Bro. William S. Burkle tells us that, far from being a pseudo-science, alchemy holds an “animist view” of existence and aims to elevate all living things. We also learn of the historical stages of the Royal Art.
If ever there was a man who represented the core tenets of Freemasonry—Brotherly Love, Relief, and Truth—it was Thurgood Marshall. Marshall is famous for being the first African American justice of the Supreme Court, but his legacy and influence on our culture are so much greater than that. Brother Marshall had an astute legal mind and ardently voiced his support for civil rights and the policies needed to achieve them.
In a time of controversy and division in the USA, Bro. John F. Lowe reminds us that through proper application of the working tools we can “return civility to its rightful place” in our lives and society.
Richard Kaczynski reveals Crowley’s journey through fringe Masonry to the Ordo Templi Orientis—-and how he nearly made the latter into an Order of higher degrees for regular Freemasons.
The operative Masons chose the two Saints John, St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist, as patron Saints because one prepared the way and the other builded thereon, or as an old ritual has it, “One finished by his learning what the other began by his zeal, and thus drew a second line parallel to the former.”
