The Magpie Mason is an obscure journalist in the Craft who writes, with occasional flashes of superficial cleverness, about Freemasonry’s current events and history; literature and art; philosophy and pipe smoking. He is the Worshipful Master of The American Lodge of Research in New York City; is a Past Master of New Jersey Lodge of Masonic Research and Education 1786; and also is at labor in Virginia’s Civil War Lodge of Research 1865. He is a past president of the Masonic Society as well.
Sunday, May 3, 2020
‘The Prestonian Lecturer for 2021 will be…’
This just in: The United Grand Lodge of England decided its Prestonian Lecturer for next year will be Bro. George Boys-Stones!
Bro. George, of course, is the current Prestonian Lecturer. His lecture, titled “A System of Morality: Aristotle and English Masonic Ritual,” is available in book form via Amazon.
“My failure to deliver the 2020 Prestonian Lecture has proven so popular that I am to be reappointed for 2021,” he says. “People just can’t get enough Aristotle, it seems! Or any.”
I had had Bro. George booked to speak at two events in and around New York City next week, but the pandemic changed our plans. We will get those rescheduled, but it is great there will be even more time for other lodges everywhere to make their own arrangements.
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