Manly Palmer Hall (1901-1990) is quite the Masonic enigma; he only joined Freemasonry over 20 years after writing his ground-breaking Secret Teachings Throughout the Ages, a work that is still well renowned amongst Freemasons today. He was finally initiated in … Continue reading →
The Tree of Life appears in many religions and cultures, in Islam it appears in the Quran as the tree of immortality, the tree which is forbidden to Adam and Eve by Allah. In Catholic Christianity it represents the immaculate … Continue reading →
My latest book, Rediscovered Rituals of English Freemasonry, due out in the autumn, uses the tesseract symbol on the cover. There are a number of reasons why I chose this image for the new book, so I thought I would … Continue reading →
Koka në Stamboll Trupi ne Janine Traditional Albanian song When Lord Byron visited Albania in 1809 while he was on his Grand Tour with his friend John Hobhouse, he found much inspiration, writing his epic poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage based … Continue reading →
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 →
