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.

Showing posts with label Elias Ashmole. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elias Ashmole. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

‘Some background on Ashmole’s Free Mason Acception’

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     John Riley’s portrait of Elias Ashmole, c.1681-82, hangs in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University, a gift from Ashmole personally. ...
Monday, December 30, 2019

‘Landmark Freemasons teaser is posted’

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      The pilot episode of a YouTube show titled Landmark Freemasons , that will explore Elias Ashmole the Freemason, is coming, and a tea...
Tuesday, June 6, 2017

‘Tuesday morning news’

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      Magpie coverage of the stellar lecture on Plato’s Divided Line at the School of Practical Philosophy Saturday night is still to come...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

‘The Ashmole anniversary’

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      Attention Freemasons, wherever dispersed: Three hundred and seventy years ago today, renowned scholar, antiquarian, and public offi...
Friday, October 16, 2015

‘Elias Ashmole’s alchemy anthology’

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      Initiated into Freemasonry on this date in 1646: Elias Ashmole! It’s been a while since I posted an unsolicited promotional announc...
Friday, October 16, 2009

On this date in 1646...

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On this date in 1646, renowned scholar, antiquarian and public official Elias Ashmole was reportedly initiated into Freemasonry. According ...
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