George Castriot, otherwise known as Skanderbeg, was a legendary Albanian military leader of the fifteenth century, who successfully rallied his countrymen against the onslaught of the Ottoman Empire. So renowned was the reputation of Skanderbeg as a military leader, that … Continue reading →
The Renaissance led to a revolution in Bible publishing; by the mid-1400s, Gutenberg’s movable type press and the aims of the 16th century Protestant Reformation made the Bible accessible to ordinary people in their own language. The 1560 Geneva Bible, … Continue reading →
As Freemasons, we perceive God within geometry, we even see God represented as a geometrical image, as mathematical perfection. For example, the equilateral triangle becomes an image of the Trinity, which is a perception of a Christian form of God, … Continue reading →
George Canning (1770-1827) has gone down in history as having served the shortest period as Prime Minister in Great Britain, but he also had another side to his life; he was a Freemason, he fought a duel, and was a … Continue reading →
The new book is in the final stages. It follows on with the themes of my previous book The Lost Rites and Rituals of Freemasonry, by examining the evolution of rituals, this time concentrating in England during the early nineteenth … Continue reading →
In alchemy there is no creation without the union of opposites…. The moon (silver) represents fertility, resurrection and immortality, and is a feminine property – the White Queen that alchemists would integrate with the sun to create sublime balance. … Continue reading →
As many lodges will be celebrating Burns Night soon, I thought I would write a brief biopic of one of my favourite poets. Robert Burns, poet, Scotsman, and Freemason, was born on 25th January, 1759, in Alloway near Ayr in … Continue reading →
Recently, I had a short paper published in the summer (2018) issue of Philalethes: The Journal of Masonic Research & Letters, the paper examining Dr John Theophilus Desaguliers’ poem ‘The Newtonian System of the World’. The poem was published in … Continue reading →
Being a fan of the classic Edward Woodward film The Wicker Man, I’ve always had a soft spot for the Morris Dancing that goes on outside village pubs in the summer months, and recently I was handed an old … Continue reading →
This article appeared in Knight Templar Magazine in November 2013, and was a leader article for a book that I co-wrote with Fred Lomax entitled Freemasonry and Fraternal Societies, which was published the following year. As with the other fraternal … Continue reading →
