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, September 26, 2019

‘The Great Escape’

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      Every day is Plato Day for Magpie Mason readers, but October 13 especially is Plato Day , thanks to the School of Practical Philosop...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

‘Weird Fact Wednesday: Amity with the Grand Orient’

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      I hope to make Weird Fact Wednesday a regular feature here on The Magpie Mason , but I also said that of Throwback Thursday, and that...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019

‘A Mark Mason’s marvelous remuneration’

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      As the Royal Arch Grand Chapter of New York’s Grand Representative Near New Jersey (I never can remember the title properly), I am du...
Monday, September 23, 2019

‘Sing a song of seasons!’

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      Autumn Fires Robert Louis Stevenson In the other gardens And all up in the vale, From the autumn bonfires See the smo...
Sunday, September 22, 2019

‘Journal of the Masonic Society 46’

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      Editor-in-Chief Michael Poll announces the new Journal of the Masonic Society : Issue 46 of The Journal of the Masonic Society ...
Monday, September 16, 2019

‘New Jersey’s Masonic lodges’

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        Lots of great news coming out of the weekend. Research lodge’s festive board First, mark your calendars for Saturday, November 30 fo...
Saturday, September 14, 2019

‘How to serve as lodge historian’

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      Busy day today. This morning, at New Jersey Lodge of Masonic Research and Education 1786, I presented this brief talk on the practica...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

‘The UGLE Americans?’

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      And from our Masonic Weird Facts Department… Did you know the United Grand Lodge of England has not one, but two Craft lodges at ...
Thursday, September 5, 2019

‘Their primitive Mason mark’

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      The Provincial Grand Lodge of Derbyshire maintains a busy presence on social media (and frequently does me the honor of sharing link...

‘Next year: Freemasonry on the Frontier’

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      Quatuor Coronati Lodge 2076 will return to the United States next September to host another conference. “Freemasonry on the Fronti...
Tuesday, September 3, 2019

‘The Dead’s Hero’s Journey’

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      The Aish Center on West 36th Street (between Eighth and Ninth) is a locus for Jewish learning and cultural activities. It offers a v...
Monday, September 2, 2019

‘For this, and this alone, does a man become a Freemason’

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      “Labor is an important word in Masonry; indeed, we might say the most important. For this, and this alone, does a man become a Freema...
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