El francmasón: hombre de la Ilustración?

Abstract

The Masonry of the Enlightenment, seen as a school of human moulding, presents the possibility of identifying the freemason as the man of the «Ilustración». The answer to this issue is given by some Mason philosophers; Lessing, Herder, Goethe, Fichte. Though, there isn’t any significant testimony from other important Freemasons, such as Frederic II, Voltaire, Condorcet, Montesquieu and the Encyclopedists in general. The esoteric, cabalist, templarian rosecrucian and mistic branches, are the other side of a section of XVIIIth century Masonry, tentatively identified with the Bavarian Enlightened. «Ilustración» and Enlightenment are the two poles of a project of defining the Freemason as a man of the «Ilustración».