Category: Texts

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A few of the investigators that are mentioned on this website have referred to ancient Germanic law, mostly based on the book of Jacob Grimm...

I have been reading up with J.S.M. Ward. John Sebastian Marlow Ward (1885–1949) was born in America, died on Cyprus, but lived in the UK most...

In the very first Ars Quatuor Coronatorum (1886) there is a short text about the Edda which refer to “my paper” (in another publication then?),...

I have underestimated Fort’s book Early History And Antiquities Of Freemasonry, As Connected With Ancient Norse Guilds, And The Oriental And Medieval Building Fraternities (1884)....