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 Worshipful Master of The American Lodge of Research in New York; 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 lamented Masonic Society as well.

Showing posts with label Albert Mackey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Albert Mackey. Show all posts
Friday, December 6, 2024

‘King Athelstan’s iPhone?’

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     Athelstan King, Lord among Earls, Bracelet-bestower and Baron of Barons, He with his brother, Edmund Atheling, Gaining a lifelong Glory...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

‘Discover the Lost Word in the Reading Room’

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     Next in Craftsmen Online ’s Reading Room is a chapter of Albert Mackey’s The Symbolism of Freemasonry . From the publicity: The Reading...
Tuesday, October 12, 2021

‘The great object of pursuit in Masonry’

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    The Craftsman’s Apron The great object of pursuit in Masonry—the scope and tendency of all its investigations—is TRUTH. This is the goal...
Monday, August 9, 2021

‘National Book Lovers Day’

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     Polaris Productions Today is National Book Lovers Day, an apt occasion to revisit Albert Mackey’s essential essay titled “Reading Mason...
Monday, September 2, 2019

‘For this, and this alone, does a man become a Freemason’

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      “Labor is an important word in Masonry; indeed, we might say the most important. For this, and this alone, does a man become a Freema...
Monday, July 20, 2009

‘…and the moon governs the night’

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Visitors to the Newman Catholic Community Center at Drexel University in Philadelphia are greeted by audacious symbolism. The fresco render...
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