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.

Friday, November 26, 2010

‘Ritman at risk’

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     Ever skeptical of the effectiveness of on-line petitions – I’m still lobbying for the return of The Bottom Line! – I nonetheless subm...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

‘Masonic Hall at 100’

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     ‘The Bat Signal,’ on the 24th Street side of Masonic Hall,  towers over Chelsea. It is a period of big anniversaries in New York ...
Friday, November 19, 2010

‘Second Circle a sell out’

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     The November 30 dinner-meeting of The Masonic Society’s New Jersey Second Circle is sold out. We thank all the brethren, not all of wh...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010

‘Tim Wallace-Murphy in Connecticut’

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     Bro. Tim Wallace-Murphy will appear at Pymander Bookshop in Norwalk, Connecticut on Friday at 7 p.m. to deliver his illustrated talk t...
Monday, November 15, 2010

‘Call for papers’

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     Announced during the weekend: The Thomas Smith Webb Chapter of Research will publish its second annual book of transactions in earl...

‘Tonight at the First Manhattan District’

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     Tonight is the first of the three-part Masonic Development Course in the First Manhattan District. Topics will include the 24-inch ga...

‘Prince Hall Shriners Parade’

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     It’s not every day that the Library of Congress hosts a program concerning Freemasonry, but I just got word of this. Wish I could atte...
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...
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