Education:
2016-2017 Post Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies | University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK
2012-2014 Masters of Arts (MA) Western Esotericism | University of Exeter, UK
2003-2007 Bachelor of Arts (BA hons) Art, Philosophy and Contemporary Practices | University of Dundee, Scotland, UK
Fellowships and Awards:
2023 University of Highlands and Islands (UHI) Student Development Fund
2022 Full Member of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE)
2021 Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
2018 Full Registration with The General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS)
2014 The Philalethes Society and Masonic Research Journal (US) Certificate of Literature
Teaching Experience:
2020-2023 Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) National 5 and Scottish Higher Philosophy: Arguments in Action (Argumentation and Logic), Knowledge and Doubt (Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy and Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding) and Moral Philosophy (Utilitarianism and Kantian ethics).
2017-2023 Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) National 5 and Scottish Higher Religious, Moral and Philosophy Studies (RMPS): World Religion (Christianity), Morality and Belief (Medical Ethics) and Religious and Philosophical Questions (Existence of God).
2017-2023 Broad General Education in Religious and Philosophical Studies: Radicalisation and Eschatology, Pop Epistemology and Conspiracy Theories, Medical Ethics, Marvels and Mysteries, Moral Stances, Capital Punishment and Euthanasia, World Religions (Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism).
Books:
Stewart Clelland, Rhymes and Reason: The Lost Poems of Éliphas Lévi (Rose Circle Publications, 2022)
Stewart Clelland, Josef Wäges, Paul Ferguson & Steven Adams, The Master’s Voice: The Letters and Ritual of Martines de Pasqually 1767-1774 (Shepperton: Lewis Masonic, 2022)
Stewart Clelland, Josef Wäges & Steven Adams, The Green Book of the Green Book Élus Coëns (Shepperton: Lewis Masonic, 2021)
Peer Reviewed Articles:
Clelland, Stewart. “Critical identity pedagogy: bridging the dialectics of social justice and inclusion” in Education in the North, 31(1) (2024), 106-116.
Clelland, Stewart, and Paul Ferguson. “Book II of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage: An English Translation Based on a Newly Discovered Manuscript” in Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 18(3) (2023), 401-453. https://doi.org/10.1353/mrw.2023.a930895.
Clelland, Stewart. “Telegraph from a Perfect Gentleman: The spiritualist, F. Hockley & Sir Richard Francis Burton, explorer” in Heredom, 30 (2023), 56-96.
Clelland, Stewart. “Quintessence of Dust: A Masonic Perspective on the Neoplatonic Philosophy of Marsilio Ficino and his Magia Naturalis” in The Philalethes Society and Masonic Research Journal, 74.4 (2022), 143-157.
Clelland, Stewart. “The Dundee 1521 Jewel: An Eighteenth-Century Artefact” in The Philalethes Society and Masonic Research Journal, 74.3 (2022), 136-144.
Clelland, Stewart. “Unspeakable Miracles: The Magia Divina of the Gold-und Rosenkreuz” in Heredom, 28 (2020), 1-27.
Clelland, Stewart. “The Invisible St. Andrew’s Crosse: An Analysis of The Muses Threnodie” in The Philalethes Society and Masonic Research Journal, 69.3 (2016), 94-109.
Clelland, Stewart. “Seventeenth-Century Rosicrucianism and the High-Grade Freemasonry of the Eighteenth Century” in The Philalethes Society and Masonic Research Journal, 67.2 (2014), 52-65.
Conference:
7 October 2023
Boleskine House: Magic and Mystery on Loch Ness. Archaeology for Communities in the Highlands (ARCH): Highland Archaeology Festival. Highland Council Chamber, Inverness, Scotland.
5-7 July 2022
An Ecstatic Lodge: The Luminous glyphs of the Élus Coëns. Eighth Biannual Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE): Western Esotericism and Creativity: Art, Performance and Innovation. University College Cork, Ireland.
3 July 2017
Scotland and Freemasonry: The East and the Solomonic North. Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR): Holy Lands and Sacred Histories in New Religious Movements. The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem, Israel.
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