Abstract

AGUIAR BOBET, Valeria. Orientalist soldiers: Theosophy and Freemasonry in North Africa during Second Spanish Republic. REHMLAC [online]. 2017, vol.8, n.2, pp.95-117. ISSN 1659-4223.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rehmlac.v8i2.26648.

The link between Freemasonry and Theosophy has been the subject of a variety of analyses throughout masonic historiography. This is largely because many Spanish masons belonged to different theosophical movements and associations, which were expanded and established throughout the country beginning in the late nineteenth century. However, in the Spanish protectorate in Morocco, most of the members and supporters of the Theosophical Society were not only masons and theosophists, but also military personnel with different ranks. The purpose of this work is to approach the relationship between Freemasonry, Theosophy and militarism, based on an ideological analysis of the practices and discourses of the members of this association without forgetting, on the one hand, how this ideological interplay was structured and defined in the republican and colonial context for military purposes, and on the other hand, how it influenced the socio-political processes that Spain experienced in the years before the Civil War.

Keywords : Spanish Protectorate in Marroco; Second Spanish Republic; esotericism; militarism.

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