2025 Annual A.S. Richardson Lecture

David earned a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New
Brunswick (Old Queens College 1766) and completed his Master of Science Management in
Business Project Management and subsequent graduate work in Cultural Anthropology.
David also holds an Honorary Master of Fine Arts. David’s non-Masonic research is
primarily concerned with primitive Christian ritual tradition in the Gaeltacht. Some of his
non-Masonic activities include serving as President of the Society of St Leo & St Colman and
as Grand Knight of the Epsilon Chapter of the Black Eagle in the Sacred and Noble Order of
the Knights Corvida, for which he delivered the Annual Pythagorean Lecture at the Yale Club
in New York City.
David is a published author with a primary focus on the histories of the Scottish Rectified

Regime and the Societas Rosicruciana in the United States of America. He works in gov-
tech, specializing in Artificial Intelligence and mobile, geo-temporal intelligence.

An active lecturer and author, his research has been published in urban magazines,
privately circulated books and Melton’s Encyclopedia of Religion, Rose Circle Journal, The
Sun, The Harashim of the Australian and New Zealand Masonic Research Council, the
Transactions of the American Lodge of Research, La Bienfaisance, Miscellania, Living Stones,