The Mystic Tye

Troy Spreeuw
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The Mystic Tye is a podcast for Freemasons I intend to curate a environment where brethren and other aspirants can discuss ideas in a civil and productive way. We will not be afraid to tackle controversial or difficult topics, but all discussions will be done in a respectful and understanding manner. With the forbearance exemplified by our ancient brethren we will labour in the quarry together to prepare the stones of our thoughts and actions. All these prepared for the temple not made with hands.  Find updates at www.mystictye.com  and  https://www.patreon.com/mystictye

  1. 6d ago

    A Life in Many Colours with Bro. Julian Rees

    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 Publishing, started with a nudge from Dr. David Harrison, who told Julian his life in Freemasonry had been exceptional enough to merit one. Julian explains why Lewis Masonic passed ("we don't do biographies"), why a memoir is not a biography, and how a Romanian artist friend came to draw the cover. Troy opens with Socrates on the unexamined life and asks what Julian found when he went looking. The answer is that early events shape the way you think: a 1957 call-up for National Service and a sergeant who taught him humility by making a platoon run the field again and again, a four year old in 1940 overhearing adults talk about invasion, a V-2 strike seen across the Thames while his mother scrambled for cover. Julian describes a father who was a stern Anglo-Catholic priest, a young American mother in a mismatched marriage, and how a troubled home makes you stop and ask on what ground a lodge stands. Troy shares his own view from a family of divorces. From there the conversation turns to ritual. Julian earned the Emulation silver matchbox for word perfect delivery, then realised he had spent years parroting words that were meant to work on him. He talks about sitting with a newly initiated brother and asking how it felt, because Freemasons think with the intellect of the heart, about the tracing boards chapter of the memoir, the Harris boards, the blazing star that outshines the sun, and Jacob's ladder resting on the Volume of the Sacred Law. Troy brings in freedom of conscience, the abuse of the holy book as a weapon, and why the magic works whether you want it to or not. Then the story Julian calls the reason he left the United Grand Lodge of England. When an Anglican priest was ordered by his bishop to give up Freemasonry, the Deputy Grand Master defended him, then added that Freemasonry "most certainly does not deal in spirituality." Julian wrote a letter, enclosed his keynote on The Spiritual Path of Freemasonry for the Masonic Restoration Foundation in Alexandria, Virginia, and got a two line reply saying his views were noted. He left, joined Le Droit Humain, and says he would not go back even if he could. Along the way: Troy on churches losing members and the toothpaste that will not go back in the tube, Julian on French laïcité and the charge to a candidate to receive "a light more pure which vivifies the spirit," and the Emulation prayer that says the divinity is unfolded from within. They ask whether fraternity and the spiritual path are two approaches to one institution, and why American lodges talk civic pride where European ones increasingly talk self-knowledge. Julian tells the story of Gerry Gerrard, a 96 year old stone sculptor and long absent member who stopped attending lodge in 1938 because Freemasons always do the same thing again. Troy's advice for any brother who has drifted away: try another lodge, every lodge is its own city. They weigh whether "esoteric Freemasonry" is a useful label, forbearance versus tolerance, Lon Milo DuQuette's big tent, and Troy's Thelemic orbit next to Julian's. The episode closes on the memoir's title, which came from a kaleidoscope of experiences and Newton's point that light is all the colours, and on Julian's insistence that the journey is nothing like a straight line, from a chapter on interrogation by the East German police to the lesson of the mosaic pavement. A last detour compares the Emulation ritual Julian says has not changed since the 1813 union with the four approved works in Troy's jurisdiction, and the Canadian work that grew out of the colonies. Troy also recommends the Straight White American Jesus and Conspirituality podcasts. Books mentioned in this episode A Life in Many Colours: A Masonic Memoir, Julian Rees, Arima Publishing Here Comes the Light!, Julian Rees Making Light: A Handbook for Freemasons, Julian Rees, Lewis Masonic So You Want To Be a Freemason?, Julian Rees, Lewis Masonic Tracing Boards of the Three Degrees in Craft Freemasonry Explained, Julian Rees, Lewis Masonic Freemasonry: Heart and Mind. Sketches on Esotericism in English Ritual, Julian Rees Podcasts recommended Straight White American Jesus, Brad Onishi Conspirituality Links and resources Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: esotericmasonry@gmail.comMystic Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictye Support the show If this episode resonated with you, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. We are also building a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you know of something coming up, send Troy an email at troy@mystictye.com. Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.

    A Life in Many Colours with Bro. Julian Rees

  2. Sep 24

    The Best of Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference Interviews

    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 original Scholomance interview, A Space for Esoteric Freemasonry, laying out why the conference exists in the first place, that all of Freemasonry is wholly esoteric even if not everything Freemasons do is esotericism itself. From there it moves into Doug Russell's explanation of the classical art of memory, first written about in Rome around 80 BCE, and his grandfather clock example of how images, not words, are what the mind actually holds onto. That conversation is pulled from Episode 47. Next is D**o Rodriguez from Episode 48 on Fight Club and Freemasonry, the talk born out of a pop culture panel at MasonicCon that grew into an article for the Fraternal Review and then a full conference presentation. D**o's read on the film is not really about Fight Club at all, it is about what happens when men have no role models to guide them, and what a lodge owes the man who walks in looking for one. The excerpt continues into a longer conversation about lodge culture, generational turnover, and why a monoculture lodge is a dying lodge. Ike Baker, from Episode 51, walks through Walter Leslie Wilmshurst, the early twentieth century esoteric Mason and author of The Meaning of Masonry and Masonic Initiation, whose tracing board Ike restored from a notebook found by Robert Lomas. From there the conversation turns to Ike's own presentation for this year's conference, drawn from his work on the academic advisory board of the Hermopolis Academy and a new translation of the ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth, retitled Conversations in the House of Life, and the startling parallels between that text's initiation ritual for the priests of Thoth and the structure of Masonic ritual today. From Episode 52, Lon Milo DuQuette takes the working tools of the Craft and reads them through Hermetic Kabbalah: the Tetragrammaton, the Tree of Life, and the Cube of Space as three working tools for building a spiritual temple rather than a literal one. He calls the study a cosmic lube job, and connects it directly to his Tarot Architect material and the rough ashlar becoming the perfect ashlar. A short excerpt from Episode 50 with Troy, Brett Wolfe, and Ken Lane makes the case for showing up in person, the jurisdictions represented, the connections that only happen face to face. The episode closes back in Scholomance territory with Troy's Finding Brotherhood, the story of taking his wedding ring off before his Entered Apprentice degree and being told not to worry, just put it down, a small moment that still gets him. Full episodes referenced: 47, 48, 50, 51, and 52. Guest episodes are credited as interviews, not recordings of conference presentations. Links and resources Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: esotericmasonry@gmail.comMystic Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictye Support the show If this episode resonated with you, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. We are also building a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you know of something coming up, send Troy an email at troy@mystictye.com. Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.

  3. Sep 17

    Students of the Work with Bro. Salman Arif

    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. Salman opens with his own inheritance: a grandfather in Lahore who belonged to the lodge the locals nicknamed Jadu Ghar, the magic house, met privately in homes after Freemasonry was disbanded in Pakistan, quoted poetry in Persian, Arabic, and Latin, read palms and numerology charts, and took the secrets to his grave. A father in AMORC in Nigeria. Five hundred books in a Canadian storage locker, including the Ian Fleming originals, which sends Troy off on John Dee, the 007 signature, and the long crossover between esotericism and espionage. From there Troy answers, at length. Why ten books beat fifty summaries. What sits on the wall of his library and why The Chicken Qabalah is still his favourite book on the Kabbalah. Why the 24-inch gauge is the first tool of science, and why a journal is the measuring tool you build for your own inner life, so you can go back, see yourself growing, and eventually, as Lon Milo DuQuette would say, go crazy in a socially acceptable manner. The magical diary, the suit of swords, Hermes, quicksilver, and memory palaces. Then Salman asks the big one: why do so many lodges seem more interested in politics and offices than in the lessons themselves? Troy's answer starts with "the magic works whether you want it to or not," and goes through the older-man-to-younger-man transmission that changes a candidate whether he studies or not, the concordant bodies, the invisible friend, the third way of Freemasonry that says reach out and get instruction directly, and Luke 17:21. Plus the Liber Librae, Taurus stability, a Christian conversion at 12, a high-control faith at 15, Thelema, the pushback that comes with it, and the religion on which all men can agree. Also in this episode: the Picatrix and the Arabic roots of the Western grimoires, Peterson's grimoires, the forgotten sciences on the margins of materialism, Freemasonry taking exactly as much as you give it, and Troy's plan for a tarot and Kabbalah class on Zoom with live sessions in the Lower Mainland, once he is back from EFC. Books mentioned in this episode The Temple and the Lodge, Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln The Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford, Lon Milo DuQuette (expanded edition coming in December) Book 4, Magick Without Tears, and The Vision and the Voice, Aleister Crowley The Picatrix, Ouroboros Press edition Initiation in the Aeon of the Child and The Angel and the Abyss, J. Daniel Gunther Coming up on The Mystic Tye: the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference, Saturday September 19th, Ballard, Seattle. Keynote by Lon Milo DuQuette. Tickets at esotericmasonry.com. Links and resources Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: esotericmasonry@gmail.comMystic Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictye Support the show If this episode resonated with you, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. We are also building a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you know of something coming up, send Troy an email at troy@mystictye.com. Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.

    Students of the Work with Bro. Salman Arif

  4. Sep 10

    The Three Working Tools of the Kabbalist, with Bro. Lon Milo DuQuette

    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. The talk is the three working tools of the Kabbalist, from his book The Tarot Architect: the divine name, the Tree of Life, and the cube of space, treated the way a Mason treats the square and compasses, as tools for building your own spiritual temple. Lon starts with the rough and perfect ashlars and makes the case that a perfect stone has to do more than look perfect: it has to be a working miniature model of the whole universe. His image for it is a giant tuning fork. If the Great Architect is a B flat, your job is to true yourself into a little B flat and let the sympathetic vibration do the rest. The Temple of Solomon, in that light, is a house built to the proportions of God. Tarot cards are the flashcards of the Kabbalah, and Kabbalistic study is, in Lon’s words, a cosmic lube job. You will be lubricated. Troy asks whether this is material a lodge should already be teaching, which gets Lon onto the Kabbalah classes he gave for his Scottish Rite bodies in Long Beach, the way a Blue Lodge’s character changes with every Master and every Grand Master, and the big tent. Troy adds his own hobby horse about brothers who claim every concordant body as Freemasonry and then insist there is no esotericism in it. Lon’s answer: Masonry makes a good man better, and even the man who is not as good as we’d like would be worse without it. The magic works whether you want it to or not. Also in this episode: Gary and Dino, the Kwisatz Haderach, and the rumoured spring reappearance of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford; Danny Kaye, Bing Crosby, and why an EFC ticket works out to eight dollars a speaker; the sober table in the corner of the Ballard pub; Lon’s novel Young Aleister Crowley, written with filmmaker Jim Brickowski, still the number one new release in teen and young adult fantasy since June; the expanded Chicken Qabalah coming from Weiser Classics in December, with a newly surfaced deathbed lecture and the Jehovah talisman class; the expanded Homemade Magick from Red Feather in October and Accidental Christ in spring 2027; the black wax Round Table of Nalvage that turned an oven into an eternal flame; and three days at Joshua Tree next spring with Magical Retreats. Bring your tarot deck. Any 78-card deck will do. Bring your rare unsigned editions too. Books mentioned in this episode The Tarot Architect, Lon Milo DuQuette The Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford, Lon Milo DuQuette (expanded Weiser Classics edition, December 2026) Young Aleister Crowley, Lon Milo DuQuette and Jim Brickowski (novel, June 2026, also on audio) Homemade Magick, Lon Milo DuQuette (expanded Red Feather edition, October 2026) Accidental Christ, Lon Milo DuQuette (Red Feather reissue, spring 2027) The Magick of Aleister Crowley, Lon Milo DuQuette (Weiser Classics) My Life with the Spirits, Lon Milo DuQuette Coming up on The Mystic Tye: the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference, Saturday September 19th, Ballard, Seattle. Keynote by Lon Milo DuQuette, with Ike Baker, Doug Russell, D**o Rodriguez, and Josef Wäges. Fifty dollars, lunch included. Tickets at esotericmasonry.com. Links and resources Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: esotericmasonry@gmail.comMystic Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictye Support the show If this episode resonated with you, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. We are also building a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you know of something coming up, send Troy an email at troy@mystictye.com. Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.

    The Three Working Tools of the Kabbalist, with Bro. Lon Milo DuQuette

  5. Sep 3

    Esoteric Mythology and EFC2026 with Ike Baker

    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 Wilmshurst, author of The Meaning of Masonry and founder of the Lodge of the Living Stones in Leeds. Found by Robert Lomas in one of Wilmshurst's personal notebooks and posted online at a resolution too poor to read, the board is almost rudimentary, communicating in pure geometry rather than beautiful imagery. Ike restored it and deciphered nearly the entirety of the chart, working through The Meaning of Masonry with a brother out of Montana along the way. Then the Saturday EFC talk: Conversations in the House of Life, the new public translation of the ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth by Richard Jasnow and Karl-Theodor Zauzich. Reading it line by line with the academic advisory board of the newly launching Hermopolis Academy (alongside Dr. Aaron Cheak, Dr. Shannon Grimes, Dr. Charles Stang, and Wouter Hanegraaff), Ike found the correlations to Freemasonic ritual startling: the text works as an initiation ritual for the scribe-priests of Thoth, structured like an entered apprentice degree, catechism and all. The conversation ranges from there into Ike's sold-out week in the South of France with Magical Retreats: Cathar strongholds, consecrated caves, Templar country, the cult of the Black Madonna, Martinism and the Élus Coëns, Rosicrucian France, and the Dan Brown history that needs dispelling along the way. Plus the story of how a hidden page on the band Tool's website about Bérenger Saunière and Rennes-le-Château set a teenage Ike on this path in the first place. Also in this episode: Ike's new book Esoteric Mythology, coming from Inner Traditions in November, and the number theology hiding inside the world's cosmological myths; the book tour through the Adocentyn Research Library, the Philosophical Research Society, and the Embassy of the Free Mind in Amsterdam; his public courses on Rosicrucian ceremonial evocation, astral travel, and the magic of Dion Fortune; the one-on-one trajectory through the seven classical liberal arts; freedom of conscience in the craft; and Troy's very full September, including a cornerstone relaying at the rebuilt Lynn Valley Masonic building and his first official visit as District Deputy Grand Master. EFC 2026 has record advance attendance and may sell out. Tickets at esotericmasonry.com. Books mentioned in this episode The Meaning of Masonry, Walter Leslie Wilmshurst Conversations in the House of Life, translated by Richard Jasnow and Karl-Theodor Zauzich Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy, Robert Hewitt Brown The Secret Freemasonry of a Priest in the Temple of Nature, edited by Josef Wäges Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln The Temple and the Lodge, Baigent and Leigh The Templar Revelation, Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince Esoteric Mythology, Ike Baker (Inner Traditions, November) Coming up on The Mystic Tye: the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference, Saturday September 19th, Ballard, Seattle. Links and resources Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: esotericmasonry@gmail.comMystic Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictye Support the show If this episode resonated with you, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. We are also building a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you know of something coming up, send Troy an email at troy@mystictye.com. Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.

    Esoteric Mythology and EFC2026 with Ike Baker

  6. Aug 27

    “The Tables Turned” - A milestone, an interview in reverse, and an EFC update

    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 strongest yet: keynote Lon Milo DuQuette in person, plus Ike Baker, D**o Rodriguez of Fraternal Review, Josef Wäges, and Doug Russell, with lunch once again courtesy of the brethren of Occidental Lodge No. 72. Tickets are at esotericmasonry.com, and if you cannot make it, buy a ticket anyway and call it a donation. Then the tables are turned. Art Szabo, the designer behind all of the Mystic Tye artwork, takes over the microphone and puts Troy in the guest chair. They cover the road that led here: a small-town bookstore in Powell River, a Golden Dawn paperback lost on a train and returned ten years later with the bookplate still inside, discovering Aleister Crowley's The Book of Lies in a New Westminster bookshop, initiations and Gnostic Masses between Vancouver and Seattle, and the path into the craft at Duke of Connaught Lodge, where Troy now serves as District Deputy Grand Master for District 17. They also get into why a podcast at all (a certain talk radio host is to blame), what fifty conversations with authors and scholars have changed about Troy's own practice, and where this is all going: a monthly online class on the rudiments of tarot and Kabbalah, in-person salons for supporters in the Lower Mainland, a published proceedings collecting ten years of EFC talks, and a community for Freemasons drawn to the contemplative side of the craft. Books mentioned in this episode The Book of Lies and The Book of the Law, Aleister Crowley A Garden of Pomegranates and The Golden Dawn, Israel Regardie The Chicken Qabalah of Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford and The Tarot Architect, Lon Milo DuQuette The Templar Revelation, Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince Coming up on The Mystic Tye: EFC keynote Brother Lon Milo DuQuette, and Brother Ike Baker previews his talk at the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference. Links and resources Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: esotericmasonry@gmail.comMystic Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictye Support the show If this episode resonated with you, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. We are also building a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you know of something coming up, send Troy an email at troy@mystictye.com. Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.

    “The Tables Turned” - A milestone, an interview in reverse, and an EFC update

  7. Aug 20

    Masonic Wisdom Cards Bro Jonti Marks and Bridie Blaze

    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 symbols, working tools, virtues, and sacred geometry as prompts for contemplation rather than divination. We talk through Bridie's folk-art-inspired illustration process, built from a hand-chiselled, linocut-style technique that echoes the working tools themselves, and Jonti's approach to writing a companion booklet that invites quiet reflection rather than instruction. Given that the deck shares its 78-card count with a tarot deck, we spend real time on the comparison: where the two overlap as tools for memory and self-examination, and where the Masonic Wisdom Cards depart from tarot entirely, since there is no divination and no fortune telling built into the design. The conversation also opens into the art of memory more broadly, how Freemasonry, Kabbalah, and tarot all draw on the same rhetorical memory tradition, and how a deck of cards can work as a modern entry point into lodge education and personal study. Jonti and Bridie close out talking about how the two of them came to collaborate, the year and a half it took to bring the deck from idea to print, and the early feedback coming in from the first backers. Books mentioned in this episode A Mosaic Palace, Freemasonry and the Art of Memory by Martin Faulks (Lewis Masonic, 2018). The Masonic Wisdom Cards are distributed through Lewis Masonic. Find them at lewismasonic.co.uk. Links and resources Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: esotericmasonry@gmail.comMystic Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictye Support the show If this episode resonated with you, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. We are also building a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you know of something coming up, send Troy an email at troy@mystictye.com. Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.

    Masonic Wisdom Cards Bro Jonti Marks and Bridie Blaze

  8. Aug 13

    Fight Club and Freemasonry: A Conversation with WB D**o Rodriguez

    Troy sits down with WB D**o 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 Masonic path, and what keeps a lodge alive across generations. D**o has been with the Southern California Research Lodge since 2015, first as managing editor and, since the magazine's 2016 rebrand, as creative director of Fraternal Review. What started as black and white photocopies folded and mailed out became a full color monthly periodical, one of the only Masonic publications still hitting eleven issues a year. D**o describes it as a bridge into Masonic education rather than a heavy research journal, and the conversation traces its growth from that first test issue through today's rotating slate of guest editors. The centerpiece of the conversation is D**o's talk Fight Club and Freemasonry, born out of a MasonicCon pop culture panel and now headed to the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference 2026 on September 19th at the Ballard Masonic Center in Seattle. Troy and D**o dig into the talk's real subject, masculinity, role models, and the difference between building and destroying, then connect it to broader threads on Observant Masonry, generational unity, and why a lodge that stops evolving stops existing. Tickets for EFC 2026 are available at esotericmasonry.com. Books mentioned in this episode: The Lost Keys of Freemasonry by Manly P. Hall Freemasonry For Dummies by Christopher Hodapp Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam Join or Die, the 2023 documentary built around Putnam's research Links and resources Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference: masonicconferences.comRSVP for the upcoming conference: esotericmasonry@gmail.comMystic Tye website and event calendar: mystictye.comPatreon (early episodes, extended cuts, artwork, extras): patreon.com/mystictye Support the show If this episode resonated with you, the most helpful thing you can do is leave a review on your favorite podcast platform. We are also building a directory of Freemasonic events and publications. If you know of something coming up, send Troy an email at troy@mystictye.com. Graphics and web hosting by Art Szabo Creative. Theme music by Organist. Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again.

    Fight Club and Freemasonry: A Conversation with WB D**o Rodriguez
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The Mystic Tye is a podcast for Freemasons I intend to curate a environment where brethren and other aspirants can discuss ideas in a civil and productive way. We will not be afraid to tackle controversial or difficult topics, but all discussions will be done in a respectful and understanding manner. With the forbearance exemplified by our ancient brethren we will labour in the quarry together to prepare the stones of our thoughts and actions. All these prepared for the temple not made with hands.  Find updates at www.mystictye.com  and  https://www.patreon.com/mystictye

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  • Creator
    Troy Spreeuw
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    55
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 The Mystic Tye
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