Craft Masonry
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This week’s video The Cable-Tow examines one of the Craft’s most enduring and mysterious symbols—part practical tool, part moral allegory, and part mystical bond. This presentation weaves together the work of many Masonic scholars to explore its origins, meanings, and uses across history, culture, and ritual. Join us as we trace the journey of the
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Masonic Gates 3: Secretology – The Science of Secrecy is a profound meditation on the hidden architecture of human thought, tradition, and spirituality, exploring secrecy not as a tool of deception but as a sacred and transformative force. Drawing from scripture, history, psychology, and Masonic symbolism, the work traverses the inner sanctum of the human
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This video traces the historical evolution of women’s involvement in Freemasonry from the 18th century to the present day, highlighting a journey from initial explicit exclusion to gradual, multifaceted inclusion. They reveal that while early formal Freemasonry barred women, isolated instances and legendary accounts suggest rare exceptions, primarily in operative lodges or through extraordinary circumstances
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Good afternoon Quarrymen After a week’s break it’s time to get back to a long-form video 📽️ Women in Speculative Freemasonry (1717–Present) traces the gradual inclusion of women in Freemasonry, from their formal exclusion in the 18th century to the rise of co-Masonry and women-only Grand Lodges. It explores key figures, movements, and rituals across
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“The Meaning and Purpose of Freemasonry” is a profound and erudite meditation upon the latent spiritual potential concealed within the Masonic system—an appeal to recover the lost dimensions of esoteric wisdom that once animated the Craft. With clarity and solemnity, the author seeks to restore to view the initiatory path implicit in the ceremonies and
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Good evening Quarrymen and welcome to our new YouTube channel members *Eric J* and *Ephriem Asnake*. This weekend a deeply insightful look into ‘The Meaning and Purpose of Freemasonry’ from the pen of R.A.L. Harland. On YouTube Saturday 5 July.
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Good evening Quarrymen This weekend we’ll be taking a brief look at some of the famous figures who have donned the lambskin apron as we present 7 Famous Freemasons. Stay tuned to the end when we reveal a ‘special guest star’! On YouTube Saturday 28 June.
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Behind the visible forms of Freemasonry—its tools, its rituals, its allegories—lies a deeper and more ancient current of thought: the Hermetic Art. In this sweeping meditation, W. Bro. Cleland traces the Craft back to a primordial science of spiritual regeneration, veiled in symbol and passed down through sacred architecture, alchemical allegory, and initiatory practice. This
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What is the true origin of the Masonic tradition—and what is its ultimate aim? In this weekend’s video two profound extracts offer strikingly different yet harmonising answers. Albert Churchward, in his exploration of The Divine Name, seeks Freemasonry’s roots in the high antiquity of Egypt, tracing the lost sacred syllables of YHWH to Horus, Hu,
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Good evening Quarrymen This weekend … In these two contrasting yet complementary texts, Dr. Albert Churchward and Arthur Edward Waite approach the arcana of Freemasonry from opposite ends of the esoteric spectrum—one through comparative mythology and Egyptological reconstruction, the other through mystical theology and perennial philosophy. Churchward’s extract from The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) boldly
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What does it mean to call Masonry a “Progressive Science”? For the author of this weekend’s video Bro. D. O. Ryan, it is both a reminder and a challenge: that Freemasonry is no resting place, but a path—and one that demands effort, insight, and continual striving. In this stirring address, Ryan exhorts his brethren to
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Good evening Quarrymen This weekend … In this contemplative and candid oration, Bro. D. O. Ryan challenges the Craft to reconsider the essence of Freemasonry not as a static inheritance but as a living, evolving science—a “Progressive Science” rooted in the perennial quest for truth. Bridging philosophy and ritual, he traces the intellectual lineage of
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In this video Arthur Edward Waite reimagines Masonic symbolism as a spiritual itinerary—a contemplative journey of the soul toward divine union—rather than merely a framework for moral instruction. Core emblems such as the Pentagram, Hexagram, Blazing Star, Sun and Moon, and the Point within a Circle are interpreted as metaphysical representations of cosmic principles and
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Good evening Quarrymen and welcome to our new YouTube Channel Members Rocky and francis Akpata. This weekend, as voted by our Channel members we have a presentation by Arthur Edward Waite that reinterprets Masonic symbolism beyond mere ethical instruction, framing it as a spiritual pilgrimage—an itinerarium mentis in Deum, or “journey of the mind into
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This video is a compilation of reflective pieces exploring some of the quiet and tranquil backwaters of the Masonic philosophical tradition. You may not agree with all of the viewpoints presented, but that is one of the great strengths of the Craft. Non-judgemental acceptance of difference.
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Good evening Quarrymen and welcome to our new YouTube Channel members FatherSith13fox and Don Read! As the year races forward and the days seem to vanish more swiftly with each passing week, it is worth pausing to reflect—not only on the nature of time, but on the deeper rhythms that shape our inner lives. In
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Journey beyond the well-lit halls of recognized Freemasonry into its hidden peripheries, where charlatans, idealists, and political agitators alike have donned the square and compasses in pursuit of power, parody, or revelation. “Mockeries and Mavericks” uncovers the riotous satire of the Gormogons and Scald Miserables, the chivalric fictions of the Knights Templar revivalists, the mystical
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