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 New Jersey Consistory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Jersey Consistory. Show all posts
Monday, December 26, 2011

'It's all in the balance'

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      There are huge plans afoot in New Jersey Scottish Rite Masonry that will reverberate throughout the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction in ...
Saturday, January 1, 2011

‘Ephemera in a cigar box’

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     As smoking customs changed so radically in the past 30 years, the venerable cigar box lost its status as the safest place for ...
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Sunday, October 18, 2009

‘Rededication and remembrance’

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    The only image of J.J.J. Gourgas extant is this portrait by F. D’Avignon in New York City, a lithograph on paper c.1850. From the col...
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

‘From Commandery to Consistory’

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      When the planets align just so, it is possible to have a York Rite Commandery and a Scottish Rite Consistory meet on consecutive ev...
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