Category: history

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...

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...

The archives of the Dutch federation of Le Droit Humain has two little booklets, one of the first and one of the second degree. The...

I was looking for something else when I found an old auction of a ritual book. Apparently on that website you can also find auctions...

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....

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...

Arthur Edward Waite (1857-1942), the famous author on things esoteric and occult and a Freemason of a lodge under the United Grand Lodge of England....

Wirth’s name is one that you may quite likely have heard of. He is one of those ‘famous Freemasons’ who lived relatively recently. Besides for...

Would it be interesting to try to figure out what rituals were used in the first decades of mixed gender Freemasonry? Or perhaps, the first...

This story can be found on a few place on the internet. When looking into the history of the “Dharma Workings” you can’t escape looking...