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This video is a short paper by the noted Esotericist Franz Hartmann outlining the 16 signs by which a true Rosicrucian Brother may be identified. 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…
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Good evening Quarrymen It’s been a big Masonic week for me. Last weekend I was asked if I would accept elevation to the 31st degree AASR (a very emphatic ‘Yes!’) and last night I was installed as TIM for the first time in my Chapter. With my Masonic juices therefore flowing freely, this weekend’s video…
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This undated work was written by Bro. W.J (Jack) Collett. It analyses and reflects upon the foundation myths of the Masonic tradition and their origin. 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…
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The runaway winner of our ‘Esoteric’ poll on YouTube, Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians is a work published between 1785 and 1788 and is widely considered second only in importance to the original Manifestos in the Rosicrucian tradition. The 1935 AMORC full text translations in English of the Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians can be…
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Good evening Quarrymen, we have a winner! Thanks to everyone for your votes on the latest YouTube poll. The winner by a very wide margin was 1785’s ‘Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians‘. This will be quite a challenging presentation to put together for a few reasons: 1. It is 3 volumes long 2. It was…
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Hiram, King Solomon’s Ally, is another extract from the excellent ‘History of Royal Arch Masonry Vol. 1’ by Everett R. Turnbull & Ray V. Denslow. 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…
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Good evening Quarrymen! I’m delighted to announce that a new feature ‘Famous Freemasons‘ has now gone live on the FTQ website. Biographies of more than 130 famous (or infamous) historical figures who were members of the Craft can now be viewed as short, 60 second videos. Go to https://fromthequarries.com/famous-freemasons/ to check out the list. The…
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This is a really fascinating, thoughtful and accessible presentation taken from ‘Masonic Notes’, a compendium of articles, poems and presentations published in 1919. The collection was edited by Captain C. C. Adams, who also authored this presentation. If you have content that you’d like to add to the archive, join the From the Quarries Community…
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This video combines two source texts – ‘Rosicrucian Manifestos’ by Gian Giuseppe Filippi and ‘Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry’ by Frank C. Higgins. It only manages to scratch the surface of this vast and fascinating topic, so if you’d like more videos on topics like this, please let me know in the comments! If you have content…
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This quiet, reflective piece on the true value of Freemasonry is anonymous, but was first published in ‘The Canadian Craftsman’ in January of 1898.
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A change to my advertised video for this week following the sad news from Balmoral overnight. This video looks into the sometimes surprising history and meaning of the ‘loyal toast’ honoured at every festive board. It was written by RW Bro Donald M Fleming in 1978 for the occasion of his installation as Worshipful Master…
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The Two-Fold Nature of Freemasonry is an extract from a presentation given by Kenneth H. Hooley. It is undated, but appears to have been given in Virginia sometime in the last couple of decades of the 20th Century. If you have content that you’d like to add to the archive, join the From the Quarries…
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