Download or read book The Dionysian Artificers written by Hippolyto Joseph Da Costa and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay, published in 1820, was an attempt to prove that modern Freemasonry derived from ancient Greek philosophical and religious ideas. Hippolyto da Costa (1774-1823), was a Brazilian journalist, author, Freemason and world traveller. He was imprisoned for being a Freemason by the Inquisition in Portugal in 1802; he escaped in 1805.