The Romanian Freemasonry. Historical facts and self image in some journals of the National Grande Lodge of Romania

Abstract

This article's aim is to investigate how the reflection on the Freemasonry's role in Romanian history is being built: on the one hand, there is a scientific, historical approach, based on facts; on the other, there is a "mythological" reflection in which the document is replaced with a more or less imaginary hermeneutics.

Keywords

• imagology
• freemasonry
• romanian history
• imaginary/imaginal
• lodges conspiracy
• Trivium