1. Jean-Baptiste Willermoz was a French Freemason and Martinist who played an important role in the establishment of various systems of Masonic high-degrees in his time in both France and Germany.
10 Facts About Jean-Baptiste Willermoz
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Jean-Baptiste Willermoz was the brother of Pierre-Jacques Willermoz, a physician and chemist who worked on the Encyclopedie of Diderot and D'Alembert.
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Jean-Baptiste Willermoz was a manufacturer in silk and silver at Rue des Quatre-Chapeaux, and as a volunteer director of charities, he played an important role in the European freemasonry of his time.
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Jean-Baptiste Willermoz was admitted to first grade in the Order of the Elus Cohens at Versailles in 1767 personally by Martinez de Pasqually on the recommendation of Jean-Jacques Bacon de la Chevalerie and the Marquis de Lusignan.
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Jean-Baptiste Willermoz said in a letter of 1780 to the Prince of Hesse that he was given the rank of Reau-Croix in the Order of Martinez Pasqually.
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Jean-Baptiste Willermoz introduced at the Convention of Lyon the Regime Ecossais Rectifie, which combined Templar Freemasonry with the religious ceremonial of the Elect Coens.
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In 1782, Jean-Baptiste Willermoz wrote that there are three kinds of alchemical freemasons:.
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Jean-Baptiste Willermoz therefore urged members of the Knights Beneficent not to give any credence to him, nor to the lodge he founded in 1785 in Paris, the first mother-lodge of the Egyptian rite, whose name was "the Wisdom Triumphant".
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Jean-Baptiste Willermoz was later appointed General of the Department of the Rhone by the Prime Consul on 1 June 1800, an office he held for 15 years.
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Jean-Baptiste Willermoz resumed his Masonic activities with a resurgence of the CBCS in 1804, and dedicated himself to this end until his death at age 93 on 29 May 1824.