A couple of signal events over the past couple of weeks (sorry for my absence, but my upcoming book will be worth it!). Firstly, I presented a copy of my translation of Saint-Martin’s book to M:.W:. Jean-Pierre Servel, Grand Master of the G.N.L.F., during his visit with over 100 French Masons to the Grand Lodge […]
It seemed an appropriate place to launch my translation of Saint-Martin’s “Of Errors & Truth”. If truth be told, it wasn’t the most auspicious place! The city of Rochester didn’t exactly come up trumps for the event. Main Street, the focal point of all the activities, was little more than a ditch. The hotels didn’t […]
Amazing what you can get done while lying in bed with a hacking cough, a temperature, a glass of water and a laptop! As a service to those interested in Pasqually, Saint-Martin and the like, this is a sort of public service announcement regarding a much-desired book by the early 19th Century German Philosopher, Franz […]
I must admit to having a ‘thing’ about Royal Arch Chapter Rooms – especially if they have an Egyptian theme. Perhaps it comes from Golden Dawn influences, seeing the Rosetta Stone in the British Museum at an early age, the fact that my car license plate is ‘Thoth’ and my former boat was called ‘Horus’, […]
The building is in brutalist style, similar to that of the Grand Lodge of California, and has won awards for its modernist architectural style. On entering, one is immediately struck by two circular elevators, with a winding staircase wrapping itself around one of the shafts, reminding one of the architecture of King Solomon’s Temple. The […]
I’ve just returned from the immensely successful and invigorating Mason Con 2017, hosted by Ezekiel Bates Lodge A.F. & A.M. on Saturday. It was a wonderful day of fellowship, a large number of top quality speakers, a Masonic Panel Discussion, more vendors than I could count spread across the sprawling 4-story building, followed by initiations […]
I’ve been doing research on the famous image of King Solomon’s Temple which suddenly started appearing all over Europe towards the end of the 17th Century. Most famously, perhaps, this image was used by Gerhard Schott as his design for the enormous, 80 feet round and 13 foot high model of the Temple for an […]
One of the great French esotericists of the latter half of the 20th Century was undoubtedly Robert Ambelain. For many years his activities and books dominated the French esoteric landscape. Indeed, he sometimes thought he had been too successful, in that so many people copied his ideas and presented them as their own, as the […]
I was delighted to hear today from my good friend, author and artist Angel Miller, to tell me that an interview we did a few weeks ago has been posted on his Blogsite. The link is here: https://phalx.com/2017/03/18/freemasonry-esotericism-and-spiritual-development-an-interview-with-piers-vaughan/ I hope you enjoy it!
One of the more amusing nicknames I was given when I first started to talk in the New York area back in the mid-1990s was ‘Piers the Nut’! When I first came across from England, I had assumed that American Masonry was identical in nature, and behaved as such. This put the leadership of my […]
