Way back in February 2018, The UK newspaper The Guardian ran a story entitled ‘Secret Freemasons Should Have no Place in Public Life’. It was a rather sensationalist and negative piece that caused a stir at the time, and … Continue reading →
In my next book, which is due to be published this year, I’ll be exploring the Rite of Seven Degrees, the Masonic rite of engraver Pierre Lambert de Lintot, which flourished in London during the latter eighteenth century. We know … Continue reading →
I have a new academic paper entitled ‘Bram Stoker, Freemasonry and the Byronic Hero’, published in the renowned Romanian Masonic journal Gnosis, Anul VII / nr. 7, (2021), pp.13-32, which can be accessed and downloaded for free at my academia … Continue reading →
Turning the Templar Key, Robert Lomas. Lewis Masonic, paperback, 2020. ISBN: 159233279X When I was first initiated into Freemasonry way back in April 1998, I was presented with a gift by my main proposer, that gift was a book called … Continue reading →
I knew a Masonic researcher a good few years ago, that told me had a million words of a ground breaking book on the origin of Freemasonry. While we’re still awaiting the book, the word count of a work on … Continue reading →
I met ‘Coach’ John S Nagy on social media many years ago, but finally got to meet him back in May 2016 when I was giving a talk at the Tampa Valley Scottish Rite Temple. I have always liked John’s … Continue reading →
The Apocryphal Books of Enoch are not an official part of the Bible, but are seen as an extended text, a Biblical supplement with the story expanding on the character of Enoch, who is briefly mentioned in Biblical text. Biblical … Continue reading →
I first met the legendary Swedish musician and artist Peter Lindahl back in the early 2000s on Myspace (back in the days before Facebook became popular). Peter has been involved in many musical projects over the years, but for the … Continue reading →
John Dickson Carr (1906-1977) was an American author of detective mystery stories, and was the first American to become a member of the Detection Club, a club founded in 1930 that included such murder-mystery luminaries as Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. … Continue reading →
Since the recent pandemic started and the lodge meetings were cancelled, Masonic talks via zoom became the norm, and since March, I’ve done many, from various research lodges, the UGLE supported Freemasonry Without Borders series, and the Grand Lodge of … Continue reading →
