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.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

‘Second Circle’s first meeting’

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“No one has even begun to understand comradeship who does not accept with it a certain hearty eagerness in eating, drinking, or smoking.” ...
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

‘Welcome to New York!’

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     They met at Keens tonight. That’s the brethren of St. John’s Lodge No. 1, Ancient York Masons, and honored guest Bro. Robert Davis, at...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

‘Swedenborg, Yeats, and Freemasonry’

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  Breaking news! The Chancellor Robert R. Livingston Masonic Library of the Grand Lodge of New York and the William Butler Yeats Soci...

‘Building the Great Cathedrals’

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     It’s not every day that I can endorse a television program, but tonight’s PBS broadcast of Nova , titled “ Building the Great ...
Saturday, October 16, 2010

‘Magic Flute in Morristown’

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     Conductor David Lockington lead the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra through its “Best of Mozart” repertoire Thursday night at the Comm...

‘On the Magic Square’

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     Last night was the long-awaited appearance of Bro. Steve Burkle at Atlas-Pythagoras Lodge, where he spoke on “The 47th Problem of Eucl...
Wednesday, October 13, 2010

‘Prestonian Lecture at Buffalo’

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     W. Bro. Wayne Buffett Warlow, the 2010 Prestonian Lecturer, will speak Monday, October 25 at Ancient Landmarks Lodge No. 358 in New Yo...
Monday, October 11, 2010

‘Burning bridges, raising doubt’

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     It’s not news that the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite Northern Masonic Jurisdiction changes the corpus of its degrees very frequ...
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Sunday, October 10, 2010

‘Passion, tenacity, and prowess’

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     After the cornerstone ceremony (See “Consecrating the stone” below), I was off to Manhattan for One World Symphony’s second performa...
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‘Consecrating the stone’

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     The Magpie got scooped by the Dummies blog ! Fair enough. I’ve been a negligent blogger in recent weeks. It’s rare that Freemasonr...
Saturday, October 9, 2010

‘Mozart in Mo-town’

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     The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra will return to the Community Theatre in Morristown next week to perform a Mozart program in its new...
Thursday, October 7, 2010

‘History to take home’

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     Product endorsement is not the goal here, but since this involves St. John’s Lodge No. 1, Antient York Masons, in New York City, I tho...

‘Heroes: Mortals and Myths’

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     There is no obvious connection here to Masonic ritual and symbol, unless you really do a background check on a certain artificer we kn...
Monday, October 4, 2010

‘The Magic Flute as poetry’

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     Wednesday, December 1 is the night when the 92nd Street Y will host poet J.D. McClatchy for an evening of readings from his new Engli...

‘Old No. 2 at 250’

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     Independent Royal Arch Lodge No. 2 in New York City will celebrate its 250th anniversary with a Black Tie dinner-dance later this mont...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

‘Allied Lodge’s lecture series’

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     W. Bro. Hans Momplaisir, Master of Allied Lodge No. 1170, has announced the curriculum of the lodge’s lecture series for 2010-11. All...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

‘Sunday in the park with Germans’

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     Additional reasons why the Grand Lodge of New York is the center of the Masonic universe in the greater metropolitan area: Civil War...
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