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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
Had a great discussion last month with Stephanie from the excellent Rejected Religion podcast about Freemasonry! This will be coming up in Episode 14/August. https://www.facebook.com/RejectedReligion/posts/288791129523510
Exeter: TaDehent Books, 2021, ISBN 978-1-911134-57-2 Stewart Clelland https://www.facebook.com/paralibrum/posts/327242109033656
Joseph-Aimé (Joséphin) Péladan (1858 -1918) was a French novelist and Martinist. He was an artist, an eccentric and claimed to be the successor to a Toulouse branch of the Rose-Croix.
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 …
An ancient Gaelic tale found in the unpublished notebooks of Alexander Carmichael (1832-1912)
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.
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. …
Rabbi Yitzchak Luria ben Shlomo Ashkenazi (1534-1572), also known as the ‘Ari’ or ‘Lion of Safed’, was taught by the influential Rabbi Moses ben Jacob Cordovero (1522-1570). Known for instigating a new school of Kabbalistic thinking in Palestine known as Lurianic Kabbalah, Luria himself writes very little, and his work becomes known through its reference …
Continue reading "Exile in Kabbalah: A Visit to The Old Tzfat Cemetery"
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 …
Continue reading "In Rasputin’s hand: Images of the Mad Monk"
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