Secret Teachings
Good evening Quarrymen This weekend I’ll be taking a closer look at Manly P. Hall’s The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928), a work that has shaped how many modern readers understand the symbolic traditions of the West. Hall attempted something rather ambitious: to gather Hermeticism, Pythagorean philosophy, Kabbalah, alchemy, Rosicrucianism, and Freemasonry into a…
Which Masonic Authors Are Actually Worth Reading?
In this video I try something a little different from the usual From the Quarries format: a tier list of Masonic authors. A tier list is simply a ranked set of categories, from S (exceptional) down through A, B, C, and D. I’m judging these writers by a mix of usefulness to serious Masonic study,…
Ranking Writing
Good evening Quarrymen A slightly different kind of video is coming to From the Quarries this weekend. This time, instead of a formal lecture or deep historical treatment, I’ve put together something more conversational: a tier list of Masonic authors. After well over 1,400 videos on the channel, I thought it might be interesting to…
Why Rome Condemned Freemasonry
This omnibus explores one of the longest and most misunderstood tensions in modern religious and Masonic history: the relationship between the Church and the Craft. Drawing together three earlier talks, it examines the Catholic Church’s condemnations of Freemasonry, the question of whether Freemasonry is a religion, and the issue of its compatibility with Christianity. Grounded…
World Freemasonry – 5 Traditions, one Craft
This compilation offers concise, historically grounded introductions to major Masonic traditions—Russia, Japan, Ireland, Sweden, and Prince Hall (USA)—tracing their origins, key turning points, and the distinctive features of their rites and lodge culture, so you can see how the Craft expresses itself differently across jurisdictions while remaining recognisably Masonic.
Where to from here? – have your say!
In 2024 I ran a simple 10-question survey to capture how people actually see Freemasonry—Masons, non-Masons, and the simply curious. It generated a huge spread of responses and became the backbone of a conference presentation and video. Since then, the YouTube channel has grown to 33,000+ subscribers and the audience is much broader and more…
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz (The First Day)
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, first published in Strasbourg in 1616 and attributed to Johann Valentin Andreae, is the most elaborate of the Rosicrucian manifestos, presenting a seven-day allegorical narrative that fuses Lutheran theology, Renaissance alchemy, and Hermetic symbolism. Though sometimes read as a literal esoteric revelation, Andreae later described the work as a…
The Belief in a Supreme Being?
This lecture was originally presented by Bro. Harvey Lovewell at the ANZMRC conference in Dunedin in 2022. Download the original lecture and supporting PowerPoint of this presentation here: The Belief in a Supreme Being?
Upcoming ‘Instant Premiere’
Good afternoon Quarrymen This weekend I’ll be running an instant Premiere on YouTube of a new video titled The Belief in a Supreme Being? — a presentation based on a 2022 lecture by Bro. Harvey Lovewell. The exact start time is still to be confirmed, but the Premiere page will go live 24 hours in…
The Origins of Freemasonry
In this carefully argued presentation, The Origins of Freemasonry by Alphonse Cerza, P.M., dismantles the many romantic and speculative myths that have accumulated around the Craft’s beginnings, from the Temple of Solomon to the Garden of Eden, the Ancient Mysteries, Roman Collegia, and medieval cathedral legends. Drawing on respected Masonic historians such as Henry W.…
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