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.

‘The ALR: Master’s update

‘Masonic “church” may be conveyed to town’

‘New grand master calls for initiating women’

‘Grand Orient condemns Rushdie attack’

‘Civil War Lodge to bivouac in Maryland’

‘MLMA to talk Quarry Project’

‘Make our lectures and lodges a real force in society’

‘Ham radio day at DeWint House’

‘Amity’s time capsule opened’

‘Melville, Moby, and Masonry’

‘Ingathering in NYC’

‘There’s marrow in these bones’

‘Washington statue repair starts’

‘Tubal Cain and the first plow’

‘Putting Masonry Back into Men’

‘Every business meeting should be like Azim’

‘A symposium of symbolism’