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 a Past Master of both The American Lodge of Research in New York City and 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, March 29, 2018

‘Testament of Solomon the King’

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      Many years ago, I had the good luck to speak from the lectern at a statewide Allied Masonic Degrees event. While the title of my pres...

‘Esoteric Book Fair returns’

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      Esoteric Book Fair will be back in 2018! Details to come later in the spring, but note the dates September 15 and 16. It will take...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

‘The professor’s reading list’

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      I meant to get to this yesterday, but let me send belated happy birthday wishes to the late Joseph Campbell, who would have turned 11...
Sunday, March 25, 2018

‘Islamo-Nazi barbaric subhuman murders Freemason in France’

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      UPDATE : 2023—Lt. Col. Arnaud Beltrame would have reached his fiftieth birthday this year. To commemorate his life, La Poste, France’s...
Friday, March 23, 2018

‘Behind the Scenes of the Secret Triangle’

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      Courtesy Grand Lodge of France It is without hesitation, secret reservation, etc., etc. and with free will that I admit to kno...
Thursday, March 22, 2018

‘Paschal Lamb next Thursday’

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      It’s that time of year again, when the lessons of the Passover feast and Good Friday are united in the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry’s...
Friday, March 16, 2018

‘Two weeks notice: El Quijote will close’

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      Courtesy Eater New York Arguably the most beloved and famous eatery in closest proximity to Masonic Hall, which until 2014 had ...
Thursday, March 15, 2018

‘Lecture: Searching for George’

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      This month’s free lecture at the Chancellor Robert R. Livingston Masonic Library at the Grand Lodge of New York will highlight the f...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

‘May his place of rest be in Gan Eden’

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      Sad news just announced by the Grand Lodge of New York: Dear Brethren and Friends, RW Paul M. Rosen It is with a very heavy ...
Thursday, March 8, 2018

‘Rashied back at the lectern’

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      Bro. Rashied K. Sharrieff-Al-Bey, Past Master of Cornerstone Lodge 37 under the MW Prince Hall Grand Lodge of New York, has a few spe...
Thursday, March 1, 2018

‘Research lodge meeting upcoming’

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      New Jersey Lodge of Masonic Research and Education No. 1786 will meet for its quarterly communication next Saturday, and has two wort...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

‘Patrick Craddock in New York’

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      The President of The Masonic Society, the most powerful man in the free world, will come to New York next week on a speaking engageme...
Saturday, February 17, 2018

‘Masonic philatelists to meet’

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      It seems like I’m writing only about Virginia these days, but here’s one more event. The George Washington Masonic Stamp Club will m...
Friday, February 16, 2018

‘Freemasons in the Transatlantic World’

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      I learned a new term today! “Atlantic History.” If I understand it correctly, it is the study of how Europe, Africa, and the Americas...
Thursday, February 15, 2018

‘Spiritual Laws study day’

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      The living Heaven thy prayers respect,  House at once and architect, Quarrying man’s rejected hours, Builds t...
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