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The Mystic Tye

The Mystic Tye

著者： Troy Spreeuw
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The Mystic Tye is a podcast for Freemasons



I intend to curate a environment where brethren and other aspirants can discuss ideas in a civil and productive way. We will not be afraid to tackle controversial or difficult topics, but all discussions will be done in a respectful and understanding manner. With the forbearance exemplified by our ancient brethren we will labour in the quarry together to prepare the stones of our thoughts and actions. All these prepared for the temple not made with hands.


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  • "Astrology in the Western Esoteric Traditions" Bro. Jaime Paul Lamb at EFC2022

    "Astrology in the Western Esoteric Traditions" Bro. Jaime Paul Lamb at EFC2022
    2026/07/10
    Recorded at the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference 2022, this throwback episode features Br. Jaime Paul Lamb, professional astrologer and author. Recently uncovered from an archive of conference recordings, this presentation is titled Astrology in the Western Esoteric Traditions. Please forgive any audio irregularities, as this was captured live at the event. Slides are available to follow along on our YouTube channel.Br. Lamb opens with a personal story: two weeks after being raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason, he came across Robert Hewitt Brown's Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy, a book he describes as producing a kind of Sixth Sense moment, where the symbolic architecture of the Craft suddenly resolved into something far larger. That book remains a touchstone for everything that follows.The presentation offers a definition of astrology as the study of the mirroring of celestial events on the terrestrial sphere, the sympathetic resonant relationship between microcosm and macrocosm. Lamb draws a structural analogy: astrology is to astronomy as alchemy is to chemistry, as magic is to technology. What separates the pairs, he argues, is the quality of enchantment, the qualitative dimension that the Enlightenment stripped from the quantitative sciences and which he identifies as a genuine cultural loss.Lamb traces the history of astrology beginning in the Mesopotamian cultures of Sumer, Akkadia, Assyria, and Babylon, where a proto-astrology of celestial omens developed into electional astrology, astrological magic, and the first recorded articulation of the as-above-so-below axiom, found in the Babylonian diviners' manuals centuries before the Tabula Smaragdina formalized it. He follows this transmission through Homer and Porphyry's interpretation of the Cave of the Nymphs, Plato's Myth of Er, and into Hellenistic astrology proper, which he defines precisely: planets in signs in houses and how they are aspected. Those four components, he argues, are what distinguish astrology from related but distinct celestial traditions.The cosmological model underlying all of this is Ptolemaic: the sublunary sphere of the four elements surrounded concentrically by the seven etheric planetary spheres, the sphere of the fixed stars and zodiac beyond that, and the primum mobile or unmoved mover at the outermost limit. Lamb calls mastery of this model the ring-not-pass of understanding everything else in the tradition. Without it, the rest won't hold.He develops the Platonic-Hermetic account of the soul's descent through the planetary spheres accompanied by its daimon, taking on character qualities at each sphere, and connects this to the predictive logic of natal astrology: Heraclitus' ethos anthropos daimon, character is destiny. The natal chart, on this reading, is a schematic of that descent, a map of the character the native carries into embodied life.Porphyry receives particular attention as Lamb's preferred Neoplatonist, distinguished from Plotinus and Iamblichus by his technicianlike insistence on understanding the mechanics of the ascent rather than simply contemplating union with the One. His commentary on the Cave of the Nymphs and his introduction to Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos are recommended as entry points.The presentation continues through Gnosticism (which Lamb engages with reluctantly, finding its cosmology inelegant but noting the relevance of the demiurge concept for Freemasons thinking about the Grand Architect), Mithraism (its planetary grades, the Anabasis through the spheres, and the tauroctony as a star map showing Perseus atop Taurus with Scorpio, Canis Major, and Hydra below), and the Perso-Arabic transmission through Baghdad and Harran, where the Sabians preserved and developed the tradition, producing the Picatrix and forming the basis of the Solomonic grimoire tradition in Europe.The Sefer Yetzirah is addressed as proto-Kabbalistic rather than Kabbalistic proper: its three mother letters corresponding to three of the four elements, its seven double letters explicitly planetary, and its twelve single letters explicitly zodiacal. This is not interpretation, Lamb notes. It is in the text.Marsilio Ficino and the Renaissance reception of the Hermetic corpus receive dedicated attention. Ficino learned to play a seven-stringed modal lyre specifically to draw down planetary influences by matching musical modes to planetary spheres, an act Lamb identifies as practical Hermetic magic in the Neoplatonic sense.The single slide devoted to Freemasonry proper covers the circumambulation of the lodge as primary motion mirroring the sun's path, the Senior Deacon as a Hermetic psychopomp archetype corresponding to Mercury, and the tetramorph, the lion, ox, eagle, and man of Royal Arch heraldry, as the four fixed signs of the zodiac traced from the Babylonian lamassus through Ezekiel's vision in captivity and into Revelation.Lamb closes with a brief critique of Theosophical astrology, sun-sign pop ...
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  • Freemasonry in Academic Studies of Western Esotericism with Bro. Doug Russel | EFC 2022

    Freemasonry in Academic Studies of Western Esotericism with Bro. Doug Russel | EFC 2022
    2026/07/02

    In this throwback episode recorded to support Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference 2022, Bro. Doug Russell sits down to explore how Freemasonry fits into the growing academic field of Western Esotericism. A past editor of the Fraternal Review and an officer of the Academy of Reflection, Bro. Russel brings a unique perspective that bridges scholarly research and lived Masonic practice.

    The conversation digs into why academics are only now beginning to take Freemasonry seriously as a subject of study, how the craft intersects with broader currents in Western Esoteric thought, and what it means for brethren when scholars start examining the traditions from the outside looking in.

    Bro. Doug Russell returns to the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference 2026 this September, where he will be leading the Friday night meditation session and presenting his upcoming book. Tickets are available at esotericmasonry.com.

    Links and resources

    • Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.com
    • RSVP for the upcoming conference: esotericmasonry@gmail.com
    • Mystic Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.com
    • Patreon (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 troy@mystictye.com.

    Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist.

    Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.
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  • “Elias Ashmole, Initiation, and Freemasonry” w/ Bro. Richard Harris Throwback Episode

    “Elias Ashmole, Initiation, and Freemasonry” w/ Bro. Richard Harris Throwback Episode
    2026/06/25

    "Elias Ashmole, Initiation, and Freemasonry" with Bro. Richard Harris (Throwback Episode)

    Recorded in support of the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference 2022, this throwback episode features Grand Lodge of Washington State brother Richard Harris in conversation with Troy about his conference presentation on Elias Ashmole, initiation, alchemy, and Freemasonry.

    Please forgive the minor audio issues and edits. Enjoy.

    Bro. Richard Harris is a member of Esoterica Lodge No. 316 in Seattle, a serious student of alchemical and Hermetic history, a licensed therapist, and an avid collector of ancient coins. He studied at the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture in Wales, focusing on cultural astronomy, archaeoastronomy, and the history of astrology.

    In this episode, Richard and Troy explore:

    • Who Elias Ashmole actually was, and why Richard calls him "Superman"
    • Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum and its place as the most important English-language alchemical anthology
    • The relationship between alchemy, Rosicrucianism, and early operative and speculative Masonry
    • How Ashmole's royalism, legal career, and obsessive collecting all tied together
    • Isaac Newton's debt to Ashmole and the Theatrum, and what Newton was really obsessing over
    • The cross-currents between the alchemists, poets, and spy networks of 16th- and 17th-century England
    • John Dee, Edward Kelley, and the Enochian system that Ashmole helped preserve
    • The checkerboard floor and why Richard believes it is one of the most misunderstood symbols in Masonic and Western history
    • Tobias Churton's biography Magus of Freemasonry as an entry point to Ashmole
    • Richard's personal journey from Roman Catholicism to evangelical theology, Jungian psychology, Chinese medicine, and finally Masonry
    • Troy's own path into the Craft, from teenage conspiracy theory rabbit holes and the Satanic Panic through Israel Regardie and Aleister Crowley to Thelema

    Books and figures mentioned in this episode:

    • Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum by Elias Ashmole
    • The Order of the Garter by Elias Ashmole
    • Magus of Freemasonry by Tobias Churton
    • Israel Regardie, The Garden of Pomegranates and The Golden Dawn
    • Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies
    • John Dee and Edward Kelley (Enochian system)
    • Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis
    • Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, John Milton
    • Nick Campion, Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture
    • John Belanger (bookseller and Masonic contact)
    • Bro. John Gerardi (Masonic scholar and research partner)
    • William Kissel's Esoteric Book Conference

    Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.

    Links and resources

    • Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.com
    • RSVP for the upcoming conference: esotericmasonry@gmail.com
    • Mystic Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.com
    • Patreon (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 troy@mystictye.com.

    Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist.

    Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.
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