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, December 31, 2017

‘The Times (London): Mafia’s enthusiastic participation in Freemasonry’

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      Freemasons in the United States, and probably the rest of the English-speaking Masonic world also, have an enormous blind spot when i...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

‘Grant Wood’s Masonic painting in Whitney retrospective’

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      Of course the Whitney’s upcoming Grant Wood show will feature the artist’s Masonic masterpiece. It’s the Whitney. The Whitney Museu...
Tuesday, December 19, 2017

‘The Magic of the Kybalion’

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      Always happy to promote a Mitch Horowitz speaking engagement, so here is one in three weeks in Manhattan. From the publicity: Th...
Monday, December 18, 2017

‘Martinism and its spiritual relationship to Freemasonry’

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      While it wouldn’t have been my first guess at a topic of the keynote speaker at a Masonic festive board, I nevertheless urge you to c...
Monday, December 11, 2017

‘Who is Liberty Lodge No. 7?’

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      The long awaited lecture, “Who is Liberty Lodge No. 7?” by the Master of Solomon’s Lodge 196 in Tarrytown, is scheduled for Thursday...
Sunday, December 10, 2017

‘A conversation about happiness’

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      The School of Practical Philosophy will host an open house next month to discuss the many benefits of studying under its tutelage. T...
Saturday, December 9, 2017

‘The Word’

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      The Word Ella Wheeler Wilcox Oh, a word is a gem, or a stone, or a song, Or a flame, or a two-edged sword; Or a rose in bloom, o...
Thursday, December 7, 2017

‘KST: Separating Fact from Fiction’

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      The Chancellor Robert R. Livingston Masonic Library at the Grand Lodge of New York will welcome a renowned Masonic scholar back to th...
Tuesday, December 5, 2017

‘The Return of the Light’

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      Another interesting program at the Anthroposophical Society of New York City. I’ll be engaged in the Hudson Valley at another event, ...
Monday, December 4, 2017

‘Winter Solstice with the Rosicrucians’

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      The Rosicrucian Order will gather in New York City to celebrate the Winter Solstice. From the publicity: Winter Solstice Thursda...
Sunday, December 3, 2017

‘Can old gods thrive in a modern world?’

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      The Masonic Philosophical Society will meet next Sunday to answer the question “American Gods: Can Old Gods Thrive in a Modern World?...
Saturday, December 2, 2017

‘2018 Prestonian Lecturer is…’

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      Magpie file photo Earlier this fall, the United Grand Lodge of England announced the 2018 Prestonian Lecture: Bro. Christopher ...
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...
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