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Why do people join organizations, and why do they stop? In this solo episode, Troy Spreeuw takes on the decline of community, the philosophy of freedom of conscience, and the case that Freemasonry's future depends on rediscovering what it means to belong, not just on counting petitions. Troy starts with Dr. Robert D. Putnam and his book Bowling Alone, the documentary Join or Die, and the idea of social capital: bonding capital among people who are alike, and bridging capital across differences. Freemasonry, Troy argues, is at its best when it does the second, and he asks whether lodges are offering something members cannot get by scrolling their phones. From there he turns to freedom of conscience, ahead of his Freedom of Conscience presentation at Capilano Lodge No. 164. Troy makes the case for Freemasonry as a big tent where the esoteric Mason and the fellowship Mason each have a place, looks at the uncomfortable history of conscience and why a Brother's private beliefs are not public property, and explains why freedom of conscience is not freedom from disagreement. He closes with the work of The Mystic Tye and the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference, three Join or Die screenings in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, upcoming District 17 visits, and a new round of Five Minute Ritualist classes on Zoom. Coming up with Troy October 27: Official visit and a double Entered Apprentice Degree, North Shore Lodge No. 93, 7:30 PM October 28: Freedom of Conscience, a new presentation, Capilano Lodge No. 164, 7:30 PM November 10: Official visit, Triune Lodge No. 81, 7:30 PM November 14: Join or Die screening and discussion, Northshore Masonic Hall, 1371 Lynn Valley Rd, North Vancouver. Free admission. Doors 6:30 PM, film 7:00 PM November 28: Join or Die screening and discussion, Freemasons Hall, 508 Agnes St, New Westminster. Free admission. Doors 6:30 PM, film 7:00 PM December 5: Join or Die screening and discussion, Vancouver Masonic Centre, 1464 W 7th Ave, Vancouver. Free admission. Doors 6:30 PM, film 7:00 PM End of November: The Five Minute Ritualist classes return on Zoom. Sign up for the newsletter at mystictye.com for details. Books mentioned in this episode Bowling Alone, Robert D. Putnam Also mentioned Join or Die, the documentary on Robert D. Putnam, presented by the Vancouver Lodge of Education and Research Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference, Seattle, and Troy's debrief with Brett Wolfe and Ken Lane (Episode 57) Salman Arif and the Episode 56 conversation on Masonic ritual Lon Milo DuQuette, Ike Baker, and Julian Rees, past guests Links and resources Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: [email protected] Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictye Support the show If this episode resonated with you, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. We are also building a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you know of something coming up, send Troy an email at [email protected]. Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.

How did EFC 2026 really go? Troy Spreeuw sits down with his fellow organizers of the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference, Bro. Ken Lane and Bro. Brett Wolfe, a few weeks after the event for an honest debrief: what worked, what did not, and why anyone thought cramming five speakers into one day was a good idea. They start with the whirlwind weekend: Lon Milo DuQuette in the living room with a guitar, Ike Baker finally meeting Troy in person after years of trading podcast appearances, a parking ticket from the City of Seattle, and why the room being in the building together reaffirmed the choice not to offer a virtual conference. Troy confirms that everything was recorded, that 214 pages of transcript are headed for the first published proceedings, hopefully by January, and that the clips from the Fight Club and Freemasonry presentation cannot be rebroadcast. Then the hard questions. Five speakers was too many, and the biggest complaint was not enough time for fellowship. The group talks through the book table, which sold more books than any previous year thanks to the authors in the room, pre-sale ideas for next year, Edge of the Circle Books in Seattle, and why attendees keep coming back: two-thirds of this year's crowd had been before, and many say there is nothing else like it. The second half looks forward. A practical on the Friday night ahead of the meditation, an author feature at lunch with signing tables, a Sunday breakfast of champions for the speakers, the return of the closing panel, more vendors, a possible salon for feedback, and the hope of building community that lasts beyond a weekend. Along the way: the Chihuly Garden and the Glass Museum in Tacoma, a fond thank you to Occidental Lodge for sponsoring, a peek at Troy's Five Minute Ritualist classes, three showings of Join or Die in Vancouver, and the word of the week, orthogonal. Coming up with Troy October 17: Funeral in the morning and a Fellowcraft degree at noon, Mount Elphinstone Lodge, Roberts Creek October 27: Obligating Entered Apprentice candidates, North Shore Lodge No. 93 October 28: Freedom of Conscience, a new presentation, Capilano Lodge November 14: A showing of Join or Die, open to seekers, at the North Shore Masonic Center. Doors 6:30 PM, film 7:00 PM, popcorn provided. November 28: A showing of Join or Die, open to seekers, at the Agnes Street Temple, New Westminster December 5: A showing of Join or Die, open to seekers, at the Vancouver Masonic Center End of November: The Five Minute Ritualist classes begin on Zoom for Patreon members. Sign up for the newsletter at mystictye.com for details. Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference 2027: speakers and advance tickets will be announced at esotericmasonry.com Books mentioned in this episode The Five Minute Ritualist, Kim March Bowling Alone, Robert D. Putnam Also mentioned Join or Die, the documentary on Robert D. Putnam, presented with the Vancouver Lodge of Education and Research Edge of the Circle Books, 45th and Roosevelt, University District, Seattle The Gary and Dino Show, Lewis Masonic, Macoy Publishing Links and resources Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: [email protected] Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictye Support the show If this episode resonated with you, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. We are also building a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you know of something coming up, send Troy an email at [email protected]. Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.

What does it actually mean to be good at Masonic ritual? Bro. Salman Arif of Duke of Connaught Lodge turns the microphone around for a second time, with a page of written questions and one theme: the Work. Troy, newly installed as District Deputy Grand Master, takes them one at a time, and argues that getting the words right is only the barest minimum of what makes Masonry amazing. Salman starts with the word itself. Why call it work? Troy separates the capital W Great Work of the spiritual aspirant from the ritual work of a lodge, estimates roughly 200 man-hours to confer a single degree once every part is shared across the officers, and explains why antiquarian words like inculcate and delineate end up infecting the way a Mason thinks. From there to the magic that works whether you want it to or not, Lon Milo DuQuette's line that even a terrible man who gets through the door comes out a much less terrible one, and Ike Baker's EFC presentation on the call and answer teaching method found in Egyptian training texts. Salman offers a phrase Troy runs with: not a diminishing echo, but an evolving one. Then the core question. What separates good ritual from ritual that is merely correct? Troy has watched plenty of word perfect delivery rattled off with no inflection, and would rather a brother missed half the words and felt the half he said. He talks about the way he brings a candidate to light, the actor's trick of saying one line every possible way, the twelve minute Entered Apprentice tracing board in the Canadian work, and the night Bro. Lawrence Putnam delivered it and made it Troy's favourite piece. Along the way: cipher books, the jurisdictions where the ritual is still passed only mouth to ear, and what mentorship loses when a brother can learn alone. A long and very Troy detour follows: TikTok versus The King and I, the Leone westerns he has never seen, Thunderball, every James Bond, Star Wars, and a plea to go and talk to real people. Then back to the work. Salman asks how much of Troy's esoteric practice comes into lodge, and Troy describes ritual as performing a prayer rather than reciting one, symbols treated as if they are alive, and the different perspective that each chair around the lodge gives on the same ceremony. The chicken and the egg: memorize first, or internalize first? It depends on the time you have. Troy explains how to get the gist and deliver with confidence when you are handed an installation at the last minute, why you should record a piece in your own voice and play it while you sleep, and why, if you have six weeks, you start not now but right now. Then memory palaces, the lodge as the ideal palace, the archetypal temple not made with hands, and Jiddu Krishnamurti on being well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Troy also tells the story behind his new approach. A hypoxic brain injury last year took a toll on his memory, and after a disastrous performance this spring he stopped learning by brute force and started using Kim March's The Five Minute Ritualist. He plans a monthly Zoom class on it starting in November, plus a tarot and Qabalah class, and the bonus round takes in Krishnamurti, Alan Watts, Joseph Campbell, a conversion at twelve, and a reconciliation with a former employer. Coming up with Troy October 9: District Deputy Grand Master visit, Mount Garibaldi Lodge October 17: Funeral in the morning and a Fellowcraft degree at noon, Mount Elphinstone Lodge, Roberts Creek October 27: Obligating Entered Apprentice candidates, North Shore Lodge No. 93 October 28: Freedom of Conscience, a new presentation, Capilano Lodge November: The Five Minute Ritualist classes begin on Zoom. Sign up for the newsletter at mystictye.com for details. November 28: A showing of Join or Die, open to seekers, at the Agnes Street Temple, New Westminster Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference 2027: speaker applications and advance tickets at esotericmasonry.com Books mentioned in this episode The Five Minute Ritualist, Kim March Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, Frances Yates The Key of It All, Book One: The Eastern Mysteries, David Allen Hulse The Key of It All, Book Two: The Western Mysteries, David Allen Hulse Bowling Alone, Robert D. Putnam Also mentioned Join or Die, the documentary on Robert D. Putnam John Stuart Mill, Troy's current reading for Freedom of Conscience W. L. Wilmshurst, Ike Baker, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Alan Watts, Joseph Campbell Links and resources Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: [email protected] Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictye Support the show If this episode resonated with you, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. We are also building a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you know of something coming up, send Troy an email at [email protected]. Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.

Julian Rees, nearly sixty years a Freemason, an accomplished English Emulation ritualist, and one of the best-known writers on the spiritual side of the Craft, returns to The Mystic Tye to talk about a book that turns his own lens around. A Life in Many Colours: A Masonic Memoir, published by Arima Publishing, started with a nudge from Dr. David Harrison, who told Julian his life in Freemasonry had been exceptional enough to merit one. Julian explains why Lewis Masonic passed ("we don't do biographies"), why a memoir is not a biography, and how a Romanian artist friend came to draw the cover. Troy opens with Socrates on the unexamined life and asks what Julian found when he went looking. The answer is that early events shape the way you think: a 1957 call-up for National Service and a sergeant who taught him humility by making a platoon run the field again and again, a four year old in 1940 overhearing adults talk about invasion, a V-2 strike seen across the Thames while his mother scrambled for cover. Julian describes a father who was a stern Anglo-Catholic priest, a young American mother in a mismatched marriage, and how a troubled home makes you stop and ask on what ground a lodge stands. Troy shares his own view from a family of divorces. From there the conversation turns to ritual. Julian earned the Emulation silver matchbox for word perfect delivery, then realised he had spent years parroting words that were meant to work on him. He talks about sitting with a newly initiated brother and asking how it felt, because Freemasons think with the intellect of the heart, about the tracing boards chapter of the memoir, the Harris boards, the blazing star that outshines the sun, and Jacob's ladder resting on the Volume of the Sacred Law. Troy brings in freedom of conscience, the abuse of the holy book as a weapon, and why the magic works whether you want it to or not. Then the story Julian calls the reason he left the United Grand Lodge of England. When an Anglican priest was ordered by his bishop to give up Freemasonry, the Deputy Grand Master defended him, then added that Freemasonry "most certainly does not deal in spirituality." Julian wrote a letter, enclosed his keynote on The Spiritual Path of Freemasonry for the Masonic Restoration Foundation in Alexandria, Virginia, and got a two line reply saying his views were noted. He left, joined Le Droit Humain, and says he would not go back even if he could. Along the way: Troy on churches losing members and the toothpaste that will not go back in the tube, Julian on French laïcité and the charge to a candidate to receive "a light more pure which vivifies the spirit," and the Emulation prayer that says the divinity is unfolded from within. They ask whether fraternity and the spiritual path are two approaches to one institution, and why American lodges talk civic pride where European ones increasingly talk self-knowledge. Julian tells the story of Gerry Gerrard, a 96 year old stone sculptor and long absent member who stopped attending lodge in 1938 because Freemasons always do the same thing again. Troy's advice for any brother who has drifted away: try another lodge, every lodge is its own city. They weigh whether "esoteric Freemasonry" is a useful label, forbearance versus tolerance, Lon Milo DuQuette's big tent, and Troy's Thelemic orbit next to Julian's. The episode closes on the memoir's title, which came from a kaleidoscope of experiences and Newton's point that light is all the colours, and on Julian's insistence that the journey is nothing like a straight line, from a chapter on interrogation by the East German police to the lesson of the mosaic pavement. A last detour compares the Emulation ritual Julian says has not changed since the 1813 union with the four approved works in Troy's jurisdiction, and the Canadian work that grew out of the colonies. Troy also recommends the Straight White American Jesus and Conspirituality podcasts. Books mentioned in this episode A Life in Many Colours: A Masonic Memoir, Julian Rees, Arima Publishing Here Comes the Light!, Julian Rees Making Light: A Handbook for Freemasons, Julian Rees, Lewis Masonic So You Want To Be a Freemason?, Julian Rees, Lewis Masonic Tracing Boards of the Three Degrees in Craft Freemasonry Explained, Julian Rees, Lewis Masonic Freemasonry: Heart and Mind. Sketches on Esotericism in English Ritual, Julian Rees Podcasts recommended Straight White American Jesus, Brad Onishi Conspirituality Links and resources Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: [email protected] Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictye Support the show If this episode resonated with you, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. We are also building a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you know of something coming up, send Troy an email at [email protected]. Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.

Episode 54 is a change of pace: a forty five minute Best of EFC collection built around this year's Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference, pairing longer explanations from past Mystic Tye guests with two archival interviews Troy recorded for Scholomance at EFC 2024. It opens with Troy's original Scholomance interview, A Space for Esoteric Freemasonry, laying out why the conference exists in the first place, that all of Freemasonry is wholly esoteric even if not everything Freemasons do is esotericism itself. From there it moves into Doug Russell's explanation of the classical art of memory, first written about in Rome around 80 BCE, and his grandfather clock example of how images, not words, are what the mind actually holds onto. That conversation is pulled from Episode 47. Next is D**o Rodriguez from Episode 48 on Fight Club and Freemasonry, the talk born out of a pop culture panel at MasonicCon that grew into an article for the Fraternal Review and then a full conference presentation. D**o's read on the film is not really about Fight Club at all, it is about what happens when men have no role models to guide them, and what a lodge owes the man who walks in looking for one. The excerpt continues into a longer conversation about lodge culture, generational turnover, and why a monoculture lodge is a dying lodge. Ike Baker, from Episode 51, walks through Walter Leslie Wilmshurst, the early twentieth century esoteric Mason and author of The Meaning of Masonry and Masonic Initiation, whose tracing board Ike restored from a notebook found by Robert Lomas. From there the conversation turns to Ike's own presentation for this year's conference, drawn from his work on the academic advisory board of the Hermopolis Academy and a new translation of the ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth, retitled Conversations in the House of Life, and the startling parallels between that text's initiation ritual for the priests of Thoth and the structure of Masonic ritual today. From Episode 52, Lon Milo DuQuette takes the working tools of the Craft and reads them through Hermetic Kabbalah: the Tetragrammaton, the Tree of Life, and the Cube of Space as three working tools for building a spiritual temple rather than a literal one. He calls the study a cosmic lube job, and connects it directly to his Tarot Architect material and the rough ashlar becoming the perfect ashlar. A short excerpt from Episode 50 with Troy, Brett Wolfe, and Ken Lane makes the case for showing up in person, the jurisdictions represented, the connections that only happen face to face. The episode closes back in Scholomance territory with Troy's Finding Brotherhood, the story of taking his wedding ring off before his Entered Apprentice degree and being told not to worry, just put it down, a small moment that still gets him. Full episodes referenced: 47, 48, 50, 51, and 52. Guest episodes are credited as interviews, not recordings of conference presentations. Links and resources Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: [email protected] Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictye Support the show If this episode resonated with you, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. We are also building a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you know of something coming up, send Troy an email at [email protected]. Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.

This week the microphones turn around. Bro. Salman Arif of Duke of Connaught Lodge, a brother Troy vouched for and watched take his obligation, sits down to ask the questions that guys who find Troy a little unapproachable have been saving up. No preamble, no plan, two Master Masons on the level. Salman opens with his own inheritance: a grandfather in Lahore who belonged to the lodge the locals nicknamed Jadu Ghar, the magic house, met privately in homes after Freemasonry was disbanded in Pakistan, quoted poetry in Persian, Arabic, and Latin, read palms and numerology charts, and took the secrets to his grave. A father in AMORC in Nigeria. Five hundred books in a Canadian storage locker, including the Ian Fleming originals, which sends Troy off on John Dee, the 007 signature, and the long crossover between esotericism and espionage. From there Troy answers, at length. Why ten books beat fifty summaries. What sits on the wall of his library and why The Chicken Qabalah is still his favourite book on the Kabbalah. Why the 24-inch gauge is the first tool of science, and why a journal is the measuring tool you build for your own inner life, so you can go back, see yourself growing, and eventually, as Lon Milo DuQuette would say, go crazy in a socially acceptable manner. The magical diary, the suit of swords, Hermes, quicksilver, and memory palaces. Then Salman asks the big one: why do so many lodges seem more interested in politics and offices than in the lessons themselves? Troy's answer starts with "the magic works whether you want it to or not," and goes through the older-man-to-younger-man transmission that changes a candidate whether he studies or not, the concordant bodies, the invisible friend, the third way of Freemasonry that says reach out and get instruction directly, and Luke 17:21. Plus the Liber Librae, Taurus stability, a Christian conversion at 12, a high-control faith at 15, Thelema, the pushback that comes with it, and the religion on which all men can agree. Also in this episode: the Picatrix and the Arabic roots of the Western grimoires, Peterson's grimoires, the forgotten sciences on the margins of materialism, Freemasonry taking exactly as much as you give it, and Troy's plan for a tarot and Kabbalah class on Zoom with live sessions in the Lower Mainland, once he is back from EFC. Books mentioned in this episode The Temple and the Lodge, Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln The Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford, Lon Milo DuQuette (expanded edition coming in December) Book 4, Magick Without Tears, and The Vision and the Voice, Aleister Crowley The Picatrix, Ouroboros Press edition Initiation in the Aeon of the Child and The Angel and the Abyss, J. Daniel Gunther Coming up on The Mystic Tye: the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference, Saturday September 19th, Ballard, Seattle. Keynote by Lon Milo DuQuette. Tickets at esotericmasonry.com. Links and resources Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: [email protected] Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictye Support the show If this episode resonated with you, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. We are also building a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you know of something coming up, send Troy an email at [email protected]. Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.

Two weeks before the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference, Bro. Lon Milo DuQuette, author, magician, Freemason, and one of Troy’s own longtime teachers, joins the show to preview his Seattle keynote. Lon is coming in person, and at 78 he has a pretty good argument for why you should be there too. The talk is the three working tools of the Kabbalist, from his book The Tarot Architect: the divine name, the Tree of Life, and the cube of space, treated the way a Mason treats the square and compasses, as tools for building your own spiritual temple. Lon starts with the rough and perfect ashlars and makes the case that a perfect stone has to do more than look perfect: it has to be a working miniature model of the whole universe. His image for it is a giant tuning fork. If the Great Architect is a B flat, your job is to true yourself into a little B flat and let the sympathetic vibration do the rest. The Temple of Solomon, in that light, is a house built to the proportions of God. Tarot cards are the flashcards of the Kabbalah, and Kabbalistic study is, in Lon’s words, a cosmic lube job. You will be lubricated. Troy asks whether this is material a lodge should already be teaching, which gets Lon onto the Kabbalah classes he gave for his Scottish Rite bodies in Long Beach, the way a Blue Lodge’s character changes with every Master and every Grand Master, and the big tent. Troy adds his own hobby horse about brothers who claim every concordant body as Freemasonry and then insist there is no esotericism in it. Lon’s answer: Masonry makes a good man better, and even the man who is not as good as we’d like would be worse without it. The magic works whether you want it to or not. Also in this episode: Gary and Dino, the Kwisatz Haderach, and the rumoured spring reappearance of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford; Danny Kaye, Bing Crosby, and why an EFC ticket works out to eight dollars a speaker; the sober table in the corner of the Ballard pub; Lon’s novel Young Aleister Crowley, written with filmmaker Jim Brickowski, still the number one new release in teen and young adult fantasy since June; the expanded Chicken Qabalah coming from Weiser Classics in December, with a newly surfaced deathbed lecture and the Jehovah talisman class; the expanded Homemade Magick from Red Feather in October and Accidental Christ in spring 2027; the black wax Round Table of Nalvage that turned an oven into an eternal flame; and three days at Joshua Tree next spring with Magical Retreats. Bring your tarot deck. Any 78-card deck will do. Bring your rare unsigned editions too. Books mentioned in this episode The Tarot Architect, Lon Milo DuQuette The Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford, Lon Milo DuQuette (expanded Weiser Classics edition, December 2026) Young Aleister Crowley, Lon Milo DuQuette and Jim Brickowski (novel, June 2026, also on audio) Homemade Magick, Lon Milo DuQuette (expanded Red Feather edition, October 2026) Accidental Christ, Lon Milo DuQuette (Red Feather reissue, spring 2027) The Magick of Aleister Crowley, Lon Milo DuQuette (Weiser Classics) My Life with the Spirits, Lon Milo DuQuette Coming up on The Mystic Tye: the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference, Saturday September 19th, Ballard, Seattle. Keynote by Lon Milo DuQuette, with Ike Baker, Doug Russell, D**o Rodriguez, and Josef Wäges. Fifty dollars, lunch included. Tickets at esotericmasonry.com. Links and resources Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: [email protected] Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictye Support the show If this episode resonated with you, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. We are also building a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you know of something coming up, send Troy an email at [email protected]. Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.

Three weeks out from the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference, Bro. Ike Baker joins Troy for a preview of a very full Seattle weekend, and a tour of everything else the man some call omnipresent has going on. Ike opens with his Friday night talk at Verity Lodge: the tracing board of Walter Leslie Wilmshurst, author of The Meaning of Masonry and founder of the Lodge of the Living Stones in Leeds. Found by Robert Lomas in one of Wilmshurst's personal notebooks and posted online at a resolution too poor to read, the board is almost rudimentary, communicating in pure geometry rather than beautiful imagery. Ike restored it and deciphered nearly the entirety of the chart, working through The Meaning of Masonry with a brother out of Montana along the way. Then the Saturday EFC talk: Conversations in the House of Life, the new public translation of the ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth by Richard Jasnow and Karl-Theodor Zauzich. Reading it line by line with the academic advisory board of the newly launching Hermopolis Academy (alongside Dr. Aaron Cheak, Dr. Shannon Grimes, Dr. Charles Stang, and Wouter Hanegraaff), Ike found the correlations to Freemasonic ritual startling: the text works as an initiation ritual for the scribe-priests of Thoth, structured like an entered apprentice degree, catechism and all. The conversation ranges from there into Ike's sold-out week in the South of France with Magical Retreats: Cathar strongholds, consecrated caves, Templar country, the cult of the Black Madonna, Martinism and the Élus Coëns, Rosicrucian France, and the Dan Brown history that needs dispelling along the way. Plus the story of how a hidden page on the band Tool's website about Bérenger Saunière and Rennes-le-Château set a teenage Ike on this path in the first place. Also in this episode: Ike's new book Esoteric Mythology, coming from Inner Traditions in November, and the number theology hiding inside the world's cosmological myths; the book tour through the Adocentyn Research Library, the Philosophical Research Society, and the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam; his public courses on Rosicrucian ceremonial evocation, astral travel, and the magic of Dion Fortune; the one-on-one trajectory through the seven classical liberal arts; freedom of conscience in the craft; and Troy's very full September, including a cornerstone relaying at the rebuilt Lynn Valley Masonic building and his first official visit as District Deputy Grand Master. EFC 2026 has record advance attendance and may sell out. Tickets at esotericmasonry.com. Books mentioned in this episode The Meaning of Masonry, Walter Leslie Wilmshurst Conversations in the House of Life, translated by Richard Jasnow and Karl-Theodor Zauzich Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy, Robert Hewitt Brown The Secret Freemasonry of a Priest in the Temple of Nature, edited by Josef Wäges Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln The Temple and the Lodge, Baigent and Leigh The Templar Revelation, Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince Esoteric Mythology, Ike Baker (Inner Traditions, November) Coming up on The Mystic Tye: the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference, Saturday September 19th, Ballard, Seattle. Links and resources Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: [email protected] Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictye Support the show If this episode resonated with you, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. We are also building a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you know of something coming up, send Troy an email at [email protected]. Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.

Fifty episodes. For this milestone we do things a little differently, in two parts. First, Troy sits down with his fellow organizers Brett Wolfe and Ken Lane for a quick update on the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference 2026, coming to Ballard, Seattle on September 19th. The lineup is the strongest yet: keynote Lon Milo DuQuette in person, plus Ike Baker, D**o Rodriguez of Fraternal Review, Josef Wäges, and Doug Russell, with lunch once again courtesy of the brethren of Occidental Lodge No. 72. Tickets are at esotericmasonry.com, and if you cannot make it, buy a ticket anyway and call it a donation. Then the tables are turned. Art Szabo, the designer behind all of the Mystic Tye artwork, takes over the microphone and puts Troy in the guest chair. They cover the road that led here: a small-town bookstore in Powell River, a Golden Dawn paperback lost on a train and returned ten years later with the bookplate still inside, discovering Aleister Crowley's The Book of Lies in a New Westminster bookshop, initiations and Gnostic Masses between Vancouver and Seattle, and the path into the craft at Duke of Connaught Lodge, where Troy now serves as District Deputy Grand Master for District 17. They also get into why a podcast at all (a certain talk radio host is to blame), what fifty conversations with authors and scholars have changed about Troy's own practice, and where this is all going: a monthly online class on the rudiments of tarot and Kabbalah, in-person salons for supporters in the Lower Mainland, a published proceedings collecting ten years of EFC talks, and a community for Freemasons drawn to the contemplative side of the craft. Books mentioned in this episode The Book of Lies and The Book of the Law, Aleister Crowley A Garden of Pomegranates and The Golden Dawn, Israel Regardie The Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford and The Tarot Architect, Lon Milo DuQuette The Templar Revelation, Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince Coming up on The Mystic Tye: EFC keynote Brother Lon Milo DuQuette, and Brother Ike Baker previews his talk at the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference. Links and resources Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: [email protected] Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictye Support the show If this episode resonated with you, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. We are also building a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you know of something coming up, send Troy an email at [email protected]. Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.

What happens when the symbolic language of Freemasonry is taken off the tracing board and placed directly into your hands? This episode, I'm joined by Jonti Marks and Bridie Blaze, creators of the Masonic Wisdom Cards, A Deck for Daily Reflection, a 78-card illustrated deck exploring Masonic symbols, working tools, virtues, and sacred geometry as prompts for contemplation rather than divination. We talk through Bridie's folk-art-inspired illustration process, built from a hand-chiselled, linocut-style technique that echoes the working tools themselves, and Jonti's approach to writing a companion booklet that invites quiet reflection rather than instruction. Given that the deck shares its 78-card count with a tarot deck, we spend real time on the comparison: where the two overlap as tools for memory and self-examination, and where the Masonic Wisdom Cards depart from tarot entirely, since there is no divination and no fortune telling built into the design. The conversation also opens into the art of memory more broadly, how Freemasonry, Kabbalah, and tarot all draw on the same rhetorical memory tradition, and how a deck of cards can work as a modern entry point into lodge education and personal study. Jonti and Bridie close out talking about how the two of them came to collaborate, the year and a half it took to bring the deck from idea to print, and the early feedback coming in from the first backers. Books mentioned in this episode A Mosaic Palace, Freemasonry and the Art of Memory by Martin Faulks (Lewis Masonic, 2018). The Masonic Wisdom Cards are distributed through Lewis Masonic. Find them at lewismasonic.co.uk. Links and resources Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: [email protected] Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictye Support the show If this episode resonated with you, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. We are also building a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you know of something coming up, send Troy an email at [email protected]. Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.

Troy sits down with WB D**o Rodriguez, PM, 32°, creative director of Fraternal Review and two-time past master of South Pasadena Masonic Lodge No. 290, for a wide-ranging first meeting that covers the magazine's origin story, the surprising philosophical overlap between Fight Club and the Masonic path, and what keeps a lodge alive across generations. D**o has been with the Southern California Research Lodge since 2015, first as managing editor and, since the magazine's 2016 rebrand, as creative director of Fraternal Review. What started as black and white photocopies folded and mailed out became a full color monthly periodical, one of the only Masonic publications still hitting eleven issues a year. D**o describes it as a bridge into Masonic education rather than a heavy research journal, and the conversation traces its growth from that first test issue through today's rotating slate of guest editors. The centerpiece of the conversation is D**o's talk Fight Club and Freemasonry, born out of a MasonicCon pop culture panel and now headed to the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference 2026 on September 19th at the Ballard Masonic Center in Seattle. Troy and D**o dig into the talk's real subject, masculinity, role models, and the difference between building and destroying, then connect it to broader threads on Observant Masonry, generational unity, and why a lodge that stops evolving stops existing. Tickets for EFC 2026 are available at esotericmasonry.com. Books mentioned in this episode: The Lost Keys of Freemasonry by Manly P. Hall Freemasonry For Dummies by Christopher Hodapp Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam Join or Die, the 2023 documentary built around Putnam's research Links and resources Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: [email protected] Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictye Support the show If this episode resonated with you, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. We are also building a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you know of something coming up, send Troy an email at [email protected]. Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.

"The Esoteric Art of Memory" with Doug Russell The night he took his first degree, Doug Russell watched officers deliver the entire ritual from memory, including a lengthy lecture, and asked a question that would take him the next fourteen years to answer. Why do Masons memorize? Doug Russell returns to the show to reveal his forthcoming book, Remembering the Past, Present, and Future: Esoteric Memory Arts and Spiritual Freemasonry. It is a book about memory, about how memory connects to spirituality and to the esoteric side of our nature, and it is going to the publisher now, timed to launch at the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference. The conversation is a guided tour through the whole argument. Doug opens with three kinds of memory drawn from Aristotle, Plato, and Gurdjieff: exoteric memory of the world of the senses, esoteric memory of the inner and divine world where all learning is remembering, and self-remembering, the awareness of who you really are and where you are heading. From there he walks the classical art of memory, first written down in a Roman treatise on rhetoric around 80 BCE, the technique of placing vivid images in the rooms of an imagined building so that anything can be recalled in order. Then the heart of it. Memory palaces. Doug traces the term back to St. Augustine, who described his own memory as a vast realm with spacious palaces, and through Hugh of Saint Victor, whose Mystical Ark of around 1225 turned Noah's Ark into an enormous memory diagram of the whole of sacred history. That thread runs straight into the Craft, where Noah's Ark, the Tabernacle, and Solomon's Temple all function as memory palaces, and where the tracing board, the winding stairs, the two pillars, and the apron are all, read correctly, memory technology. Along the way the discussion opens onto the wider esoteric tradition: Antoine Faivre and his three great currents of alchemy, astrology, and magic, the perennial philosophy and its golden chain of sages, Giordano Bruno and his fantastic memory work, the influence that reached the court of King James VI and the William Shaw statutes of 1598 and 1599 as modern Masonry began to form, and Ken Wilber's account of the pre-modern, modern, and post-modern eras and the flatland that a purely materialist science leaves behind. It is a wide, generous, deeply learned conversation, and it is only a preview. Doug is saving the rest for the conference. About our guest Doug Russell is a retired psychotherapist and a longtime student of the Western esoteric tradition, with roots in modern theosophy going back some fifty years. Raised in Freemasonry in 2012, he came to the Craft looking for its spiritual dimension and has spent the years since making the case that it is there and can be named. He served seven years as editor-in-chief of the Fraternal Review, the magazine of the Southern California Research Lodge, and has presented on the art of memory at lodges and research bodies across the country, including the Masonic Restoration Foundation. He is among the most consistent presenters at the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference. Referenced in this episode Remembering the Past, Present, and Future: Esoteric Memory Arts and Spiritual Freemasonry by Doug Russell, published by Plumbstone, with copies or pre-orders expected at the conference Integral Psychology by Ken Wilber The work of Antoine Faivre on the currents of Western esotericism, and a Masonic ritual by Willermoz from the 1780s The Mystical Ark by Hugh of Saint Victor The scholarship of Shawn Eyer, editor of the Philalethes magazine, on the eighteenth century Masonic textual tradition The monitors of Thomas Smith Webb and the rituals of William Preston Recurring at the conference: Ken Lane, Brett Wolfe, and Martin Faulks Upcoming: Doug presents as one of the first speakers at the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference on Saturday, September 19th, 2026, where the book launches. You can find us online at mystictye.com. Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/mystictye. Email feedback, guest suggestions, and any other questions to [email protected]. Thanks for listening today. You can support the show by liking, sharing, and subscribing on your favourite podcast syndicator. Even more helpful, leave us a review. We are looking to create a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you are aware of something coming up, please let me know by email. In the meantime, check out the Masonic Conferences website at masonicconferences.com. The Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference will be held on Saturday, September 19th, 2026. Our keynote speaker will be Bro. Lon Milo DuQuette, author of The Tarot Architect. Bros. Ike Baker, Doug Russell, D**o Rodriguez, and Josef Wages are all slated to present. Get your tickets at esotericmasonry.com. For other events, check out our calendar at mystictye.com, and don't forget to sign up for our newsletter while you are there. Graphics and web hosting are by Art Szabo Creative. A special thanks to Organist for our theme music. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again. Links and resources Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: [email protected] Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictye Support the show If this episode resonated with you, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. We are also building a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you know of something coming up, send Troy an email at [email protected]. Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.

The Secret Freemasonry of a Priest in the Temple of Nature with Bro. Josef Wages Bro. Josef Wages returns to the show to discuss The Secret Freemasonry of a Priest in the Temple of Nature, an eighteenth century Rosicrucian Masonic system recorded by Johann Samuel Mund. The manuscript predates the Golden Rosy Cross by three years, and until Bro. Wages and his research partners transcribed, translated, and published it, no one had ever studied the system at all. The book appeared in a limited run of only 500 copies, and the last of them are disappearing fast. The conversation ranges across the wild landscape of continental high degree Masonry: the Chevalier de Beauchêne peddling degrees from a wagon behind the French army at Frankfurt, the patents of Bouchère de Lennoncourt, and how the trail leads directly to Étienne Morin and the Kadosh degree. Along the way, Bro. Wages makes his case for why primary sources matter, why the era was far more organized than the old assumption of institutional chaos suggests, and why researchers who rely on Gould and Mackey are recycling secondary sources. The episode closes with a frank discussion of stasis in English speaking Freemasonry since the middle of the nineteenth century, and the growing appetite for variety: French Rite and Rectified Scottish Rite craft lodges are now at work in the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, and brethren with ideas are finding brothers who are open to them. Books mentioned in this episode: The Secret Freemasonry of a Priest in the Temple of Nature by Johann Samuel Mund, transcribed, translated, and edited by Bro. Josef Wages and his research partners. A bilingual German and English limited edition of 500 copies.The Lost Ritual, the Bonseigneur Rituals retranslated by Bro. Josef Wages, coming from Cornerstone Book Publishers on August 21st.Étienne Morin: From the French Rite to the Scottish Rite by Bro. Arturo de Hoyos and Bro. Josef Wages.The Green Book of the Élus Coëns: A Treasury of Coën Texts, two volumes, edited by Bro. Josef Wages, translated and annotated by Bro. Stewart Clelland.The Master's Voice: The Rituals and Letters of Martinés de Pasqually.The Secret School of Wisdom: The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati, edited by Bro. Josef Wages and Reinhard Markner.The Correspondence of the Illuminati Order, Volume 2, edited by Reinhard Markner.The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson.Espionage, Diplomacy and the Lodge by Bro. Ric Berman.The Genesis of American Freemasonry by Bro. Ric Berman, discussed in our previous episode.Bernhard Beyer's 1925 German study of the Golden Rosy Cross, Das Lehrsystem des Ordens der Gold- und Rosenkreuzer.Also mentioned as forthcoming from Bro. Wages: the Élu Parfait volume drawn from the Morin manuscript, a collection of the Jacobite high degrees, and an edition of the Golden Rosy Cross rituals of 1763 and 1777 with its ninth degree. Bro. Wages' next book, The Lost Ritual, arrives from Cornerstone Book Publishers on August 21st, and copies will be at the book table at the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference in Seattle on Saturday, September 19th, where Bro. Wages is slated to present. Tickets are available at esotericmasonry.com. Links and resources Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: [email protected] Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictye Support the show If this episode resonated with you, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. We are also building a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you know of something coming up, send Troy an email at [email protected]. Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.

There was no England and no America. There was a greater Britain, and a few thousand people in London held most of the levers. Dr. Ric Berman joins us to talk about his new book, The Genesis of American Freemasonry, published this June and timed for the semiquincentennial. It traces the craft in America from its earliest colonial footholds, through independence, to the creation of the state Grand Lodges, and it asks a question most American brethren have never had answered plainly: how did our ritual, our structure, and our lodges actually get here? The answer runs through some remarkable people. Charles Delafaye, a Huguenot refugee who became undersecretary of state, a senior investigating magistrate, and head of the Secret Intelligence Service, sat at the heart of British government with correspondents across Europe and the Americas. The first Provincial Grand Master of New York was his nephew. The first Provincial Grand Master of South Carolina was a colleague from his own lodge. Trace the appointments and a network appears. We also get into the split between the Antients and the Moderns as a social rupture rather than a ritual one, the role of Philadelphia in driving the Antient movement down the wagon trails and over the Blue Ridge, and what happened when the craft reached the frontier. In Lexington, Kentucky, forty percent or more of the male population belonged to Lodge Number One. Often the first act of a new lodge was to establish a burial ground, because no one wants to die unremembered thousands of miles from home. Every state but the original thirteen founded a Grand Lodge before it achieved statehood. The conversation ranges into the Enlightenment machinery underneath all of it: religious tolerance and meritocracy as radical propositions, the 1738 papal encyclical In Eminenti, Desaguliers and Payne and the 1723 Constitutions, Locke, Newton, and Montesquieu, who was initiated in a London lodge before writing the political theory that echoes through the American constitutions. Ric is also candid about the parts that are harder to celebrate, including how thoroughly Southern Freemasonry was built on the wealth of a slave economy. He closes on the future of the craft, and his answer as a historian is three words: relevance, leadership, aspiration. About our guest Dr. Ric Berman is a Masonic historian and a member of Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, the premier lodge of Masonic research, where he has served in the chair and now leads the Quatuor Coronati Correspondence Circle. Under his stewardship the Correspondence Circle has grown roughly fivefold. He is a past Prestonian Lecturer, and the author of some ten books across eighteen years of research in England, Ireland, and America, including The Foundations of Modern Freemasonry, Schism, and now The Genesis of American Freemasonry. Initiated at twenty-one, he found the craft incomprehensible, drifted away for two decades, and came back only when a work colleague asked whether he was on the square. He has spent the years since writing the books he could not find when he needed them. Referenced in this episode The Genesis of American Freemasonry by Dr. Ric Berman, available through Lewis Masonic, Macoy, and Amazon The Foundations of Modern Freemasonry, third edition, and Schism, second edition, both now reissued at reduced prices Quatuor Coronati Lodge and Correspondence Circle: quatuorcoronati.com Upcoming: Ric speaks in Sacramento on Saturday, August 8th alongside John Cooper and Susan Summers on the Declaration and the semiquincentennial, at the Scottish Rite building, 10:00 to 4:00. Details and tickets through the Quatuor Coronati website. Looking ahead: a major Quatuor Coronati conference in Cambridge, England, in early September 2027, held in one of the colleges on the Cam. You can find us online at mystictye.com. Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/mystictye. Email feedback, guest suggestions, and any other questions to [email protected]. Thanks for listening today. You can support the show by liking, sharing, and subscribing on your favourite podcast syndicator. Even more helpful, leave us a review. We are looking to create a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you are aware of something coming up, please let me know by email. In the meantime, check out the Masonic Conferences website at masonicconferences.com. The Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference will be held on Saturday, September 19th, 2026. Our keynote speaker will be Bro. Lon Milo DuQuette, author of The Tarot Architect. Bros. Ike Baker, Doug Russell, D**o Rodriguez, and Josef Wages are all slated to present. Get your tickets at esotericmasonry.com. For other events, check out our calendar at mystictye.com, and don't forget to sign up for our newsletter while you are there. Graphics and web hosting are by Art Szabo Creative. A special thanks to Organist for our theme music. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again. Links and resources Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: [email protected] Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictye Support the show If this episode resonated with you, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. We are also building a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you know of something coming up, send Troy an email at [email protected]. Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.

"The Rosicrucian" with RW Bro. Alex Rofaila For over one hundred and fifty years, the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia has pursued its founding mission quietly, rigorously, and away from public view: to investigate the philosophy of Hermes Trismegistus, the secrets of the Kabbalah, and the meaning and symbolism of the wisdom, art, and literature of the ancient world. Now, for the first time, that work steps into the open. The Rosicrucian is the first global publication to emerge from the world's oldest independent society of Masonic Rosicrucians. Produced in partnership with Lewis Masonic, its purpose is to bring the mysteries of the Western Tradition into the light, in a voice that is scholarly in its foundations and accessible to every sincere seeker. The first edition is devoted to Hermeticism. From the Emerald Tablet to the Corpus Hermeticum, this is the tradition attributed to Hermes Trismegistus that stands at the very root of the Western esoteric project. Not merely one strand of the Mystery Tradition, but the thread from which most of the others are woven. We are joined today by RW Bro. Alex Rofaila, Editor of The Rosicrucian and a member of SRIA since 2007. Welcome, Alex. About our guest RW Frater Alex Rofaila became a member of Metropolitan College SRIA in July 2007, a day he calls his first real initiation. He was installed as Celebrant of Metropolitan College No. 1 in April 2016 and of the College of Holy Sepulchre in 2018, and is a founder of the College of Sophia Hermetica, the first college formed in London in over one hundred years. In 2020 he was installed as the first Chief Adept of the newly formed SRIA Province of Greater London. When lockdown struck, his provincial team revived the Rosicrucian Pamphlets and extended the reach of the century-old Metropolitan Study Group to a global audience over Zoom. That momentum led to the return of The Rosicrucian, the little-known Victorian periodical the Society published between 1868 and 1879, revamped for a modern readership and launched in June with its first issue on Hermeticism, available through Lewis Masonic. Alex is a keen Freemason and a member of several orders beyond the craft, including Royal Arch, Mark, RAM, Royal and Select, Rose Croix, Royal Order of Scotland, and Knights Templar. Referenced in this episode 34:15 Over 300 Years of Masonic Ritual by Martin Gandoff: Lewis Masonic Cholmeley Lodge No. 1731: cholmeleylodge.org The Atlantis Bookshop: theatlantisbookshop.com SRIA London and the Metropolitan Study Group: srialondon.org You can find us online at mystictye.com. Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/mystictye. Email feedback, guest suggestions, and any other questions to [email protected]. Thanks for listening today. You can support the show by liking, sharing, and subscribing on your favourite podcast syndicator. Even more helpful, leave us a review. We are looking to create a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you are aware of something coming up, please let me know by email. In the meantime, check out the Masonic Conferences website at masonicconferences.com. The Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference will be held on Saturday, September 19th, 2026. Our keynote speaker will be Bro. Lon Milo DuQuette, author of The Tarot Architect. Bros. Ike Baker, Doug Russell, D**o Rodriguez, and Josef Wages are all slated to present. Get your tickets at esotericmasonry.com. For other events, check out our calendar at mystictye.com, and don't forget to sign up for our newsletter while you are there. Graphics and web hosting are by Art Szabo Creative. A special thanks to Organist for our theme music. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again. Links and resources Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: [email protected] Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictye Support the show If this episode resonated with you, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. We are also building a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you know of something coming up, send Troy an email at [email protected]. Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.