Craft Masonry
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This charming and well researched presentation was written by Auri Spigelman. It was first published in the California Freemason in the Spring of 1993. 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…
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Good evening Quarryfolk “God bless the Old Tyler! How long has he truged Through sunshine and storm with his “summonses due” No pain nor fatigue the Old Tyler has gruged To serve the great Order, Freemasonry, and you”. Coming this Saturday …
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This presentation is taken from some handwritten notes in my possession, they appear to be a transcription of a Short Talk Bulletin from November 1927. 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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It is the initial gift of Freemasonry to a candidate, and at the end of life’s pilgrimage it is reverently placed on his mortal remains and buried with his body in the grave. New video coming this Saturday …
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This is an impassioned presentation by Bro. Charles H. Tupper MPS. Initially I thought that the author was the famous early 20th century Canadian politician of that name, but from the language of the text it was clearly written at a later date, probably the 1970s or 80s. If you have content that you’d like…
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What is a Mason? This question is often asked by those who are not yet members and by those who have been in lodge for some time. This question is often a difficult one to answer. We know that we enjoy being Masons but do not know how to explain this. This weekend’s video will…
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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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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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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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