March 2023
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Good evening Quarrymen This weekend we will be exploring a topic of deep fascination to me. Indeed, it was my studies in this area that first led me to Masonry many years ago. So make sure you check in this Saturday as we explore …
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This presentation, from November of 1931, looks into the history, derivation and contextual meaning of the terms ‘free’ and ‘accepted’ and how they came to be representative of the Craft worldwide. If you have content that you’d like to add to the archive, join the From the Quarries Community to submit your content. Go to
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Good evening Quarrypersons This weekend we will be looking at a term that we all take at face value, but never really question. What exactly does it mean to be a ‘Free and Accepted’ Mason? Tune in this weekend to find out.
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Two new videos just posted! Mithraism: Freemasonry and the Ancient Mysteries is a detailed text written by the eminent Masonic author and editor of ‘The Builder’ magazine, H.L. Haywood, sometime in the early 20th Century. While some of it’s content is now outdated, it is a refreshing return to a past era of positivism, where
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Good evening Quarryfolk Two videos are coming over this weekend separated by nearly 300 years! The first is a short text from 1662 by the remarkable John Heydon – ‘The Rosie Crucian Prayer to God’. The second is by the equally estimable H.L. Haywood from the early twentieth century – ‘Mithraism, Freemasonry and the Ancient
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Good evening Quarryfolk A second video for the week looking at the history and architecture of Babylon and their relationship with the Royal Arch. I came across this excellent presentation while researching the previous video ‘Babylon’ and thought it was worth a video in its own right. I hope you agree! This presentation was first
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Babylon is a presentation first given by Most Excellent Companion F.H. Shannon in the SGRACQ Chapter of Instruction on Tuesday 26 October 1971. If you have content that you’d like to add to the archive, join the From the Quarries Community to submit your content. Go to https://fromthequarries.com/community/ for more information Also don’t forget to
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Good evening Quarryfolk! This weekend we will be taking a look at some of the historical and Biblical background to the Royal Arch story. Please join us on Saturday as we go on a journey to …
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This week’s video is an extract from an early work by one of the key figures of the Victorian Esoteric renaissance, A.E. Waite. Although this work ‘Azoth; or, the Star in the East’ was written years before Waite joined the Craft, he still makes many substantial and well reasoned claims about the true ‘secret’ of
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Hello again Quarryfolk Just to let you know that I’ve just uploaded an experimental ‘out of session’ video “Freemasonry and the Western Esoteric Tradition”. If you’ve been following the channel you’ll know that I’ve developed an interest in the nascent field of artificial intelligence. The technology is growing so quickly that literally last week’s advances
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