This is a brief video from a U.K. television program in which tonights guest took part in.
Interesting stuff.
Masonic Central
Martin Faulks of Lewis Masonic
This week on Masonic Central, we have the chance to talk to Martin Faulks who is the colorful and vibrant marketing director of Lewis Masonic publishing.
Join us as we welcome him to the program to talk about the Masonic publishing business (and Lewis Masonic), English Masonry, his work with Lewis and the art of esoteric literature, and life as the “Masonic Ninja”.
Missed the Live Program, Listen now!
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Lewis Masonic was founded in 1801, and is the largest and oldest Masonic publisher in the world. Well-known to the English Freemasons, Lewis produces many of the ritual books used by United Grand Lodge of England lodges and Holy Royal Arch Chapters. Lewis is today opening up shop here in the American market with a new on line store featuring their exciting collection. you can find the U.S. store at LewisMasonic.us.
Its sure to be a fun conversation and insightful in all things Masonic with maybe a bit of conversation about ninja throwing stars…
Listen to the LIVE program at 6pm PST / 9pm EST, and join the conversation from at our new home at Blog Talk Radio, or you can listen from the player widget on FreemasonInformation.com. To participate live, dial into the show to listen and interact with the guests. You can also join our interactive show chat at Masonic Central on BTR!
Masonic Central is back up on Itunes!
I just found confirmation that Masonic Central, since its move to Blog Talk Radio, is now back up on ITunes!
How to find it? Your first option is to go to ITunes, and in the search box, do a search for Masonic Central. What you’ll find is the past Masonic Central Pod cast stream, and the NEW Masonic Central Blog Talk Radio Stream.
Or, you can follow this link:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=311776560 which will open the page in the I tunes app.
Thanks for pulling for listening to the program, and look for lots more coming up!
And, please let me know if you can’t find the show. I’ve had some reports that the Blog Talk Radio Version isn’t available in Canada on Itunes, but I’m curious if its available now.
Greg – Masonic Central!
I just tested it on a 2nd machine, and it comes up, as well as had Dean test from Halifax (CA) earlier today, and he was able to pull it up. So the show is there, waiting to be found!
Br. Peter Millheiser Editor of the Hibiscus Masonic Review
In this episode, we speak with Br. Peter Millheiser, who is the editor of the Hibiscus Masonic Review Journal, which is a publication of Hibiscus Masonic Lodge N. 275, in Coral Gables, under the Grand Lodge of Florida.
In the conversation, we will talk about the journal, how it came to be published, why it was necessary, and what makes its content so unique.
As the editor, Peter is the Masonic Education Chairman of the Hibiscus Shrine Fellowship Club, that publishes the quarterly journal. But once you delve further below the surface of this printed book is a solid design of education, fraternity, and an insight for the future of Freemasonry.
The goal of the work, and the discussion, is to bring the spiritual feeling back into the lodge, back into our education, and talk about that in the program.
Listen to the LIVE program and join the conversation from our new new home of Masonic Central at Blog Talk Radio, or from the player widget on FreemasonInformation.com. Or, to participate live, dial into the show to listen and interact with the guests. You can join our interactive show chat at Masonic Central on BTR!
Missed the live program? Listen Now!
Harm Timmerman, Composer of The Temple of Humanity
This Sunday, March 29th, we are jumping the pond again to welcome our special guest from the Netherlands composer and Producer Harm Timmerman from Free Stone Music, the creator of the Masonicly inspired CD “The Temple of Humanity“.
Missed the live show? Listen to it Now!
The CD is self-described as The “Music of Freemasonry” and having listened to it several times already I would tend to agree. But this isn’t the usual high-pitched organ grind or the occulted “Magic Flute” of past generations, no, this music reaches out and becomes part of the spirit of the tiled Masonic lodge room and carries the listener into the sublime meditative state that we each strive to inhabit when contemplating the degrees.
This is just a sampling of the stunning Music on this album.
Look for us this Sundays, March 29th, at 6PM PST/9PM EST.
Listen to the program live stream player widget on Freemason Information, or dial into the show to listen and interact with the hosts. Join our interactive show chat from our application site on talkshoe. To join the conversation live, dial the number 724-444-7444 and enter the show I.D. 19162, fifteen minutes prior to, or during the program.
And, check back soon as some of the details of the program may change preceding the on-air portion.
The editors and authors on the Masonic Central podcast
This Sunday on Masonic Central, its time to take a time out. Not from the fun and exciting program, but from talking to guests and instead talk a bit about ourselves. Its time to talk about what’s been going on, where things are going, and who’s been working on it.
This weeks program is about: Masonic Central – the pod cast for Freemasons by Freemasons.
Missed the program, listen to it now!
Join is this Sunday March 22nd at 6pm PST / 9pm EST to find out about the new Masonic Central pod cast on FreemasonInformation.com.
As a side note, I know there were some technical troubles on the last program, and they are being looked into. We hope to have a new home soon and make use of some new technology. Check back for updates!
Look for us this Sundays, March 22nd, at 6PM PST/9PM EST. Listen to the program live stream player widget on Freemason Information, or dial into the show to listen and interact with the hosts. Join our interactive show chat from our application site on talkshoe. To join the conversation live, dial the number 724-444-7444 and enter the show I.D. 19162, fifteen minutes before the program or during the call.
We don’t recommend using the shoephone application from talkshoe at this time.
Masonic History and Scholarship
This piece comes from deep in the archives about a guest on the Masonic Central podcast. It was originally assembled for episode 30 (circa 2009), yet remained unpublished.
Some say that history is written by the victors. That triumphs are in fact triumphant, and the losses are only momentary set backs in a progressive path to the eventual story that you read in the history books.
But at times some histories run concurrently with others, and that there isn’t really a victor or vanquished, but instead parallel paths where points merge and blend together. Freemasonry, it would seem, is just one of these histories where its various paths of existence seem to weave in and out of society and with other branches of itself.
For many years the fraternity has sprouted its own cadre of story tellers, its own historians. From Anderson’s early mythologies of its existence, to Yarker and Pike to name only a few, none have ever really stepped out of the box to understand the intricate workings as it relates to society. Robinson tried to do some justice, as did Ridley in his historical work, but neither brought the study of the Freemasons out of the realm of the speculative and in to academia, at least not in any meaningful way.
It wasn’t until the last decade or two that the study of Freemasonry took on a more meaningful study where today the craft stands at a turning point in the broader study of civil society. At the helm of that change is the scholarship of UCLA professor, Dr. Margaret C. Jacob.
Jacob, at the time of the interview, was one of the eminent scholars of Freemasonry, studying the role of the fraternity looking for its context within the world it inhabited. One of the interesting subjects covered was the Masonic ephemera horde amassed by the Nazis in WWII, and confiscated by Russian allied troops and taken back to Moscow and recovered in the post Cold War era, a topic Jaconb covers in her book Strangers Nowhere in the World
.
Masonry still has its arm chair and library historians, but Dr. Jacob has elevated the speculative history of our gentle craft to the hallowed halls of the university, and its from this study that our understanding of the fraternity today has far exceeding beyond what our understanding was of it before.
In this episode of Masonic Central, Dr. Jacob explored with us how she become the eminent Masonic scholar that she is today. And in that conversation we look behind the veil of time to learn about her ideas on the past, present, and future of Freemasonry. This was a unique opportunity to hear from the top American scholar on the subject, and a program I strongly recommend that you listen to. Give a listen to this 2009 interview with Dr. Jacob and decide for yourself how far Freemasonry has stretched from the armchair into academia.
You can read more on Dr. Jacob on her UCLA biography.
Works concerning Freemasonry by Dr. Margaret C. Jacob:
- Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe
– 1991 - The Origins of Freemasonry: Facts and Fictions – 2005
- The Radical Enlightenment – Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans – 2006
- Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe – 2006
Dr. Margaret Jacob on Masonic Central
Some say that history is written by the victors. Triumphs are in fact triumphant, and losses are only momentary set backs in a progressive path to the eventual story that you read in the history books.
But at times some histories run concurrently with others, and that there isn’t really a victor or vanquished, but instead parallel paths that points merge and blend together. Freemasonry, it would seem, is just one of these histories where its various paths of existence seem to weave in and out of society and with other branches of itself.
For many years the fraternity has sprouted its own cadre of story tellers, its own historians. From Anderson’s early mythologies of Freemasonry’s existence, to Yarker and Pike to name but a few, none have ever really stepped out of the box to understand the intricate workings as it relates to society. Robinson has done some justice, as has Ridley in his work, but neither brought the study of the Freemasons out of the realm of the speculative and in to academia, at least not in any meaningful way.
It wasn’t until about a decade or so ago that the study of Freemasonry took on a more meaningful study, where today the craft stands at a turning point in the broader study of civil society. And, at the helm of that ship is the scholarship of Dr. Margaret Jacob.
Masonry still has its arm chair and library historians, but Dr. Jacob has elevated the speculative history of our gentle craft to the hallowed halls of the university, and its from this study that our understanding of the fraternity today has far exceeding beyond what our understanding was of it before.
On Sunday, March 15, 2009, Dr. Margaret Jacob, the distinguished professor of History at UCLA, sat down with Masonic Central to discuss her academic study of Freemasonry, as recorded in her books: The Origins of Freemasonry: Facts and Fictions
, Living the Enlightenment: Freemasonry and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Europe
, and The Radical Enlightenment – Pantheists, Freemasons and Republicans
.
Additional topics to include: the Paradox of Masonic Secrecy in the 18th Century, Freemasonry in academia, and the role that Freemasonry occupies in the broader study of Civil Society.
It was a very interesting evening of discussion with the pre-eminent scholar of American and European Freemasonry.
If you’ve never had the opportunity to attend a lecture given by Professor Jacob, or have heard said that you should, this is the program for you. Dr. Jacob has a unique unbiased insight to our Masonic institution as her academic endeavors come from outside of the fraternity, rather than the inside.
Br. Kirk MacNulty on Masonic Central
On Sunday, March 8, 2009, Masonic Central spent some time with Br. Kirk MacNulty who is the author of several Masonic books including Freemasonry: Symbols, Secrets, Significance
, Freemasonry: A Journey Through Ritual and Symbol 
, and The Way of the Craftsman.
Br. Kirk has been an inspiration for many on the mystical ideas of Freemasonry and its deep rooted ties to the Renaissance and scientific revolution that followed. But interestingly, his take on Masonic Mysticism does did not originate from the familiar sources that we associate with it today. Also, we plan to explore the meaning and need of allegory and myth, as it pertains to the fraternity.
With perhaps in a more poignant tone, this episode talks about the reawakening of the new age idea and philosophy of the the development of the inner Temple and how that act is shaping the face of Freemasonry in the 21st Century.
Missed the live program? You can listen to it now!
James Wasserman, the author of “The Secrets of Masonic Washington”
Join us this Sunday, February 15th, as we speak with James Wasserman, the author of “The Secrets of Masonic Washington” and compiler of the book “The Mystery Traditions – Secret Symbols and Sacred Art”. James is the author , editor, designer and producer of a number of acclaimed works in the fields of religion, esoteric philosophy, art, symbolism, and history.
It will be 
an interesting conversation about symbolism, the esoteric, and the mystery traditions that carry these ideas forward, including Freemasonry.
The program starts at 6pm PST / 9pm EST on MasonicCentral.com
For more information on Mr. Wasserman, visit: http://www.studio31.com
To purchase his books go to http://masonsonlinestore.com where all books purchased are signed by the author.
Join us for the live program this Sunday at 6pm PST on Talkshoe!