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.

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

‘A command performance?’

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      Masonic Templars who happen to be in or near Jenkintown, Pennsylvania next Monday may want to waste the evening listening to ...
Monday, May 31, 2010

‘Freedom is a Light’

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     Facing Independence Hall is George Washington, standing in one of only five public squares  planned in William Penn’s 1682 surve...
Friday, May 21, 2010

‘Men will always differ’

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     The Magpie Mason has mixed feelings about a really spectacular event that took place last Saturday. New Jersey Scottish Rite ...
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Monday, May 17, 2010

‘Errors and omissions’

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     The 2009 Annual Report of the Masonic Service Association of North America has just(!) been released. In it is a four-page accounting ...
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010

‘Hidden Wisdom’ rendered in plain sight

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   He’s still on the road, in Canada now. Bro. Tim Wallace-Murphy is on a speaking tour, promoting his new book titled Hidden Wisdom: Sec...
Monday, May 10, 2010

Book Review: ‘The Masonic Myth’

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              In the latest issue of The Journal of the Masonic Society is my review of Bro. Jay Kinney’s new book.   In terms of boo...
Friday, May 7, 2010

‘Huzzah!’

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The Magpie Mason loudly and proudly congratulates brethren and friends who have been elected or appointed to grand rank during this season ...
Wednesday, May 5, 2010

‘Of stones and green men’

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      Only “birds of a feather flock together,” so don’t lump the Magpie Mason with the culture vultures, but there are two events in Manh...
Tuesday, May 4, 2010

‘Another four bits’

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Good news coming from the Annual Communication (or, if you must, “convention”) last week of the Grand Lodge of New Jersey: The annual per ...
Monday, May 3, 2010

‘Our loss is their gain’

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New Jersey Freemasonry is suffering a loss these days. No one died, but our good brother Frankllin Suco has moved out of state, having acce...

‘The Merry Month of May’

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The Magpie Mason regretfully will be absent from the Main Event of the Month of May. (I can’t be everywhere!) To celebrate the 350th ann...
Friday, April 30, 2010

‘Number 8’

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Issue No. 8 of The Journal of the Masonic Society is reaching the members of the Society as I type this. The Journal is a quarterly m...
Saturday, April 24, 2010

2010 AMD Ingathering

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The 2010 Harold V.B. Voorhis Ingathering will take place Saturday, July 10 at J. William Gronning Council No. 83 in Freehold (Olive Branch L...
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

‘Dividing our time’

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“…for the more noble and glorious purpose of dividing our time.” Earlier this evening, Bro. Aaron made a comment on Facebook abou...
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

‘Chapter and chorus’

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Still playing catch-up with reporting recent events. It was two weeks ago that Northern New Jersey Chapter of Rose Croix met and hosted a...
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