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, September 29, 2015

‘Rhymes of Robert Frost and Rumi’

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      If you like artistic creativity in your spiritual life—and who doesn’t?—or simply if you enjoy music and poetry—ditto—there are two g...
Friday, September 25, 2015

‘Garibaldi Lodge EA° in November’

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      Magpie file photo World famous Garibaldi Lodge No. 542 will confer its totally unique and renowned Entered Apprentice Degree—Fr...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

‘ICHF 2017?’

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      It was announced at the 2011 International Conference on the History of Freemasonry in Alexandria, Virginia that the next conferenc...
Saturday, September 19, 2015

‘The Hidden Business of Masonic Building’

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      No, this isn’t about a dodgy trustees meeting. Earnest Hudson, Jr., Worshipful Master of Joseph Warren-Gothic Lodge No. 934 in ...

‘What Calls Us to Search?’

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      The Gurdjieff Foundation of New York City will host an event Monday night at the Theosophical Society to introduce us to the concept...

‘Freemasonry and the Roman Church’

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      Celebrating its 190th year in 2015, Mariners Lodge No. 67 in the First Manhattan District offers an attractive calendar of activi...
Friday, September 18, 2015

‘Conferences of Grand Masters’

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      The 2016 Conference of Grand Masters of Masons in North America will convene next February in Madison, Wisconsin—and, really, wher...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

‘May all be happy.’

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      May all be happy. May all be without disease. May all creatures have well-being. None should be in misery of any sort. - Vedic P...
Sunday, September 13, 2015

‘Five not so easy Bach pieces’

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      Bro. Erik Carlson of Publicity Lodge No. 1000 in New York City performs Léon Boëllmann's Suite Gothique  at Vincent United Meth...

‘Traubenfest 2015’

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      I haven’t actually seen an official announcement for Traubenfest yet, but I have seen other sources discuss it, so I’ll go ahead and ...
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‘The Pipe of Reconciliation’

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      One essential periodical that is as healthy as ever is Parabola . I make a point of not publishing others’ articles in their entirety...
Saturday, September 12, 2015

‘The end of a Tradition’

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      I was sorry to see the announcement earlier this week from the Journal of the Western Mystery Tradition of its demise. There is a ...

‘Cults and Secret Societies in Brooklyn’

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      Sorry, I had meant to post this earlier, but on Wednesday night, Morbid Anatomy Museum will host author Julie Tibbott for a lecture ...

‘Stumble down life’s checkered street’

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      Poets.org, the website of the Academy of American Poets, offers this today: Brotherhood Come, brothers all! Shall we not wend ...
Sunday, September 6, 2015

‘Boston University Lodge AF&AM’

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      The marriage of colleges and universities to Freemasonry is a subject dear to me, not for the penchant for making more Masons, but fo...
Saturday, September 5, 2015

‘News from Masonic Hall’

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      With the resumption of Masonic labors after a (particularly glorious) summer refreshment, news of some changes at Masonic Hall, the h...

‘Exciting program at the Pennsylvania Academy next month’

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      The Pennsylvania Academy of Masonic Knowledge never disappoints. Its program for the October 17 session features two knowledgeable s...
Friday, September 4, 2015

‘That elevated science’

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      Magpie file photo Bro. Erik Carlson at St. John ’ s Lodge No. 1 AYM, October 2012. A Brother Freemason, from my own lodge actu...
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