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.

Sunday, May 20, 2018

‘Freemasonry and Existentialism’

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      The Masonic Philosophical Society will have its hands full two Sundays from now, when the topic of discussion will ask “How does the ...

‘A Masonic view of Yale’s campus’

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      I don’t know about you, but the closest I’d ever get to Yale University would be as a tourist. Fortunately, the research lodge tha...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

‘Call for papers: ESSWE’

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      In preparation for its Seventh Annual Conference next year, the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism has issued a ca...
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

‘Philosophical ideals of friendship’

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      The next study day at the School of Practical Philosophy will focus on Transcendental ideals of friendship, with an examination of He...
Sunday, May 13, 2018

‘Kinky!’

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      When Freemasonry’s ritualists added the Liberal Arts and Sciences to the lodge’s purview centuries ago, and rhapsodized about music—t...
Friday, May 11, 2018

‘Livingston Library lecture for May’

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      If it’s May, it must be time for the Livingston Library’s fifth lecture of 2018. From the publicity: 300th Anniversary of Freemas...
Tuesday, May 8, 2018

‘Grand Honors!’

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      Courtesy Bro. Bruce B. Bro. Oscar Alleyne RW Junior Grand Warden At the 237th annual communication of the Grand Lodge of New Yo...
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

‘George Washington’s beer brewed anew’

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      Courtesy Anheuser-Busch George Washington was on many Masonic minds yesterday, the anniversary of his first presidential inaugu...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

‘Giorgio Gomelsky was a Freemason?!’

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      I first encountered the name Giorgio Gomelsky more than 35 years ago when, as a teenager, I was busy tracking down Yardbirds records,...
Monday, April 23, 2018

‘Practical Plato studies next month’

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      One of the most apt complements to Masonic studies that I can endorse is the School of Practical Philosophy’s regular course load, an...
Sunday, April 22, 2018

‘See Washington inaugurated amid a day of festivities’

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    It was on April 30, 1789 when George Washington was inaugurated president of these United States, and every year the Masonic brethren o...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

‘The “decadent” order of architecture!’

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      The Institute of Classical Architecture & Art will offer a study on the Composite Order next month, with a look at the Solomonic ...
Sunday, April 15, 2018

‘Sankey Lecture postponed’

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      Thanks to the vicissitudes and inclemencies of this cold spring season, the Dr. Charles A. Sankey Lecture, that would have taken plac...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

‘Bridegroom to present Spring 2018 Truman Lecture’

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      John Bridegroom I love seeing friends make the rounds on the national Masonic speaking circuit, so I’m happy to see the news of...
Monday, April 9, 2018

‘BOTA’s Vibratory Attunement on World Healing Day’

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      Builders of the Adytum, the group that postulates certain meanings in “Qabalah, Sacred Tarot, Spiritual Alchemy, and Esoteric Astrolo...
Sunday, April 8, 2018

‘Is Harry Potter a Freemason?’

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      Maryland Masonic Research Society’s meeting on May 5 will feature a presentation on themes and symbolism in the Harry Potter stories....
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Friday, April 6, 2018

‘Inklings celebration, Mythcon 49, coming to Atlanta’

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      Mythopoeic Society ’s 49th Mythcon will be hosted in Atlanta in three months. Titled “On the Shoulders of Giants,” there is a call fo...
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