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 Rider-Waite deck. Show all posts
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Sunday, December 3, 2023

‘Taschen to release Waite-Colman Smith tarot collection’

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     Taschen has done it again. This time the publisher of lavish books and other sumptuous treats is poised to release its take on the A.E....
Sunday, October 2, 2022

‘Pamela Colman Smith at the Whitney'

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     A.E. Waite Born on this date in 1857 in Brooklyn: Arthur Edward Waite, initiated into Freemasonry September 19, 1901 in  Runymede Lodge...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

‘A Hermit’s Winter Night’

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      Hermit card of the Rider-Waite tarot deck, c. 1910. I’m not saying either Robert Frost or his poem here has any connection to ta...
Friday, November 27, 2015

‘Things to do in December’

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      With 60° weather during Thanksgiving weekend in New York City, one might forget that December is only days away. There is so much to ...
Thursday, May 1, 2014

‘Tarot and the Western Hermetic Tradition’

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      On the whole, New York Open Center provides programming that I would say leans to the East (Zen, yoga, et al.) in spiritual matte...
Thursday, January 9, 2014

‘The Tramp and the Fool’

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      “God hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise…For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.” Corin...
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