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What does it actually mean to be good at Masonic ritual? Bro. Salman Arif of Duke of Connaught Lodge turns the microphone around for a second time, with a page of written questions and one theme: the Work. Troy, newly installed as District Deputy Grand Master, takes them one at a time, and argues t…

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Julian Rees, nearly sixty years a Freemason, an accomplished English Emulation ritualist, and one of the best-known writers on the spiritual side of the Craft, returns to The Mystic Tye to talk about a book that turns his own lens around. A Life in Many Colours: A Masonic Memoir, published by Arima…
Episode 54 is a change of pace: a forty five minute Best of EFC collection built around this year's Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference, pairing longer explanations from past Mystic Tye guests with two archival interviews Troy recorded for Scholomance at EFC 2024. It opens with Troy's o…
This week the microphones turn around. Bro. Salman Arif of Duke of Connaught Lodge, a brother Troy vouched for and watched take his obligation, sits down to ask the questions that guys who find Troy a little unapproachable have been saving up. No preamble, no plan, two Master Masons on the level. S…
Two weeks before the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference, Bro. Lon Milo DuQuette, author, magician, Freemason, and one of Troy’s own longtime teachers, joins the show to preview his Seattle keynote. Lon is coming in person, and at 78 he has a pretty good argument for why you should be there too. …
Three weeks out from the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference, Bro. Ike Baker joins Troy for a preview of a very full Seattle weekend, and a tour of everything else the man some call omnipresent has going on. Ike opens with his Friday night talk at Verity Lodge: the tracing board of Walter Leslie …
Fifty episodes. For this milestone we do things a little differently, in two parts. First, Troy sits down with his fellow organizers Brett Wolfe and Ken Lane for a quick update on the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference 2026, coming to Ballard, Seattle on September 19th. The lineup is the stronge…
What happens when the symbolic language of Freemasonry is taken off the tracing board and placed directly into your hands? This episode, I'm joined by Jonti Marks and Bridie Blaze, creators of the Masonic Wisdom Cards, A Deck for Daily Reflection, a 78-card illustrated deck exploring Masonic s…
Troy sits down with WB Dago Rodriguez, PM, 32°, creative director of Fraternal Review and two-time past master of South Pasadena Masonic Lodge No. 290, for a wide-ranging first meeting that covers the magazine's origin story, the surprising philosophical overlap between Fight Club and the Maso…
"The Esoteric Art of Memory" with Doug Russell The night he took his first degree, Doug Russell watched officers deliver the entire ritual from memory, including a lengthy lecture, and asked a question that would take him the next fourteen years to answer. Why do Masons memorize? Doug Rus…
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