At the moment I am having a number of my works translated into various languages; A Journey Through Freemasonry was translated into Spanish by Darren Lorente-Bull, A Quick Guide to Freemasonry is being translated into Albanian by Mevi Rafuna, and … Continue reading →
A big shout out to my old mate, Florida based Freemason George Brooks, who took this on as a nice little project, downloading maps and tracing the history of the legendary Goose and Gridiron. The Goose and Gridiron is famous … Continue reading →
Recently, I had the pleasure of having my short paper on Thomas Garnett published in the Philalethes Journal of Masonic Research & Letters, Vol.72, No.4 (Winter 2019). Garnett, who was a notable contributor to the Scottish Enlightenment, gave a lecture … Continue reading →
‘It just occurred to me that I’m part of the establishment now’ ‘Not part – The establishment.’ A few weeks ago I was a guest on the excellent podcast Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio with Miguel Conner (which can be heard … Continue reading →
My latest work A Journey Through Freemasonry is now out with Arima publishing, and is also available through Amazon. The book collects together my most popular articles on the history of Freemasonry, from my examination of Byron and the Carbonari … Continue reading →
This paper of mine, which is free to download from my academia profile accessed by clicking here, discusses some of the lost rites of Freemasonry, in particular the rites created on continental Europe during the eighteenth century by such charismatic … Continue reading →
Of all the prophetic visions that occur in the Old Testament, Ezekiel’s vision is perhaps the one that attracts the most interesting and exotic interpretations, a vision that is described in Ezekiel 1:1-3:27. For Freemasons however, we can find much … Continue reading →
In my latest book, due out in the autumn, one of the many themes I discuss is how a Masonic story is displayed in the collection of Richard Carlile’s rituals in his Manual of Freemasonry, a work that emerged 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 →
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 →
