Very pleased to see my paper "Unspeakable Miracles—The Magia Divina of the Gold- und Rosenkreuz" featured in the new edition of Heredom: The Transactions of The Scottish Rite Research Society. This is the preeminent publication of scholarly Masonic research, recognized and highly anticipated by Masonic scholars worldwide. It is a peerless collection of the finest and …
ESSWE8 Cork, Ireland. 5-7 July 2022.
I arrived home this week after having the great pleasure of attending the 8th Biannual Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE) at University College Cork, Ireland. The conference brought together scholars examining the intersections of Western Occultism and Creativity. Postponed from last year, 2022 is a commemorative year in …
NEW ANNOUNCEMENT: Boleskine House Film
VERY PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE, that after a year of pre-production, I will be part of the investigation team for a new documentary film 'The Beast of Loch Ness'. This dynamic group of historians, writers, podcasters and filmmakers will be exploring Boleskine House separating historical facts from modern pop-culture and fiction. We will of course be …
NEW Discovery: ‘Green Book’ featured by scholar Dominique Clairembault
It is an absolute honour to be featured by scholar Dominique Clairembault on our discovery of the oldest known letter of Martinez de Pasqually's - changing perhaps forever the history of the Ordre of Elus Coens. https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=3748153795290818&id=163704007069166
Book Review: Frater Acher; Rosicrucian Magic: A Reader on Becoming Alike to the Angelic Mind
Exeter: TaDehent Books, 2021, ISBN 978-1-911134-57-2 Stewart Clelland https://www.facebook.com/paralibrum/posts/327242109033656
Eighth Biannual Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE)(Cork 2022)
I am very pleased to receive word of my acceptance on the programme of the Eighth Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (Cork 2022). I will discussing the l'Ordre des Chevaliers Maçons Élus Coëns de l'Univers. ESSWE8 is the 8th Biannual Conference of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism …
Clara of the Golden Hair That Went Wild With the Deer
An ancient Gaelic tale found in the unpublished notebooks of Alexander Carmichael (1832-1912)
Rwanda and Uganda with GLP
ANNOUNCEMENT: Very pleased at receiving word of my selection to join the Global Learning Partnership network in 2020. I will be spending a month in Rwanda and Uganda this summer. In partnership with Redearth Education Uganda and Inspire Educate and Empower Rwanda (IEE), I will be training local educators through professional learning reflecting local context.
Morocco.
With three distinct gold globes, the minaret of the Koutoubia Mosque dominates the Marrakesh horizon. Legend tells that one day during the month of Ramadan, the wife of Youcoub El Mansour (c. 1160- 1199) ate three small grapes. In penance, she melted down all her jewellery and moulded them into these three great gold spheres. …
In Rasputin’s hand: Images of the Mad Monk
During the summer of 1914, Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (1869-1916) was stabbed in the stomach by a 33-year-old peasant woman named Chionya Guseva, outside his home in Pokrovskoye, along the Tura River in the Tobolsk guberniya (now Tyumen Oblast), Siberia. A former prostitute, Guseva purportedly screamed 'I have killed the Antichrist!'. Rasputin, near dead, was chased …
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