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.

Friday, September 29, 2017

‘Ric Berman to return to New Jersey’

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      Thank you all for reading The Magpie Mason . With this post, we begin our tenth year together. The first post on this website, on ...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

‘Hugh Hefner was the poster boy for Ecclesiastes 12’

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      Courtesy dailyverses.net Verses from the Hebrew Bible, known to most Freemasons in the United States, come to mind when se...
Thursday, September 21, 2017

‘More Light’

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      “Do open the shutter of the bedroom so that more light may enter.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (His actual last words.) The Ma...

‘Philadelphia Opera’s Magic Flute’

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      You know it’s a small world when a Freemason in Florida alerts a New York City Mason to a Magic Flute production in Philadelphia, bu...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

‘AMD Gathering next month’

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      The brethren of the Allied Masonic Degrees in New York have announced their state gathering. From the publicity: New York AMD...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

‘The Art of the Pipe at Hiram-Takoma’

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      Magpie file photo It’s been too many years since I last visited Hiram-Takoma 10 in the District of Columbia. (Nothing personal....

‘Masonic identity in funerals’

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      Maryland Masonic Research Society will gather for a meeting next month to hear about facets of Masonic obsequies that you might not ...
Monday, September 18, 2017

‘Who is Liberty Lodge No. 7?’

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      Two events this week in the Hudson Valley must be mentioned. The Master of Solomon’s Lodge 196 in Tarrytown will present a lecture ...
Sunday, September 17, 2017

‘Live from Masonic Week?’

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      This week’s X-Oriente podcast just concluded (will be posted soon), and the brethren were thinking out loud about possibly going l...

‘The Over Soul’

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      The School of Practical Philosophy has another Emerson Study Day in store next month. The School delivers a curriculum and these extr...
Saturday, September 16, 2017

‘Die Zauberflöte AND The Magic Flute at The Met this fall’

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      The Met is serving a double-shot of Mozart’s Masonic opera The Magic Flute this season. The annual holiday crowd-pleaser production,...

‘Library lecture: Prince Hall and African Lodge’

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      Coverage of last weekend’s Masonic Society Conference in Kentucky is still to come, but here is some news from Masonic Hall concernin...
Friday, September 1, 2017

‘September at Centerpoint’

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      Resuming its normally busy schedule of all sorts of gatherings and events, the Anthroposophical Society of New York City offers an...
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

‘New Book: A Freemason’s Harlot’

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      The artist William Hogarth, FRSA (1697-1764) was a Freemason in the lodges that met in the Hand and Apple Tree Tavern and the Bear an...
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Monday, August 28, 2017

‘Friday: Reunion of Brothers in the Blue and the Gray’

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      Take a break from the Orwellian insanity being foisted on American society these days by treating yourself to a first rate historical...
Thursday, August 24, 2017

‘Contemporary Art and Esoteric Traditions’

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      This recurring event at New York University has no connection to Freemasonry or the other main subjects discussed on The Magpie Mason...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

‘Pennsylvania Academy’s plans for October’

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      The Pennsylvania Academy of Masonic Knowledge has announced its plans for the October 28 meeting. This flier tells the tale: Cli...
Sunday, August 20, 2017

‘Alchemy Journal returns!’

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      The front cover of the new issue of Alchemy Journal , Vol. 13, No. 1, published August 20, 2017. Alchemy Journal is back,...
Saturday, August 19, 2017

‘Traubenfest in six weeks!’

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      It’s hard to think of October right now, but October 1 is only six weeks away, and that’s the date of Traubenfest 2017. Traubenf...
Tuesday, August 15, 2017

‘Albert Pike in bronze: A statue of limitations?’

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      UPDATE: On the eve of the opening of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction’s Biennial Session, vandals splash...
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