…and in the with the new! Just wanted to toss a few things into the aether with the close of 2010. The first is I wanted to mention a pod cast interview I gave to the Occult of Personality pod cast. The recording was from earlier in 010′, but it was a good conversation with […]
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Observations on the esoteric from author Greg Stewart (Masonic Traveler) about the fraternity of Freemasonry, its impact on civil society and contributions to the material culture.
The Value of Myth
If it doesn’t relate, then don’t celebrate. Io Saturnalia, Good Yule, Cheery Solstice, Happy Holidays, Happy Ashura, Enlightened Bodhi Day, Good Boxing Day, Joyful Kwanzaa, Merry Christmas. What ever your myth or belief, be it a joyful and happy season of celebration. Speaking of myth, have you heard about the dueling atheist and Catholic billboards […]
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Jury Sides with Grand Lodge in West Virginia
From the Charleston Gazette, it seems that a jury has sided with the Grand Lodge of West Virginia. The Original story begins: CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A Kanawha County jury sided Wednesday with the Grand Lodge of the West Virginia branch of the Masons against a former grand master who sued after he was expelled from […]
Continue readingPast PH Grand Master of Masons New York murdered.
From the NationNews, Barbados, comes this story of an elderly man stabbed to death. Preliminary investigations into the death of 90-year-old Fred Parris have ruled out robbery, and police sources have indicated the Stanmore Crescent, Black Rock, St Michael senior citizen received several stab wounds about the body, including to the neck, stomach and back. […]
Continue readingThe key to academic success – Spirituality!
This story is something that a lot of groups should pay attention to as the relationships of religious/spiritual interests and academia have grown cold in many places. Of particular note is that as this piece comes out of UCLA, one of the first 12 structures of the community of Westwood, where the school resides, was […]
Continue readingThe Akatsuki mission to Lucifer, the light bringer
Japan is sending a probe to Lucifer. Well, not the Biblical Lucifer, but the Roman one, the celestial body that heralds the rising and falling Sun in the sky, and they plan to get there aboard the Venus Climate Orbiter – AKATSUKI. In more esoteric terms, especially to any Scottish Rite Mason of the 19th […]
Continue readingHappy Hanukkah
We are a few days into the holiday this year, but I wanted to take a moment to wish all those of the faith a happy holiday. And, for those not of the faith, to give a brief look at what the holiday is about and why its symbolically relevant to Freemasonry as it represents […]
Continue readingSave the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica
It is true without lies, certain and most true; That which is below is as that which is above, and that which is above is as that which is below, to accomplish the miracle of the one thing. It is true without lies, certain and most true; That which is below is as that which […]
Continue readingFreemasonry is a Threat to Mormonism
The Backyard Professor takes on the assertion that the Mormon church is threatened by Freemasonry. He points out some very good points in the discussion. It does lend itself to an assumption that Mormonism is true branch of Christianity. I wonder how the same argument would be approached from a traditional Christian point of view. […]
Continue readingMichael Brea and the demon
The NY Daily News ran a wider story in the Friday edition of the paper in which the Ugly Betty bit actor confessed and described his role in the murder of his mother earlier in the week. Of the event, Brea is reported as saying he had descended into a world filled with Masonic symbolism […]
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