Egyptian Rite
In some letters from the first Austrian lodge to the Dutch federation (that the lodge fell under at the time), questions are made about “E.R.”,...
The ‘High Degrees’ of Le Droit Humain
When Le Droit Humain started, there were no ‘high degrees’. The reason, supposedly, that Georges Martin didn’t want them. It was only later (but not...
co-Masonry in Australian newspapers
When looking for something, I ran into the website trove.nla.gov.au, a digital database of Australian newspapers. Looking around a bit, I found a lot of...
La Loge de Juste revisited
Seven years ago I was reading Snoek/Heidl’s Women’s Agency which contains an essay about the Dutch adoption lodge De Juste and wrote a little something...
Le Droit Humain Mexico
I ran into a first degree ritual of the Mexican federation of Le Droit Humain (“editado for el delegado del supremo consejo de la co-Masoneria...
Mystic Misraim today
Early 2016 I described the dealings of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) with Freemasonry. It appears that Steiner and his second wife Marie Steiner-von Sivers (1867-1948) were...
Lodge nr.4, a co-Masonic mystery
Last week I finally got myself a copy of the “Verulam” ritual. I had a copy from the Bibliotheque Nationale de France scanned. To my...
Grande Loge Symbolique Ecossaise (de France)
The history of the short lived Grande Loge Symbolique Ecossaise (1880-1911) is well documented. A book was even published about it. The ‘Symbolic Scottish Grand...
Aimée Bothwell-Gosse (1866-1954)
Bothwell’s name is one that I run into every so often, such as when I was looking into the co-Masonic connections of Waite and Yarker....
John Yarker (1833-1913) and co-Masonry
In my little biography of Arthur Waite (1857-1942), we saw that Yarker objected Waite’s disrespectful reference to co-Masonry. Yarkers ties to co-Masonry are more often...