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 Socrates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Socrates. Show all posts
Thursday, September 26, 2019

‘The Great Escape’

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      Every day is Plato Day for Magpie Mason readers, but October 13 especially is Plato Day , thanks to the School of Practical Philosop...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

‘The Last Day’

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      If it’s fall, it must be time for a Socrates Sunday at the School of Practical Philosophy . Doing the good work that Masonic lodg...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

‘Why the soul is immortal’

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      Another great opportunity at the School of Practical Philosophy has been announced. A day-long class on Plato’s Phaedo , replete with...
Friday, November 28, 2014

‘An honest man is always in trouble’

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    The Death of Socrates by Jacques Louis David, oil on canvas, 1787. On exhibit at the Met, located only three blocks from our meeting...
Monday, October 20, 2014

‘Coming attractions’

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      Discussion, music, film, literature, tarot, Anthroposophy, Rosicrucianism, BOTA, history, philosophy, psychology, religion, mythology...
Tuesday, April 1, 2014

‘The examined life’

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      ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.’ Socrates A wonderful and welcome announcement from the School of Practical Philosophy....
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