December 2025
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ANTIPODEAN SUMMER SEASON This week we’ve published a suite of Videos originally published in 2023 and 24. I hope you enjoy this selection of four lectures from the archive exploring the Philosophical World of Freemasonry.
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Good evening Quarrymen In the giving spirit of the season, here is a short Christmas release … This video explores The Apocalypse of Adam, a striking Gnostic text preserved in the Nag Hammadi Library, presenting Adam’s final revelation to his son Seth as a radical counter-history of creation. The work depicts humanity’s loss of primordial
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ANTIPODEAN SUMMER SEASON Videos originally published in 2022. These lectures explore the three Principals of the Royal Arch—Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and Haggai—through close reference to A History of Royal Arch Masonry by Everett R. Turnbull and Ray V. Denslow (1955), one of the standard historical treatments of the development of the Royal Arch in the Anglo-American
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As the northern hemisphere settles into winter, here in Australia we are heading into the height of summer—an arrangement that makes Christmas a season of Test Cricket, heat, bright light, and the mild absurdity of festive traditions conducted in shorts rather than coats. To mark the Christmas and New Year period, From the Quarries will
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This presentation explores the strange and often contradictory world of anti-Masonic conspiracy literature, drawing on historical sources and modern examples to reveal how Freemasonry has been alternately vilified, romanticised, and misunderstood. Inspired by an essay by Australian journalist David Greason, this lecture traces the evolution of anti-Masonic thinking across Britain, America, Russia, and beyond, highlighting
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In this extended lecture, we explore one of the most extraordinary texts of early twentieth-century esotericism: The Hidden Life in Freemasonry (1926) by Charles Webster Leadbeater. A towering figure within the Theosophical Society and Co-Masonic circles, Leadbeater claimed that modern Masonic ritual is not merely symbolic but the vestigial survival of an ancient Egyptian initiatory
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