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, April 5, 2020

‘Gordon Davie, R.I.P.’

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      Magpie file photo Prestonian Lecturers Gordon Davie, John Wade, and Trevor Stewart, September 2009. Bro. Moises shared ...

‘Time To Toast meet Tea At Three’

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      Courtesy chairish.com I heard a brother of grand rank got a little wobbly and needed to be helped into a chair at the proposal ...
Saturday, April 4, 2020

‘Masonic librarians to go electric for annual meeting’

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      The president of the Masonic Library and Museum Association announced today that a web-based virtual meeting will take the place of...
Thursday, April 2, 2020

‘2020 Prestonian Lecture book now available’

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      The book of the 2020 Prestonian Lecture was published a few days ago, and now is available for purchase via Amazon . A System o...
Wednesday, April 1, 2020

‘Weird Fact Wednesday: Solomon and the iron worker’

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      Iron Worker and King Solomon by Christian Schussele, oil on canvas, 1863. On display at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in P...
Monday, March 30, 2020

‘Square snuff stuff’

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      Courtesy apronsandtools blog Auctioned at Christies just about a decade ago was this snuff box. The descri...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

‘A ritual in all things.’

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      Bro. Rudyard Kipling There are a number of reasons why Freemasons should appreciate Rudyard Kipling more than we do today. Of cou...
Saturday, March 28, 2020

‘MRF in Detroit this August’

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      This time it’s safe for me to say it—got into some trouble the last time—so make plans to travel to Detroit in August to enjoy th...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

‘On the Square board game coming soon!’

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      I wish I could report the arrival of this game on the market so you could amuse yourselves in small groups during this period of...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2020

‘York Rite to return to New York’

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      Courtesy Jeff Day/Lodgical Where else but in New York would the York Rite hold its conferences? Last September, the Northe...

‘Calling all quarantined artists’

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      While you artists are cooped up, aching for creative release, why not consider entering this contest via the Grand Lodge of Pennsylv...
Monday, March 23, 2020

‘A tabernacle of peace’

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      Meditation by Rene Magritte, oil on canvas, 1936. The Magpie Mason hopes all of you are well and are resisting the manufacture...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

‘Happy to meet again!’

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      “Happy to meet, sorry to part, happy to meet again!” Brethren, because we all are absent, wherever you find yourselves at ...
Sunday, March 15, 2020

‘Does Masonry stop? Not at all.’

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      UPDATE: March 16, 6:30 p.m. D'oh! Everything is postponed! It is being said on social media this morning that Freemasonry i...
Monday, March 9, 2020

‘Research lodge to meet at George Washington’s lodge’

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      The lodge that made George Washington a Mason will be the meeting place of the next “stated conclave” of Civil War Lodge of Researc...
Sunday, March 8, 2020

‘King Solomon’s Temple, nazis, and a legendary piano’

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      It has been known as “The Immortal Piano” and “The Siena Piano” and “The King’s Piano” and “The Harp of David Piano,” and legend says...
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