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 Goethe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Goethe. Show all posts
Thursday, September 21, 2017

‘More Light’

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      “Do open the shutter of the bedroom so that more light may enter.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (His actual last words.) The Ma...
Wednesday, January 1, 2014

‘New Year’s with Novalis’

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      Our word philosophy derives from the Greek philo and sophia , meaning love of wisdom. So, when I spot the name Sophie de...
Wednesday, August 1, 2012

'A collective dream of the Western psyche'

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      Longtime readers of The Magpie Mason—well, first, you have my thanks—might remember my occasional efforts to promote study of Jungian...
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