Conversations on the Craft, the symbol,
and the long work within.
The Three Working Tools of the Kabbalist, with Bro. Lon Milo DuQuette
with Bro. Lon Milo DuQuette
Two weeks before EFC 2026, Lon Milo DuQuette previews his Seattle keynote: the three working tools of the Kabbalist, treated the way a Mason treats the square and compasses. The rough and perfect ashlars, the universe as a giant tuning fork, tarot as the flashcards of the Kabbalah, and Kabbalistic study as a cosmic lube job. Plus Young Aleister Crowley, a new Chicken Qabalah, Homemade Magick, and Joshua Tree.
Selected dispatches
Esoteric Mythology and EFC2026 with Ike Baker
with Ike Baker
Some people call Ike Baker omnipresent. Three weeks before the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference 2026, he sits down with Troy Spreeuw to preview a very full Seattle weekend. Friday night at Verity Lodge, Ike presents the tracing board of Walter Leslie Wilmshurst, author of The Meaning of Masonry. Found by Robert Lomas in a personal notebook and posted online too blurry to read, the board communicates in pure geometry, and Ike restored and deciphered nearly all of it. Saturday at EFC, he turns to Conversations in the House of Life, the new public translation of the ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth, a text that reads like an initiation ritual for the scribe-priests of Thoth, catechism and all, with correlations to Masonic ritual he calls startling.
“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.
Essays & notes
The Three Working Tools of the Kabbalist: Lon Milo DuQuette Previews His EFC 2026 Keynote
Two weeks before the Esotericism in Freemasonry Conference 2026, Bro. Lon Milo DuQuette joined Troy Spreeuw for Episode 52 of The Mystic Tye to preview his Seattle keynote. What follows is their conversation, edited only for readability. The words are Troy's and Lon's, as spoken. Listen to the full episode for the intro, the outro, and everything the page can't carry.
By Troy Spreeuw