Conversations on the Craft, the symbol,
and the long work within.
“The Tables Turned” - A milestone, an interview in reverse, and an EFC update
with Brett Wolfe & Ken Lane // Art Szabo
First, Troy sits down with his fellow organizers Brett Wolfe and Ken Lane for a quick update on the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference 2026, coming to Ballard, Seattle on September 19th. Then the tables are turned. Art Szabo, the designer behind all of the Mystic Tye artwork, takes over the microphone and puts Troy in the guest chair.
Selected dispatches
Masonic Wisdom Cards with Jonti Marks and Bridie Blaze
with Jonti Marks and Bridie Blaze
What happens when the symbolic language of Freemasonry is taken off the tracing board and placed directly into your hands? This episode, I'm joined by Jonti Marks and Bridie Blaze, creators of the Masonic Wisdom Cards, A Deck for Daily Reflection, a 78-card illustrated deck exploring Masonic symbols, working tools, virtues, and sacred geometry as prompts for contemplation rather than divination.
Fight Club and Freemasonry: A Conversation with WB Dago Rodriguez
with WB Dago Rodriguez
Dago has been with the Southern California Research Lodge since 2015, first as managing editor and, since the magazine's 2016 rebrand, as creative director of Fraternal Review. What started as black and white photocopies folded and mailed out became a full color monthly periodical, one of the only Masonic publications still hitting eleven issues a year. Dago describes it as a bridge into Masonic education rather than a heavy research journal, and the conversation traces its growth from that first test issue through today's rotating slate of guest editors.
Essays & notes
The Tables Turned: Fifty Episodes of The Mystic Tye
For Episode 50, the tables are turned: designer Art Szabo puts host Troy Spreeuw in the guest chair. A small-town bookstore, a Golden Dawn book lost on a train and returned ten years later, the road into Freemasonry, and where The Mystic Tye goes next.
By Troy Spreeuw & Art Szabo