Men At Arms: Mozart’s Masonry and Music-Politics, In Light of Erik Levi’s Mozart And The Nazis

In re: Erik Levi. Mozart and the Nazis: How the Third Reich Abused a Cultural Icon New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. By Peter Paul Fuchs “Macht gute miene, zum boesen spiel.” -- old German aside Mozart’s fate after death is surely an odd one, if one takes political history and not just musical accomplishment

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From the Ethos of the Temple: The Masonic Contexts of Theism, Deism and Atheism

By Peter Paul Fuchs, 32   “Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit.”[i] -- Erasmus   It is curious fact of Masonic history that despite the great fame of the concept of the Grand Architect of the Universe, this notion did not seem to have gained official status within the Craft till relatively late.  There is

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Medieval Confabulations, the Mendicant Controversy and the Real Templar-Masonic Philosophy

  By Peter Paul Fuchs, 32 “Templar: Was’t not that good fellow, the Lay-Brother, Whom the Patriarch so gladly uses To scent out matters… The trick’s not bad, to send Simplicity, before rascality.   Nathan:   Yes the stupid, --not the pious.   Templar:  In the pious no Patriarch will believe… So he pretends….”   Lessing,

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Our new book “The Bull’s Apron”

"The Bull's Apron: The Aesthetic Theory of Masonic Art and Material Culture"   The Author of "The Bull's Apron: The Aesthetic Theory of Masonic Art and Material Culture" - Peter Paul Fuchs - lecture presented at the time of the First World Festival of Masonic Arts in Brasilia, Brazil on 16th of September, 2015  

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