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@Montagut | In this medium we are dedicating great attention to showing readers a serene vision of Freemasonry, removed from the prejudices inherited from two centuries of fundamentalism, given its evident presence in Spanish and world history. It is not about making panegyrics or praises about it because that is not the mission of a historian, but it is about fighting with non-a priori sources and interpretations, the mythologies generated in the past and still present today about supposed satanic cults, conspiracies to combat religion or to pull the political, economic and cultural threads of the world.
In this context we have released a book in the publishing house Almuzara, in his well-known collection about what “is not in your book of…”. The book is titled, That was not in my book of Freemasonry.
Freemasonry exerts an evident fascination in our world because it is associated with secrecy, with groups of men and women who meet privately in what are called lodges, although it is not very clear for what purpose. But, in addition, Freemasonry has been demonized and persecuted by the Church and the political powers, and that, curiously, in our present, also provokes interest, although it is, on many occasions, adorned by morbidity. But this evident interest, both in approaching Freemasonry, in getting to know it, and even in continuing to denigrate it, has generated, especially in the digital age, an accumulation of poorly contrasted information, based on half-truths or heir, even through the Internet, of deeply rooted prejudices from the past in other media, such as pulpits, government decrees, books, and also newspapers. The ocean of the Internet is turbulent and when you try to reach Freemasonry through that medium it is easy to shipwreck.
Freemasonry exerts an obvious fascination because it is associated with secrecy, with groups of men and women who meet privately in what are called lodges.
Our interest with this book has been to bring interested readers, but also warned against the rule of a priori judgments, as we said at the beginning, some issues that have to do with Freemasonry and its relationship with the world.
It is more than a history book, although some history must always be discussed, and more so with an organization so rooted in time and indebted to many traditions, but, as we say, an approach, from dissemination, although we believe from rigor also, to different topics in this universe, one of the worst known about the human condition. We hope you like it, and that see Freemasonry from other perspectivesalways criticism, of course, but not with the veils, not at all transparent, by the way, that have been imposed for so long by those who have not wanted or have not been able to see with serenity and respect those who, with their greatness, but also with their miseries, they have tried to help the world move along better paths.
If you get your kind reader interested in Freemasonry, the objective would be achieved, and if you want to delve deeper, there is a very rich and well-crafted bibliography on the matter, far from the pamphlet.
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