Royal Art and Freemasonry - Encounter in Vienna
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The visit to the Central Cemetery in Vienna, which was quite wet and cold but extremely interesting, had not just led us to the grave and memorial of the artist Falco, which had established itself a real visitor magnet over the years, the visit once again showed a different way of dealing with Death here in Vienna or at least here at the central cemetery.
For example, selling of black T-shirts with loose slogans such as "You are right laying here" at the entrance portal is already noticeable, perhaps macabre, but there should be other noticeable problems.
In the so-called musicians' quarter, in particular, the gravestones first caught our eye, which in addition to the various religious signs and symbols also featured the circle as a symbol. We had often encountered this symbol in the meaning with Freemasonry, and these symbols are also widespread in the guild system. What is the connection to the dead in the musicians' quarter in the central cemetery?
Two of the world's best-known Masonic symbols are angles and compasses, in America with the central letter "G", which often stands for the omnipresent geometry.
The term royal art often stands for Freemasonry
James Anderson used the term Royal Art in his constitutional book from 1723 to refer to "building science in many places as the most noble of all the arts." In Freemasonry, building science is symbolically transferred to the human being, the art of building the temple of humanity in the sense of the categorical imperative about self-knowledge (know yourself) and self-education to love one's neighbour and enemy, too. The symbol of this is the temple of Solomon, which, in the legend, wished for a listening heart in a dream to listen to the law.
Freemasonry, also known as royal art, sees itself accordingly as an ethical covenant of free people with the conviction that constant work on yourself leads to more human behaviour. The five basic ideals of Freemasonry are freedom, equality, fraternity, tolerance and humanity. They should be practiced in everyday practice.
The Freemasons organize themselves in so-called boxes.
In the Jewish part of the central cemetery, too, we have repeatedly seen the Masonic symbols on the gravestones. The actual meaning for the dead in the individual graves should remain hidden from us, connections were not recognizable during the visit.
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