Journal Analele Banatului N.S. Archaeology-History

Patricia Ghemeş

Nobili francmasoni in Banatul imperial / Contribution at fremasonry history from Banat. Fremason nobil in Imperial Banat

Jan. 1, 2017

Abstract

Far from having exhausted specific analysis, the formation and evolution of the Masonic phenomenon in the world elite Banat was studied insufficiently for a long time. Thus topic requires extensive archival research that can objectively enclose the Banat image at the border of the House of Austria. The reach of Freemasonry in Transylvania and Banat in the mid-eighteenth century is due to the establishment of the first lodges in Prussia, the Habsburg Empire, and the spread of the Enlightenment current. While the German Enlightenment militated for the mass culturalization, considering that only by culture a better economic situation could be achieved, in Austria instead, enlightenment became a philosophical conception in full agreement with the state policy, so we speak of an “enlightened absolutism “! The most important aspect noted during this period is the big number of members of the aristocracy, the couselors of the Vienna Court, the nobility of the empire, the military men of the imperial army, and its officials. There was also the “Yes,” which was their involvement in political decisions, besides the role of “culturalization” and “bringing Light among men”. The initiatic transmissibility for the symbols of Rosicrucian manuscript evidently played a key role in the transmission of the current into Banat and takes place through the mysterious editor J. F. v. T., with the printing of the first esoteric book of the initiating societies on the territory of Romania, in Timisoara in 1771. The heraldic study of the blazon (coat of arms) consists of the art of interpreting and clarifying the symbols, to complement the genealogical data in reconstructing the history of the noble families. In the case of those ennobled after the Masonry affiliation, obvious correlations will be noted between the significance of the composition of the coat and the motives for which it was given the ennoblement and discrete incorporations of the symbols specific to the initiating societies.