Esoteric
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Good afternoon Quarryfolk Two new videos this weekend: The Symbolism on our Lodge Officers – This lovely presentation was written by by Norman Senn, P.M. Mosaic Lodge #176 and presented at the Fiat Lux Lodge of Research #1980. The Origins of Freemasonry Revisited – ‘The Origins of Freemasonry Revisited – A Speculative Journey’ is lovely
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2 new videos this week! Part 1 and Part 2 of Hippolyta da Costa’s 1820 ‘The Dionysian Artificers’ are now on YouTube and the website. This is a fascinating early look at the esoteric side of Freemasonry, written 80 years before this type of work became something of a cottage industry at the turn of
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This video is a short paper by the noted Esotericist Franz Hartmann outlining the 16 signs by which a true Rosicrucian Brother may be identified. 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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Good evening Quarrymen It’s been a big Masonic week for me. Last weekend I was asked if I would accept elevation to the 31st degree AASR (a very emphatic ‘Yes!’) and last night I was installed as TIM for the first time in my Chapter. With my Masonic juices therefore flowing freely, this weekend’s video
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The runaway winner of our ‘Esoteric’ poll on YouTube, Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians is a work published between 1785 and 1788 and is widely considered second only in importance to the original Manifestos in the Rosicrucian tradition. The 1935 AMORC full text translations in English of the Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians can be
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Good evening Quarrymen, we have a winner! Thanks to everyone for your votes on the latest YouTube poll. The winner by a very wide margin was 1785’s ‘Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians‘. This will be quite a challenging presentation to put together for a few reasons: 1. It is 3 volumes long 2. It was
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This video combines two source texts – ‘Rosicrucian Manifestos’ by Gian Giuseppe Filippi and ‘Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry’ by Frank C. Higgins. It only manages to scratch the surface of this vast and fascinating topic, so if you’d like more videos on topics like this, please let me know in the comments! If you have content
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The Two-Fold Nature of Freemasonry is an extract from a presentation given by Kenneth H. Hooley. It is undated, but appears to have been given in Virginia sometime in the last couple of decades of the 20th Century. If you have content that you’d like to add to the archive, join the From the Quarries
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The winner of our YouTube poll for this week was ‘The Thirty-two Paths of Wisdom‘. The text was translated from the Hebrew Text of Joannes Stephanus Rittangelius, 1642: which is also to be found in the “Oedipius Aegyptiacus” of Athanasius Kircher, 1653. If you have content that you’d like to add to the archive, join
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This sadly all too brief text was written by Rabbi H. Geffen, 32°, F.P.S. and was first published in The New Age in February 1950. It lifts the veil, ever so slightly, on the fascinating and ancient traditions of Esoteric Freemasonry. If you have content that you’d like to add to the archive, join the
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A new video of the 1950 presentation by Rabbi H. Geffen, 32°, F.P.S.
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Just for fun. A new series of #shorts. These are short videos of under 1 minute duration each describing a different ‘species’ taken from Medieval Bestiaries. The text and illustrations are taken from primary sources where possible. Not much detail is possible in 54 seconds, but I hope you find them informative and/or amusing!
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A new Video! This is a direct transcription in English of the complete 1564 Hieroglyphic Monad of John Dee (Monas Hieroglyphica) including all illustrations and technical diagrams. A notoriously dense and complex work, the Hieroglyphic Monad comprises 24 theorems detailing the geometric and esoteric perfection of the Monad itself. Although not directly Masonic, and published
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