Author Jack Whyte - "I was a Mason before I was made a Mason"

Exclusive Mindpress interview with Jack Whyte. Jack Whyte is the author of the internationally bestselling Dream of Eagles series and the Templar Trilogy. His latest book, The Forest Laird: A Tale of William Wallace takes place in the pre-dawn hours of August 24, 1305 A.D., in London's Smithfield Prison. The outlaw William Wallace, who is to be executed at dawn, is visited by a Scottish priest who has come to hear his last Confession. So begins The Forest Laird, the first book in Jack Whyte's masterful new trilogy. Wallace's story leads us through his many lives-as an outlaw and a fugitive, a hero and a patriot, a rebel and a kingmaker. He is the first heroic figure from the Scottish Wars of Independence brought blazingly to life in Jack Whyte's new trilogy, the Guardians, and will be followed by his two compatriots Robert the Bruce, King of Scots; and Sir James Douglas, known as The Black Douglas. Their exploits and escapades, desperate struggles and medieval savagery, high ideals and fierce patriotism are the stuff of legends, and the soul and substance of these epic novels.

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[tomwillkev]

For how the 'craft' is practised in public life check out the illustrious careers of Masons, George Bush, Gordon Brown, Peter Mandelson and Tony Blair. Enough said.

[LaZeRuS410]

what i dont get is the prominent masons of our time the highest degree masonry and the top men in masonry write books availible in all masonic libraries depicts it directily as occultic and religous made to look pretty for the un educated masses , i read albert pike and mr. Halls books on freemasonry when i was made an apprentice , i dropped out after the head shriner of vancouver sect told me warrior on the block must do the ritrualto be given access into the inner working rite , = sacrifice .

[ieBrazil]

@free357mason I was just iniciated as one. Modern (or French) rite. Just iniciated means here a month and a half. There's a long, a long way to run! I'm not in my 30s and I feel since now I belong to a great community of great people. Masons in a word.

[parablearable]

so so so very refreshing.

[free357mason]

I have always seen the world with more careful contemplativemess then others. I have always been a Freemason.

[free357mason]

When I was very young, perhaps 7 or 8 years old, I noticed the car emblems of Freemasonry. I paid attention to the different symbols on them, but I always knew that despite their differences, they were all connected. I paid attention to the converstaions of the old men in the barber shop and I knew that they belonged to something unusual, yet special. I was first prepared to be made a mason "in my heart" yet I would say I was also MADE a mason "in my heart" long before I was raised.

[davisd45695]

Amazing! 

[Aphrocreame]

Wonderful!