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Elizabeth Weinberg's avatar

The connection with Reagan to MPH is so interesting. I feel blessed to live practically around the corner from the PRS. I’m also intrigued by the theory that he was murdered by grifters… (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-12-22-me-11645-story.html)

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This is the kind of layered, careful work that’s rarely attempted—let alone pulled off. You walk the razor’s edge between respect for myth and accountability to the historical record without collapsing into the extremes of blind belief or cynical dismissal. I deeply appreciated how you gave Hall his due as a synthesizer of meaning, while also interrogating the romanticism and omissions that still echo in spiritual Americana today.

Your framing of Freemasonry not as a nefarious cabal but as a protective container for seekers resisting dogma was especially clarifying. I also found the inclusion of Prince Hall Masonry and the correction of its historical timeline incredibly important—not just as an archival point, but because it reframes how Black esoteric tradition was foundational, not marginal, to American spiritual identity.

You’re doing real excavation here—of ideas, symbols, and distortions that still shape our collective psyche. Thank you for not turning away from the mess and myth of it all.

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