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Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 06:02:38 JST Evan Prodromou
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@regendans sure! The Freemasons are a great example of a secret society.

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  Regendans (regendans@toot.community)'s status on Friday, 06-Dec-2024 06:02:39 JST Regendans
  
  @evan I've heard people whisper that the well known music composers Mozart and Haydn were both members (though one of them was much more of a fan than the other) of the secret society of the Freemasonry. Is that the kind of thing you are thinking of ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_and_Freemasonry
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    Mozart and Freemasonry
    
    For the last seven years of his life Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a Mason. The Masonic order played an important role in his life and work. Mozart's lodges Mozart was admitted as an Apprentice to the Viennese Masonic lodge called "Zur Wohltätigkeit" ("Beneficence") on 14 December 1784. He was promoted to Fellow on 7 January 1785, and became a Master Mason "shortly thereafter". Mozart also attended the meetings of another lodge, called "Zur wahren Eintracht" ("True Concord"). According to Otto Erich Deutsch, this lodge was "the largest and most aristocratic in Vienna. ... Mozart, as the best of the musical 'Brothers,' was welcome in all the lodges." It was headed by the naturalist Ignaz von Born. Mozart's own lodge "Zur Wohltätigkeit" was consolidated with two others in December 1785, under the Imperial reform of Masonry (the Freimaurerpatent, "Masonic Decree") of 11 December 1785, and thus Mozart came to belong to the lodge called "Zur Neugekrönten Hoffnung" (New Crowned Hope). At least as far as surviving Masonic documents can tell us, Mozart was well regarded by his...

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