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 Sufism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sufism. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 8, 2023

‘A Sufi Perspective of Freemasonry’

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     This month’s lecture at the Livingston Library will approach Freemasonry from an under appreciated direction: Sufism. Sufis, according ...
Sunday, August 5, 2018

‘Book club: The Sufis’

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      Idries Shah “Freemasonry has been upheld by distinguished people in many countries, reviled and persecuted, linked with politics...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

‘Rhymes of Robert Frost and Rumi’

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      If you like artistic creativity in your spiritual life—and who doesn’t?—or simply if you enjoy music and poetry—ditto—there are two g...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

‘The Sufi of 30th Street’

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      New York Open Center welcomes Musa Muhaiyaddeen for three lectures in the coming four weeks on Sufism, the mystical belief system in ...
Monday, May 7, 2012

‘Gnosis from an old memory, literally’

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      A group photo of Brother Masons found its way to my Facebook wall. A posed shot obviously following a joyous and joyful church servic...
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