[BONNEVILLE (Nicolas de). Scottish Masonry,... - Lot 272 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL

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[BONNEVILLE (Nicolas de). Scottish Masonry,... - Lot 272 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL
[BONNEVILLE (Nicolas de). Scottish Masonry, compared with the three professions and the secret of the Templars of the fourteenth century. Title of the second part: " Mêmeté of the four vows of the company of S. Ignatius, and the four grades of Masonry of S. John ". Orient de Londres, 1788, 8°, 2 parts bound in one, 156 and [8]- the f 179/180 placed after p. 156 must be at the end of the vol. before a f. 53/54 (?), contemporary brown half-calf, smooth spine decorated, title-piece (the upper corner of the first 68 pages is torn without lack of text and restored). Nicolas de Bonneville (1760-1828) was a French bookseller-printer, journalist, writer and freemason. In this work Bonneville reveals the meaning of his quest: it is in the return to primordial monotheism that he discerns the singularity of the Templars in the Roman Church. He assumes that their contact with their Muslim adversaries rallied them to the monotheism of Mohammed. One could rather admit, with good minds, that already the nine poor Knights, sons of the powerful houses of Champagne and Flanders, had been sent to Jerusalem, as early as 1118, to find the lost word with the Rabbis of Thibériade. Our author does not fail to recall that, since the time of the apostles, the official Church was always coupled with a Gnostic current. The quarrels of the great heresies, the Trinitarian controversies, Arianism, Monophysitism and then the Eastern Schism, are all episodes of the rigor or laxity of religious thought in the face of the idea of the One God.
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