The Magpie Mason

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 a Past Master of both The American Lodge of Research in New York City and 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 lamented Masonic Society as well.

Sunday, March 22, 2026

‘Top U.S. diplomat visits Havana Masons’

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     U.S. Embassy Cuba The United States’ senior diplomat in Cuba visited that nation’s Scottish Rite Supreme Council last week for discussi...
Saturday, March 21, 2026

‘Grand Master cigar announced today’

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     “To know how to smoke is to recover certain forgotten rhythms, to re-establish communication with the self.”   Zino Davidoff You know M...
Friday, March 20, 2026

‘Freemasonry and the pursuit of Happiness’

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     National Archives ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with...
Saturday, March 14, 2026

‘Masonry’s mistaken meaning of Music’

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     Bro. Howard Kanowitz presenting ‘What’s Wrong with the Seven Liberal Arts and Sciences?’ this morning at New Jersey Lodge of Masonic Re...
Friday, March 13, 2026

‘Wendell K. Walker Lecture on Thursday’

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     Look, if you’ve never listened to me before, this is a good time to start: Get thee to Old Number 2 next Thursday to hear this lecture....
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

‘Manly P. Hall at 125’

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     Manly Palmer Hall Next Wednesday will be the 125th anniversary of the birth of Manly Palmer Hall, so his creation, the Philosophical Re...
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

‘Livingston Library seeks curator’

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     The Chancellor Robert R. Livingston Masonic Library of the Grand Lodge of New York seeks a new Curator. Bro. Michael LaRocco, Executive...
Monday, March 9, 2026

‘2026 John Skene Masonic Conference’

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    Click to enlarge. And speaking of the 2026 John Skene Masonic Conference (see post below), the organizers have set a time and place. The...
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Sunday, March 8, 2026

‘What’s Wrong with the Seven Liberal Arts and Sciences?’

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     Philosophia et Septem Artes Liberales , (Philosophy and the Seven Liberal Arts), from the Hortus Deliciarum of Herrad of Landsberg, 12...
Saturday, March 7, 2026

‘An Evening with Brent Morris and Piers Vaughan’

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     This month’s meeting of The American Lodge of Research will land on Tuesday the 31st, and a special event is planned. S. Brent Morris a...
Friday, March 6, 2026

‘Research lodge’s diamond anniversary in the emerald month’

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     May 9 has the potential to be an utterly entertaining, albeit exhausting, day. That second Saturday of the emerald month will see The A...
Thursday, March 5, 2026

‘Thomas Smith Webb Chapter of Research to meet’

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     Thomas Smith Webb Chapter of Research 1798 will meet next Thursday during the Grand Chapter weekend in Binghamton. This convocation wi...
Wednesday, March 4, 2026

‘It’s National Grammar Day’

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     Winding Stairway of the Marietta Masonic Building, Ohio. Those five balusters at center are in the forms of the Five Orders of Architec...
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