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.

Sunday, August 2, 2020

‘Cryptic congratulations!’

›
      Magpie file photo Reed Fanning at Masonic Week 2016 The Most Illustrious Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters (I think tha...
Saturday, August 1, 2020

‘Is this a real word or not?’

›
      The answer is: Yes! What’s the word? Symbology. So? Nothing. It’s just that Coach Nagy posted something on the Faceybook thi...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

‘The saddest day: destruction of KST’

›
      Courtesy chabad.org In New York City, sunset is just minutes away, which means Tisha B’Av, noted as the saddest day of the Jewis...

‘Weird Fact Wednesday: Bro. Mungo’

›
      Actually, the Brother’s name is Ray Dorset, and it was his band that was named Mungo Jerry, and this edition of Weird Fact Wednes...
Monday, July 27, 2020

‘Lodge-Kabbalah lecture on Saturday’

›
      “Kabbalah is not a secret teaching. It is the teaching of a secret. ‘The secret teaching’ means that we are trying to hide something ...
Sunday, July 26, 2020

‘A Digital Evening with Mitch Horowitz’

›
      And, speaking of Manly P. Hall (see post below), the North Carolina Masonic Research Society plans “A Digital Evening with Mitch H...
Saturday, July 25, 2020

‘New release of Manly Hall lectures’

›
      Best to just let the publicity speak for itself: The Philosophical Research Society is pleased to make available to the public ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

‘Weird Fact Wednesday: The Capitular cure for COVID-19?’

›
      I knew the archives of Freemasonry would yield some kernel of information leading us toward a cure for the Chinese Virus, and I think...
Monday, July 20, 2020

‘Summer 2020 Journal of the Masonic Society’

›
      Dave Hosler supplied this cover photo of Battle Ground Lodge 313 in Indiana, where, evidently, physical distancing has been made pa...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

‘Hope.’

›
      Hope. Wild seas of tossing, writhing waves, A wreck half-sinking in the tortuous gloom; One man clings desperately, while Boreas...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

‘Taschen launches Library of Esoterica with Tarot book’

›
      Click to enlarge. I prayed this day would come, and, well, it’s almost here. The “it” is the launch of a Taschen series of boo...
Saturday, July 11, 2020

‘Time for the final toast at nine’

›
      As of today, Craft lodges constituent to the Grand Lodge of New York may resume their activities, of course practicing all precaution...
Wednesday, July 8, 2020

‘Bo Cline, R.I.P.’

›
      MW Bo Cline, 2013 Very sorry to share the sad news of the death of MW Bro. John R. “Bo” Cline, a friend through The Masonic Soc...
Wednesday, July 1, 2020

‘Netflix and kill: Masons and a mystery?’

›
      A 32-year-old man went missing in Baltimore one day in 2006. A week later, his corpse was discovered inside an unused hotel confer...
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

‘Funded: On the Square board game’

›
      Matthew & Michael Ltd. announced a few days ago that its board game On the Square has achieved full funding (plus a little mo...
1 comment:
Monday, June 29, 2020

‘The Contemplative Builder channel’

›
      Chuck Dunning set up a YouTube channel a few months ago to present discussion of the practical application of certain Masonic teachi...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

‘Masonic Week 2021’

›
      UPDATE : Masonic Week 2021 is canceled, and many events will be hosted via Zoom, including the Masonic Society’s event featuring MW El...
1 comment:
Saturday, June 27, 2020

‘NBC News: Trump requests return of Pike statue’

›
      Courtesy Washington Post NBC News reported the other day that President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Department of the Interior ...
Friday, June 26, 2020

‘Livingston Library services update’

›
      The Chancellor Robert R. Livingston Masonic Library of the Grand Lodge of New York has a way forward as circumstances change in t...
‹
›
Home
View web version
Powered by Blogger.