I was not too impressed with the previous two books of Rees that I reviewed. They make nice reads, but not much more than that. The current title is more like Rees’ wonderful (and similar) book about tracing boards (2015). Like all other titles is not not a thick book, but like the tracing boards […]
As the author says “The Stairway Of Freemasonry” is a follow-up of “Making Light“. A bit too much so perhaps. The present title is a collection of 30 short essays about a variety of subjects, but roughly the same as what is written about in the other book. There’s not only overlap between the two […]
When Rees wrote this book, he (probably) still was a member of a lodge working under the United Grand Lodge of England. Later he would leave it for a lodge under the British federation of Le Droit Humain. The reason for this is that Rees found that UGLE has lost the esotericism of Freemasonry that […]
The author has long been a Freemason, but around the time he was working on this book, he already contemplated the idea to switch from a “regular” lodge (working under the United Grand Lodge of England) to a lodge working under the British federation of Le Droit Humain. For that reason you will also find […]
I know Julian Rees for his beautiful book about tracing boards and now he published a new book about “Today’s Freemasonry for men and women” together with Darren Lorente-Bull. Rees has a bit of a name, because he went over from a “regular” United Grand Lodge of England lodge to a lodge of the mixed gender […]
Like Julian Rees, the author was initiated in a lodge working under the United Grand Lodge of England, but later joined a lodge working under the British federation of Le Droit Humain. Together with Rees he wrote More Light, which is actually quite like the present title. Both books are small (118 pages for the […]
