So, I do read classics from time to time and recently have started to notice how awfully lot of them were freemasons.
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Bram Stoker, author of Dracula - Buckingham and Chandos Lodge No. 1150.
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Mark Twain, author of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and many more - Grand Lodge of Ohio.
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of those cozy Sherlock Holmes mysteries - Phoenix Lodge No. 257 in Southsea.
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Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book - Hope and Perseverance Lodge, No. 782, in Lahore.
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Sir Walter Scott, author of numerous historical novels, including Ivanhoe, Rob Roy and many more - Lodge St David, No. 36 in Edinburgh.
You get the idea. A lot of classic authors were freemasons. Now, even if we discount all the theories about masonry etc, it's still a lot. No, really! Why almost all of our historical, adventure and other classics were written by freemasons? Would those books even be considered classics, if not for the mason membership of those authors? Hell, maybe those books were written with a specific purpose and were made into "famous" classics deliberately, precisely because of freemasonry of their respective authors?
Back then book reading was kind of like Hollywood and Netflix of today and we all know how much propaganda and ridiculous lies are in movies these days... So, seems to me a lot of our history and general worldview might have been created deliberately... and we might be living in an essentially manufactured world, where everything we think we know, might actually be not what it seems to be...
So, what are your thoughts? Does anyone know any more famous freemasons?
Because freemasonry used to be where culture was discussed and evolved the most in society.
There's a reason the usual suspects targeted those circles the most
Probably wasn't so bad mid 1800 yet in the suburban circles.
Probably. Actually my consolation while reading those classics is that probably back then masonry wasn't so bad as it is today and also the possibility that the really nasty shit starts only on higher levels. So, many of those authors might have been well meaning and honest. They just didn't know the whole picture and didn't foresee how it'll all turn out.
Yes, it's a fishing pool for psychopaths or to corrupt people into becoming one.
But back then it was probably just a higher culture club. Even today the low branches are mostly about socializing and golfing for well off people.
See Manly Hall for an author you missed who wasn't a mason but became one after attracting their interests as he revealed stuff they didn't know at the time. He was a truly honest mind imo.