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.

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

‘Mark Tabbert in Jersey next month’

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      Mark Tabbert will visit a Masonic lodge in New Jersey in a couple of weeks to present some of his recent research into George Washing...
Tuesday, October 17, 2017

‘2018 World Conference on Freemasonry coming to DC’

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      The “World Conference on Fraternalism, Freemasonry, and History—Including Ritual, Secrecy, and Civil Society” will come to Washington...
Sunday, October 15, 2017

‘Dead Sea Scrolls conference next month’

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      If you believe Qumran has something to do with your secret society, then you ought to attend educational conferences like this one ...
Friday, October 13, 2017

‘NYC Ben Franklin Circle’

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      These Ben Franklin Circles sound like a great complement to Masonic lodge activities—at least until such a time when Masonic lodge a...
Friday, October 6, 2017

‘The Journey in Esoteric Societies’

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      Piers Vaughan will be the guest speaker of Atlas-Pythagoras Masonic Lodge in New Jersey in two weeks. He will present “The Journey ...
Wednesday, October 4, 2017

‘Grand Masters Day at Tappan’

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      Magpie file photo DeWint House is located at 20 Livingston Avenue in Tappan, New York. I think I’ve neglected to spread the ne...
Tuesday, October 3, 2017

‘Masonic Nation’

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      There’s never a bad speaker—I can fix that!—in the Chancellor Robert R. Livingston Masonic Library ’s lecture series, but the speake...
Sunday, October 1, 2017

‘New film: 33 & Beyond’

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      A new film is being marketed as a definitive source of knowledge on the subject of Freemasonry. A press release disseminated yesterd...

‘May secrecy round be the mystical bound’

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      Magpie file photo John Steell 's gigantic bronze of Robert Burns is found in Central Park's Literary Walk.  It was dedica...
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,...
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