The Tesseract, Freemasonry and the gateway to God
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 →
Lord Byron, Ali Pasha and Albania
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 →
Skanderbeg and the English Adventurer John Newport
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 →
Masonic Bibles
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 →
God, Geometry and Gematria
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, Freemason
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 →
New Book out in September: Lost Rituals of English Freemasonry Rediscovered
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 →
Masonic Lodge Visits
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Tercentenary Event at the Masonic Temple, Birkenhead, Cheshire
I was honoured to be able to attend a very special event on Friday; a tercentenary celebration held by Minerva Lodge on behalf of the Cheshire Province at the Masonic Temple at Clifton Road, Birkenhead. I was also a keynote … Continue reading →
Talk to the Welsh Installed Masters Lodge held at Rhyl, North Wales
I had the pleasure to give a talk on 300 years of Freemasonry at the Welsh Installed Masters Lodge No. 9857, which was held at Elwy Hall in Rhyl, North Wales. The lodge, which was founded in 2010, meets in … Continue reading →
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