The origins of Freemasonry – as would be expected of such a “venerable secret society” – are shrouded in myth, legend and almost impenetrable obscurity. Since at least the late 18th century Masonic writers have sought to establish a link between the Knights Templar and the Freemasons. Freem...
In the 1890s members of the Japanese secret societyGenyosha(the Black Ocean society) created theTenyukyo(Society for the Celestial Salvation of the Oppressed) which gave covert support to theTonghak, a Korean mystico-political group, espousing equality and the dignity of human beings, oppo...
Did you know that Al Bowman was alsoWhitney Houston‘s limo driver and he drove the late pop queen around while she smoked crack in the vehicle with her husbandBobby Brown? It’s the truth. Al has lived a sort of Forrest Gump rock n roll life. He has worked with mostly all of the ...
Although other people would believe that Masonry dates back even further to the Middle Ages and was conceived from the British stonemasons. In reality, both statements are correct depending on the context in which it was given. When a person states that Freemasonry began in 1717 they are referri...
a book alleging an Illuminati/Freemasonry plot to conspire against all religions, kings and governments of Europe.1According to Robison, the Illuminati had been instrumental in fomenting the worst excesses of the French Revolution. That same year the Jesuit Abbé Augustin de Barruel publishedMemoires...
Given these principles, Guénon could write with equal authority on Hinduism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hermeticism, Druidism, and even Freemasonry, “believing” in all of them because he was able to discern their transcendent unity. He demonstrated this through what he called metaphys...
“Rosicrucian.”22Of these, the primary order is that of Freemasonry, from which much of the current “occult revival” derives, including cults purporting to represent a “New Age.” They are, in Guenon’s term, “counterfeits,” and as counterfeits are intended to be, often diffic...
5. A. Albert Kudsi-Zadeh, “Afghani and Freemasonry in Egypt”,Journal of the American Oriental Society92:1, (Jan-Mar 1972) 34 6. Richard Dreyfus,Devil’s Game, Metropolitan Books, 2005; Curtis,Secret Affairs. 7. Curtis, 22 8. British embassy, Cairo, ‘...
it must be pointed out that this introduction to the Cleverman is not intended to take power away from the true owners of the Cleverman’s stories. Nobody questions the fact that the secrets of Freemasonry may be eluded to, but not fully disclosed, and it is not for us to question. Whi...