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.

Monday, January 28, 2013

‘St. Patrick’s No. 4’

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   There are plenty of blogs out there devoted to Freemasonry, but it can be more fun reading blogs from outside the fraternity that occasi...
Thursday, January 24, 2013

‘A mystic tie?’

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     The Masonic Society’s club tie is available for sale! Note the quills and the TMS emblem. The color looks great too. (No, it ’ s n...

‘Livingston Library lecture’

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     The Chancellor Robert R. Livingston Masonic Library will host its next lecture February 25, when Bro. Patrick Craddock will present “A...

‘As Above, So Below’

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     On Saturday at 6 p.m., New York Open Center will host the opening reception of an art exhibit titled “As Above, So Below,” featuring w...

‘Your brother will rise again’

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   A lot of positive things are happening in New Jersey, among them the creation of a “new” lodge in the Camden area. This edition of The...
Monday, January 14, 2013

‘Sunday Morning on CBS’

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      C ourtesy Mo Rocca/Twitter Word comes from Bro. Piers of the taping today of a segment on the George Washington Inaugural ...
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Friday, January 11, 2013

‘Pennsylvania Academy’

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   I would love to attend – it’s been three or four years since I last visited the Academy – but New Jersey Council of Deliberation wil...

‘The Quarry Project’

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     For months throughout the Masonic world there was whispering of the initials T.Q.P. among the knowing and the curious alike. “What...
Sunday, January 6, 2013

‘ALR: January 30’

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      The American Lodge of Research will meet Wednesday, January 30, a Special Meeting for our October meeting that was canceled ...
Saturday, January 5, 2013

‘Artist Ari exhibit’

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     Bro. Ari Roussimoff will have his recent paintings exhibited in Masonic Hall, the headquarters of the Grand Lodge of New York in Manh...

‘MRF this August’

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      W. Bro. Paul C. Smith in New Hampshire shares the following news about the Masonic Restoration Foundation ’s 2013 conference. Ch...
Friday, January 4, 2013

‘Mohamadmania’

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      W. Mohamad Yatim is on the road again. He has five dates so far on his winter speaking tour of the central New Jersey area. Mon...

‘Q.U.E.S.T. 33’

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   Those guys in Queens are at it again. They keep saying Freemasonry is an educational institution! Oh wait, that’s New York. They do t...
Thursday, January 3, 2013

‘Tom Jackson to speak in Union’

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   M agpie file photo Bro. Tom Jackson—the irrepressible, outspoken, dauntless idol of American youth—will be the very special guest s...

‘Book of Ezekiel’

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     This just in: Bro. Ezekiel Bey will be the guest speaker at Mariners Lodge No. 67 next Wednesday when the lodge holds its January S...

‘Coming to DeWint House’

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     This reproduction of The Unfortunate Death of Major Andre hangs in the museum of DeWint House. The George Washington Masonic Hist...
Monday, December 31, 2012

‘The new AQC is here!’

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      Courtesy Aspen Film Society Like practically everything in the world of Masonic research publishing, you never know exactly wh...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

‘Symbol in the window’

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   Apropos of nothing, and caught only by happenstance, I share a quick look at a storefront display window on Bleecker near Sixth Avenue. ...
Sunday, December 16, 2012

‘BOTA study group’

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     Among the many avenues for the study of Western Esoteric Traditions there is one named Builders of the Adytum that marries a peculiar ...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

‘The Council degrees at NYC’

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   Click on the image to view it completely. I haven’t heard Piers speak on the degrees of the Council Princes of Jerusalem, so ...
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