Esoteric
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A few months ago we produced a community video addressing the question “Why Stonemasons”. This was a great success and came up with some really fascinating insights. I think it’s high time we put our collective minds towards another topic, so tonight’s video ‘Freemasonry in the Modern World’ has been chosen to put the audience…
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Tonight’s video is a continuation of a presentation from a few weeks ago – “Pythagoras, his tenets and his followers“. In it we will continue our exploration of William Wyn Westcott’s magisterial 1911 work – NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES. This is a significantly more complex video than the previous presentation. I’ve tried…
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Good evening Quarrymen Coming to YouTube this Saturday, we’ll continue our exploration of William Wynn Westcott’s 1911 ‘Numbers – Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues‘ as we examine Pythagorean Views on Numbers. This follows on from Pythagoras – His Tenets and his Followers published back in September.
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Hidden Treasures from the Archive – an hour of Masonic Symbolism:
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Good evening Quarrypersons I’ve got a big Masonic weekend ahead, so I won’t be able to put together a new video until next week. Instead, I’ll be posting a compilation of some older videos on Saturday looking at different aspects of Masonic Symbolism. I hope you’ll enjoy …
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A video presentation of a fascinating extract from the July 1895 edition of ‘The Esoteric’ Magazine. ‘Mind – Mundane and Celestial’ was written by T. A. Williston.
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Good evening Quarrymen I recently came across a fascinating periodical from 1895 ‘The Esoteric’. It’s a wonderfully eclectic compendium of high Victoriana with poetry, theoretical and speculative articles, all written with a thoroughly Theosophical sense of gravitas. Coming to YouTube on Saturday 14 October, let’s take a glimpse inside this intriguing publication.
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This is a really fascinating and insightful presentation written by Bro. Arthur E. Powell in 1926. Thanks to the Brethren of Halcyon and Pittsworth United Lodges for the opportunity to present this lecture in lodge over the last week.
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Good evening, Quarrymen, This weekend, a really fascinating presentation by Bro. Arthur E. Powell from 1926. We’ll take a detailed look at …
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Now on YouTube, an extract from the 1939 work “What Masonry Means” by William E. Hammond.
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This undated presentation was written by Bro. P. G. Maxwell-Stuart. AT THE CENTRE OF the Royal Arch lies an extraordinary and potent fact: the manipulation of Hebrew characters to produce words of power, is the heart, the intention, the very purpose of the Royal Arch. Abolish that play with words and you abolish the whole…
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Good evening Quarrymen It has been said that “both the speculative Craft and the Royal Arch had their origins in a system of magico-religious philosophy peculiar to certain university and Court circles in Europe between the late fifteenth and late sixteenth centuries.” Learn more this weekend, when we present:
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This is a short introductory extract from William Wynn Westcott’s 1911 work NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES. Let me know in the comments if you’d like to explore this work in more detail in future videos.
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Good evening Quarrymen This weekend, an extract from the 1911 classic – NUMBERS THEIR OCCULT POWER AND MYSTIC VIRTUES by the estimable W. Wynn Westcott. This is a complex and abstruse work which will revisited in future videos. To begin at the beginning, however …
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Part two of this inspiring work by W.Bro. Rev. J. R. Cleland, M.A., D.D., P.P.A.G. Chap. (Kent).
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This is part 1 of a detailed and erudite work, exploring how how the Lodge and its Officers might be correlated to the ideal Man. It was written by W.Bro. Rev. J. R. Cleland, M.A., D.D., P.P.A.G. Chap. (Kent).
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