La masonería en la sociedad colombiana del siglo XIX

Abstract

The particularity of this research is to establish the connection between participants philanthropic members of Freemasonry in Colombia in the nineteenth century, in this sense, a descriptive and comprehensive account of the origins of this secret society, which as its name suggests, will was be in an order that is devoted to the study of the mysteries of life and man proposing with a pedigree means holistic development. It is in this area, which will particularizing a series of events with different names like modern sociability, power elite, society ideas, among others, according to the author referenced and taking as Freemasonry, are explained each one of them, in such a way that will be pointing out the subject in more concrete facts and served circumstantially back to freethinkers and men whose mind anchored libertarian ideals were launched and will be channeled through this difficult path of struggle, but also of constant persecution by differences with other ideologies as the Colombian bipartisanship and clerical reaction. Parallel to the above a proposal that will aim to highlight only six Colombians masons nineteenth century, its popularity in various contexts will be done and will emphasize its connection to the masonry, allowing exemplify its position with a primary source documents and other secondary, to relate his link with the order or opposition as appropriate, but historically this interpretive research, the proposed model of a man initiated or homo (initium) that requires association with others will also initiated.