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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Personified the ideals of the Enlightenment

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Mozert The Age of Enlightenment was a philosophical period through the 18th century, in which rationalism was the main source for legitimacy and authority. It was less of an age of ideas, but more of values, and questioning the traditional methods of life. It was when people around Europe began to break away from the strict religious lives they had all been made to lead, and question tradition in the name of science. The idea of Enlightenment was one of the factors of many revolutions and social changes that happened in the 1700s, and influenced many more in centuries to come. (mahaliastamford.wordpress.com)

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Mozart Famous for Violin Concerto No.5 in A Famous also for his Clarinet Concerto Famous also for his Clarinet Concerto

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Free Masonry and the Enlightenment John Locke Voltaire Ben Franklin John Hancock John Paul Jones George Washington ] The earliest masonic texts each contain some sort of a history of the craft, or mystery, of masonry. The oldest known work of this type, The Halliwell Manuscript, or Regius Poem, dating from between 1390 and 1425, has a brief history in its introduction, stating that the "craft of masonry" began with Euclid in Egypt, and came to England in the reign of King Athelstan.[1] Shortly afterwards, the Cooke Manuscript traces masonry to Jabal son of Lamech (Genesis 4: 20-22), and tells how this knowledge came to Euclid, from him to the Children of Israel (while they were in Egypt), and so on through an elaborate path to Athelstan.[2] This myth formed the basis for subsequent manuscript constitutions, all tracing masonry back to biblical times, and fixing its institutional establishment in England during the reign of Athelstan (927-939).[3] Shortly after the formation of the Premier Grand Lodge of England, James Anderson was commissioned to digest these "Gothic Constitutions" in a palatable, modern form. The resulting constitutions are prefaced by a history more extensive than any before, again tracing the history of what was now freemasonry back to biblical roots, again forging Euclid into the chain. True to his material, Anderson fixes the first grand assembly of English Masons at York, under Athelstan's son, Edwin, who is otherwise unknown to history.[4] Expanded, revised, and republished, Anderson's 1738 constitutions listed the Grand Masters since Augustine of Canterbury, listed as Austin the Monk.[5] William Preston's Illustrations of Freemasonry enlarged and expanded on this masonic creation myth.[6]

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Free Masonry Music from Mozart Mason Music