Abstract
<jats:p>Undertaking a research concerning the Masonic activity of Baron Samuel von Brukenthal proved to be an unprecedented and necessary challenge. Unprecedented, because no other work has particularly captured his Masonic path, in order to reveal his vocation for the Masonic Order. At the same time, it is also a challenge, because his path represents, in a way, a filiation with the activity that I carried out in Masonic lodges with a similar identity. I wrote this book without entering into the debates or speculations that appeared in the public space, especially after the unveiling of the statue of Samuel von Brukenthal in front of the Museum that bears his name, with the belief that this can give rise to a new image, showing him as a man of his time, dominated by the ideas of the Enlightenment, which he embraced. I considered it appropriate to add some nuance to the Baron's attitude in non-Masonic political life, based on an understanding of the spirit and mentality of those times. Samuel von Brukenthal belonged to a privileged class and, like any member of it, having a noble title, he expressed himself through and in its interests</jats:p>