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The reaction against speculative Freemasonry started to appear a few years after its establishment in 1717. This hostility has had different degrees of harshness: from discredit, defamation, or taunt to the most bloodthirsty persecution during the fascist dictatorships. This attitude has also been expressed by minting anti-Masonic medals, which sometimes showed openly belligerent propagandist messages and, other times, mocking representations. At present, these rare pieces are highly prized by Masonic medals collectors.

This article studies the formation of a Masonic network in Guatemala, its political-economic role in the configuration of Guatemalan society and its main Central American members, registered in the Masonic Registry of the Central American Supreme Council, between the establishment of the liberal revolution of 1871 to the foundation of the Grand Lodge of Guatemala in 1903. The Freemasons studied belonged to the economic, political, military and intellectual elite, not only Guatemalan, but also Central American. They were linked to the state apparatus of their respective countries, since most of them were military, civil servants and lawyers.

This article addresses a highly detailed and complex lithograph with the title Aperçu d­e ­l’Origine du Culte Hébraïque (“An Overview of the Origin of Hebrew Worship”), which was designed and executed in Paris in 1841 by a Hungarian rabbi, David Rosenberg. It explains the Kabbalistic meaning of the lithograph and its application to Freemasonry. Rosenberg’s endeavour will be analysed within the wider Masonic historical context. The probable reasons behind the reinterpretation of the lithograph from a Judaic into a Masonic work will be explored, thus also including Rosenberg’s possible personal motives.

Peter Lanchidi has defended a PhD thesis entitled “The Kabbalistic-Masonic Art of Rabbi David Rosenberg — Jewish Kabbalah and Freemasonry in the Nineteenth Century” at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheva (Israel), under the supervision of Prof. Boaz Huss (BenGurion University) and Prof. Jean Pierre Brach (École Pratique des Hautes Études), on August 30, 2022.

This text shows facts and documentation from different historical stages in Mexico related to Freemasonry and its opposition of religious groups, especially but not exclusively, the Catholic group. We have included examples of anti-Masonic publications, mostly against those pertaining to the York Rite and the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. In addition, we report little-known facts, such as the dissemination of blacklists of Freemasons among the “cristeros” or the participation of Freemason diplomats in religious ceremonies in the Vatican.

ReseñaFranco y la masonería. Un terrible enemigo que no se rinde jamás de Juan José Morales Ruiz. Oviedo: Masónica.es, 2022. 543 páginas. ISBN: 978-84-19044-30-3.

This paper’s approach is eminently canonic: this means, we expose and analyze the current canonic legislation on masonry or, more specifically, on Catholics followers that do not belong to any masonic groups. From there, and as expressed before, we shall discover the theological reasons stated by the Church to justify the penal and disciplinary norm and if the simultaneous belonging to both institutions is theologically compatible. We hope this contributes to a better clarification of the terms in which this dialogue is currently being held.

The image of secret societies, as either some sort of mystical troupe with grandiose ceremonies and rituals that outsiders regard as an oddity or as power-thirsty malevolent organisations, has been represented and amplified by mass communication since the 18th century. These are just a few examples.

It is an interview with César Gutiérrez, from the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico, about his master's thesis, which is called: "Civil Society and Freemasonry in the city of Zacatecas (1959-1977)".

The article aims to research the birth and development of the Italian community in Tunisia, as a result of an intense migration; due to the parallel presence on Tunisian territory of Italians and French especially upon the establishment of the French protectorate and on the peculiarities arising from this coexistence. It will also investigate the ability of Italians to found societies enhancing Italianity, in as schools, the chamber of commerce or lay associations, amid these the Latomist society. For the latter, we will focus on the issues during the fascist period and on some specific anti-fascist clubs.