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A project dedicated to exploring the topics of Freemasonry and the Western Esoteric Tradition through podcasts, research papers, blogs, and multimedia.
Tria Prima Podcast
Jaime, Jake and Pat produce a biweekly podcast where they discuss Freemasony and the Western Esoteric tradition.
Art of the Esoteric: A Conversation with Printmaker Travis Lawrence
Artist Travis Lawrence of Infinity Prints creates allegorical imagery influenced by mythology, Jungian psychology, Hermeticism and medieval woodcuts. His artwork is made by hand, carving his images into a solid surface and printing them onto paper. One of his images...
AYAHUASCA AND CHAMPAGNE: Entheogenic Alchemy and the Fulcanelli Affair
The following is a sample chapter from P.D. Newman's book Angel's in Vermilion: The Philosophers' Stone From Dee to DMT During the whole of the French alchemical revival, there is perhaps no phenomenon more alluring than what French occultist, Robert Amadou, called...
IS FREEMASONRY HERMETIC?
Have you ever wondered why it is that we periodically encounter the word “Hermetic” or “Hermeticism” in our research in and around the Craft? If so, have you ever said to yourself, “One of these days I’m going to look that up?” Well I did, and have, and I’m going to...
THE FALL AND THE RETURN: The Hermetic and Mythological Poems of Nocturnea
On a recent trip to Washington DC for a Masonic event, I had the good fortune of befriending a truly inspiring and illuminated couple. The husband is a member of a Regular F. & A. M. Blue Lodge and the wife is a member of the UGLE-recognized Honorable Fraternity...
Of Carnivals and Kings: Myth, Meaning, and Mischief in Mardi Gras
Main Image: The Fight Between Carnival and Lent, 1559, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. “Today I asked for a god to pour some wine in my eyes Today I asked for someone to shake some salt on my life Look! Everything’s spinnin’!” – Faith No More, ‘King for a Day’ Neatly...
Tria Prima Podcast | Episode 4 | The rosicrucians
In this episode we talk about the Rosicrucians, their origin story, influence on other groups, and how they exist today. It's been a while since we've posted a podcast. The pandemic put a stop to us getting together to record these in person. We recorded...
THE SIN EATERS, RAHU & KETU
One week before the Great Conjunction of 2020, on December 14th, the Sun’s energy will be devoured by the Moon. Allegorically speaking, this “eating” of solar energy may have been historically personified as a “Sin Eater” priest or Shaman who lived on the fringes of...
CAN FREEMASONRY SAVE THE WORLD?
These are uncertain times, to be sure. We’re in the midst of a global pandemic while simultaneously contending with socio-political upheaval; potential economic collapse; climate change; overpopulation; the existential risks of artificial intelligence; etc. etc. Yet,...
THE ARCHETYPAL TEMPLE
For most of us, when we think of a Masonic Temple, we think of the brick-and-mortar building downtown where Lodges meet. While this is true, it is not the only temple with which we are concerned as Masons – nor is it the only temple our labors are designed to raise....
The Devil Within
Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. ...
Why Ritual is so Important in my Life.
If I may be cliché, allow me to begin with a definition. Bing.com says the definition of Ritual is “a religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order.” Rituals can range from ones as complex as weddings and...
THE RED HORUS
Most people are familiar with Horus in his role as a protective, or tutelary deity; however, this sky god was worshipped under various epithets and by various attributions, over a relatively vast period of time. [1] Regional characteristizations, subsumations due to...
The Moon Goddess Columbia and the Birth of America
The labor pains that drove our Founding Fathers to break ties with the tyrannical British Empire, were mirrored in the Heavens as we inched ever closer to formally declaring our independence on the 4th of July 1776. King George III played the role of Saturn and we,...
New Book: APPROACHING THE MIDDLE CHAMBER by Jaime Paul Lamb
The Laudable Pursuit is giving Tria Prima readers 10% off of Jaime new book as well as the entire bookstore through June 25, 2020. Use checkout code: MIDDLECHAMBER Tria Prima is excited to share the release of a new book by one of our co-founders, Jaime Paul Lamb....
Occult Symbols of Freemasonry: Secret 6s, the Beauty and Glory of the Dei
Have you ever wondered why the “column of the South” is named Beauty? What about the other two columns, Strength and Wisdom? How did they get their titles? And why are each of the columns associated with phases of the Sun? The answers may be found in the Jewish...
Tria Prima Podcast | Episode 3 | Does the Word Occult Trigger you?
We are back with the third episode of the Tria Prima Podcast. Many thanks to everyone who has taken the time to give us a 5 star rating on Apple Podcasts. If you want to support the podcast, that's one of the ways you can do it. In this episode...
Trismosin’s Truffles: Mushrooms Revealed in Alchemy’s Most Famous Manuscript
In 1995, taking investigative cues from Wasson, Hofmann, and Ruck’s 1978 work, The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries, Clark Heinrich published a remarkable book titled Strange Fruit: Alchemy, Religion and Magical Foods, updated in 2002 as Magic...
Shabbat, Shekhinah and the Solomonic Pillars
Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. - Proverbs 31:10 There was spoilage for the sake of fixing and destruction for the sake of rebuilding. - Isaac Luria nion with the divine has been the underlying theme of...
Tria Prima Podcast Episode 2: The great tarot debate
Welcome to Episode two of the Tria Prima Podcast. We want to say a big thank you to all of you who subscribed and who took the time to leave us a review. We appreciate you. We also want to say a big thank you to two brothers of Ascension Lodge #89 who have...
The Checkered Pattern on the Floor
An abstract from Jacob William Trayer’s forthcoming book Discovering The Duad Within speculative Freemasonry, dualistic symbolism seems to be overshadowed by the ternary, quinary, and septenary examples laid out over the stratification of the Blue-Lodge ritual and...