In Memory of Jason Dors-Lake
I’ve been meaning to post this for some months now, but lockdown has had a way of distracting me with work that came from nowhere, so as life gradually gets back to normal, I can now catch up on my … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: Freemasonry
Thomas Garnett, la Lodge of Lights, et les Lumières radicales
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 →
The Goose and Gridiron, 8 London House Yard – the exact location
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 →
Thomas Garnett, the Lodge of Lights and the Radical Enlightenment
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 →
The Brotherhood of the Bell
‘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 →
The new book A Journey Through Freemasonry out now
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 →
The Lost Rites of the Age of Enlightenment
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 →
Ezekiel’s prophetic vision and the rebuilding of the Temple
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 →
Freemasonry, the Masonic story and the Fall of Man
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 →
Arthur Edward Waite, the Tree of Life and the Tarot
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 →