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 a Past Master of both The American Lodge of Research in New York City and 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, February 29, 2024

‘The Grand Master is a Chap’

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     Click here . Prince Michael of Kent is the subject of Wednesday night’s Chap’s Guide video. This study of His Royal Highness’ sartori...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024

‘Lawyer advocates for Masonic remedy for loneliness’

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     Dall-e/ attorneyatwork.com Last August, columnist Bull Garlington wrote a piece for Medium that expresses his alarm at the isolation a...
Monday, February 26, 2024

‘Ten questions for Freemasons’

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     William O. Ware Lodge of Research in Kentucky is circulating another questionnaire—the eighth—in its continuing Voices of Freemasonry ...
Sunday, February 25, 2024

‘Freemason-Vatican dialog begins’

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     Life Site News “Meeting jaw to jaw is better than war.” Winston Churchill 1954 Masonic and Vatican sources announced last week how a re...
Saturday, February 24, 2024

‘Visit Cleopatra’s Needle on Tuesday’

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     The Grand Lodge of Massachusetts’ 26th District will host a lodge of instruction next Tuesday that will be open to the public (sort of)...
Friday, February 23, 2024

‘Bro. Norton and Masonry’s universality’

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     Click here to register. Late afternoon on a Thursday might not be the most attractive timing for an online presentation, but our speak...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

‘Exploring Plato’s Cave’

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     thoughtco Maryland Masonic Research Society just announced a change of format for its meetings. Starting next month, the speaker-at-a-l...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

‘The Story of Prince Hall—Told by Prince Hall’

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     Bro. Prince Hall will return to Odenton Lodge 209 in Maryland this spring. Not the real Prince Hall of course, but RW Stanley Conyer re...
Monday, February 19, 2024

‘Who says there’s no such thing as a free lunch?’

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     Click to enlarge. Lunch is on me if you are able to research, write, and present an essay on the Brother Freemason mentioned in the new...
Sunday, February 18, 2024

‘Table Lodge: Freemasonry in Finland’

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     Finland Embassy The American Lodge of Research is reviving our tradition of hosting a table lodge annually, so plan to join us Tuesday,...
Friday, February 16, 2024

‘MAGI is here!’

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     They’d been teasing it for an interminable three weeks but, several hours ago, Bob Cooper and Mark Tabbert finally gave us the gift of ...

‘Justice.’

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     Masonic Exchange Store “Justice, the boundary of right, constitutes the cement of civil society. This virtue, in a great measure, const...
Thursday, February 15, 2024

‘Library-museum seeks new director’

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     The Allen E. Roberts Library and Museum of the Grand Lodge of Virginia seeks a new Executive Director. (God, I’d love to be Executive D...
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

‘Scottish EA° Working Tools’

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     My lodge had the honor of initiating two candidates for the mysteries of Freemasonry Monday night. I’ve always enjoyed the variety show...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

‘Remember the great objects of our association’

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     Chuck Dunning imparted something via Facebook last week that inspires me to share here. (Plus, it’s easier than writing something mysel...
Monday, February 12, 2024

‘Learn the Secret Teachings in the Reading Room’

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     Manly P. Hall’s The Secret Teachings of All Ages covers many subjects, but one of the passages on Freemasonry will be the topic of dis...
Sunday, February 11, 2024

‘News from the Philalethes Society’

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     Great news from the Philalethes Society during Masonic Week: ✓ Adam Kendall is President for the two-year term. ✓ Chris Ruli is the new...

‘Terra Masonica is on YouTube now; sequel is planned’

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     Terra Masonica is available on YouTube now. The two-hour (in two parts) documentary from 2017 was uploaded several days ago, and can b...
Saturday, February 10, 2024

‘The Masons that Made the Tarot!’

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     This month, the Chancellor Robert R. Livingston Masonic Library of the Grand Lodge of New York will bring to the lectern Bro. Oliver As...
Friday, February 9, 2024

‘It was sixty years ago today’

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     Walter Shenson/Subafilms At this hour sixty years ago, the Beatles performed on The Ed Sullivan Show . While there are a few Freemasons...
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