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.

Friday, November 16, 2018

‘Natives revere the man who simply never could be king’

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      Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty Images Imagine a Kipling story adapted for a Jamie Uys movie, and you’ll see the st...
Tuesday, October 30, 2018

‘The Movement Towards Inner Freedom’

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      Yesterday was the 69th anniversary of the death of George Gurdjieff, the founder of the Fourth Way, whose teachings are kept alive to...
Thursday, October 25, 2018

‘The Mitch is back!’

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      Courtesy Mitch Horowitz There’s some good news, and some bad news, but some more good news from the Livingston Library: The go...
Friday, October 19, 2018

‘Lecture: The Development of Masonic Ritual’

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      It’s great to see my old friend Ben Hoff still taking to the lectern to help others advance in Masonic knowledge. Ben served as Maste...
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

‘The Last Day’

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      If it’s fall, it must be time for a Socrates Sunday at the School of Practical Philosophy . Doing the good work that Masonic lodg...
Monday, October 1, 2018

‘American Revolution, Masonic Forefathers, and Alcohol’

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      Next week, Hiram-Takoma Lodge will host the program “American Revolution, Masonic Forefathers, and Alcohol” at its meeting. From the...
Saturday, September 29, 2018

‘Ten years of Magpie goodness’

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      Thank you for reading The Magpie Mason , which debuted on this date in 2008. Without a heavy, steady flow of readers, I wouldn’t cont...
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Saturday, September 22, 2018

‘Equal Night is tonight’

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      Elm Forest in Autumn by Edvard Munch, oil on canvas, 1919-20. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, the autumnal equinox will arrive ...
Thursday, September 20, 2018

‘Pennsylvania Academy in October’

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      It’s been too long—something like three years!—since I got to a Pennsylvania Academy of Masonic Knowledge symposium. Two great attra...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

‘Brandywine Battlefield Degree’

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       It’s only a few short weeks until the Brandywine Battlefield Degree in Pennsylvania. That ’s Saturday, October 6.  Hosted by Ken...
Tuesday, September 18, 2018

‘C-SPAN tonight: Masonic cornerstone of U.S. Capitol’

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      Courtesy C-SPAN Today at 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time, C-SPAN will broadcast “225th Anniversary of the Laying of the Capitol Cornerst...

‘Camel goes nutzoid at Shriner circus’

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      Courtesy CBS News News sources around the nation are reporting the rampage of a camel at a Shriner circus in Pittsburgh on Sun...
Sunday, September 16, 2018

‘That Freemason Mark in Manhattan’

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      RW Bro. Mark “That Freemason Mark” Koltko-Rivera, Past Grand Historian of the Grand Lodge of New York and Masonic author, has a few s...

‘Things to do this fall’

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      Autumn is only days away, so you’re probably wondering what there is to do to celebrate the season. Well, it’s a good thing you read ...
Saturday, September 15, 2018

‘UGLE to introduce Solomon’

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      Freemasonry Today magazine revealed the other day that the United Grand Lodge of England will provide a new avenue for Masonic educa...
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