Rocky Mountain Mason
88 episodes - English - Latest episode: 19 days ago -Masonic talk radio with the Rocky Mountain Mason.
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RMM-038: On the History of St. John the Evangelist (and TBOP XIX and XX)
December 30, 2020 14:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBA brief history of St. John the Evangelist and Chapters XIX and XX of the Three Books of Occult Philosophy. Ben also includes the Grand Commander's Christmas Toast for your enjoyment and a short opinion piece on the relevance of Masonry in the 21st Century. Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmason?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
RMM-037: On the Immortal Light and the Celebration of Christmas (and Chapter XVIII TBOP)
December 16, 2020 14:00 - 30 minutes - 21 MBIn this episode Ben provides an overview of the origins of Christmas and opines on the emergence of "Santa Claus" as overarching archetype of consumerism during this time of year. Ben wraps the episode with Chapter XVIII of the Three Books of Occult Philosophy "Of the Inclinations of enmities." Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmason?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_c...
RMM-036: On the sevenfold Symbolism of the Seven Branched Menorah (and Chapter XVII of the TBOP)
December 09, 2020 14:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBIn this episode Ben delves into the symbolism of the seven-branched menorah and some of the known health benefits of Frankincense. Ben wraps the episode with Chapter XVII of the Three Books of Occult Philosophy, "How by enmity and friendship the virtues of things are to be tried, and found out." Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmason?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_...
RMM-035-StarofBethlehem-TBOP-XVI
December 02, 2020 14:00 - 32 minutes - 22.7 MBIn this episode Ben decodes the "Star of Bethlehem", according to a mediaeval astrological technique concerning the Great Conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn - of all the more significance in light of the upcoming Great Conjunction on the Winter Solstice this year. Ben wraps the episode with a reading of Chapter XVI of the Three Books of Occult Philosophy by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim and a reading of the declaration left by the Rosicrucians, nailed to the walls of the cit...
RMM-Episode 034: Grand Master's Speech to the San Juan Masonic Association, "On Masonry and its Relation to Religion" and Chapter XV TBOP
November 25, 2020 14:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBIn 1901, M.W.Bro. Joseph Milsom, Grand Master of Masons in Colorado, was the keynote speaker at the St John The Baptist's Day Feast at the San Juan Masonic Association, hosted by Telluride Lodge No. 56. His oration, "On Masonry and its Relation to Religion" touches on various Masonic tenets that inform our institution, often misunderstood by the uninitiated, including the importance of secrecy. It demonstrates an amount of learning perhaps more commonplace to our Craft than the modern day, t...
RMM-Episode 033: On the Curious Etiology of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) and Chapter XIV TBOP
November 18, 2020 14:00 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBIn this episode Ben discusses the etiology of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Ben wraps the episode with a reading of Chapter XIV of the Three Books of Occult Philosophy. Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmason?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
RMM-Episode 032: Marbury v. Madison, how a PGM of Virginia established the doctrine of Judicial Review
November 11, 2020 14:00 - 1 hour - 72 MBIn this episode Ben reads Chief Justice Marshall's opinion in Marbury v. Madison. This case founded the concept of Judicial Review integral to our Separation of Powers; a quote from Marshall is written in stone in the Supreme Court today: "It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is." Struggling to maintain legitimacy for the new Court (its first Chief Justice, John Jay, had already stated the Court lacked "energy, weight, and dignity"), Mar...
RMM-Podcast Episode 031: On Political Theory and the Medium of Exchange (and Chapter XIII, TBOP)
November 04, 2020 14:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBIn this episode, recorded during the 2020 Presidential Election, Ben reads an excerpt from a book he was asked to write (but never finished) for the Grand Lodge of Colorado Education Committee regarding political theory and Masonry's role in formative modern society. In this excerpt Ben provides an overview of political theory (with citations from Plato, Aristotle, Locke, and Adam Smith among others) and details some interesting takeaways regarding the medium of exchange. Ben ends the epis...
RMM-030: Ten Modern Myths About Masonry Held by Masons! (and TBOP chapter XII)
October 28, 2020 13:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBIn this episode Ben dispels ten modern myths about the Fraternity often held by Masons! Ben then relates a brief history of Charles Martel, the famous 8th Century Major Domus who features in the Old Charges. Ben then provides a short op ed called "Hermeti-skism" discussing the so-called "unific" attributes of the Hermetica and wraps up the episode with Chapter XII of De Occulta Philosophia Libri Tres by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim. Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com...
RMM-Podcast: Episode 029: The Compasses also Inscribe Tolerance to Speak of Heavenly Perfections (and TBOP XI)
October 21, 2020 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBIn this episode Ben presents three shorts for your contemplation: That the Compasses also Inscribe Tolerance to Speak of Heavenly Perfections (and why presentations on theological and religious material - where viewpoint neutral and not proselytizing - should not be discouraged); A Page from the Magical Diary of Theophilus LVX (that the three attributes of Omnipresence, Omniscience, and Omnipotence are ONE attribute); and Live By the Numbers (it is better not to make a vow than to make a vow...
RMM-Podcast: Episode 028: On the Everlasting Universe (and Book X of TBOP)
October 14, 2020 13:00 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBIn this episode Ben shares a thought experiment wherein the universe is shown to be everlasting and everliving. That is, the modern conceit of a dark empty expanse after the last star has been extinguished is an unnecessary pessimism - it is possible for the universe to constantly remake itself: wherein the end state and the onset are, in fact, the same. Revealed twenty years ago, this thought experiment yet holds true. Modern science has not yet refuted it, and, in fact, appears to be str...
RMM-Podcast: Episode 027: On the Coevolution of Christianity and Hermeticism (and Chapter IX TBOP)
October 07, 2020 13:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBIn this episode Ben shares a paper first given for the Colorado College SRICF detailing the syncretism of various traditions in Alexandria around the turn of the last millennium, exploring common themes between Hermetic and Greek writings with certain Christian Apocrypha, such as were found at Nag Hammadi in 1945. Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmason?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_ca...
RMM-Podcast: Episode 026: An Interview with Seaghan Ennis, International Congress Secretary of the International Order of Demolay (and Chapter VIII TBOP)
September 30, 2020 13:00 - 51 minutes - 35.1 MBIn this episode Ben interviews Seaghan Ennis, International Congress Secretary for the International Order of Demolay, and now Fellow Craft at Manitou Springs Lodge No. 68 in Colorado Springs. Ben ends the episode with Chapter VIII of De Occulta Philosophia Libri Tres. Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmason?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_l...
RMM-Episode 025: Pope Francis and the Jesuits (and Chapter VII, TBOP)
September 23, 2020 13:00 - 48 minutes - 33.7 MBIn this episode, Ben provides a brief biography of Pope Francis, followed by a brief biography of St. Ignatius de Loyola, and wraps up with Chapter VII of Occulta Philosophia Libri Tres. Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmason?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
RMM-Episode 024: A Brief History of the Mark Masonry (and TBOP Chapter VI)
September 16, 2020 13:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBIn this episode Ben presents a brief history of the speculative use of the Mason's Mark in early, pre-Grand Lodge Masonry. Ben ends the episode with a reading and contemplation on Chapter VI of Occult Philosophia Libri Tres, on the Wondrous Nature of Water and Air. Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmason?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
RMM-PODCAST: Episode 023: Solomon and Sheba, an overview of the two best accounts of this legendary romance (and Chapter 5, TBOP)
September 09, 2020 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBIn this episode Ben provides an overview of two of the more in depth accounts of Solomon's meeting with Makeda, the Queen of Sheba: the Kebra Negast and the Quran. Ben ends by continuing the series with Chapter 5 of his reading of De Occulta Philosophia Libri Tres. Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmason?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
RMM-Podcast: Episode 022: Freemasonry on the Frontier - Masonry and the Founding of Denver and Colorado (and Chapter 4, TBOP)
September 02, 2020 13:00 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBJoin Ben as he details earliest Masonry in the state of Colorado, in Pike's Peak Country, before the founding of the Grand Lodge of Colorado and contemporaneous with the first townships incorporated in the region. Ben wraps up the episode with Chapter IV of De Occulta Philosophia Libri Tres. Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmason?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_crea...
RMM-Episode 021: Evidence of the Royal Arch in Early Craft Masonry (and Chapter 3, TBOP)
August 26, 2020 13:00 - 26 minutes - 18.3 MBIn this episode, Ben discusses evidence of a prototypical Royal Arch in early Craft Masonry preceding the Third Degree. Drawing from the Graham Manuscript (c. 1726), Ben details material clearly associable to the Royal Arch that was concurrent with the raising of Noah by Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and therefore precatory to the Hiramic legend of the Third Degree. Also: Chapter III, De Occulta Philosophia Libri Tres, by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim. Support the Show. www.rockymou...
RMM-Episode 020: Early Christian Heresies, the Four Elements (briefly), and Chapter II of De Occulta Philosophia
August 19, 2020 13:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBIn this episode Ben outlines some of the more major heresies of the early Christian church, provides a brief treatise on the four classical elements, provides a short biography of Agrippa, and reads the second Chapter of Book I, De Occulta Philosophia Libri Tres. Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmason?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
RMM-Episode 019: On the Surprising and Remarkable History of Coffee!
August 12, 2020 13:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBIn this episode Ben discusses the rather surprising history of this most everyday beverage. What you learn might surprise you. Also, this episode includes the first chapter of the Three Books of Occult Philosophy, by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmason?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
RMM-Episode 018: Interview with R.J. Johnson
August 05, 2020 13:00 - 2 hours - 86.9 MBIn this episode Ben interviews the host of "Whence Came You," the world's largest Masonic Podcast, none other than R. J. Johnson. Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmason?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
RMM-Episode 017: In the Shadow of Notre Dame. Remembering Demolay
July 29, 2020 13:00 - 29 minutes - 19.9 MBA special account of a pilgrimage to the place of Jaques Demolay's martyrdom on the 700th anniversary of his death. Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmason?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
RMM-Podcast: Episode 016: Grand Oration on the History and Significance of the Cornerstone Ceremony
July 22, 2020 13:00 - 48 minutes - 33.7 MBBen shares the Grand Oration he was honored to deliver at the Grand Sessions of the Grand Lodge of Colorado in January of 2019 on the History and Significance of the Cornerstone Ceremony. Drawing on historical source material, Ben shows the remnants of an ancient, magical tradition exist in the modern ceremony performed today. Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmason?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=co...
RMM-Episode 15: The Last Time The Jehovah's Witnesses Stopped By... and More!
July 15, 2020 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBBen relays an account of the last time the Jehovah's Witnesses attempted to proselytize him while living in Norwood, Colorado (a small rural town on Colorado's Western Slope), an interesting theological discussion concerning the "hypostatic union." Continuing the religious theme, Ben discusses the importance of the Masonic obligation and relays a Kabbalistic parable. Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmaso...
RMM-Episode 014: On the Life and Times of John Henry "Doc" Holliday
July 08, 2020 13:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MBDrawing from historical newspapers of the day and direct witness testimony surrounding the shootout at the OK Corral (not least testimony given by Wyatt Earp himself), Ben discusses the life and times of this most famous gunfighter, John "Doc" Holliday. Doc Holliday is rumored to have attended Lodge in Trinidad, CO, Leadville, CO, and Glenwood Springs, CO. Wyatt and Virgil Earp are said to have been members. (The square and compasses is displayed in various scenes in the movie Tombstone, ...
RMM-Episode 0013: Interview with Mark Stavish
July 01, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 74.2 MBBro. Mark Stavish is a respected authority on Western spiritual traditions. The author of 26 books, published in 7 languages, including The Path of Alchemy and Kabbalah for Health and Wellness, he is the founder and director of the Institute for Hermetic Studies and the Louis Claude de St. Martin Fund. He has appeared on radio shows, television, and in major print media, including Coast to Coast AM, the History Channel, BBC, and the New York Times. The Institute for Hermetic Studies offers ...
RMM-Episode 012: Ante Meridian. On the History of the Longitude
June 24, 2020 13:00 - 47 minutes - 32.7 MBIn this episode, Ben reviews the history of the discovery of the longitude - a problem that vexed humanity for a millennium. Eventually solved by John Harrison, who spent the majority of his life on the problem, the solution of the longitude marks an important moment in social history when mankind ceased to look to the majesty of nature for external inspiration, and instead turned his attention to the mechanisms of his own contrivance. This symbolic shift from the natural to the manmade rep...
RMM-Episode 011: All You Need to Know About the Infamous Morgan Affair!
June 17, 2020 13:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBDrawing on detailed sources arising from the investigation into the disappearance of William Morgan, Ben presents the facts surrounding this remarkable and disturbing event in the history of the Fraternity. Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmason?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
RMM-Episode 010: Interview with R.W. Bro. Kevin Townley, the Grand Lecturer of the Grand Lodge of Colorado
June 10, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 45.6 MBIn this episode Ben interviews R.W. Bro. Kevin Townley, Grand Lecturer of the Grand Lodge of Colorado. R.W. Bro. Kevin has a varied and interesting past - in his teens he joined a monastery and became a Carmelite monk. Later he would be a founding member of the Philosophers of Nature in the United States. He is the author of The Cube of Space and Meditations on the cube of Space. He also reprinted a faithful reproduction of H.P. Bromwell's impressive tome, Restorations of Masonic Geometry an...
RMM-Podcast Episode 009: The Nuclan Screed: The Religious Rumblings of an Anonymous Anti-Mason
June 03, 2020 13:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBIn this episode Ben reviews a complaint stuck to the door of Norwood Lodge No. 111, posted by an anonymous anti-mason, and shows, among other important misreadings of a quintessential Masonic tome, the importance of commas. Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmason?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
RMM-Episode 008: Lies of Larmenius.
May 27, 2020 13:00 - 26 minutes - 18.5 MBBen presents on the several reasons why the Larmenius Charter, purporting to relay an unbroken, secret transmission of Templar Grand Masters from Jaques Demolay to Cossé Brissac, Duke of Orleans, is believed by most credible experts to be a fake probably forged by the dubious Bernard-Raymond Fabré-Palaprat, or his associates, in the early 19th Century. Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmason?utm_medium=cli...
RMM-Episode 007: The Turk! The Awe-Inspiring Chess Playing Robot of Bro. Wolfgang von Kempelen
May 20, 2020 13:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBIn this episode, Ben Williams relays the story of one of history's most legendary and ingenious deceptions - Bro. Wolfgang von Kempelen's chess playing automaton. For more than a century, this ingenious illusion - perhaps the fist "cabinet illusion" ever devised - was the talk of Enlightenment court. Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmason?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creator...
RMM-Podcast Episode 006: On the Origin and Object of Freemasonry
May 13, 2020 13:00 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MBIn this episode, Ben Williams presents on the emergence of religious syncretism during the high middle ages, a worldview that indubitably influenced the operative craft and, in turn, the framers of the degrees of Freemasonry. Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmason?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
RMM Podcast Episode 005: On the History and Origins of the Order of High Priesthood
May 06, 2020 13:00 - 13 minutes - 9.05 MBIn this episode, Ben Williams presents on the enigmatic Order of Asiatic Brethren whose influence on "high grade masonry" includes the the emergence of the Order of Anointed High Priests, extant modernly for Past Presiding Officers of the Chapter only. Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmason?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
RMM-Podcast Episode 004: Interview with William Kiesel at Ouroboros Press
April 29, 2020 13:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MBIn this episode, Ben Williams interviews William Kiesel, the wizard behind Ouroboros Press and Mortlake & Co. in Seattle, WA. Ouroboros Press produces some of the most collectable reproductions of rare, quintessential esoteric books. Among several titles brought to an English readership for the first time, William was the principal force behind the translation of the infamous medieval grimoire, the Picatrix, in 2002. Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Supp...
RMM-Episode 003: The Horns of Hattin and the Fall of Jerusalem
April 22, 2020 13:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBIn this episode, drawing on chronicles from the Crusades, Ben Williams provides an historical account of the events surrounding the Battle of Hattin that led to the fall of Jerusalem in 1187. Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmason?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
RMM-Podcast Episode 002. Kabbalah and the Creation of the Worlds
April 15, 2020 13:00 - 20 minutes - 14.4 MBBen Williams presents an introductory overview of the creation of the worlds from a kabbalistic perspective, citing Albert Pike extensively. The 4º of the AASR-SJ reminds us that, "a complete understanding of Freemasonry is impossible without some familiarity with the Kabbalah." Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmason?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_cont...
Episode - 001: On the Origin of the Knights Templar
April 08, 2020 13:00 - 13 minutes - 9.55 MBIn our first podcast, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Ben Williams relays a speech given as Northwest Department Commander to the Colorado North Encampment regarding potential origins of the Masonic Knights Templar. Support the Show. www.rockymountainmason.com www.esotericmason.com Support the show: https://patreon.com/rockymountainmason?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=join_link