“Masonry is Becoming Too Popular” & Albert Pike’s White Supremacy, Masonic History Pt 7 [Preview]

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🗓️ 3 June 2021

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This is a preview clip to the Media Roots Radio series by Robbie Martin, The Freemasonic History of the United States Part 7: Masonic Rosicrucianism, Hermetic Theosophy, Blavatsky & Paschal Beverly Randolph. To hear the entire 8 hour episode or the full series become a subscriber @ https://www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio It is the 1870s, Freemasonry is at the peak of its popularity and has become an old hat, secret society enthusiasts are bored and looking for something more esoteric and magical. Robbie Martin tells an intertwining story about the spiritualism revival in the United States that involves Sex Magician P.B. Randolph and Theosophical Society founders H. Blavatsky & Henry Steel Olcott [ the latter 3 ingested drugs, even hallucinogens to commune with spirits ]. Italian magician Cagliostro makes a comeback, and the rise of new types of mystical esoteric fraternal societies become inevitable, ones that heavily borrow from Rosicrucianism and Eastern Religion. Instead of just becoming appendant bodies of Masonry, the popularity and the mystique of these new Rosicrucian societies [ S.R.I.A. , S.R.I.C.F. , F.R.C. ] and Theosophical groups start to eclipse those of Freemasonry itself. FOLLOW // twitter.com/AbbyMartin // twitter.com/FluorescentGrey Thanks for listening! If you enjoyed this podcast, please consider donating to Media Roots Radio on Patreon // www.patreon.com/mediarootsradio

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0:00.0	From Freemason's Monthly Magazine, Volume 32, 1872.
0:10.1	Masonry is becoming too popular.
0:15.5	Well, why is this?
0:18.4	The time was within my own recollection, when scarcely a Masonic book was in print.
0:26.2	Now there are a greater variety of books on masonry than on almost any other subject.
0:32.6	Almost every state has one or more Masonic publications. Many of the secular papers have a Masonic department, and perhaps nine-tenths of all the
0:42.3	papers published in the United States during the year, publish items in relation to
0:47.7	masonry.
0:52.0	Many of our members advertise it by adoring their persons with large breastpins,
0:58.0	square encompasses, letter G's 47th problems, etc., etc.
1:07.3	Displays resplendent with the pomp and glitter of circumstance are made on funeral on other occasions
1:16.6	and at such times the majestic tread of the Tyler with the drawn sword
1:23.0	isn't enough itself to melt the heart of the most violent opponent of our institution.
1:32.4	When conversing with each other in this presence of the profane, we look owlish,
1:40.1	and clothe our language in hieroglyphics, throwing a mystery about our performances truly astonishing to the beholder.
1:49.0	Some of us make merchandise of masonry
1:52.0	and parade our wares on every proper and improper occasion.
1:57.0	We have our public installation and addresses and in many instances more harm than good results therefrom
2:09.6	we have our festivals and banquets and invite our friends to quote quote, participate, unquote.
2:18.5	We publish our resolutions on almost every subject in newspapers,
2:23.1	also notices of our meetings and the degree to be conferred, etc., etc.
2:29.0	So that all in all, although masonry is said to be a, quote, secret society, unquote,
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