Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Personified the ideals of the
Enlightenment
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Mozert The Age of Enlightenment was a philosophical period
through the 18th century, in which rationalism was the main source
for legitimacy and authority. It was less of an age of ideas, but
more of values, and questioning the traditional methods of life. It
was when people around Europe began to break away from the strict
religious lives they had all been made to lead, and question
tradition in the name of science. The idea of Enlightenment was one
of the factors of many revolutions and social changes that happened
in the 1700s, and influenced many more in centuries to come.
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Mozart Famous for Violin Concerto No.5 in A Famous also for his
Clarinet Concerto Famous also for his Clarinet Concerto
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Free Masonry and the Enlightenment John Locke Voltaire Ben
Franklin John Hancock John Paul Jones George Washington ] The
earliest masonic texts each contain some sort of a history of the
craft, or mystery, of masonry. The oldest known work of this type,
The Halliwell Manuscript, or Regius Poem, dating from between 1390
and 1425, has a brief history in its introduction, stating that the
"craft of masonry" began with Euclid in Egypt, and came to England
in the reign of King Athelstan.[1] Shortly afterwards, the Cooke
Manuscript traces masonry to Jabal son of Lamech (Genesis 4:
20-22), and tells how this knowledge came to Euclid, from him to
the Children of Israel (while they were in Egypt), and so on
through an elaborate path to Athelstan.[2] This myth formed the
basis for subsequent manuscript constitutions, all tracing masonry
back to biblical times, and fixing its institutional establishment
in England during the reign of Athelstan (927-939).[3] Shortly
after the formation of the Premier Grand Lodge of England, James
Anderson was commissioned to digest these "Gothic Constitutions" in
a palatable, modern form. The resulting constitutions are prefaced
by a history more extensive than any before, again tracing the
history of what was now freemasonry back to biblical roots, again
forging Euclid into the chain. True to his material, Anderson fixes
the first grand assembly of English Masons at York, under
Athelstan's son, Edwin, who is otherwise unknown to history.[4]
Expanded, revised, and republished, Anderson's 1738 constitutions
listed the Grand Masters since Augustine of Canterbury, listed as
Austin the Monk.[5] William Preston's Illustrations of Freemasonry
enlarged and expanded on this masonic creation myth.[6]