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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.

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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
    • 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.

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    Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.
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  • Masonic Wisdom Cards Bro Jonti Marks and Bridie Blaze

    Masonic Wisdom Cards Bro Jonti Marks and Bridie Blaze
    2026/08/20

    What happens when the symbolic language of Freemasonry is taken off the tracing board and placed directly into your hands? This episode, I'm joined by Jonti Marks and Bridie Blaze, creators of the Masonic Wisdom Cards, A Deck for Daily Reflection, a 78-card illustrated deck exploring Masonic symbols, working tools, virtues, and sacred geometry as prompts for contemplation rather than divination.

    We talk through Bridie's folk-art-inspired illustration process, built from a hand-chiselled, linocut-style technique that echoes the working tools themselves, and Jonti's approach to writing a companion booklet that invites quiet reflection rather than instruction. Given that the deck shares its 78-card count with a tarot deck, we spend real time on the comparison: where the two overlap as tools for memory and self-examination, and where the Masonic Wisdom Cards depart from tarot entirely, since there is no divination and no fortune telling built into the design.

    The conversation also opens into the art of memory more broadly, how Freemasonry, Kabbalah, and tarot all draw on the same rhetorical memory tradition, and how a deck of cards can work as a modern entry point into lodge education and personal study. Jonti and Bridie close out talking about how the two of them came to collaborate, the year and a half it took to bring the deck from idea to print, and the early feedback coming in from the first backers.

    Books mentioned in this episode

    A Mosaic Palace, Freemasonry and the Art of Memory by Martin Faulks (Lewis Masonic, 2018).

    The Masonic Wisdom Cards are distributed through Lewis Masonic. Find them at lewismasonic.co.uk.

    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.

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  • Fight Club and Freemasonry: A Conversation with WB Dago Rodriguez

    Fight Club and Freemasonry: A Conversation with WB Dago Rodriguez
    2026/08/13

    Troy sits down with WB Dago Rodriguez, PM, 32°, creative director of Fraternal Review and two-time past master of South Pasadena Masonic Lodge No. 290, for a wide-ranging first meeting that covers the magazine's origin story, the surprising philosophical overlap between Fight Club and the Masonic path, and what keeps a lodge alive across generations.

    Dago has been with the Southern California Research Lodge since 2015, first as managing editor and, since the magazine's 2016 rebrand, as creative director of Fraternal Review. What started as black and white photocopies folded and mailed out became a full color monthly periodical, one of the only Masonic publications still hitting eleven issues a year. Dago describes it as a bridge into Masonic education rather than a heavy research journal, and the conversation traces its growth from that first test issue through today's rotating slate of guest editors.

    The centerpiece of the conversation is Dago's talk Fight Club and Freemasonry, born out of a MasonicCon pop culture panel and now headed to the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference 2026 on September 19th at the Ballard Masonic Center in Seattle. Troy and Dago dig into the talk's real subject, masculinity, role models, and the difference between building and destroying, then connect it to broader threads on Observant Masonry, generational unity, and why a lodge that stops evolving stops existing.

    Tickets for EFC 2026 are available at esotericmasonry.com.

    Books mentioned in this episode:

    The Lost Keys of Freemasonry by Manly P. Hall

    Freemasonry For Dummies by Christopher Hodapp

    Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

    Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk

    Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam

    Join or Die, the 2023 documentary built around Putnam's research

    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.

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    Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.
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  • " Remembering the Past, Present, and Future" with Bro. Doug Russell

    " Remembering the Past, Present, and Future" with Bro. Doug Russell
    2026/08/06
    "The Esoteric Art of Memory" with Doug RussellThe night he took his first degree, Doug Russell watched officers deliver the entire ritual from memory, including a lengthy lecture, and asked a question that would take him the next fourteen years to answer. Why do Masons memorize?Doug Russell returns to the show to reveal his forthcoming book, Remembering the Past, Present, and Future: Esoteric Memory Arts and Spiritual Freemasonry. It is a book about memory, about how memory connects to spirituality and to the esoteric side of our nature, and it is going to the publisher now, timed to launch at the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference.The conversation is a guided tour through the whole argument. Doug opens with three kinds of memory drawn from Aristotle, Plato, and Gurdjieff: exoteric memory of the world of the senses, esoteric memory of the inner and divine world where all learning is remembering, and self-remembering, the awareness of who you really are and where you are heading. From there he walks the classical art of memory, first written down in a Roman treatise on rhetoric around 80 BCE, the technique of placing vivid images in the rooms of an imagined building so that anything can be recalled in order.Then the heart of it. Memory palaces. Doug traces the term back to St. Augustine, who described his own memory as a vast realm with spacious palaces, and through Hugh of Saint Victor, whose Mystical Ark of around 1225 turned Noah's Ark into an enormous memory diagram of the whole of sacred history. That thread runs straight into the Craft, where Noah's Ark, the Tabernacle, and Solomon's Temple all function as memory palaces, and where the tracing board, the winding stairs, the two pillars, and the apron are all, read correctly, memory technology.Along the way the discussion opens onto the wider esoteric tradition: Antoine Faivre and his three great currents of alchemy, astrology, and magic, the perennial philosophy and its golden chain of sages, Giordano Bruno and his fantastic memory work, the influence that reached the court of King James VI and the William Shaw statutes of 1598 and 1599 as modern Masonry began to form, and Ken Wilber's account of the pre-modern, modern, and post-modern eras and the flatland that a purely materialist science leaves behind.It is a wide, generous, deeply learned conversation, and it is only a preview. Doug is saving the rest for the conference.About our guestDoug Russell is a retired psychotherapist and a longtime student of the Western esoteric tradition, with roots in modern theosophy going back some fifty years. Raised in Freemasonry in 2012, he came to the Craft looking for its spiritual dimension and has spent the years since making the case that it is there and can be named. He served seven years as editor-in-chief of the Fraternal Review, the magazine of the Southern California Research Lodge, and has presented on the art of memory at lodges and research bodies across the country, including the Masonic Restoration Foundation. He is among the most consistent presenters at the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference.Referenced in this episodeRemembering the Past, Present, and Future: Esoteric Memory Arts and Spiritual Freemasonry by Doug Russell, published by Plumbstone, with copies or pre-orders expected at the conferenceIntegral Psychology by Ken WilberThe work of Antoine Faivre on the currents of Western esotericism, and a Masonic ritual by Willermoz from the 1780sThe Mystical Ark by Hugh of Saint VictorThe scholarship of Shawn Eyer, editor of the Philalethes magazine, on the eighteenth century Masonic textual traditionThe monitors of Thomas Smith Webb and the rituals of William PrestonRecurring at the conference: Ken Lane, Brett Wolfe, and Martin FaulksUpcoming: Doug presents as one of the first speakers at the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference on Saturday, September 19th, 2026, where the book launches.You can find us online at mystictye.com. Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/mystictye. Email feedback, guest suggestions, and any other questions to troy@mystictye.com.Thanks for listening today. You can support the show by liking, sharing, and subscribing on your favourite podcast syndicator. Even more helpful, leave us a review.We are looking to create a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you are aware of something coming up, please let me know by email. In the meantime, check out the Masonic Conferences website at masonicconferences.com.The Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference will be held on Saturday, September 19th, 2026. Our keynote speaker will be Bro. Lon Milo DuQuette, author of The Tarot Architect. Bros. Ike Baker, Doug Russell, Dago Rodriguez, and Josef Wages are all slated to present. Get your tickets at esotericmasonry.com.For other events, check out our calendar at mystictye.com, and don't forget to sign up for our newsletter while you are there.Graphics and web hosting are by Art Szabo Creative. A special thanks to ...
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  • "The Secret Freemasonry of a Priest in the Temple of Nature" w Bro. Josef Wages

    "The Secret Freemasonry of a Priest in the Temple of Nature" w Bro. Josef Wages
    2026/07/30

    The Secret Freemasonry of a Priest in the Temple of Nature with Bro. Josef Wages

    Bro. Josef Wages returns to the show to discuss The Secret Freemasonry of a Priest in the Temple of Nature, an eighteenth century Rosicrucian Masonic system recorded by Johann Samuel Mund. The manuscript predates the Golden Rosy Cross by three years, and until Bro. Wages and his research partners transcribed, translated, and published it, no one had ever studied the system at all. The book appeared in a limited run of only 500 copies, and the last of them are disappearing fast.

    The conversation ranges across the wild landscape of continental high degree Masonry: the Chevalier de Beauchêne peddling degrees from a wagon behind the French army at Frankfurt, the patents of Bouchère de Lennoncourt, and how the trail leads directly to Étienne Morin and the Kadosh degree. Along the way, Bro. Wages makes his case for why primary sources matter, why the era was far more organized than the old assumption of institutional chaos suggests, and why researchers who rely on Gould and Mackey are recycling secondary sources.

    The episode closes with a frank discussion of stasis in English speaking Freemasonry since the middle of the nineteenth century, and the growing appetite for variety: French Rite and Rectified Scottish Rite craft lodges are now at work in the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia, and brethren with ideas are finding brothers who are open to them.

    Books mentioned in this episode:

    • The Secret Freemasonry of a Priest in the Temple of Nature by Johann Samuel Mund, transcribed, translated, and edited by Bro. Josef Wages and his research partners. A bilingual German and English limited edition of 500 copies.
    • The Lost Ritual, the Bonseigneur Rituals retranslated by Bro. Josef Wages, coming from Cornerstone Book Publishers on August 21st.
    • Étienne Morin: From the French Rite to the Scottish Rite by Bro. Arturo de Hoyos and Bro. Josef Wages.
    • The Green Book of the Élus Coëns: A Treasury of Coën Texts, two volumes, edited by Bro. Josef Wages, translated and annotated by Bro. Stewart Clelland.
    • The Master's Voice: The Rituals and Letters of Martinés de Pasqually.
    • The Secret School of Wisdom: The Authentic Rituals and Doctrines of the Illuminati, edited by Bro. Josef Wages and Reinhard Markner.
    • The Correspondence of the Illuminati Order, Volume 2, edited by Reinhard Markner.
    • The Square and the Tower by Niall Ferguson.
    • Espionage, Diplomacy and the Lodge by Bro. Ric Berman.
    • The Genesis of American Freemasonry by Bro. Ric Berman, discussed in our previous episode.
    • Bernhard Beyer's 1925 German study of the Golden Rosy Cross, Das Lehrsystem des Ordens der Gold- und Rosenkreuzer.

    Also mentioned as forthcoming from Bro. Wages: the Élu Parfait volume drawn from the Morin manuscript, a collection of the Jacobite high degrees, and an edition of the Golden Rosy Cross rituals of 1763 and 1777 with its ninth degree.

    Bro. Wages' next book, The Lost Ritual, arrives from Cornerstone Book Publishers on August 21st, and copies will be at the book table at the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference in Seattle on Saturday, September 19th, where Bro. Wages is slated to present. 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.

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    Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.
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  • "The Genesis of American Freemasonry" with Dr. Ric Berman

    "The Genesis of American Freemasonry" with Dr. Ric Berman
    2026/07/23
    There was no England and no America. There was a greater Britain, and a few thousand people in London held most of the levers.Dr. Ric Berman joins us to talk about his new book, The Genesis of American Freemasonry, published this June and timed for the semiquincentennial. It traces the craft in America from its earliest colonial footholds, through independence, to the creation of the state Grand Lodges, and it asks a question most American brethren have never had answered plainly: how did our ritual, our structure, and our lodges actually get here?The answer runs through some remarkable people. Charles Delafaye, a Huguenot refugee who became undersecretary of state, a senior investigating magistrate, and head of the Secret Intelligence Service, sat at the heart of British government with correspondents across Europe and the Americas. The first Provincial Grand Master of New York was his nephew. The first Provincial Grand Master of South Carolina was a colleague from his own lodge. Trace the appointments and a network appears.We also get into the split between the Antients and the Moderns as a social rupture rather than a ritual one, the role of Philadelphia in driving the Antient movement down the wagon trails and over the Blue Ridge, and what happened when the craft reached the frontier. In Lexington, Kentucky, forty percent or more of the male population belonged to Lodge Number One. Often the first act of a new lodge was to establish a burial ground, because no one wants to die unremembered thousands of miles from home. Every state but the original thirteen founded a Grand Lodge before it achieved statehood.The conversation ranges into the Enlightenment machinery underneath all of it: religious tolerance and meritocracy as radical propositions, the 1738 papal encyclical In Eminenti, Desaguliers and Payne and the 1723 Constitutions, Locke, Newton, and Montesquieu, who was initiated in a London lodge before writing the political theory that echoes through the American constitutions. Ric is also candid about the parts that are harder to celebrate, including how thoroughly Southern Freemasonry was built on the wealth of a slave economy.He closes on the future of the craft, and his answer as a historian is three words: relevance, leadership, aspiration.About our guestDr. Ric Berman is a Masonic historian and a member of Quatuor Coronati Lodge No. 2076, the premier lodge of Masonic research, where he has served in the chair and now leads the Quatuor Coronati Correspondence Circle. Under his stewardship the Correspondence Circle has grown roughly fivefold. He is a past Prestonian Lecturer, and the author of some ten books across eighteen years of research in England, Ireland, and America, including The Foundations of Modern Freemasonry, Schism, and now The Genesis of American Freemasonry.Initiated at twenty-one, he found the craft incomprehensible, drifted away for two decades, and came back only when a work colleague asked whether he was on the square. He has spent the years since writing the books he could not find when he needed them.Referenced in this episodeThe Genesis of American Freemasonry by Dr. Ric Berman, available through Lewis Masonic, Macoy, and AmazonThe Foundations of Modern Freemasonry, third edition, and Schism, second edition, both now reissued at reduced pricesQuatuor Coronati Lodge and Correspondence Circle: quatuorcoronati.comUpcoming: Ric speaks in Sacramento on Saturday, August 8th alongside John Cooper and Susan Summers on the Declaration and the semiquincentennial, at the Scottish Rite building, 10:00 to 4:00. Details and tickets through the Quatuor Coronati website.Looking ahead: a major Quatuor Coronati conference in Cambridge, England, in early September 2027, held in one of the colleges on the Cam.You can find us online at mystictye.com. Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/mystictye. Email feedback, guest suggestions, and any other questions to troy@mystictye.com.Thanks for listening today. You can support the show by liking, sharing, and subscribing on your favourite podcast syndicator. Even more helpful, leave us a review.We are looking to create a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you are aware of something coming up, please let me know by email. In the meantime, check out the Masonic Conferences website at masonicconferences.com.The Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference will be held on Saturday, September 19th, 2026. Our keynote speaker will be Bro. Lon Milo DuQuette, author of The Tarot Architect. Bros. Ike Baker, Doug Russell, Dago Rodriguez, and Josef Wages are all slated to present. Get your tickets at esotericmasonry.com.For other events, check out our calendar at mystictye.com, and don't forget to sign up for our newsletter while you are there.Graphics and web hosting are by Art Szabo Creative. A special thanks to Organist for our theme music.Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.Links and resourcesEsotericism in Freemasonry Conference...
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  • "The Rosicrucian" Vol 1 with RWBro. Alex Rofaila

    "The Rosicrucian" Vol 1 with RWBro. Alex Rofaila
    2026/07/16
    "The Rosicrucian" with RW Bro. Alex RofailaFor over one hundred and fifty years, the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia has pursued its founding mission quietly, rigorously, and away from public view: to investigate the philosophy of Hermes Trismegistus, the secrets of the Kabbalah, and the meaning and symbolism of the wisdom, art, and literature of the ancient world. Now, for the first time, that work steps into the open.The Rosicrucian is the first global publication to emerge from the world's oldest independent society of Masonic Rosicrucians. Produced in partnership with Lewis Masonic, its purpose is to bring the mysteries of the Western Tradition into the light, in a voice that is scholarly in its foundations and accessible to every sincere seeker.The first edition is devoted to Hermeticism. From the Emerald Tablet to the Corpus Hermeticum, this is the tradition attributed to Hermes Trismegistus that stands at the very root of the Western esoteric project. Not merely one strand of the Mystery Tradition, but the thread from which most of the others are woven.We are joined today by RW Bro. Alex Rofaila, Editor of The Rosicrucian and a member of SRIA since 2007. Welcome, Alex.About our guestRW Frater Alex Rofaila became a member of Metropolitan College SRIA in July 2007, a day he calls his first real initiation. He was installed as Celebrant of Metropolitan College No. 1 in April 2016 and of the College of Holy Sepulchre in 2018, and is a founder of the College of Sophia Hermetica, the first college formed in London in over one hundred years. In 2020 he was installed as the first Chief Adept of the newly formed SRIA Province of Greater London. When lockdown struck, his provincial team revived the Rosicrucian Pamphlets and extended the reach of the century-old Metropolitan Study Group to a global audience over Zoom. That momentum led to the return of The Rosicrucian, the little-known Victorian periodical the Society published between 1868 and 1879, revamped for a modern readership and launched in June with its first issue on Hermeticism, available through Lewis Masonic.Alex is a keen Freemason and a member of several orders beyond the craft, including Royal Arch, Mark, RAM, Royal and Select, Rose Croix, Royal Order of Scotland, and Knights Templar.Referenced in this episode34:15 Over 300 Years of Masonic Ritual by Martin Gandoff: Lewis MasonicCholmeley Lodge No. 1731: cholmeleylodge.orgThe Atlantis Bookshop: theatlantisbookshop.comSRIA London and the Metropolitan Study Group: srialondon.orgYou can find us online at mystictye.com. Support us on Patreon at patreon.com/mystictye. Email feedback, guest suggestions, and any other questions to troy@mystictye.com.Thanks for listening today. You can support the show by liking, sharing, and subscribing on your favourite podcast syndicator. Even more helpful, leave us a review.We are looking to create a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you are aware of something coming up, please let me know by email. In the meantime, check out the Masonic Conferences website at masonicconferences.com.The Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference will be held on Saturday, September 19th, 2026. Our keynote speaker will be Bro. Lon Milo DuQuette, author of The Tarot Architect. Bros. Ike Baker, Doug Russell, Dago Rodriguez, and Josef Wages are all slated to present. Get your tickets at esotericmasonry.com.For other events, check out our calendar at mystictye.com, and don't forget to sign up for our newsletter while you are there.Graphics and web hosting are by Art Szabo Creative. A special thanks to Organist for our theme music.Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.Links 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@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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