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.

Friday, May 1, 2026

‘MRF is going to Texas’

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     They say the details will come Monday but, in the meantime, it’s been announced that the Masonic Restoration Foundation’s 2027 Symposiu...
Thursday, April 30, 2026

‘Revisiting Solomon’s House’

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     Title page of one edition of New Atlantis , from 1899, found online here . The original copy in the digital scan comes from the Bodleia...
Tuesday, April 28, 2026

‘James Mitchell Varnum at Collegivm Luminosvm’

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     Click to enlarge. Collegium Luminosum, the researc h lodge in the Grand Lodge of Rhode Island, has an evening planned for next month wh...
Sunday, April 26, 2026

‘An “unhappy Man” vs. the “pursuit of Happiness”’

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     The Sunday Times Mr. Cole Tomas Allen of California, an unhappy man, is in custody after a failed attempt on President Donald Trump’s l...
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Saturday, April 25, 2026

‘Ric Berman’s new book’

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     Ric Berman has a new book out. Well, maybe not brand new. The Foundations of Modern Freemasonry , released last week, is a reworking of...
Friday, April 24, 2026

‘Visiting Vitruvian for St. John’s Day’

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     “Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers wit...
Wednesday, April 22, 2026

‘Master Mason “Farm Degree” this Fall’

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     Connecticut’s third eldest lodge will be back on the farm later this year for a conferral of the Third Degree. I know, I know. I’m sorr...
Monday, April 20, 2026

‘Virginia: Reunion of the Founding Lodges’

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     I’m not sure if this is an annual or more occasional event in Virginia, but next month Fredericksburg Lodge 4 will host the 2026 Reunio...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

‘Washington inauguration next week’

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     Re-Enactment of Brother George Washington’s First Presidential Inauguration on its 237th Anniversary Thursday, April 30 at 11:45 a.m. F...
Saturday, April 18, 2026

‘Founding of Semiquincentennial Lodge 250’

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     Rhode Island might not come to mind immediately when contemplating the Revolutionary War * , but their Grand Lodge has devised the nove...
Friday, April 17, 2026

‘The Low Vale Degree’

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     Click to enlarge. I have too many Masonic Saturdays next month, so I’m on the fence—a stretch of Virginia Worm, if you will—about atten...
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