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This week’s long-form video is a selection of 5 Esoteric videos from the Archive. Details of the source for the videos can be found in the introductions to each. 00:00 – Introduction 00:33 – Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry 23:28 – The Occultism of the Bible and Kabbalah 30:44 – Sects, Secrets and Intitiatic Orders 46:19 –…
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Good evening Quarrymen Personal circumstances have intervened, and I won’t be able to publish the promised ‘All Seeing Eye’ video tomorrow. It will have to wait until next week. In the words of Douglas Adams, ‘We apologise for the inconvenience’. In its place I hope you’ll enjoy ‘An Esoteric Freemasonry Omnibus’ comprising 5 selected esoteric…
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Good evening Quarrymen, Coming this weekend … “Are we not taught that every character, emblem or symbol in Freemasonry has a peculiar meaning? There is need for a careful explanation of them all. Especially is this so, I think, in the case of the ” All Seeing Eye,” since it is seldom referred to directly…
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An anonymous extract from the Masonic Review of 1857. “Though the scriptures furnish but a meagre account of Enoch, the traditions of Freemasonry closely connect him by numerous circumstances with the early history of the institution. All indeed that we learn from the book of Genesis on the subject of his life, is that he…
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Good evening Quarrymen This weekend … ” … him the Most High (Rapt in a balmly cloud, with winged steeds), Did as thou seest, receive to walk with God, High in salvation, and the claims of bliss, Exempt from death.” — Paradise Lost.
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This presentation was first published by Everett R. Turnbull & Ray V. Denslow. I do not have a date or provenance for the work, but believe that it is part of their “History of Royal Arch Freemasonry”.
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Good evening Quarrymen. This weekend … “And Cyrus, having constituted Zerubbabel, the son of Salathiel (of the seed of David by Nathan, the brother of Solomon, whose royal family was now extinct) the Head or Prince of the Captivity and the leader of the Jews and Israelites returning to Jerusalem, they began to lay the…
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This week’s video was written by Bro. Robert T. Runciman (undated) ‘In Beeton’s Christmas Annual of 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle presented to the public A Study in Scarlet, his first Sherlock Holmes story. From this beginning there followed fifty-six short stories and three novels with Sherlock Holmes and his ‘Boswell,’ John H. Watson, M.D.,…
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Good evening Quarrymen This weekend, it’s “Elementary my dear Hiram” …
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This video was first published as an article in the Short Talk Bulletin Vol. VII No. 12 — December 1929. “The laws of Masonry, like the laws of nations, are both the unwritten — “Common Law” — and written. The written laws, based on the “General Regulations” and the “Old Charges,” are the Constitution and…
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This weekend … Every Master Mason is obliged to abide by the laws, regulations and edicts of his Grand Lodge; the by-laws of the particular lodge of which he is a member, and to maintain and support the Landmarks and “Ancient Usages and Customs of the Fraternity.”
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Welcome to the next instalment of our survey. Each question is designed to gather your valuable insights on Freemasonry’s role and evolution. Any additional comments you would like to add related to this question will be immensely helpful in developing the project! You do NOT need to be a Freemason to respond to the survey.…
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An anonymous and undated paper looking at the very earliest use of geometrical symbolism. “In speculating about symbols, especially Masonic symbols, we are naturally led to think of geometric figures. Mindful of the frequently asserted claim that modern Speculative Freemasonry is the inheritor of “the secret tradition” or learning of the ancient priesthoods, who thereby…
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Welcome to our survey. Each question is designed to gather your valuable insights on Freemasonry’s role and evolution. Any additional comments you would like to add related to this question will be immensely helpful in developing the project! You do NOT need to be a Freemason to respond to the survey. 😊 QUESTION 2 of…
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This Weekend … In speculating about symbols, especially Masonic symbols, we are naturally led to think of geometric figures. Mindful of the frequently asserted claim that modern Speculative Freemasonry is the inheritor of “the secret tradition” or learning of the ancient priesthoods, who thereby exercised the decisive power of knowledge over their rulers and kings,…
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“Where to from Here? Freemasonry in the 6th Millenium A.L.” Welcome to our survey. Each question is designed to gather your valuable insights on Freemasonry’s role and evolution. Any additional comments you would like to add related to this question will be immensely helpful in developing the project! Click on the link below to add…
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I’ve been given the fantastic opportunity to present at the Australian and New Zealand Masonic Research Council (https://www.anzmrc.org/) in Sydney this October. This isn’t just my journey—it’s ours. As we navigate the future of Freemasonry, I’m calling on you, the vibrant community of “From the Quarries,” to lend your voices to this pivotal discussion. I’ll…
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