Archive for April, 2010
In 1750, an Englishman visiting Egypt encounters two natives who befriend him. All three men are Freemasons.
The Englishman soon learns that what he knew or thought he knew about God, religion, spirituality, science, alchemy and Freemasonry was minor compared to the knowledge and learning he received at the hands of his mysterious Masonic friends.
Their story is told through the course of several letters written to an English nobleman by a man who signed his epistles T.M.
Now whether the story is true or – more likely – a work of brilliant fiction, Esoteric Odyssey, first published in 1790 gives the reader a glimpse inside the mind of Thomas Marryat, a man whose concepts were nearly heretical in his day and controversial – even by today’s standards.
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