💞 The Order of True Friendship 🕯 The Ritual of Trust

A companion piece to the main film “The Order of True Friendship”
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This film is a standalone companion to The Order of True Friendship and focuses entirely on the ritual that was only briefly hinted at in the main work.

In late 18th-century Germany, numerous secret societies emerged, inspired by the Enlightenment, the Illuminati, and the Freemasons.
They offered a protected space for new ideas, for freedom of thought — and also for human closeness beyond the reach of church authority.
Little is known about their actual rituals. Contemporary sources mention gestures of friendship, embraces, or even kisses, but much of it was branded “sodomitic” by the Church — most likely out of fear of anything that did not fit its moral order.

In this film, these lost rituals are freely re-imagined.
The scenes are fictional, inspired by what might have been conceivable at the time — a creative attempt to make the invisible visible.

The focus here is not on historical reconstruction but on an artistic vision of how trust, tenderness, and brotherhood might have been expressed within those secret circles.

🌈 Between Poetry and Truth
That such orders existed is well documented — yet how their rituals looked remains unknown.
But within that uncertainty lies a deeper truth:
that even then, men sought ways to express friendship, affection, and loyalty through symbolic acts — hidden from a society not yet ready to understand them.

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