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.

Saturday, November 11, 2023

‘Amazing silver antique being auctioned’

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     You’ll always find interesting Masonic pieces on liveauctioneers.com , and with twenty-four hours remaining is this antique silver pend...

‘New whisky from the Grand Lodge of Scotland’

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     Grand Lodge of Scotland You’ll have to be in the United Kingdom to taste it, but the Grand Lodge of Antient Free and Accepted Masons of...
Friday, November 10, 2023

‘Masonry and #metoo at MMRS’

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     Laurel-Wreath Lodge 149. Maryland Masonic Research Society will meet next month for what sounds to me like a provocative discussion. F...
Thursday, November 9, 2023

‘Israel: The absolute importance of Freemasonry and its teachings’

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     Grand Lodge received follow-up correspondence Wednesday from the Grand Lodge of Israel. Excerpted: Firstly, we thank those who have kin...
Wednesday, November 8, 2023

‘A Sufi Perspective of Freemasonry’

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     This month’s lecture at the Livingston Library will approach Freemasonry from an under appreciated direction: Sufism. Sufis, according ...
Tuesday, November 7, 2023

‘The Apprentice small batch gin’

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     The Apprentice small batch gin from Two Pillars Gin Co. It’s getting cold here in the Northern Hemisphere, so my enjoyment of gin is on...
Sunday, November 5, 2023

‘Gettysburg’s lodge to host Civil War-period dinner’

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     Good Samaritan 336, the lodge in Gettysburg where Civil War Lodge of Research met four months ago, has its annual Civil War Dinner with...
Saturday, November 4, 2023

‘The Magic Flute returns to The Met next month’

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     The Met The new issue of my lodge’s monthly magazine reminds me that it’s almost time for The Magic Flute , Mozart’s Masonic opera, to ...
Friday, November 3, 2023

‘The tea will spill (and if the boys wanna fight you better let ’em)’

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     Among the myths and legends that add flavor to Masonic history is the claim that Freemasons executed the attack on the East India Compa...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

‘African initiations and Kabbalistic interpretations’

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     In honor of Thomas Smith Webb Chapter of Research, the Library displayed various artifacts, including this set of Grand Chapter jewels ...
Sunday, October 29, 2023

‘A few words on the EA°’

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     We have a Ritual of Initiation upcoming at lodge in November, and our monthly magazine, The Herald , includes a few pages of educationa...
Saturday, October 28, 2023

‘Film project: Spearshaker: Knowledge is Power’

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     You likely have at least heard about the “Francis Bacon was the real William Shakespeare” theory that has been around more than a centu...
Friday, October 27, 2023

‘The pipes are calling’

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     Detroit Shrine The Detroit Shriners Highlander Unit. I got excited when I heard the call for a Masonic pipe club, but it wasn’t what I ...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

‘Freemasonry, art, and Kabbalah’

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     Detail of  Aperçu de l’Origine du Culte Hébraïque by David Rosenberg, 1841. Embassy of the Free Mind, the Amsterdam-based locus of ...
Tuesday, October 24, 2023

‘Masonic Unity Day in January’

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     Masonic Hall will be the venue next January when Grand Lodge will host brethren from the grand lodges of Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Ne...
Monday, October 23, 2023

‘Secret History of Huguenot Lodge’

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     The Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite Southern Jurisdiction maintains a monthly podcast titled The Tyler’s Place , and the episode p...

‘Garibaldi Lodge schedules its EA°’

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     Sure it’s six months out, but add it to your calendar so you don’t forget. Historic Garibaldi Lodge 542 in the Tenth Manhattan District...
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