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, November 28, 2017

‘Masonic Week 2018 info is posted’

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      The program for Masonic Week in February has been posted, as has the hotel registration page. Click here . I see some significant cha...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

‘BOTA Christmas Celebration at Masonic Hall’

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      “It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas” in New York City: the tree coming to Rockefeller Center, heightened security measures a...
Saturday, November 18, 2017

‘The first Jewish Grand Master of New York’

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      I’m late in posting this, but there is plenty of time to add this to your calendar. The Chancellor Robert R. Livingston Masonic Libra...
Wednesday, November 15, 2017

‘Sunday: The Great Escape’

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      The Great Escape! No, not the mass exodus of Masons from the “Grand Lodge of New Jersey,” I mean the School of Practical Philosoph...
Sunday, November 5, 2017

‘Why King Solomon’s Temple?’

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      The Scottish Rite Valley of New York City offers a lecture Tuesday night that addresses an important subject, and is open to Master M...
Wednesday, November 1, 2017

‘To remove the statue forthwith’

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      It seems the Scottish Rite has joined the growing consensus advocating the removal from public space in Washington of the Albert Pike...
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...
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