Ystad podcast

Arvid Ystad was interviewed for the Forum Borealis podcast in 2021....

Again 5 years later

I started this website in 2016, two years after my initiation into Freemasonry. A year and a half later I ‘looked back and compared‘. I...

Amphibalus

Not immediately a ‘heathen’ subject, but still something that may be worth pointing at. As you probably know, Masonic texts usually contain legendary histories of...

Holding beards

Many European cathedrals have strange details, some of which are usually even hardly visible. In Den Bosch (or ‘s-Hertogenbosch) in the Southern Netherlands there is...

Temple symbolism

Many Freemasons don’t like the term “temple”, naming is “working place”, while others refer to “temple” (or “lodge”). Be that as it may, many of...

Johannes Bureus (1568-1652)

Not a Freemason nor really a heathen, but I think Johannes Thomae Agrivillensis Bureus (latinisation of Johan Bure, 1568-1652) has some interest for readers of...

Arvid Ystad publishes new paper

Arvid Ystad has published a new 26-page paper about “Freemasonry -The Viking’s Old religion” on his Academia.edu profile....

Freemasonry Today on guilds

Freemasonry Today is the long running magazine from the United Grand Lodge of England. In 2007 they celebrated their 10th anniversary with a “best of...

Ruusu-Risti (Rosy Cross)

In 1907 Petter (or Pekka) Ervast (1875-1934) founded a national branch of the Theosophical Society in Finland. He wanted to create a subdivision that focuses...