A CELEBRATION!

LET’S CELEBRATE SOME MILESTONES! Today is From the Quarries’ Fourth Birthday … it is also the day that we’ve hit 10 000 Subscribers on YouTube! I can’t help but feel that is a good omen. (365 x 4 + 2 leap days over 10000. I’m sure someone can help me with the numerology 😇) I…

The All-Seeing Eye

This week’s video: What is the Significance of The “All Seeing Eye”? A short question but one which demands a long answer. By Wor.Bro. Major A. Cathcart Bruce, P.G.Stwd. (Undated)

The Rebuilding of Solomon’s Temple

This presentation was first published by Everett R. Turnbull & Ray V. Denslow. I do not have a date or provenance for the work, but believe that it is part of their “History of Royal Arch Freemasonry”.

The Return

Good evening Quarrymen. This weekend … “And Cyrus, having constituted Zerubbabel, the son of Salathiel (of the seed of David by Nathan, the brother of Solomon, whose royal family was now extinct) the Head or Prince of the Captivity and the leader of the Jews and Israelites returning to Jerusalem, they began to lay the…

Scuttlebutt

Good evening Quarrymen, This weekend on YouTube, the runner-up in our recent video poll. See you then.

‘Other’ Orders of Freemasonry

This week’s video is a brief look at 15 of the ‘other’ orders that are associated with Craft Masonry: 1. The Order of the Secret Monitor 2. Knights Templar 3. Supreme Council for Scotland 33º Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite 4. The Worshipful Society of Free Masons (The Operatives) 5. Holy Royal Arch Knight Templar…

Take a Tour of the Craft

Good evening Quarrymen Coming to YouTube this Saturday 18 November, by popular demand, a topic I have been requested to cover on numerous occasions over the years. I’m by no means an expert in most of them, so don’t expect too much … but we’ll take a top-down look at some of the ‘other orders’…

Hidden Treasures

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 …

A Royal Arch Omnibus – 11 Videos

3 hours of Royal Arch Content! A selection of older Videos ‘From the Quarries’ on the topic of the Holy Royal Arch 1. Introduction 2. The Scriptures and Royal Arch Ritual 3. Why the Royal Arch? 4. Zerubbabel 5. Jeshua 6. Haggai 7. Some Notes on the History and Symbolism of the Royal Arch Degree…

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…