From cabal to masonry. Seminar on 27 May in Warsaw

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Jewish Historical Institute, May 21, 2025

We invitation you to a technological seminar, which Dr. Paweł Fijałkowski will lead!

The judaic and Christian planet have developed a tradition of portraying The temple as a circular structure or -recognizing a broader central thing. These were symbolic images, referring to mystic notions of the planet and ancient beliefs binding perfection to colistism. The dissemination of the mystical imagination of the Temple of Solomon as the central ellipse of creation was 1 of the effects of the improvement of the cabal, which aroused large interest in the Christian world. With the birth of masonry, covering many cabalistic themes, the concept of the Temple was filled with fresh content, it became the guiding subject created by this movement of the image of the past and ethical goals of humanity.

The seminar will be held on 27 May 2025 at 11:00 in the judaic University Hall in Blue Tower (Bankowy 2, entrance from Tłomackie Street) and will not be recorded.


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Dr. Paweł Fijałkowski is an archaeologist, historian and publicist. Since 1988 he has worked at the judaic Historical Institute in Warsaw. He received his doctorate in humanities in 1999 on the basis of a dissertation "Jews in Łeczycki and Rawski voivodships in XV–XVIII in". From 1985 to 1989, he collaborated as an author with the weekly "Folks-Styme" (Jewish People's Voice), and from 1989 to 1998 with the monthly diary "Word and Thought. Evangelical Review". Since 2001 he has published in the diary “ALBO or. Problems of psychology and culture” and since 2019 besides in the socio-cultural quarterly “Town Poznań”. He deals with the past of Jews in the Old Polish period, the past of Polish Protestantism, the pre-historic Mazovia, homoeroticism in European culture and the heritage of masonry. He has written respective 100 articles and respective books, including: “Androgynia, dionysity, homoeroticism. different threads of European identity (2016), "Warsaw judaic community during the Stanislaw period. 1764–1795. improvement in the Age of large Change" (2016), "Warsaw-Warsaw. Jews in city history. 1414–2014" (jointly with M. Janczewska, A. Żbikowski and A. Żółkiewska; 2020), "Masonian Trails in Dobrzyca. Visible – Unobvious” (2023).

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