"while others pretend that Masonic science 'existed before the creation of this globe, diffused amidst the numerous systems with which the grand empyreum of universal space is furnished' ..."
Catholic Encyclopedia, p. 772 of Volume IX
Citing Oliver, Dictionary of Symbolic Freemasonry, London 1853, I, 20, sq
In other words, the works of art which have accustomed this generation to believe in a cosmos where every star is a sun and most or many suns have planets like earth around them, Star Wars, Star Trek, and my long standing favourite, Valérian by Mezières and Christin, are drenched in a certain Masonic-esoteric tradition.
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