Dear Unknown Friend, More than a year has passed since imposed my year and one day of silence. Today I break that silence. I’ve not come to any solid ideas on how or whether to continue using this forum. It has benefits, it has (the ability to expose my) risks. In either case, I upgraded [...]

Dear Unknown Friend, Some thoughts, as I poke around a copy of the Register House Manuscript (1696) – documents from the 17th and 18th century clearly establish that many Speculative (perhaps even Accepted) Masons in Scotland (and the UK), believed a connection between Masonry with Rosicrucianism. Rosicrucianism is a peculiarly protestant (and German) vein of [...]