A Freemasonry Podcast & Journal
Conversations on the Craft, the symbol,
and the long work within.
Bringing the Work to Life with Bro. Salman Arif
with Bro. Salman Arif
What does it actually mean to be good at Masonic ritual? Bro. Salman Arif of Duke of Connaught Lodge turns the microphone around for a second time, with a page of written questions and one theme: the Work. Troy, newly installed as District Deputy Grand Master, takes them one at a time, and argues that getting the words right is only the barest minimum of what makes Masonry amazing.
Selected dispatches
A Life in Many Colours with Bro. Julian Rees
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.
The Best of Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference Interviews
with Doug Russell, Dago Rodriguez, Ike Baker, Lon Milo DuQuette, Brett Wolfe, and Ken Lane
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.
Essays & notes
Bringing the Work to Life: Bro. Salman Arif Asks Troy What Makes Good Masonic Ritual
Salman Arif asks Troy what makes good Masonic ritual: the Work, word perfect versus delivered with feeling, memory palaces, and The Five Minute Ritualist.
By Troy Spreeuw
- 44 minSeptember 30, 2026
A Life in Many Colours: Bro. Julian Rees on Ritual, Spirituality, and the Crooked Road of Freemasonry
- 5 minSeptember 24, 2026
Best of EFC: Seven Conversations on the Esoteric Core of Freemasonry
- 15 minSeptember 10, 2026
The Three Working Tools of the Kabbalist: Lon Milo DuQuette Previews His EFC 2026 Keynote