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.

Thursday, June 8, 2023

‘The Meaning of Masonry in the Reading Room’

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    It’s been a long time since I visited W.L. Wilmshurst’s The Meaning of Masonry , but I’ll have to take it up again this month because th...
Tuesday, June 6, 2023

‘Publicity Lodge’s new officers’

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     Publicity and visiting Masons last night. Publicity Lodge 1000 will enter its second century this fall with its newly installed officer...
Sunday, June 4, 2023

‘William Morgan at The ALR this month’

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    The ALR The American Lodge of Research will meet again on the twenty-seventh of the month—that’s a Tuesday—at Masonic Hall. Seven o’cloc...
Friday, June 2, 2023

‘Charges from the old and to the new lodge Masters’

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   From Etsy ’Tis the season of Installations of Officers here in New York Freemasonry. I’m eager to get to lodge Monday night for ours. The...
Thursday, June 1, 2023

‘Maybe Freemasons aren’t devil worshipping lesbians’

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    Richard Brookhiser is an author and historian I have followed since his days long ago at National Review . And literally following today...
Sunday, May 28, 2023

‘Mozart’s Masonic opera at The Met’

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    The Met It’s halfway through its three-week run already, but there still is plenty of opportunity to take in the Metropolitan Opera’s ne...
Saturday, May 27, 2023

‘Tompkins remembrance next Friday’

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    Magpie file photo Daniel D. Tompkins bust at the church. The brethren of Tompkins Lodge 471 will visit Daniel D. Tompkins’ burial place...
Friday, May 26, 2023

‘New film: A Way of Light’

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    Word has just come from Bro. Francis Dumaurier about a new short film from the National Grand Lodge of France commemorating the 300th an...
Saturday, May 20, 2023

‘Craftsmen Online Super Fans unite!’

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     Starting today, Craftsmen Online , the clearinghouse of Masonic education and news launched during the pandemic to keep Light shining, ...
Friday, May 19, 2023

‘A serious alarm at the outer door’

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     Michael LaRocco Information is scant, so pardon the sensationalism of this edition of The Magpie Mason , but an act of vandalism at Mas...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

‘Warren Lodge’s festive board in July’

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     Magpie file photo As promised, Warren Lodge 32 will host its Second Annual Festive Board on the last Saturday of July. This is the one ...
Monday, May 15, 2023

‘Where Men Build Meaning’

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    It’s been available in a limited way online since Grand Lodge met two weeks ago, but last Wednesday the Where Men Build Meaning video w...
Sunday, May 14, 2023

‘The Mother Lodge’

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     Via Twitter It’s Mother’s Day here in the United States, so I thought I’d share with you Bro. Rudyard Kipling’s “The Mother Lodge.” (Co...
Thursday, May 11, 2023

‘What’s the deal with…?’

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     Castle Rock Entertainment ‘What’s the deal with…?’  “I also present you with a new name; it is Caution; it teaches you that as you are ...
Monday, May 8, 2023

‘Thanks to The Square’

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     The Masonic blogosphere is a shadow of its formerly influential salad days. The websites that are kept updated with any regularity are ...
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