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.

Monday, January 8, 2024

‘Masonic Research District meeting’

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     Sunday afternoon brought the long-anticipated Zoom meeting of the Grand Lodge of Virginia ’s Masonic Research District hosted by Distri...
Sunday, January 7, 2024

‘New year, new Grotto’

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     Azim Grotto, “The Handsomest Grotto in the Realm,” has new officers and a new schedule of social events for 2024. Monarch Brian Officer...
Friday, January 5, 2024

‘Millar returns to library lecture series’

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     The Chancellor Robert R. Livingston Masonic Library of the Grand Lodge of New York will resume its lecture series this month, hosting B...
Monday, January 1, 2024

‘The Freemason’s Creed’

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      What follows was published in the August 5, 1916 edition of The Freemason , one of the wonderful English Masonic periodicals printed d...
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Tuesday, December 26, 2023

‘Grand Lodge of Israel to host open discussion on the war’

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     The Grand Lodge of Israel invites us to a Zoom meeting for information on Hamas and the war with Israel it started October 7. From the ...
Saturday, December 23, 2023

‘A look inside the Masonic Building in Boston’

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     Magpie coverage of the Boston Tea Party anniversary celebration last weekend continues belatedly with a quick tour of the Masonic Buil...
Thursday, December 21, 2023

‘Tommaso Crudeli: Masonic martyr’

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     The plaque reads: TOMMASO CRUDELI (1702-1745) Florence, Italy FIRST MARTYR OF UNIVERSAL FREEMASONRY Presented by the President of HSTCI...
Monday, December 18, 2023

‘St. John’s Lodge installation’

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     Look to the West! Ionic Hall, Masonic Building, Boston. There’s something infectious about the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts’ claim to b...
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Thursday, December 14, 2023

‘Five Great Sources for Masonic Research’

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     Chris Ruli and Maynard Edwards. The Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, SJ-USA YouTube channel posted a new podcast episode Tuesday in which...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

‘Discover the Lost Word in the Reading Room’

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     Next in Craftsmen Online ’s Reading Room is a chapter of Albert Mackey’s The Symbolism of Freemasonry . From the publicity: The Reading...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

‘Memo to the Grand Masters’

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     Complete and utter bullshit. A subliterate mission statement, a bogus phone number, updates posted around the clock every day consistin...
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