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.

Sunday, November 27, 2016

‘2017 World Conference on Fraternalism, Freemasonry, and History’

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      Its full title is World Conference on Fraternalism: Including Ritual, Secrecy, Freemasonry, and Civil Society, and it is scheduled fo...
Saturday, November 26, 2016

‘Research lodge doings in Jersey and Virginia’

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      New Jersey Lodge of Masonic Research and Education No. 1786 will meet Saturday, December 10 for our installation of officers. While w...
Friday, November 25, 2016

‘Mozart’s Masonic Magic Flute at The Met and at the movies’

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      Courtesy Metropolitan Opera Mozart’s Masonic opera The Magic Flute will return to the Metropolitan Opera for its annual end-of-y...
Sunday, November 20, 2016

‘A Landmark Century nears’

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      Courtesy GWMNM Seven years sounds like a long time off—it was the duration of apprenticeship in the world of medieval operative ...
Saturday, November 19, 2016

‘Restoration of King Solomon’s Temple’

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      Long before there was PowerPoint, and even predating the Kodak Carousel by decades, there was a marvelous technology named Magic Lant...
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Monday, November 14, 2016

‘Thursday! Piers Vaughan on the Purpose of Initiation in Freemasonry’

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      Piers Vaughan Reading and Book Signing Chancellor Robert R. Livingston Masonic Library Thursday at 6:30 Masonic Hall, 14th ...
Saturday, November 12, 2016

‘U.S. Blues?’

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      By now you must have heard something about the results of the American presidential election five days ago and, if you’ve been as unl...
Wednesday, November 9, 2016

‘Bookstore holiday sale next week’

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      Courtesy Anthroposophy NYC The Rudolf Steiner Bookstore in New York City will begin its annual book sale next Tuesday, offering 1...
Tuesday, November 8, 2016

‘Quatuor Coronati Conference 2018 in Virginia’

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      Today is the feast day of the Four Crowned Martyrs, so what better time to share the news of the 2018 Quatuor Coronati Conference pla...
Saturday, November 5, 2016

‘Mozart, Mendelssohn and more at the Concert Matinee’

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      It is time again for the School of Practical Philosophy’s annual concert in New York City. Tickets here . From the publicity: ...
Thursday, November 3, 2016

‘Congratulations in the Glorious Fourth’

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      Click to enlarge. I cannot attend the festivities tomorrow night, so I want to extend my best wishes to the four honorees, who wi...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

‘Light! Camera! Aprons!’

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      What a great night at Masonic Hall underway now! As this edition of The Magpie Mason goes to press, a film crew from Pinstripe Produ...
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Monday, October 24, 2016

‘Garibaldi EA° next May’

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      I realize this comes a bit early, but save the date, mark your calendar, program your phone or whatever for Friday, May 5, 2017 when ...
Sunday, October 23, 2016

‘Masonic Feast of Feasts next week’

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      It really is idiomatic to the Southern Jurisdiction of Scottish Rite Masonry in the United States, but there are traditionalist-minde...
Tuesday, October 18, 2016

‘New Light on the Golden Dawn’

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      This just in from the Rose Circle Research Foundation: Magpie file photo Christopher McIntosh On March 18, 2017, Rose Circl...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

‘The Ashmole anniversary’

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      Attention Freemasons, wherever dispersed: Three hundred and seventy years ago today, renowned scholar, antiquarian, and public offi...

‘Masonic Week schedule posted’

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      The Masonic Week organizing committee has published a draft of the schedule of events awaiting Masonic Week attendees next February i...
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