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, July 31, 2013

‘Fama and Confessio’

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      Courtesy Ouroboros Press The Temple of the Rosy Cross, 1618. Treat yourselves—well, some of you anyway—to copies of the limit...
Monday, July 29, 2013

‘Lubitz lecture next Monday’

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     Bro. Lenny is back on the road, scheduled to speak at Masonic Hall next Monday. From the publicity: In the tradition of our ancient ...

‘Morbid Manhattan Monday, Obscura Style’

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      Courtesy atlasobscura.com I am baffled to no end over not having seen this headstone before, but with all the hours I’ve spent ...
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Thursday, July 18, 2013

‘Trevor Down Under’

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     Trevor Stewart is headed back out on the road next month. Lots of air travel, actually. He e-mailed me his itinerary today for publici...
Tuesday, July 9, 2013

‘Bro. Neville Barker Cryer, R.I.P.’

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     The sad news seems to have eluded cyberspace for a week, but now newspapers in England are reporting the death last Tuesday of The Rev...
Sunday, July 7, 2013

‘The five year niche’

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      The Masonic Society  marked its fifth year in the service of Freemasonry in May, and President Bo Cline has announced that TMS will c...
Thursday, July 4, 2013

‘George Washington Masonic Stamp Club’

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      A specimen from my own philatelic art collection from this date in 1977, the day I was admitted to the Postal Commemorative Societ...
Tuesday, July 2, 2013

‘HOGD conference next week’

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   Magpie file photo Charles 'Chic' Cicero The moment some of you have been waiting for is almost here. The 2013 Hermetic ...
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

‘HuffPo visits GWMM’

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      Halle Eavelyn, manager of Spirit Quest Tours , published a column on The Huffington Post today hailing the George Washington Masonic...
Tuesday, June 25, 2013

‘A Deeper Dive’

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      Click to enlarge. The Grand Lodge of Connecticut’s Committee on Masonic Education will host its second Symposium on Esote...
Monday, June 24, 2013

‘Increase and Decrease’

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      I wasn’t going to write anything about Saint John the Baptist Day, but inspiration—if that’s the right word—sometimes comes unexpecte...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

‘Cyrus Cylinder at the Met’

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   As reported a number of months ago in The Journal of The Masonic Society , The Metropolitan Museum of Art will exhibit the ancient “Cyr...
Thursday, June 13, 2013

‘Birthday: W.B. Yeats’

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   “Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.” - William Butler Yeats Court...
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