Craft Masonry
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What can a handful of magnetised needles reveal about the structure of initiation? In this presentation, we explore Arithmetical, Geometrical and Masonic Symbolism by Bro. Leslie S. Weatherstone. Beginning with a simple experiment involving magnetised needles floating freely upon water, the paper traces a progressive sequence from the point and line to the triangle, square,…
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To mark the Fourth of July, this FTQ compendium gathers together a selection of archive episodes exploring Freemasonry and the American imagination. The collection moves from the revolutionary world of the Green Dragon Tavern, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Prince Hall, through the later controversies and constructions of American Masonry in Albert Pike and the…
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At the heart of Craft Freemasonry stands a great symbolic architecture: the Temple of King Solomon, the figure of Hiram Abiff, the twin pillars at the entrance, and the later recovery tradition of the Holy Royal Arch. This compilation gathers four lectures exploring that central imaginative world: the story of the Master Builder, the sacred…
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This weekend’s compilation gathers together some of Freemasonry’s most enduring symbolic architecture: the Temple as sacred pattern, the Pillars as threshold and teaching, Hiram as both craftsman and allegorical figure, and the Royal Arch as a movement from loss toward recovery. Rather than treating these as separate curiosities, the video follows a single underlying thread:…
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A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of hearing W Bro John Bishop deliver a striking and provocative paper at Lodge Toowoomba. The paper, ‘Deists, Theists, Atheists, Agnostics, Pagans and Pantheists‘, takes up one of the most delicate questions in Freemasonry: what does the Craft actually require when it speaks of belief in the…
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Most Masonic history is populated by kings, architects, philosophers, and grand theories of origin. This week, we’re looking instead at the odd corners of the Craft. Join me as we open A Cabinet of Masonic Curiosities and explore a collection of strange words, forgotten characters, improbable legends, celebrated hoaxes, unusual lodges, and historical oddities accumulated…
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The Seven Liberal Arts and Sciences occupy a familiar place within the symbolic world of Freemasonry, yet their original purpose is often only dimly understood. Far from being decorative remnants of a medieval curriculum, they once formed a complete architecture of intellectual and moral formation: a disciplined ascent from language and reasoning to number, harmony,…
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Good Morning Quarrymen and a warm welcome to our new YouTube Channel Members *Bj Johnson*, *Jackson Smith*, *Stories with the b’ys*, and *Will*. This weekend … For centuries, Freemasonry preserved a vision of knowledge very different from our own: not information as accumulation, but education as formation. This week’s lecture explores the hidden architecture behind…
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Do you want to dive even deeper into the Western Esoteric Tradition?Visit https://www.subumbra.net In this lecture, we examine one of the more persistent and beguiling claims in Masonic literature: that Freemasonry inherited something from the ancient Druids. The evidence does not support a direct descent, and Stonehenge was not built by Druids, inconvenient though that…
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For a deeper dive into the Western Esoteric Tradition Visit Sub Umbra What is Freemasonry’s greatest symbol? The Square and Compasses? The Temple? The Working Tools? The Brotherhood of Man? This lecture offers a quieter but more profound answer: Light. In Freemasonry, Light is not simply knowledge. It is the illumination by which symbols are…
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Good evening Quarrymen and a warm welcome to our new YouTube channel member Trevor Weinbrecht. Coming to YouTube this weekend… There are some things in the Craft that illuminate more than they reveal. If you’d like to take an even deeper dive into the Western Esoteric Tradition, visit our new site Subumbra, a digital platform…
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Egypt, Mithras, and the Hidden Wisdom of Freemasonry brings together four earlier From the Quarries lectures into a single long-form compendium exploring Freemasonry’s symbolic relationship with the ancient mysteries. This extended presentation considers the enduring fascination with Egypt, Greece, Mithraism, and the wisdom traditions of antiquity, not as evidence of simple institutional descent, but as…
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Step into the “First Restoration” and journey beyond the “starry-decked heaven” of the Temple ceiling. This presentation explores the deep esoteric architecture of the Craft, moving from the “uninstructed” view of the Zodiac as mere decoration to its true purpose: an initiatic map of human development.In this video, we delve into:The Living System: Understanding the…
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This presentation provides a technical and philosophical analysis of the Western Esoteric Tradition, examining the structural methodologies used to transition human consciousness from material density to spiritual realization. Based on a paper by W.Bro. R. A. L. Harland, P.M, this study treats them as a functional “Curriculum of Liberation”—a systematic framework designed for the rehabilitation…
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The Square: More than just a tool, it is the “Great Symbol” of Freemasonry and a universal emblem of truth that predates history itself. In this video, we explore why the Square has been denominated by legends like Mackey and Newton as the most vital landmark of the ancient Craft. We journey from the prehistoric,…
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Long before the grand lodges of the 18th century and the elaborate rituals of modern Masonry, a mysterious poem was penned that would define the “Honest Craft” forever. Dating back to approximately 1390, the Regius Manuscript (also known as the Halliwell Manuscript) is the oldest surviving document of the “Old Charges.” It is not just…
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