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Conversations on the Craft, the symbol,
and the long work within.

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.
Selected dispatches

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.

Students of the Work with Bro. Salman Arif
with Bro Salman Arif
Bro. Salman Arif turns the microphones around and asks Troy Spreeuw the questions the other brothers have been saving up. No preamble, no plan, two Master Masons on the level.
Essays & notes

A Life in Many Colours: Bro. Julian Rees on Ritual, Spirituality, and the Crooked Road of Freemasonry
Bro. Julian Rees, nearly sixty years a Freemason, turns the lens on himself in his memoir A Life in Many Colours. He talks with Troy about National Service and the V-2s, learning the ritual word perfect and then understanding it, the tracing boards, why he walked out of the United Grand Lodge of England over the word spirituality, laïcité, a 96-year-old sculptor's complaint about lodge, and why the journey is never a straight line.
By Troy Spreeuw
- 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
- 35 minSeptember 3, 2026
The Omnipresent Magician: Ike Baker on Wilmshurst, the Book of Thoth, and EFC 2026