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Ungefär samma romantism som att frimurarna har något med tempelriddarna att göra
Ja, det förekom mycket romantiskt tänkande på denna tid, paradoxalt nog, eftersom 1700-talet egentligen var upplysningens tid, med rationalism och vetenskap på frammarsch.
Man kan se det som en motreaktion, prof. Forestier skriver 1914:
"while the Enlightenment was making a great stir in the profane world, it attracted to its dark dwellings the dreamy and imaginative minds repelled by the dryness and nakedness of rationalist philosophy, who sought in mirages to conceal from them the aridity of the desert where the drying wind of common sense had dried up the sources of illusion."
Templarmyten fanns inte hos frimurarna från början, den introducerades till dem. För det tyska frimureriets del, eftersom vi pratar om Illuminati, skedde detta på 1740-talet: "The Templar legend, which also alluded to the occult sciences and which was introduced around the same time into German Freemasonry; it seems to have been invented by the clients of the German Rosicrucians or Golden Rosicrucians. This association, whose history is very poorly known, appears to have had a purely German origin and to have formed outside of Freemasonry."
Det ockulta tänkandet, alkemi och andeåkallan, exporterades också med tiden till Sverige: "The Order of the Temple, the very few custodians of this sublime knowledge, had taken refuge in Scotland and Auvergne, and from there had carried it to the East and Sweden. It was divided into two principal branches: transmutation of metals and evocation of spirits. "