August 2026
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Freemasonry has accumulated around itself a remarkable collection of symbols, traditions, forgotten customs and persistent legends. In this compendium edition of From the Quarries, we revisit three of its more curious corners: the enduring myth of the Masonic Goat, the once-important Twelve Original Points of Freemasonry, and the origins and symbolism of Masonic Blue. Taken…
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What if the ancient Art of Memory was about far more than remembering? For classical and Renaissance thinkers, memory could be constructed as an architecture: familiar places filled with vivid images, through which knowledge could be stored, ordered and recovered. But during the Renaissance, this ancient mnemonic technique developed into something considerably more ambitious. In…
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What can a handful of magnetised needles reveal about the structure of initiation? In this presentation, we explore Arithmetical, Geometrical and Masonic Symbolism by Bro. Leslie S. Weatherstone. Beginning with a simple experiment involving magnetised needles floating freely upon water, the paper traces a progressive sequence from the point and line to the triangle, square,…
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