The Square & The Circle

Mind Body & Soul Ezine Book Review - The Square & The Circle - The Influence of Freemasonry on Wicca and Paganism by Payam Nabarz, published by Avalonia Books. paperback £10.99

Wow! Connections between Freemasonry, Christianity, Mithraism, ritual Wicca, Sufism, Zoroastrianism, paganism, esotericism, and more! We might think that the great minds behind religious movements are inspired by revelations, but they borrow more from the ancient past than we think! If a set of moral codes, rituals and beliefs has survived for millennia, why not add and take from established literature and use what works! 

Of interest to all levels, from historians to the general reader. It reads like a written painting, with broad brush strokes, a revelation in every sentence! How imperative it is for those who develop religious, spiritual and social networks, brotherhoods, etc., that they declare where their ideas originate, and what they have absorbed from other dogmas. 

I'm impressed by this study. Recommended! 

The author, Magi Payam Nabarz holds a doctorate from Oxford University where he is carrying out post doctoral research into genetics and cancer. He is also a Druid and co-founder of its Nemeton of the Stars Grove. He is a revivalist of the Temple of Mithras. He worked with the Golden Dawn system, Thelema, Nath Tantra, Wicca, and the Craft. He was Founder of the charity for personal inner peace and world peace and interfaith dialogue, Spirit of Peace. 

Books also by Payam Nabarz:

Stellar Magic. The Mysteries of Mithra. Divine Comedy. Mithras Reader (several volumes). Seething Cauldron. Vs. Anahita (anthology). 

Review by Wendy Stokes https://wendystokes.co.uk