History

  • Pythagorean Views on Numbers

    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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  • The Mystic Virtue of Numbers

    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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  • Ritual in Freemasonry

    Ritual in Freemasonry

    This video provides a brief overview of some of the features and pitfalls that typify and characterise the Masonic Ritualist. It was written by M. W Bro. Kenneth Aldridge PGM, but I don’t have a date or provenance for the work.

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  • “An Uncommon Fascination”

    Good evening Quarrymen! “Probably nothing has so mystified Mason and non-Mason alike as the concept of Masonic Ritual. To some non-Masons it is an intriguing mystery deserving of a surreptitious search so as to discover the innermost secrets of Freemasonry”. This weekend …

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  • Through the doors of wonder, mystery and reality

    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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  • Johannes Reuchlin and the Royal Arch

    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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  • De Verbo Mirifico

    De Verbo Mirifico

    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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  • A Walk Through King Solomon’s Temple

    In this week’s video … There can be no subject of greater interest to Freemasons than the Temple of Solomon, King of Israel, Supreme Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Jerusalem. The Temple is intimately bound up with the ritual and traditions of Craft and royal Arch Masonry, as well as the Degrees of

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  • Tabernacle to Temple

    Good evening Quarrymen This weekend …

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  • Pythagoras: His tenets and his followers

    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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  • To begin at the Beginning

    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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  • The Mysteries of the Ancients

    The author of this week’s presentation THE MYSTERY OF THE ANCIENTS is not a Freemason. In it David Cameron discusses four early non-operative Masons who joined the Craft between 1641 and 1730, and attempts to understand why they joined. The masons in question are William Stukeley, Elias Ashmole, Robert Moray, and the Chevalier Ramsay and

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  • Masonic Anthropometric Cosmogenesis (Part 2)

    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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  • Continue the journey …

    This weekend, the journey continues with “the form of the Lodge”.

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  • Masonic Anthropometric Cosmogenesis (Part 1)

    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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  • Freemasonry, the Illuminati, and the New World Order

    Ah yes, the timeless intertwining of Freemasonry, the Illuminati, and the New World Order — a treasured triptych of conspiracy theories that always keep our imaginations churning. Get ready to enter the nebulous, shady comic book world of the conspiracy theorist!

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  • Let’s talk conspiracies!

    Good evening Quarrymen Ah, the timeless intertwining of Freemasonry, the Illuminati, and the New World Order — a treasured triptych of conspiracy theories that always keep our imaginations churning. Is it time to ‘lift the lid’? Find out this Saturday!

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