freemason. My favourite linguistic disciplines – branches, if you will – beside comparative linguistics, were etymology and onomastics, i.e. the study of the origins of the
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There is this excellent initiative of the Grand Lodge of Georgia (not the US state but the real one: the country, formerly also known as Gruzia): since the COVID restrictions started they organized a series of high quality online lectures
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In the past months I have been presenting my TEMPLE IN THE AIR lecture in different online forums, like the prestigious VOOSA (Virtual Order of Sapere Aude) which will soon celebrate its 100th online “meeting”. All the Zoom lectures are
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Observant and observance, Traditional Observant and simply Observant, and the archaic Strict Observance – what are all these confusing terms and what they mean? Are they all the same? No, they are not. Let’s have a brief retrospective of the
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