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Following articles are taken from the Notebooks Grigionitaliani,
written by
Luca Bianchini and Anna Trombetta
The Lodge Zur Wahren Eintracht (To the true harmony) it was the most important in the capital. The other one was called Zur Gekrönten Hoffnung (To the crowned hope). These years - 1780 - were the period of expansion of the illuminated Freemasonry. In 1784 the Lodges of the Asburgic empire were only 57 and 17 in Austria, as it result from official sources of police, that already suspected antimonarchist infiltrations and progressive appeals. Mozart entered officially when he was 28 years old, the 14 December of 1784, in the small Lodge Zur Wohltätigkeit (To the beneficence), enlisted by Otto von Gemmingen (code name Antonius), the musician's friend from the times of Mannheim. Its lodge depended from the Illuminated von Born (code name Furius Camillus). In the 1783 Gemmingen had been guest of the loggia of this illustrious scientist to hold a discourse, in which he encouraged Born to continue in the struggle "against the errors of the mysticism."
Also crossed Mozart the degrees of the hierarchy
from Apprentice to Companion, January 7 th 1785, and finally, in the spring of that year, Master. The musician was assiduous frequenter of these sessions, that were also held in other places. For that reason, so to avoid confusion, he was signed with the complete name of the lodge of his affiliation: "Mozart von der Wohltätigkeit" (Mozart of the Beneficence). Leopold Mozart, in the trip in 1785 to Wien, enrolled himself in the lodge of his child, because he also sympathized with illuminati, having interwoven good relationships with the illuminated freemason Wolfsegg, that had lent him some money.
1785 was the year of the persecutions of the elector of Baviera
against illuminati, that infiltrated themselves among freemasons, as Mayr did. Worried for illuminati and "for the predicaments" of freemasons, Joseph II intervened also with a decree, on the 11 December of 1785, to limit the number of lodges in Wien by imposing to the freemasons to declare the number of their adherents. In January of 1786 the Zur Wohltätigkeit of Mozart was united to the most influential Zurs Gekrönten Hoffnung and Drei Feuren (Three Fires), counting around two hundred members, picked in the Zur Neugekrönten Hoffnung (To the Crowned New Hope). The lodge of Born was called Zur Wahrheit (To the Truth).
So, at the end, the emperor favored the faction of those people, that opposed Born and his companions, which turned the back to the Freemasonry inside the lodges.
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