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.

Saturday, June 30, 2018

‘Masonic researchers festive board’

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      I screwed up by not posting this a month ago, when I should have, but fortunately the secretary says there still are seats available—...
Monday, June 25, 2018

‘New Masons Reception: A worthwhile exercise’

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      A blog post today by the secretary of Covenant Lodge 4344 under the United Grand Lodge of England offers a great idea others might w...
Sunday, June 24, 2018

‘Thursday: Mystical Symbolism and Music’

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      The Fourth Manhattan District of the Grand Lodge of New York (my home district!) is the sponsor of the next lecture at the Livingston...
Wednesday, June 20, 2018

‘How can YOU be free?’

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      This class is selling out very quickly. If you are interested, act now. The School of Practical Philosophy will remain pretty busy...
Sunday, June 17, 2018

‘Square Club launches book club’

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      I floated the idea of starting a book club in my lodge a number of months ago, but it didn’t catch on, so I’m very happy to see the S...
Saturday, June 16, 2018

‘Sankey in September’

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      The 2018 Dr. Charles A. Sankey Lecture has been rescheduled for Sunday, September 9. Hosted by the History Department of Brock Un...
Friday, June 15, 2018

‘French Rite EA° on Tuesday’

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      Have you seen Garibaldi Lodge’s Italian-language Entered Apprentice Degree? You will have a chance to see the same ritual in its orig...
Sunday, June 3, 2018

‘Vernacular Universalism: Freemasonry in Haiti and Beyond’

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      Previous Magpie posts on Haiti have been getting a lot of traffic the past few weeks, so I went looking for reasons why—and found th...
Saturday, June 2, 2018

‘NJ LORE to meet next Saturday’

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      New Jersey Lodge of Masonic Research and Education 1786 will host its quarterly communication next Saturday with an interesting full ...
Friday, June 1, 2018

‘MRF Symposium plans announced’

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      I see the MRF website is up. Click here to start planning your trip. The Masonic Restoration Foundation’s Ninth Annual Symposi...

‘The 2019 Prestonian Lecturer will be…’

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      Congratulations to Bro. Michael Karn upon being tapped to serve as the United Grand Lodge of England’s Prestonian Lecturer for 2019! ...
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,...
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