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.

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

‘Second Circle’s St. John’s Day’

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     The New Jersey Second Circle of The Masonic Society will host its Saint John’s Day Feast on Friday, June 24 in North Brunswick, New Je...

'210 in 2011'

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   Brethren, be sure to raise your glasses at some point today. (No time like the present!) On this date in 1801, the Mother Supreme Counci...
Monday, May 30, 2011

'Sunset on ICHF 2011'

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  The George Washington Masonic Memorial, overlooking King Street in Alexandria, Virginia, site of ICHF 2011.   The third Int...
Thursday, May 26, 2011

Bound for ICHF

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     Wow! When I said in the post below that I may be spending too much time blogging, I didn't think I'd take a sabbatical of 90 d...
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Saturday, April 30, 2011

‘Templar no more’

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   Last month, I decided to annul my standing and rank in the Knights Templar, the chivalric branch of the York Rite of Freemasonry. I have...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

‘Orations in Ramsey’

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     It’s been a long day, capped with a great feast at Sagaponack , and I’m too tired and overfed to post a Magpie recap of the utterly mi...
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Friday, February 25, 2011

‘Stellar Theology in the Lamp of Knowledge’

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     Nutley Lodge No. 25 continues its Lamp of Knowledge Lecture Series March 21 with a presentation by RW Bro. Rashied Bey, who will speak ...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

‘Wendell K. Walker Lecture 2011’

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     Independent Royal Arch Lodge No. 2 has announced the Annual Wendell K. Walker Lecture will take place on the evening of Thursday, Marc...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

‘Masonic Week 2011: Knight Masons’

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     I thought I’d be done with posting reports of Masonic Week by now, but you get what you pay for. Once again, sorry for the bad photo...
Friday, February 18, 2011

‘To know the unknowable’

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     “Aloha is more than a word of greeting or farewell or a salutation. Aloha means mutual regard and affection and extends warmth in ca...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

‘Masonic Week 2011: Blue Friars’

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     The annual meeting of the Consistory of the Blue Friars was the occasion of the welcoming of its 100th member: Alton Roundtree, a Past...
Monday, February 14, 2011

‘Masonic Week 2011: Nine Muses’

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      There now are more than 400 councils of Allied Masonic Degrees in the United States, and they all are special, but there is one in pa...
Sunday, February 13, 2011

‘Masonic Week 2011: Grand College of Rites’

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     (Many of the photos I shot at Masonic Week are blurry or otherwise unusable. Wanting to travel light, I brought my Panasonic Lumix – ...
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Friday, February 4, 2011

‘Thomas Smith Webb Chapter of Research’

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     You know about lodges of research, but what are not as common are chapters of research. Royal Arch chapters set to labor for the purpo...
Friday, January 28, 2011

‘Cole mining’

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     Way back a long time ago, when I was a junior in high school, my teacher of U.S. history sadistically assigned his class, as requisite...
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Thursday, January 27, 2011

‘Masonic Week 2010: Society of Blue Friars’

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     This edition of The Magpie Mason is the fifth attempt to catch up on 2010 events I haven’t told you about. Every time I post one of t...
Wednesday, January 26, 2011

George Washington Masonic Stamp Club

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     The Magpie Mason endorses philately, especially as an affordable, accessible form of art collecting. The George Washington Masoni...

‘In the neighborhood’

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     A post for the benefit of our local and somewhat local brethren: Two great nights coming up in early February. On Monday, Februar...
Monday, January 24, 2011

‘No. 11’

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     (I admit it. I’m trailing the Dummies blog .) The new issue, No. 11, of The Journal of the Masonic Society is in the mail to our mo...
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