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  • EFC2026 Review with Brett Ken and Troy

    EFC2026 Review with Brett Ken and Troy
    2026/10/15

    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.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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  • Bringing the Work to Life with Bro. Salman Arif

    Bringing the Work to Life with Bro. Salman Arif
    2026/10/08
    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 TroyOctober 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.comBooks mentioned in this episodeThe 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. PutnamAlso mentionedJoin 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 CampbellLinks and resourcesEsotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: esotericmasonry@gmail.comMystic Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictyeSupport the showIf 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@...
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  • A Life in Many Colours with Bro. Julian Rees

    A Life in Many Colours with Bro. Julian Rees
    2026/10/01
    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 episodeA Life in Many Colours: A Masonic Memoir, Julian Rees, Arima PublishingHere Comes the Light!, Julian ReesMaking Light: A Handbook for Freemasons, Julian Rees, Lewis MasonicSo You Want To Be a Freemason?, Julian Rees, Lewis MasonicTracing Boards of the Three Degrees in Craft Freemasonry Explained, Julian Rees, Lewis MasonicFreemasonry: Heart and Mind. Sketches on Esotericism in English Ritual, Julian ReesPodcasts recommendedStraight White American Jesus, Brad OnishiConspiritualityLinks and resourcesEsotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: esotericmasonry@gmail.comMystic Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictyeSupport the showIf 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 ...
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  • The Best of Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference Interviews

    The Best of Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference Interviews
    2026/09/24

    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 Dago 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. Dago'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.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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  • Students of the Work with Bro. Salman Arif

    Students of the Work with Bro. Salman Arif
    2026/09/17

    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.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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  • The Three Working Tools of the Kabbalist, with Bro. Lon Milo DuQuette

    The Three Working Tools of the Kabbalist, with Bro. Lon Milo DuQuette
    2026/09/10

    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, Dago Rodriguez, and Josef Wäges. Fifty dollars, lunch included. Tickets 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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  • Esoteric Mythology and EFC2026 with Ike Baker

    Esoteric Mythology and EFC2026 with Ike Baker
    2026/09/03

    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.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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  • “The Tables Turned” - A milestone, an interview in reverse, and an EFC update

    “The Tables Turned” - A milestone, an interview in reverse, and an EFC update
    2026/08/27

    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, Dago 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.com
    • RSVP for the upcoming conference: esotericmasonry@gmail.com
    • Mystic Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.com
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