Andre Nataf

Nataf, Andre

French academic focusing on the occult and freemasonry.

Freemasonry - its historic role

Symbolic representation of the 33 degrees of freemasonry.

A brief history of the development of freemasonry, its relationship to politics, its mythology and its practice.

Freemasonry has long had a relationship to the politics of both left and right. Bourgeois revolutionaries in France and America and modern mainstream politicians have all been members, as were some founding members of the 1st International.

From; "The Wordworth Dictionary of the Occult"; Andre Nataf, Wordworth, 1991.

Trade guilds: Initiation through work - Andre Nataf

'The genius of the trade guilds going around the globe'

The origins of the guilds, their beliefs and practices. An informative brief survey, despite its conservative conclusion.

"The secret of the guilds is, then, a skill, but this only comes through practice. As he worked to fashion a stone, the guild member was working on a fragment of the universe to fit it into the designs of God; art, according to the alchemists, was the way of perfecting Nature.

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