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.

Thursday, December 29, 2016

‘Only 44 days, and counting’

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      GCR membership jewel. With only 44 shopping days remaining before the annual meeting of the Grand College of Rites of the United...
Monday, December 26, 2016

‘Shocking videos of real Freemasons!’

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      You lucky ones who have little to do at work this week may wish to occupy yourselves with videos of the lecture series underway at ...
Friday, December 23, 2016

‘2016 Rose+Croix Journal is out’

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      Of the various periodicals disseminated by the Rosicrucian Order, that with the most substantial and wide-reaching content is the ann...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

‘How Emerson Reshaped America’

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      The School of Practical Philosophy has another discussion on the philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson planned for early next year. The d...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

‘A Hermit’s Winter Night’

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      Hermit card of the Rider-Waite tarot deck, c. 1910. I’m not saying either Robert Frost or his poem here has any connection to ta...

‘Celebrate the solstice’

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      In these parts, the Winter Solstice will arrive Wednesday at 5:44 a.m. It’s hard to find a good solstice celebration anymore, and it’...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

‘2017 Prestonian Lecturer’

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      It’s been no secret, so this is no scoop, but the United Grand Lodge of England’s Board of General Purposes announced its choice to s...
Monday, December 12, 2016

‘Patriots Week almost here’

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      Magpie file photo The Fifes & Drums of the Old Barracks  march into the Trenton Masonic Temple at an appendant body event M...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

‘Hitler declares war, blames a famous Mason’

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      I thought that subject line would get ya! But I promise that is no mere clickbait. There actually is a point to this, and it involv...
Thursday, December 8, 2016

‘(Just Like) Starting Over’

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      (With apologies to John and Yoko.) The radio today won’t let you forget how on this date in 1980 John Lennon was murdered outside ...
Sunday, December 4, 2016

‘Rosicrucians to examine Divine Feminine this week’

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      Beginning tomorrow night and continuing all week, the Rosicrucian Order will present Grand Master Julie Scott for in-depth reviews of...
Saturday, December 3, 2016

‘Ron Cappello, 1951-2016’

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      Most Wise: Knight Senior Warden, for what reason is this grave prepared? Senior Warden: Respect for the dead. Because the body is ...
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Thursday, December 1, 2016

‘The Way of Understanding’

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      The Gurdjieff Foundation of New York will offer another of its introductory events next week to explain a bit about its mystical tea...
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...
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