From the Quarries

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 together, these three short studies explore the boundary between Masonic history, ritual development, symbolism and folklore, where perfectly serious traditions sometimes acquire surprisingly strange afterlives.