From the Quarries

Good evening Quarrymen

I’ve been working on a video featuring AE Waite’s analysis of Hermetic Masonry for some time, but it’s been a struggle. Waite’s writing style is so baroque that it’s quite hard to read aloud, let alone visualise. Here’s an example of a typical sentence:

“It would account at once not alone for Hermeticism itself but for alleged Rosicrucian influence as a part thereof, for the obvious presence of Kabalistic elements in Speculative Masonry, and for all other contributories of a mystical character in the symbols and legends of the Fraternity, as well as for that otherwise incomprehensible bond of sympathy which—in the eighteenth century and onward for one hundred and more years—subsisted between Masonry and the purely mystical societies, and which developed at one period a most striking sequence of results, as we shall see in its place later on”. – WHEW! 🤷‍♂️😳

Anyway, I’ve had a go at it, and I hope you enjoy the result.

Coming to YouTube Saturday 1 February