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As announced two days ago, we’re very excited to announce that Jesting Pilate is now live! To begin your journey with “Jesting Pilate,” visit the YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4pi6IV11ZijThyJuisneew and the official website at https://fromthequarries.com/jesting-pilate/ . Jesting Pilate is an emanation From the Quarries – https://fromthequarries.com/
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Good morning Quarrymen As promised, I have a major announcement this week Unfortunately, owing to work commitments there won’t be a new ‘From the Quarries’ video this weekend. However I do have some exciting news to announce! Announcing ‘Jesting Pilate’ Offering Access to the Western Hermetic Tradition “Jesting Pilate,” a new online platform dedicated to…
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A Response to Critics of Freemasonry – This anonymous presentation from the early 1990’s offers a reasoned and reasonable refutation of some of the criticisms that have been made of Freemasonry by religions and religious groups. The Story of Hiram Abiff – This presentation was written by William Harvey and first published in 1919. If…
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Good evening Quarrymen Coming this weekend is a short text from one of the most widely published of Masonic authors, William Harvey. Stand by until Saturday when we’ll explore “The Story of Hiram Abiff”!
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Today, April 6, is our third birthday (and I’ve just paid another year’s subscription on the fromthequarries.com domain to prove it 😉)! We’ve certainly got a lot to celebrate – Over 4000 subscribers (3500 on YouTube alone), more than 500 videos published, 300+ texts in the library and a massive 238 000 video views. 🥳…
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Good morning Quarryfolk We are quickly heading towards the third Birthday of From the Quarries and I’ve got some exciting news to share in the coming days! Before we get to that, this weekend’s video will be a nice, concise response to some of the more outlandish criticisms of the Craft. Stay tuned in the…
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This presentation by R. A. Gilbert, was first published in Gnosis during the 1980’s. In it he makes assertions about the relationship between Freemasonry and Hermiticism with which I don’t necessarity agree. What do you think? Let me know in the comments. If you have content that you’d like to add to the archive, join…
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Good evening Quarrymen This weekend we will be exploring a topic of deep fascination to me. Indeed, it was my studies in this area that first led me to Masonry many years ago. So make sure you check in this Saturday as we explore …
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This presentation, from November of 1931, looks into the history, derivation and contextual meaning of the terms ‘free’ and ‘accepted’ and how they came to be representative of the Craft worldwide. If you have content that you’d like to add to the archive, join the From the Quarries Community to submit your content. Go to…
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Good evening Quarrypersons This weekend we will be looking at a term that we all take at face value, but never really question. What exactly does it mean to be a ‘Free and Accepted’ Mason? Tune in this weekend to find out.
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Two new videos just posted! Mithraism: Freemasonry and the Ancient Mysteries is a detailed text written by the eminent Masonic author and editor of ‘The Builder’ magazine, H.L. Haywood, sometime in the early 20th Century. While some of it’s content is now outdated, it is a refreshing return to a past era of positivism, where…
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Good evening Quarryfolk Two videos are coming over this weekend separated by nearly 300 years! The first is a short text from 1662 by the remarkable John Heydon – ‘The Rosie Crucian Prayer to God’. The second is by the equally estimable H.L. Haywood from the early twentieth century – ‘Mithraism, Freemasonry and the Ancient…
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Good evening Quarryfolk A second video for the week looking at the history and architecture of Babylon and their relationship with the Royal Arch. I came across this excellent presentation while researching the previous video ‘Babylon’ and thought it was worth a video in its own right. I hope you agree! This presentation was first…
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Babylon is a presentation first given by Most Excellent Companion F.H. Shannon in the SGRACQ Chapter of Instruction on Tuesday 26 October 1971. If you have content that you’d like to add to the archive, join the From the Quarries Community to submit your content. Go to https://fromthequarries.com/community/ for more information Also don’t forget to…
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Good evening Quarryfolk! This weekend we will be taking a look at some of the historical and Biblical background to the Royal Arch story. Please join us on Saturday as we go on a journey to …
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This week’s video is an extract from an early work by one of the key figures of the Victorian Esoteric renaissance, A.E. Waite. Although this work ‘Azoth; or, the Star in the East’ was written years before Waite joined the Craft, he still makes many substantial and well reasoned claims about the true ‘secret’ of…
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Hello again Quarryfolk Just to let you know that I’ve just uploaded an experimental ‘out of session’ video “Freemasonry and the Western Esoteric Tradition”. If you’ve been following the channel you’ll know that I’ve developed an interest in the nascent field of artificial intelligence. The technology is growing so quickly that literally last week’s advances…
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