How I Found Freemasonry

Or Searching for Spirituality in a Modernity.

It all began with Manly P. Hall and the Philosophical Research Society. Actually it goes back much further, but I didn’t realize what I was discovering at the time. I had read The DaVinci Code when it first came out and was fascinated with the connection to the Knights Templar. This then led me to read The Hiram Key by Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas. I was fascinated by the deep connections that went all the way back to Egypt and how it threaded through Judaism, Christianity, the Knights Templar, and ultimately the founding of America. I have always been a sucker for connections and synchronicity, believing in a universal architecture at the most fundamental level. I loved the book and became obsessed with the deep roots that Freemasonry held throughout the world, hidden through rituals to protect their spiritual meaning from corruption. But I didn’t know where to go with it and at the time wasn’t really focused on any sort of spiritual journey. I was a 20-something who had just …