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, April 1, 2014

‘The examined life’

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      ‘The unexamined life is not worth living.’ Socrates A wonderful and welcome announcement from the School of Practical Philosophy....
Sunday, March 30, 2014

‘Here cometh April again’

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“Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.” Charles Lamb Frankly, this is as much fo...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

‘The Book of Symbols at Mythology CafĂ©’

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      At the meeting next Tuesday of Mythology Cafe, the New York City Roundtable of the Joseph Campbell Foundation, the group will discu...
Monday, March 24, 2014

‘Another Spring: the rebirth of thought and character’

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      Another Spring Attune with the Changes That Are Taking Place By H. Spencer Lewis The springtime of the year is close...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

‘Explore the Appellatio Fraternitatis’

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      The Rosicrucian Order has five nights of workshops planned for next week to bring to life the meanings of the Order’s new writings,...
Friday, March 21, 2014

‘Obligation and opportunity’

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      The first event took place Wednesday night, but I didn’t get word of this series until just now. Drisha Institute, in midtown, offers...
Thursday, March 20, 2014

‘Rosicrucian New Year’

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      Uraltes Chymisches Werk by Abraham Eleazer, 1760. Vernal Equinox will arrive in several hours—12:57 p.m. local time—but if you’...
Friday, March 14, 2014

‘See an introductory message on Martinism’

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      The Traditional Martinist Order has produced a four-minute video that briefly explains the thinking behind Martinism. Also, there...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

‘An essential part of the spiritual path’

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      If you have yet to heed my advice to make Parabola magazine part of your regular reading, perhaps this excerpt from the Spring issue...
Monday, March 10, 2014

‘Full Moon on the fifteenth’

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      The Great Wheel, from A Vision by William Butler Yeats, 1925. “As the moon passes through the whole of the zodiac in twenty-eight...
Saturday, March 8, 2014

‘Rosicrucian New Year celebration’

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      The Rosicrucian Order will celebrate the Rosicrucian New Year on March 20. Of course that is the day of the Spring Equinox, which wil...
Friday, March 7, 2014

‘Spiritual Laws at Rosicrucian Center’

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      The Rosicrucian Cultural Center in New York City will host Dr. Lonnie Edwards again for discussions on “Spiritual Laws” next week....

‘Public BOTA ceremony next month’

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      An interesting BOTA event planned for next month. From the publicity: Vibratory Attunement Ritual Saturday, April 26 at 4 p.m...
Thursday, March 6, 2014

‘Hermetic Studies program in Pennsylvania’

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      The ubiquitous Mark Stavish of the Institute for Hermetic Studies made the following announcement yesterday: Mark Stavish Over...
Friday, February 21, 2014

‘New Curriculum at BOTA’

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      At the monthly meeting of BOTA tomorrow morning in New York City, a new curriculum will be introduced titled “The Elements in Tarot...
Thursday, February 20, 2014

‘The Sufi of 30th Street’

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      New York Open Center welcomes Musa Muhaiyaddeen for three lectures in the coming four weeks on Sufism, the mystical belief system in ...
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