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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.
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...
Initiation and Our Esoteric “Second Births”
The initiations of Freemasonry, like church baptisms in the evangelical community where the phrase “born again” is in common use, are second births, intended to replicate the births from our biological mothers. From our very first steps in Masonry, we find ourselves...
The Four Cardinal Virtues and How Freemasonry Came to Influence Tarot
Justice by Luca Giordano. 1682-1685 “Modern Tarot arises in France in the mid-17th century; whereas modern Freemasonry arises in England in the early 18th. Neither knows of the other and the two are not seen in any manner as related nor as connected.”...
Tria Prima Podcast Episode 1: Salt, Sulfur and Mercury
Tria Prima Podcast Episode 1 Welcome to the Trip Prima Podcast, a show about Freemasonry and the Western Esoteric Tradition. Jaime, Jake and I have been talking about making a podcast and digital magazine for a while. We all met at Ascension...
A DIVERGENT PERSPECTIVE ON FREEMASONRY’S MEMBERSHIP DECLINE
here has been an ongoing debate regarding the decline in Masonic membership for some time now. From what I have read and heard firsthand, in and around the Lodge, most of the proposed solutions to the matter involve making Freemasonry somehow...
DO YOU PROFESS A BELIEF IN A SUPREME BEING?
t is a fair assessment to say that, in modern times, there has been increasingly popular tendency toward secularization. In the West, particularly, a mass exodus from the Abrahamic and other monotheistic faiths has been underway for some time. For...
ALCHEMY AND ROSICRUCIANISM IN FREEMASONRY
oth the alchemical tradition and Rosicrucianism may be counted among the many tributaries to what would become modern speculative Freemasonry. Evidence of this may be found in the work of the Fraternity’s appendant bodies, such as the Scottish Rite...
FREEMASONRY AND THE MEDIEVAL CRAFT GUILDS
s Europe began to stabilize after the barbarian invasions and the fall of the Roman Empire, we begin to observe the formation of craft guilds. These organizations – which, like the collegia, offered their members mutual support, fellowship,...
WHAT DO TAROT CARDS HAVE TO DO WITH FREEMASONRY?
On the Tria Prima Podcast we have off the cuff conversations about Freemasonry, Tarot and the Western Esoteric Tradition. Hit the button to subscribe.s Freemasons, we periodically encounter references to Tarot cards and Tarot imagery in the...