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Upcoming speaking engagements:
April 13, 6:30PM, Bremerton Lodge No. 117, Victory Masonic Temple, Topic: Freemasonry and the Tarot
October 18, 6:30PM, St. John’s Lodge, Seattle WA, Topic: Legendary Freemasonry
Past Events:
This was a superb event last night! I really enjoyed presenting about Freemasonry and the Tarot! A few pics:
On December 29 I will be speaking at the Tenino Masonic Lodge. The topic will be focused on the Masonic lesson of Equilibrium, a lesson illustrated throughout Masonic ritual and the design of our Lodge rooms. This lesson is also symbolized in the first seven cards of Tarot’s Major Arcana and we will explore new ways of thinking about Equilibrium through the imagery of Tarot.
Albert Pike wrote of Equilibrium in Morals & Dogma:
"...of that Equilibrium, possible in ourselves and which Masonry incessantly labors to accomplish in its Initiates, and demands of its Adepts and Princes (else unworthy of their titles), between the Spiritual and Divine and the Material and Human in man; between the Intellect, Reason, and Moral Sense on one side, and the Appetites and Passions on the other, from which result the Harmony and Beauty of a well regulated life."
"Such, My Brother, is the True Word of a Master Mason; such the true Royal Secret, which makes possible, and shall at length make real, the Holy Empire of true Masonic Brotherhood."
In that same book, he wrote of the Tarot:
“He who desires to attain to the understanding of the Grand Word and the possession of the Great Secret, ought carefully to read the Hermetic philosophers, and will undoubtedly attain initiation, as others have done; but he must take, for the key of their allegories, the single dogma of Hermes, contained in his tablet of Emerald, and follow, to class his acquisitions of knowledge and direct the operation, the order indicated in the Kabbalistic alphabet of the Tarot.”
I hope that you will be able to join me as I discuss this important facet of philosophy.